It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ruth Macrides. Ruth had been editor (with Peter Mackridge) of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies since 2005. She joined the University of Birmingham as a half-time lecturer in 1994. She was appointed to a full-time post at Birmingham in 2000, and in 2013 she became Reader in Byzantine Studies. She was still in post at the time of her death. Till the last, she was giving lectures, speaking at conferences and examining theses in various countries.

Her research centred on the Palaiologan period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries). Her chief publications were George Akropolites: The History: Introduction, Translation and Commentary (2007) and (with Joseph Munitiz and Dimiter Angelov), Pseudo-Kodinos, the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies (2013).

She was awarded a visiting fellowship at the School of Historical Studies at Princeton University for the academic year 2019–20, which she did not live to enjoy. Ruth's unexpected death has robbed us of a much-loved colleague. On BMGS she was the perfect collaborator. She was a meticulous editor of other people's work, determined to preserve the highest standards of scholarship.

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