Walter Kaegi
Walter Kaegi is a historian and scholar of Byzantine History, and professor of history in the University of Chicago. He is also a Voting Member of The Oriental Institute. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1965. He is known for his researches on the period from the fourth through eleventh centuries with a special interest in the advancement of Islam, interactions with religion and thought, and military subjects. He is also distinguished for analyzing the Late Roman period in European and Mediterranean context. He is known as the co-founder of the Byzantine Studies Conference and the editor of the journal Byzantinische Forschungen.
Bibliography
70s-80s
- Byzantium and the Decline of Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968; reprinted, 1970.
- Byzantine Military Unrest 471-843: An Interpretation. Amsterdam & Las Palmas: A.M. Hakkert, 1981.
- Army, Society and Religion in Byzantium. London: Variorum Revised Editions & Reprints, 1982.
- Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy. Hellenic Studies Lecture for Ball State University. Brookline, MA.: Hellenic College Press, 1983.
- Byzantium and the Trans-Saharan Gold Trade: A Cautionary Note. Graeco-Arabica, vol. 3 (1984), 95-100.
90s
- Procopius the Military Historian. Byzantinische Forschungen 15 (1990) 53-85.
- Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Paperback, 1995.
- Byzantine Logistics: Problems and Perspectives. In collective volume, ed. by John A. Lynn, entitled The Feeding of Mars (Boulder:Westview Press, 1993) 39-55.
- The Capability of the Byzantine Army for Military Operations in Italy. In: Teodorico e i Goti, ed. by Antonio Carile (Ravenna: Longo Editore,1995) 79-99.
- Egypt on the Eve of the Muslim Conquest'.' Cambridge History of Egypt , ed. C. Petry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) pp 34-61.
2000s
- Society and Institutions in Byzantine Africa. In: Ai confini dell'impero. Storia, arte e archeologia della Sardegna bizantina. (Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy: M & T Sardegna, 2002) pp. 15-28.
- Heraclius Emperor of Byzantium. Cambridge University Press (2003).
Current Research
He is writing a book on the poorly understood Muslim conquest of Byzantine North Africa. He is contributing a chapter to the Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire. He is planning an investigation of the role of Byzantine concepts of strategy in the emergence of concepts of strategy in early Modern Europe.