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Jonathan Shepard FRHistS Born 1948 (age 77–78) Academic background Education New College, Oxford Thesis Byzantium and Russia in the Eleventh Century: A Study in Political and Ecclesiastical Relations (1974[1]) Doctoral advisor Dimitri Obolensky Academic work Institutions University of Cambridge Notable students Peter Frankopan Notable works The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200 (with Simon Franklin)

**Jonathan Shepard** [FRHistS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Historical_Society) (born 1948) is a [British](/source/British_people) historian specialising in early medieval [Russia](/source/Russia), the [Caucasus](/source/Caucasus), and the [Byzantine Empire](/source/Byzantine_Empire). He is regarded as a leading authority in [Byzantine studies](/source/Byzantine_studies) and on the [Kievan Rus](/source/Kievan_Rus).[2] He specialises in diplomatic and archaeological history of the early Kievan period.[3] Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University) and was a [lecturer](/source/Lecturer) in [Russian History](/source/Russian_History) at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge). Among other works, he is co-author (with [Simon Franklin](/source/Simon_Franklin)) of *The Emergence of Rus, 750–1200* (1996), and editor of *[The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire](/source/The_Cambridge_History_of_the_Byzantine_Empire)* (2008).

Among Shepard's theories is that the breakdown in Byzantine-[Khazar](/source/Khazars) relations and the shift in Byzantine foreign policy towards allying with the [Pechenegs](/source/Pechenegs) and the Rus against Khazaria was a result of the Khazar conversion to [Judaism](/source/Judaism).

## Selected bibliography

### As author

- Shepard, Jonathan (1998) "The Khazars' Formal Adoption of Judaism and Byzantium's Northern Policy" in: *Oxford Slavonic Papers*; 1998

- Shepard, Jonathan (1997) "Byzantine Soldiers, Missionaries, and Diplomacy under Gibbon's Eyes" in Rosamund McKitterick and Roland Quinault, eds. *Edward Gibbon and Empire*, Cambridge: U. P., 1997

- Franklin, Simon; Shepard, Jonathan (1996) *The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200*. London and New York: Longman.

- Shepard, Jonathan (1992) "A Suspected Source of [John Scylitzes](/source/John_Scylitzes)' *Synopsis Historion*: the great *Catacalon Cecaumenus*" in: *Byzantine and modern Greek studies.*

- Shepard, Jonathan (1975–76) "Scylitzes on Armenia in the 1040s and the role of Catacalon Cecaumenus." *[Revue des Études Arméniennes](/source/Revue_des_%C3%89tudes_Arm%C3%A9niennes)*, N.S. 11, pp. 269–311.

### As editor

- Shepard, Jonathan, et al., eds. (2008). *The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire.* Cambridge University Press.

- Shepard, Jonathan; Franklin, Simon, eds. (1992) *Byzantine Diplomacy: papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990.* Aldershot; Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum.

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["\[Catalogue entry\]"](https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/35n82s/alma990134187890107026), *[SOLO](/source/Oxford_Libraries_Information_System)*, [Bodleian Libraries](/source/Bodleian_Libraries)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Dimnik, "Reviewed work(s): The Emergence of Rus 750-1200", pp. 173—4; Martin, "Reviewed work(s): The Emergence of Rus 750-1200", pp. 154—5 .

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Dimnik, "Reviewed work(s): The Emergence of Rus 750-1200", p. 174.

## References

- Dimnik, Martin (January 1998), *Reviewed work(s): The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200. by Simon Franklin; Jonathan Shepard*, vol. 73, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR), pp. 173–4, [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2886895](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2886895)

- Martin, Janet (February 1998), "Reviewed work(s): The Emergence of Rus 750-1200 by Simon Franklin; Jonathan Shepard", *The American Historical Review*, **103** (1): 154–5, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/2650800](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2650800), [JSTOR](/source/JSTOR_(identifier)) [2650800](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2650800)

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