# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-magdalino
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:56.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-magdalino"
name: "Paul Magdalino"
slug: "paul-magdalino"
description: "Paul Magdalino is a British Byzantinist who is Bishop Wardlaw Professor (Emeritus) of Byzantine History at the University of St Andrews. He received the 1993 Runciman Award for his monograph on the reign of Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180), which challenged Niketas Choniates' negative appraisal of the ruler."
tagline: "British academic"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump