Word: laiou
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Friends, colleagues, and students gathered beneath the vaulted ceilings of Memorial Church to remember the life of former history professor Angeliki Laiou. The acclaimed scholar of Byzantine history’s penetrating intellect and commanding presence created legions of followers who admired her academic expertise as much as her cosmopolitan sensibilities. “Angeliki Laiou’s family has lost its foundation. Greece has lost one of her most distinguished daughters. The international world of Byzantine studies has lost its most excellent historian,” said history Professor Michael McCormick. “Harvard has lost...
...academic seriousness, Laiou displayed urbane sensibilities and unmatched elegance. Dorin said she could just as easily dine on oysters in Paris as cheer on the Georgetown Hoyas...
Fourteen years later, Laiou was tenured at Harvard to teach Byzantine history...
...what has been called the crowning achievement of her scholarly career, Laiou edited and wrote eight of the chapters of a three-volume collection on the economic history of Byzantium...
...Laiou is survived by her son, Vassili N. Thomadakis...