Maximilian Lau

Experience

• –present
  Research Fellow in Byzantine History, Oxford University/Hitotsubashi University

Education

• 2016 
  Oxford University, DPhil in History
• 2011 
  Oxford University, MSt in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 2010 
  University of St Andrews, MA (Hons) in History

Publications

• 2017
  “Piroska-Eirene, the First Western Empress in Byzantium: Power and Perception", Saint Piroska 880: Holiness and Power in Komnenian Constantinople
• 2016
  ““Ioannoupolis: Lopadion as ‘City’ and Military Headquarters under Emperor Ioannes II Komnenos", From Constantinople to the Frontier: The City and the Cities
• 2016
  “Multilateral Cooperation in the Black Sea in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries: The Case for an Alliance between Byzantium, Kiev and Georgia", Cross Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.300 – 1500 A.D.: Selected Papers from the XVII Oxford University Byzantine Society’s International Graduate Conference
• 2016
  “Rewriting the 1120s: Chronology and Crisis under John II Komnenos” , Making and Remaking Byzantium, Limes Plus Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
• 2016
  “The Naval Reform of Emperor John II Komnenos: A Re-evaluation” , Mediterranean Historical Review 31.2
• 2014
  "The Power of Poetry – Portraying the expansion of the empire under John II Komnenos", Landscapes of Power

Grants and Contracts

• 2014
  Colin Matthew Fund

  Role:

  Fieldwork in Serbia and Kosovo

  Funding Source:

  St Hugh's College, Oxford

• 2013
  E.O. James Bequest

  Role:

  Fieldwork in Anatolia

  Funding Source:

  All Souls College, Oxford

• 2012
  Dacre Graduate Research Prize

  Role:

  Fieldwork in Anatolia

  Funding Source:

  Oriel College, Oxford