Dr. Alasdair Grant
Foto: Photo by Elizabeth Muñoz Huber
Research Associate
Emmy Noether research group 'Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)'
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I studied Medieval History, Latin and Byzantine Studies at the universities of St Andrews,
Oxford and Edinburgh. My research concerns the social history and literatures of the
Mediterranean region and the Caucasus from the early Middle Ages to the nineteenth century,
with particular focus on the themes of slavery and rebellion. My first book, Greek Captives
and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460, a substantially revised version of my PhD thesis, is
forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
My current project in the context of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Social
Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE, 2020–26) concerns contention in
Armenia under caliphal rule, especially in the eighth century CE. I am also undertaking
editorial and translation work on martyrological texts, which offer important but so far
underused perspectives on early medieval Armenian society. This project will culminate in a
monograph provisionally entitled Contending Armenian Tributary Society, 400–900.
Together with group leader Dr Hannah-Lena Hagemann, I am currently co-editing a multi-
author volume entitled Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention
and Identity, based on our first project conference and under contract with Edinburgh
University Press.
In parallel to SCORE, I am co-principal investigator (with Dr Daphne Penna) of the
collaborative Hamburg–Groningen research project ‘Loyalty Oaths in the Roman, Byzantine
and Islamicate Legal Spheres’ (LORILS, 2023–24).
I also retain a keen interest in the history and culture of my native Scotland. Before coming to
Hamburg, I curated an exhibition at the University of Edinburgh on Scottish–Hellenic
connections, ‘Edina/Athena: The Greek Revolution and the Athens of the North, 1821–2021’,
funded by the A. G. Leventis Foundation.