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Speros Vryonis Jr. ((ギリシア語:Σπυρίδων "Σπύρος" Βρυώνης), born July 18, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American historian of Greek descent and a specialist in Byzantine, Balkan, and Greek history.〔(Speros Vryonis and the Mechanism of Catastrophe )〕 He is the author of a number of works on Byzantine and Greek-Turkish relations, including his seminal ''The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor'' (1971) and ''The Mechanism of Catastrophe'' (2005). Vryonis attained his Bachelor of Arts in ancient history and the classics from Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee in 1950. He received his Masters of Arts from Harvard University two years later and his Ph.D. from the same school in 1956.〔 Vryonis carried out his post-doctoral research at Dumbarton Oaks before joining the history faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles in the mid-1960s, where he served as the director of the G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. In 1987 he was tapped to head the Alexander S. Onassis for Hellenic Studies at New York University. Vryonis is also the former director of the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism and is currently the AHIF Senior Fellow for Hellenism and for Greek and Turkish Studies.〔"(Professor Speros Vryonis, Jr. Appointed AHIF Senior Fellow for Hellenism and for Greek and Turkish Studies ). July 16, 2007—No. 46.〕 A two-volume ''festschrift'' was published in his honor in 1993.〔John S. Langdon, Jelisaveta Stanojevich Allen et al. (eds.), ''To Hellenikon Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr: Hellenic Antiquity and Byzantium''. New Rochelle, NY: Artistide D. Caratzas, 1993.〕 He currently resides in northern California. ==Selected works== *"(Isidore Glabas and the Turkish Devshirme )," ''Speculum'' 31 (July 1956), pp. 433-443 *''Byzantium and Europe'' New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. *"(The Byzantine Legacy and Ottoman Forms )," ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'' 23/24 (1969/1970), pp. 251-308. *''The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. *''The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6–7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul''. New York: Greekworks.com, 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Speros Vryonis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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