Amélie Kuhrt - Wikipedia Amélie Kuhrt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Amélie Kuhrt FBA (born 1944) is a historian and specialist in the history of the ancient Near East. She was educated at King's College London, University College London and SOAS. Professor Emerita at University College London, she specialises in the social, cultural and political history of the region from c.3000-100 BC, especially the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Seleucid empires. She was co-organiser of the Achaemenid History Workshops from 1983 to 1990. Kuhrt was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.[1] She is currently a member of the British Academy's Projects Committee, which is responsible for assessing the scope for new projects and initiatives sponsored by the Academy.[2] Contents 1 Awards and honours 2 Publications 2.1 Selected books 2.2 Selected articles 3 References 4 External links Awards and honours[edit] In 1997, her book The Ancient Near East : c.3000-330 BC was awarded the annual American History Association's James Henry Breasted Prize for the best book in English on any field of history prior to the year 1000 AD.[3] Publications[edit] Selected books[edit] The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources of the Achaemenid Period. London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 0-415-43628-1 The Ancient Near East : c.3000-330 BC. London : Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-01353-4 (v.1), ISBN 0-415-12872-2 (v.2) Images of Women in Antiquity. With Averil Cameron. London : Routledge, 1993. ISBN 0-415-09095-4 Selected articles[edit] "Ancient Near Eastern History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of Persia", in Hugh G. M. Williamson (ed), Understanding the History of Ancient Israel. OUP/British Academy 2007. ISBN 0-19-726401-8, pp. 107–127 "Cyrus the Great of Persia: Images and Realities", in M. Heinz & M. H. Feldman (eds), Representations of Political Power: Case Histories from Times of Change and Dissolving Order in the Ancient Near East, pp. 174–175. Eisenbrauns, 2007. ISBN 1-57506-135-X "The Problem of Achaemenid Religious Policy", in B. Groneberg & H. Spieckermann (eds.), Die Welt der Gotterbilder, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, pp. 117–142 "Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem", in A.K. Bowman et al. (eds) Representations of Empire: Rome and the Mediterranean World, pp. 13 – 33. OUP/British Academy 2004. ISBN 0-19-726276-7 "The Achaemenid Persian empire (c. 550-c. 330 BCE): continuities, adaptations, transformations", in S.E. Alcock et al. (eds.), Empires: perspectives from archaeology and history, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 93–123 "Women and War", Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity 2 (1) (2001) 1 - 25 "The Persian Kings and their subjects: A unique relationship?", Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol.96 no.2 (2001), pp. 165–172 "Israelite and Near Eastern historiography," in A. Lemaire & M. Saebo (eds), Vetus Testamentum Supplementum 80 (2000), pp. 257–279 "Usurpation, conquest and ceremonial: From Babylon to Persia", in D. Cannadine, S. Price (eds), Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 20–55 "Babylonia from Cyrus to Xerxes", in John Boardman (ed), The Cambridge Ancient History: Vol IV - Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean, p. 124. Cambridge University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-521-22804-2 "The Cyrus Cylinder and Achaemenid imperial policy", Journal of Studies of the Old Testament 25 (1983), pp. 83–97 References[edit] ^ Directory of Ordinary Fellows - K Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, British Academy ^ "Research programmes". British Academy. Accessed 2008-11-11. ^ "AHA Award Recipients - James Henry Breasted Prize". American History Association. Accessed 2008-11-11. External links[edit] Professor Amélie Kuhrt profile and contact page Authority control BNE: XX1175764 BNF: cb12026990k (data) CANTIC: a12377673 GND: 143238124 ISNI: 0000 0001 2321 5598 LCCN: n80007609 NLG: 81619 NTA: 069557535 SUDOC: 028433696 S2AuthorId: 12855264 VIAF: 109996479 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n80007609 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amélie_Kuhrt&oldid=993050078" Categories: 1944 births Living people Alumni of King's College London British historians Fellows of the British Academy Iranologists People associated with the History Department, University College London Assyriologists Iran's Book of the Year Awards recipients Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Semantic Scholar author identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Date of birth missing (living people) Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Deutsch فارسی Français مصرى Edit links This page was last edited on 8 December 2020, at 15:02 (UTC). 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