Elizabeth Jeffreys

Elizabeth Mary Jeffreys (née Brown, 22 July 1941 – 12 September 2023) was a British scholar of Byzantium. She was Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, 1996–2006. She was educated at Blackheath High School and Girton College, Cambridge, where she took an undergraduate degree in classics. In 1963 she came to Oxford to study for a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) in medieval Greek and French at St Anne's College, which she earned with a thesis on fourteenth-century romances.

Jeffreys was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1993) and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Books Authored Popular Literature in Late Byzantium (with Michael Jeffreys), London: Variorum Reprints, 1983. The Age of the Dromon: The Byzantine Navy ca 500–1204 (with John Pryor), Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Source editions and translations The Chronicle of John Malalas (tr. with Michael Jeffreys and Roger Scott), Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1986. Benoît de Sainte-Maure, ̔Ο Πόλεμος τῆς Τρωάδος (The War of Troy) (ed. with Manolis Papathomopoulos), Athens: National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, 1996. Editio princeps of the Roman de Troie. Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (ed. and tr.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Iacobi Monachi Epistulae (ed. with Michael Jeffreys), Turnhout: Brepols, 2009. Four Byzantine Novels: Theodore Prodromos, "Rhodanthe and Dosikles"; Eumathios Makrembolites, "Hysmine and Hysminias"; Constantine Manasses, "Aristandros and Kallithea"; Niketas Eugenianos, "Drosilla and Charikles" (tr.), Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.

Edited Byzantine Papers: Proceedings of the First Australian Byzantine Studies Conference, Canberra, 17–19 May 1978 (with Michael Jeffreys and Ann Moffatt), Canberra: Australian National University, 1981. Studies in John Malalas (with Brian Croke and Roger Scott), Sydney: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1990. The Sixth Century: End or Beginning? (with Pauline Allen), Brisbane: Australian Association of Byzantine Studies, 1996. Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes: Papers from the Twenty-Ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995 (with Robin Cormack), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. Rhetoric in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-Fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, Oxford, March 2001, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Approaches to Texts in Early Modern Greek: Anadromika kai prodromika: Papers from the Conference Neograeca Medii Aevi V, Exeter College, University of Oxford, September 2000 (with Michael Jeffreys), Oxford: Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek, 2005. Byzantine Style, Religion, and Civilisation: In Honour of Sir Steven Runciman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, with Robin Cormack and John Haldon, Oxford University Press, 2008. Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor (with ), Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.