Angold was educated atCorpus Christi College,University of Oxford, where he took hisBA (1961) andDPhil (1967) degrees. He has worked at the University of Edinburgh since 1970,[2] serving as professor of Byzantine history from 1996[citation needed] until 2005, when he was appointed professor emeritus.[3]
The University of Edinburgh marked his retirement by holding the conference onEthnonemesis: the creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West (3–5 June 2005), with Susan Reynolds, Emeritus Fellow ofLady Margaret Hall, Oxford, as keynote speaker.[4]
Angold has published extensively on the social and institutional history of theByzantine Empire between 1025 and 1261. At the University of Edinburgh he has taught medieval and renaissance history, and acted as the Director of Studies among his many administrative duties. He served as a member of the British National Committee of the Association Internationale pour les Études Byzantines and of the Byzantine Studies panel of theResearch Assessment Exercise. He was also the national correspondent responsible for the British bibliographical contributions to theByzantinische Zeitschrift.[3]
"Byzantine 'Nationalism' and the Nicaean Empire",Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 1 (1975), pp. 49–70
"The Shaping of the Medieval Byzantine 'City'",Byzantinische Forschungen 10 (1985), pp. 1–37
"The Wedding of Digenes Akrites: Love and Marriage in Byzantium in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries", inΗ καθημερινή ζωή στο Βυζάντιο (Τομές καί συνέχειες στην ελληνιστική και ρωμαϊκή παράδοση): Πρακτικά του Α' Διεθνούς Συμποσίου (Αθήνα, 15–17 σεπτεμβρίου 1988), ed. C. Angelidi (Athens: Kentro Vyzantinon Ereunon, 1989), pp. 201–15ISBN960-7094-37-9
"Procopius' portrait of Theodora", inStudies in Honour of Robert Browning, ed. C.N. Constantinides, N.M. Panagiotakes,E. Jeffreys, and A.D. Angelou (Venice: Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia, 1996), pp. 21–34
"The Road to 1204: The Byzantine Background to the Fourth Crusade",Journal of Medieval History 25.3 (1999), pp. 257–78
"The City Nicaea ca. 1000–1400", inİznik throughout History, ed. Işıl Akbaygil,Halil İnalcık and Oktay Aslanapa (İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası, 2003), pp. 27–55ISBN975-458-431-1
"Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Aegean", inLiquid and Multiple: Individuals and Identities in the Thirteenth-Century Aegean, ed. G. Saint-Guillain and D. Stathakopoulos (Paris: Amis du Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance, 2012), pp. 27–44
"The Accession of John III Doukas Vatatzes",Byzantinoslavica 80 (2022), pp. 120–45
Angold, Michael (1975),A Byzantine Government in Exile: Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea, 1204–1261, London: Oxford University Press
