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ANGELIKI LAIOUApril 6, 1941December 11, 2008

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, Harvard University

Director of Dumbarton Oaks, 19891998

A Service in TanksgivingTursday, January 29, 2009, two oclock in the afernoon

Te Memorial Church, Harvard University

Camridge, Massachusetts

A Celebration of LifeMonday, April 6, 2009, three oclock in the afernoon

Te Music Room, Dumarton Oaks

Washington, District o Columia

A Commemorative Booklet


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ANGELIKI LAIOU

A Service in Tanksgiving

Tursday, January 29, 2009, two oclock in the afernoonTe Memorial Church, Harvard University

Camridge, Massachusetts

Te service was conducted y Diana L. Eck.Te pianist was Edward E. Jones, Gund University Organist and Choirmaster

in Te Memorial Church, Harvard University.

Senior UshersJohn Duy, Dumarton Oaks Proessor o Byzantine Philology and Literature

John Womack, Roert Woods Bliss Proessor o Latin American History and Economics

Ushers(Professor Laious Graduate Students)

Ece Gulsum urnator, Jaku Kaala, Rena Lauer, Alex Medico More

prelude

Pavane Maurice Ravel (18751937)

Tree Gymnopdies Erik Satie (18661925)

Elgie Jules Massenet (18421912)


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OPENING REMARKS

Diana L. Eck

Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and

Master of Lowell House, Harvard University

Dear colleagues and riends and amily, we are gathered here today in Te MemorialChurch in Harvard Yard to rememer and celerate the lie o our eloved Angeliki

Laiou, Dumarton Oaks Proessor o Byzantine History. It is important that the universitycomes togetherproessors, students, and stato honor one o our own. It is important

that we gather in support and love around those most intimate among her associates,especially her eloved son Vassili. And as we do so, we know that Angelikis world andinuence is ar wider than even this great university. We are joined today y memers othe Hellenic community, and y Constantinos Orphanides, the consul general o Greece,representing the government o the Hellenic Repulic.

Each o us rings to this time and place memories o this remarkale, elegant, andcosmopolitan woman. Collectively, we have known her as a colleague in the HistoryDepartment, as a lively and incisive memer o the Faculty o Arts and Sciences, as amemer o the Hellenic community o greater Boston, as director o Dumarton Oaks inWashington, D.C., as a eloved teacher and mentor, as a riend, and as mother. No dout,

some o us here have admired her rom a distance and through her work as a consummatescholar. As we gather and listen to those who will oer rememrances today, may our ownmemories e renewed and amplied y one another.

For my part, I have known Angeliki since the year I joined the Harvard aculty. Iwas still an associate proessor when Angeliki ecame a ull proessor in 1981. Te Crimsonreported, Angeliki Laiou, an expert in Byzantine history, will join the History Departmentas its only tenured woman on July 1, 1981, when she ecomes proessor o history. Tisrought the numer o tenured women on the Harvard aculty to sixteen. Eventually,I was numer twenty. Tere were ew women in the Faculty Room o University Hallwhen we gathered or FAS aculty meetings in the 1980s. I ofen sat with Angeliki at aculty

meetingson the smoking side o the Faculty Room, then divided, as some may recall, intosmoking and non-smoking sections. Angeliki rolled her own. I did not, ut watched withastonishment at her exceedingly impressive talents. Smoking, o course, was anned inaculty meetings in 1987.

It was really in the context o aculty meetings that I continued to see Angeliki. Shewas a great aculty citizen. She requently wrote editorials and letters to the editor o the


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Crimson aout university aairs. When she stood to speak, it was always to the point. Onecould sense something o the pulic gure known in Greeceshe was at ease and powerulat the microphone, and was well deserving o one o her many honors, Commander o theOrder o Honor o the Hellenic Repulic.

I rememer most recently our 2007 delierations on the General Educationcurriculum. Did we really want to have a category o General Education called Te UnitedStates and the World? Did that not suggest either that the United States was not reallya part o the world, or that there were two entities o equal weight and importance, theUnited States, on the one hand, and all o the rest o the world, on the other? Might thatnot convey that we somehow see the world, in its geographic and chronological complexity,as a sort o ackyard o the United States, whose only place in the curriculum was to allowstudents to etter understand the present and the uture o the United States? She had awide and cultured view, always deprovincializing Harvard.

Angeliki was a long-time memer o the Lowell House Senior Common Room, a

act I discovered to my delight only when I ecame Master o Lowell House. She wouldsweep in or estive dinners, High ales, and aculty dinners. She would ring guests romaroad or sherry in the Lowell House Lirary, enaling them to see something o Harvardthat was slightly genteel and conversational.

In these moments we share today, we will relish and cherish the lie o this woman,Angeliki Laiou, somehow larger than lie itsel.


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PSALM 121

Ioli Kalavrezou

Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Art History,

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Psalm 121 was read in English and in the Greek Septuagint version traditionally

ascribed to the Hellenized Jewish diaspora of the third century . Te Septuagint

was one of the foundational texts of Byzantine civilization.

1 I will lif up mine eyes unto the hills.From whence does my help come?

2 My help comes rom the LORD,who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your oot e moved,he who keeps you will not slumer.

4 Behold, he who keeps Israelwill neither slumer nor sleep.

5 Te LORD is your keeper;the LORD is your shadeon your right hand.

6 Te sun shall not smite you y day,nor the moon y night.

7 Te LORD will keep you rom all evil;he will keep your lie.

8 Te LORD will keep your going outand your coming in rom this time

orth and or evermore.

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REMEMBR ANCE

Vassili Tomadakis

Son of Angeliki Laiou

hank you all or eing here. I would like to express my gratitude to Harvard Universityor its support the past ew months, including this memorial service. Tere could,o course, e no more tting place or a memorial service or my mother than here. Sheloved this institution, and she dedicated decades o her lie to serving it. And while she

was oviously proud o eing part o this institution itsel, it was her interactions with hercolleagues and students that made this such a special place or her. I recall her telling meevery all, with the commencement o the new school year, how she elt newly invigorated.I dout that anything was more proessionally exciting to her than getting to know newstudents, ull o resh ideas and energyexcept perhaps ollowing the success o her ormerstudents later on. She very ofen attriuted her youthul appearance and vigor to the energyshe drew rom her students at this university. And even to the very end, eing ale to stilladvise students and write recommendations or them was something that lifed her spiritsduring her ght with cancer.

While her love o Harvard and her dedication to her students will not come as a

surprise to anyone here, those who did not know her personally may not e aware that shestrove to strike a alance etween her career and her amily lie. And she accomplishedjust that; she was the most wonderul, caring mother someone could ask or. I stil l lookack to when she was named chairman o the History Department. Despite all o the newresponsiilities that position entailed, and the pressure she must have elt, she would neverail to e there to help me with my homework or to cook dinnerand those o you whohad the pleasure o sampling her cooking know how special that was! It may not seempossile, ut she was as dedicated to her amily and riends as she was to her studentsperhaps more so. Tis alance in her lie was something which I always respected her orand or which I am deeply grateulthat she could reach the proessional heights which she

did while still eing such a loving mother as well as a loyal and caring condant and riend,a tender soul who would console a riend in need as quickly and as naturally as she wouldprovide sage advice to a young person making important decisions aout the uture.


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I would like to leave you with one nal thought. In her last week, when she wasin the hospital, she received countless messages, cards, calls, and visits rom riends,colleagues, and students. She was deeply moved y this outpouring o support. And shetold me that, while she had always known that her colleagues and students respected

her, it wasnt really until that point that she realized just how much people loved her andhow deeply they cared aout her. Tis newound knowledge made her immeasuralyhappy in her nal days, and or that I thank you. And as much as I miss my mother andlament the act that she lef us so early, it is also a comort to me to see how many livesshe touched during her time.


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REMEMBR ANCE

John Womack

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American

History and Economics, Harvard University

Angeliki [An-jell--kee] I called her, and she never corrected me. So Angeliki I call hernow, to rememer her and tell her goodye. Not long ago, when the graduate schoolhere was huge, fy to sixty new students every year in the History Department, whenmeanwhile in the ig world President Kennedy was shot, and Greek politics was pounding

toward national military repression o a strong civic lef, Angeliki was here, in her twenties,in the thick o intense graduate historical studies, and quietly deep in political concerns. Arilliant student, writing her thesis on a Byzantine emperor, she was intellectually ocused,sophisticated, and clear, as ew o the rest o us were. She could also think clearly aoutpolitics; unlike many others o us, she didnt conuse school, riendship, and struggles or

justice or power.She and I were almost in the same cohort in getting our Ph.D., eing appointed

instructor here, promoted to assistant proessor, and given tenure. All along what impressedme most aout her was her ravery and discipline. She had kindly mentors. But ecause oher special eld, she had to deal constantly with the toughest, sharpest, most conservative,

imposing, impatient, and explosive senior memer o the department (may he rest in peace).She charmed him. But that came naturallydidnt mean a thing. It meant everything thatshe knew her stu. She spoke out, answered him, made her cases, stood her ground. And shewon not just his gentlemanly delight in her company, ut his scholarly and personal respect.Tat she raved him and succeeded him here gave her whatever more condence she may yethave needed to conront anything else, intellectually, politically, or personally.

Where she decided it was good to elong, like here, or to the Greek socialist party,she was institutionally very loyal and highly responsile. She learned the ropes as well as therules. She thought aout them critically, measured her judgments careully, and having madethem, spoke to the point, respectul o colleagues or comrades, ut all usiness. She made you

value her respect.For the last twenty years our oces aced each other at the end o a corner hall inRoinson. We ecame good riends, allies in many struggles, comrades o a kind. She mosthated not acing the truth. She loved learning. She made you want to learn. Every day that Icome down the hall in Roinson, I think or a happy second that I may see her door open,and her, well again, there in the light. Te doors closed now. Its rom our memory o herlight well have to learn.


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INTERLUDE

Gnossienne No. 3Erik Satie (18661925)

Angeliki with her Crusades students at summer school in Venice, 2008


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REMEMBR ANCE

Rowan Dorin

Graduate Student in the History Department, Harvard University

A little over our years ago, I was an eager sophomore sitting in the cavernous Fogglecture hall, and Angeliki swept onto the stage to egin her series o lectures orHistory 10. Harvard undergraduates ofen speak in hushed and reverent terms o theintellectual Olympians among the aculty; surely here was Pallas Athena hersel.

Her research seminar on the late medieval Mediterranean sparked my interest inthe eld, and I approached her aout serving as a senior thesis advisor. o my surprise, sheriskly accepted, then inormed me that I would need to learn three new languages withinthe year, and assigned what seemed like hal o Widener as a preliminary reading list.

For the next feen months, I lived in varying degrees o mortal ear. At rst, itwas simply the ear o the wrath o an exacting goddess should I ail to live up to herexpectations. Tis was only exacerated y the many graduate studentsnever her own,I should addwho approached me in the Great Space o Roinson, asking: Are you theundergraduate working with Laiou? Youre so rave.

But over time, my ear ecame simply that o disappointing a mentor whose dedication

to my project seemed to outstrip my own. Her guidance was ofen sutle, sometimes so sutlethat it went unnoticed, and I would show up with some exciting new insight only to have herwryly remark that she had already suggested as much weeks, or even months, earlier.

Her attention to detail was unagging, and so too was her enthusiasm. I came tosee her one Novemer afernoon, wearied y weeks o prosopographical research. AsI proceeded to lay orth my meagre ndings, she stopped me, stared at me with greatconcern, and asked: Are you having any un? Tis is supposed to e un, you know.Fun was not a word regularly associated with the senior thesis process, and I recallgreeting her remark with aed silence. But she was right, o course, and she led yexample, inusing even the simplest o emails with her characteristic wit.

Her lectures, too, were enlivened y her sharp sense o humor, ut I shall rememerthem most or the deep and aiding humanity they evinced. She humorously descriedhersel as a scholar o lood and money, ut she rought tears to our eyes when she spokeo the sack o Constantinople in 1204, and there were tears in her own as she evoked theitter legacy o the Crusades. Te practice o history was meant to e un, ut in her hands,its sweep was inealy human.


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She took erocious and personal pride in her students work. Upon receiving mythesis readings, I wrote her a quick note, expressing relie that things had gone well. Ireceived an immediate reply, indicating that I had every right to e pleased, ollowed swiflyy another email: On second thought, she wrote, this is an insult. How could your thesis

have turned out adly? Iadvised it!She took passionate interest in all aspects o undergraduate lie, oth within the

classroom and eyond. Despite eing on leave during the spring o my junior year, shemade time during one o her rie stops in Camridge to attend a perormance o a playthat I was directing. She stayed aferwards to chat at length with memers o the cast andcrew, many o whom were astonished to discover that the warm and engaging audiencememer with the crimson hair and Amazonian jewelry was a senior proessor o history.

I returned to Harvard last Septemer to egin doctoral studies under hersupervision. She told me early on aout her illness, and we agreed to work through it or aslong as possile. Even as her treatments intensied, she continued to meet with me or two

hours at a time, at her oce when she was well enough to come to campus, at her homewhen she was not. How she summoned such stamina and intellectual ocus during a timeo such great suering I do not know, ut it was driven y the uninching, unyieldingdevotion to her students that so marked her lie and career.

In her nal months, she told me how much she hoped to take me with her toIstanul, should she recover. Tat dream is ended, too soon. I must now sail to Byzantiumalone, my heart singing, perhaps with Yeats, o lords and ladies . . . o what is past, orpassing, or to come, ut singing most o all, Angeliki, o you.


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REMEMBR ANCE

Alice-Mary albot

Former Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

Good afernoon. I am here today as a representative o Dumarton Oaks, whereAngeliki Laiou served as director rom 1989 to 1998. I ring special greetings romour current director, Jan Ziolkowski, who regrets very much his asence rom this service.My rie remarks this afernoon will ocus on the signicant role Angeliki played in the

institutional and scholarly history o Dumarton Oaks.At the spring symposium o May 1972, Angeliki, then an assistant proessor at

Harvard University, rst appeared at Dumarton Oaks. Her rst ook, a rilliantlyresearched study on Byzantine oreign relations with the West in the late thirteenthand ourteenth centuries, was just aout to appear. Her pioneering lecture that dayin Washington, however, was on a very dierent suject: the structure o the peasantpopulation in late Byzantium. It made a strong impact on the assemled audience, sincein the 1970s, studies o Byzantine social and economic history were in their inancy, andheralded the uture direction o her work. Her susequent ascent o the academic ladderwas meteoric: y 1981, afer rie stints at Brandeis and Rutgers, she ecame Dumarton

Oaks Proessor o Byzantine History at Harvard. In 1983, she was appointed to theadvisory oard o senior ellows or Byzantine Studies at Dumarton Oaks, and in 1989,she ecame the rst emale director o the institution.

Drawing upon her experience as chair o the Harvard History Department, Angelikimanaged the administration o Dumarton Oaks with an iron hand, attention to detail,and scally conservative policies. With strategic vision, realizing that the institutiondesperately needed more space, especially or its rapidly growing lirary, she egan tomake plans or a capital expansion project, setting aside the nancial reserves that wouldmake possile uture major construction and renovation projects. Among the highlightso her tenure as director were the purchase o an apartment uilding, the launching o

Dumarton Oakss rst wesite, and the computerization o the lirary holdings. Oneo Angelikis special loves was the gardens, where she initiated several major restorationprojects, including the Rose Garden, especially dear to her heart. In season she would axto her louse every day a reshly cut rose.

I should like to remark especially upon the ways in which Angeliki strengthenedand expanded the program in Byzantine Studies. First o all, in 1991, she reinstated the


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long-aolished position o Director o Byzantine Studies. She instituted annual colloquia,and initiated two new projects, the hagiography dataase and a series o translations osaints lives.

Particularly impressive was the way in which Angeliki managed to continue active

engagement in research and pulication, despite the demands o administration. Duringher tenure she co-directed two symposia, one on Byzantium and the Italians in thethirteenth through feenth centuries, another on the Crusades rom the perspective oByzantium and Islam. Te colloquium she organized on sexual coercion and consent inByzantium reects her long standing interest in the role o women, a suject which she didmuch to elucidate. All these conerences resulted in important pulications y DumartonOaks. oward the end o her time in Washington, she emarked on the culmination o herlies work, the multi-authored three-volume Economic History of Byzantium, o which sheserved as editor-in-chie and to which she contriuted several key chapters.

Angeliki lef her mark on every aspect o Dumarton Oaks. Even afer her return to

Harvard in 1998, she visited aithully three times a year or the Senior Fellows meetings,always elegantly coied and wearing the latest ashions. Her incisive questioning ocandidates or ellowships, her relentless pressure or speeding up pulication schedules,and her judicious assessment o new initiatives made her an invaluale memer o thiscommittee. It is hard to elieve that next week, when we convene once again to select nextyears ellows, she will not e in the room.

INTERLUDE

Romance No. 3

Gabriel Faur (18451924)


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REMEMBR ANCE

Michael McCormick

Goelet Professor of Medieval History,

History Department, Harvard University

Angeliki Laious amily has lost its oundation, Greece has lost one o her mostdistinguished daughters, the international world o Byzantine studies has lost itsmost excellent historian. Harvard has lost all o this, and something moresomething atonce transcendent and yet unique to our time and place. Te mind and work o Angeliki

Laiou transcends this time and place, and they transcend any time or place where intellectsare admired regardless o the ody they inhait. But this historical minds historic rolewas unique to our time and place. Angeliki Laiou seized the rst moment that, howevergrudgingly, aorded hal o the nest minds on the planet real opportunity. And so, amongthe ower o its rst generation, Harvard University has lost nowso early, so unairly, sosuddenlyone o the great teacher-scholars in its history, who also happened to e one othe rst great woman teachers, scholars, mentors, and administrators in the our centurieso our corporate existence. But the act that she will always e rememered as one o themost distinguished o our numer owes nothing to coincidence. Te power and rigor o herintellect would have guaranteed her that status whether she was o the rst or the fieth

generation o the great proessors o Harvard University who happen to e women.Vice minister o oreign aairs, memer o parliament, dedicated teacher, and rillianthistorianamong us she was an extraordinary gure. My distinguished colleague, CharlesMaier, has said that Angeliki was Harvards Maria Callas. In act, she surpassed even thegreat Callas, whose passion, it is said, sometimes outstripped her technique. Te passionthat red Angelikis work and teaching was, on the contrary, totally controlled y hercoolly analytical mind. Angeliki Laious scholarship was pioneeringrom diplomatic todemographic history, rom peasant households to sex, marriage, and the status o women inByzantine society. It includes also the mighty three-volume history o the Byzantine economy,path reaking ooks characterized y exemplary methodological rigor, sovereign command

o the medieval and modern languages, and an unailingly analytical eye allied with a hard-nosed approach to the evidence. Te time will come or more sustantive appraisals o herenormous scholarly contriution, one whose gloal reach is patent rom the internationalcondolences that have come in rom as ar aeld as the national committees o ByzantineStudies o the Russian Federation, Seria, Bulgaria, and France.


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Let me rather use these moments in a more personal way, to remind us all o whatis has een like, this remarkale privilege o working shoulder to shoulder with AngelikiLaiou as, in her own words, one o my comrades-in-arms.

She had the rare gif o an original mind, an iron will, and a penetrating intellect.

She was earless, whether looking death in the eye or something incomparaly more trivial.Unlike many who never ear to speak, she always chose her words judiciously. How manyo us have elt the sinking eeling I have known when suddenly, her voice was heard acrossthe room, speaking calmly and delierately: Mr. Chairman, excuse me, could you pleaserepeat what you have just said? Inevitaly the repetition would e ollowed y a none-tooindirectalthough perectly politecorrection o the chairs erroneous understanding othe rule, precedent, or situation.

Te way her mind moved was a wonder to ehold. Imagine a committee meeting,in which the valiant participants laored against the soporic impact o the chairs report.And then, just when the report made a quiet ut telling point, her head moved not a

millimeter, ut her eyes slid over, suddenly alert to the crux o the matter. O course, it wasthe critical point on which the decision at hand would ultimately turn. Te penetratingintelligence and alertness o that look was typical o Angeliki Laiou, and o no one else Ihave ever met. None who has seen that look will ever orget it.

Tis intensely private person cut an imposing gure eore fy undergraduatesor ve hundred colleagues. Yet as intimidating as she could appear to her students andsuordinates, she displayed a devoted attentiveness that would have amazed those whoknew only her imposing proessional persona. How many Harvard women, students andcolleagues, have said how much she meant, as a model, yes, ut especially as a judicious,tough-minded yet supportive mentor in this new, more open academic world that Angeliki

Laiou helped to create or all o our enet. Nor is that impact conned to Harvard. Tislily symolizes her gloal reach. It is a gif rom a group o emale colleagues, who todayhold distinguished appointments rom Berkeley to Istanul, via Columia and Harvard,and who, alas, cannot join us in person today. It is, they write, a memorial to an importanthistorian and an inspiring mentor.


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When last I saw her, she was weak, ut then as always, well groomed. Te imes laynext to her on the edshe had een studying the continuing economic crisis and the riotsin Greece. She was completely lucid and typically analytical. Her ironic sense o humordid not desert her, even in this dire moment. She was, o course, totally proessional. We

proceeded through our unspoken agenda. First: her students. Next: could I report on theincoming graduate students? Tird: the ook now in preparation. When all usiness wascovered: well, now, Mike, tell me the most important thing, how is the amily?

And then I told her a story I had always meant to relay. It was at a department partyaout ten years ago. I had drifed into a group o emale graduate students, who perhapshad had a glass or two or three o wine and who were having the liveliest o multi-poledconversations aout their amitions. I want to e the senior proessor o Americandiplomatic history at Princeton, I want to write a Pulitzer Prize winning ook onmuseums, I want to e the est Latinist in North America . . . Suddenly one o themno Byzantinist, y the waypiped up, I want to e Angeliki Laiou when I grow up!

All three or our o them chimed in, in unison, I want to e Angeliki Laiou when I growup! Te way she walks into a room! Te way she delivers a lecture! Te outts! Te shoes!O yes, I want the shoes! At this point Angeliki laughed quietly, closed her eyes, andmurmured to me with a smile, I I knew where she was, I would send them to her.

Te history o Harvard University in our time has not een written. But it willsomeday. And when that time comes, Angeliki Laiou will occupy a prominent anddistinguished place in one o the great turning points in the lie o this institution andthis nation. I personally, and I think everyone present in this Memorial Church, rejoicein having had the privilege o knowing, learning rom, and admiring Angeliki Laiou,Dumarton Oaks Proessor o Byzantine History.


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As we gather together these memories and inscrie them orever in the lie o thisuniversity, and in our own lives, we give thanks or the lie o Angeliki Laiou. We givethanks or the passion and energy she rought to her teaching in this place. We givethanks or the care she showed her students and or inspiration she reathed into the nextgeneration. We give thanks or the spirit o justice and citizenship she rendered in her workand in her pulic lie. We give thanks or her magnicent mind and the enduring work shehas lef or the ages. We give thanks not only or her learning, ut or her wisdom. We givethanks or her wit and her love o lie. We give thanks or the countless ways in which shetouched our lives. We give thanks or this eloved voice, now lost to us. May it continue tospeak to us in our dreams, in the thoughts o our minds, and in our own lies poetry.

We close with words rom the Hymn to Wisdom rom the Wisdom of Solomon,written in Greek in Alexandria, perhaps in the rst century , part o the BilicalApocrypha.

READING AND CLOSING MEDITATION

Diana L. Eck

One o the poems Angeliki loved, and those most intimate withher knew she loved, is Voices () y Constantine P. Cavay (18631933).

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Loved, idealized voiceso those who have died, or o thoselost or us like the dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;sometimes deep in thought the mind hears them.

And, with their sound, or a moment returnsounds rom our lies rst poetrylike distant music ading away at night.


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Hymn to Wisdom, from Te Wisdom of Solomon,6:1221 and 7:812

rst century , part of the Biblical Apocrypha

new revised standard version

Wisdom is radiant and unading, and she is easily discerned y those who love her,And is ound y those who seek her.She hastens to make hersel known to those who desire her.One who rises early to seek her will have no diculty,

For she will e ound sitting at the gate.o x ones thought on her is perect understanding,And one who is vigilant on her account will soon e ree rom care,Because she goes aout seeking those worthy o her,And she graciously appears to them in their paths,And meets them in every thought.Te eginning o wisdom is the most sincere desire or instruction,And concern or instruction is love o her,And love o her is the keeping o her laws,And giving heed to her laws is the assurance o immortality,

And immortality rings one near to God;So the desire or wisdom leads to a kingdom.Tereore, i you delight in thrones and scepters,O monarchs over the peoples, honor wisdom, so that you may reign orever.

I preerred Wisdom to scepters and thronesAnd I accounted wealth as nothing in comparison with her.I loved her more than health and eauty,And I chose to have her rather than light,Because her radiance never ceases.

All good things came to me along with her,And in her hands uncounted wealth.I rejoiced in them all, ecause Wisdom leads them,But I did not know that she was their mother.


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Tere is in her a spirit that intelligent, holy, unique, maniold, sutle,moile, clear, loving the good, enecent, humane, steadast.

For wisdom is more moile than any motion;Because o her pureness, she pervades and penetrates all things.For she is a reath o the power o God,A reection o eternal light,A spotless mirror o the working o God,And an image o Gods goodness.Although she is ut one, she can do all things,And while remaining in hersel, she renews all things;In every generation, she passes into holy soulsAnd makes them riends o God and prophets.

For God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom.

In Praise o Wisdom, Sophia.


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ANGELIKI LAIOU

A Celebration of Life

Monday, April 6, 2009, three oclock in the afernoonTe Music Room, Dumarton OaksWashington, District o Columia

Te service was led y Jan Ziolkowski.

Te vocalist was Allison Mondel.

Te pianist was Richard Fitzgerald.

prelude

Intermezzo rom Cavalleria RusticanaPietro Mascagni (18631945)


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OPENING REMARKS

Jan Ziolkowski

Director, Dumbarton Oaks

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University

Beyond welcoming all who have come to this occasion or honoring Angeliki Laiou, Ioer special thanks to Allison Mondel, or estowing song upon us, and to Angelikisson, Vassili Tomadakis, to Henry Maguire, and to Ccile Morrisson, or opening theirhearts to share memories. o Marlene Chazan, we owe an additional det o gratitude, or

having orchestrated this event with Gail Grin.Although a service in thanksgiving or Angeliki Laious lie took place already twoand a hal months ago up the road in Camridge, here at Dumarton Oaks she is eingcommemorated especially or the nine years rom 1989 to 1998 she spent here and or theimprints she lef orever on the people and places o this institution. Enough time haspassed that our rememrances may e termed truly a celeration: cold winter has yieldedto ull spring, and we know that the gardens are in rampant loom, even i April threatensto uphold its showery reputation.

Back in Decemer, when the lack-edged card arrived rom the dean in theuniversity mail at Harvard to ormalize the shock that we had all received on the eleventh,

it was emlazoned Angeliki Laiou, Dumarton Oaks Proessor o Byzantine History. Tesame identication appeared on the program or the memorial service there at the end oJanuary. o many o her colleagues in Massachusetts, the title Dumarton Oaks Proessorrepresented little more than a name. Tey have heard o Dumarton Oaks, ut they havenot traversed the hundreds o miles to work or study within these precincts. Or they havepassed through the gardens and museum, and maye even spent a night or two in theGuest House, ut they have not actually lived in the Byzantine zone o D.C.

o e candid, I would have elonged to their numer until comparatively recently.In 198081immediately eore emarking upon my teaching careerI held a DumartonOaks and American Academy Fellowship in Rome, under a short-lived program that hadeen created under Giles Constale, ut eing on Gianicolo did not entail a commutativeprinciple that amiliarized me osmotically with Georgetown. And it is true that during NedKeenans tenure rom 1998 to 2007, I ventured here once or a two-week sojourn, and thatlater, I traveled down every year or so as part o an administrative committee. But thoseengagements egan afer Angeliki s directorship had ended.


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or eing a living example o meekness. Meek is not an adjective anyone ever used tocharacterize Angeliki Laiou.

But how should we descrie Angeliki? I wish I had the eye, the memory, and thewords o a poet to perorm the magic wherey the ragility o what has een taken rom us

can e restored to lie, at least in the imagination. I regret my inaility to conjure up in aew spell-like phrases, in the manner o a sorcerera necromancer in the truest sensetheogival creases that a slightly ironic smile would reveal on either side o Angelikis mouth,the anatomical geography o the eauty mark near her strong jawline, the melody andtimre o her voice, the immaculately tailored and elegantly worn clothes that called out orthe adjective soigne, and a thousand other such eatures that went into estalishing her inher ullness as a person.

In my minds eye, I see her every day in the directors oce, not too many yards awayin this uilding. Te space has changed with time. For instance, the desk sits in a dierentposition, and the soa that she chose has een replaced. But or the rest the room looks so

much the same that I can readily imagine her standing at the mantelpiece, proaly posedy our own Joe Mills or the ormal portrait that graces the cover o todays program.But all these eorts are immaterial. Ultimately, what lasts and matters is the impress

not o Angelikis physical presence, which is precisely what we have lost, ut rather o herthoughts and ideas, values and eelings, and words, which will remain alive among us. Andso let me return to the person etched into my consciousness, a woman who was decidedlyunmeek.

What stood out in Angelikis pulic persona was an intimidating strength. I chosevery delierately a participle constructed upon the element timid, since I had ampleoccasion to witness her aility to strike ear into the hearts o her addressees. When she

chose to speak at a meeting, the interlocutors to whom she responded had to quake whilewaiting to discover what was coming. But eing earsome and earlessoth o whichshe wasare not traits ever to e conused with heartlessness. Part o what made herso daunting was that she was resolutely and uninchingly honest, and the honesty sheexpressed gave utterance to the thoughts o a searingly learned, logical, and insightulmind. And or all the learning, logic, and insight, the honesty was also richly human,


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in that it was passionately elt and had as its concomitant a erce loyalty to those sheguided, eriended, and loved.

We have not gathered in this lovely Music Room to lament a curriculum vitae towhich we will no longer have access, ecause such documents will remain availale to us

orevermore. Since we are here to te the multi-dimensionality o which the intellectualrepresents only one plane, I will end with a vignette o a grie that was anything ut coollyintellectual, a grie that was really and truly rooted in Dumarton Oaks, and a grie thatwas motivated y a loss that time has remedied. Te image is o an Angeliki who cared somuch aout the eauty o the ora that she wept while surveying the massacre o owerswhen the Rose Garden was nearly destroyed. I hope that you will all have a chance to visitthe gardens, to envisage Angeliki as she overlooked the near destruction, and to notice thatthe roses are udding again. Angeliki would have een happy to see her works, her roses,and her loves continue.


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INTERLUDE

Montparnasse

Francis Poulenc (18991963)

from Deux mlodies de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 1words by Guillaume Apollinaire (18801918)

translated by Peter Low

porte de lhtel avec deux plantes vertesVertes qui jamaisNe porteront de eursO sont mes ruits. O me plant-je

porte de lhtel un ange est devant toiDistriuant des prospectusOn na jamais si ien dendu la vertuDonnez-moi pour toujours une chamre la semaineAnge aru vous tes en ralitUn pote lyrique dAllemagneQui voulez connatre ParisVous connaissez de son pavCes raies sur lesquelles il ne aut pas que lon marche

Et vous rvezDaller passer votre dimanche Garches

Il ait un peu lourd et vos cheveux sont longs on petit pote un peu te et trop londVos yeux ressemlent tant ces deux grands allonsQui sen vont dans l air pur laventure


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Oh hotel door, with your two green plantswhich will neverear any owersSay: Where are my ruits? Where am I planting mysel?

Hotel door, an angel stands outside youhanding out leaets(virtue has never een so well deended!).Give me in perpetuity a room at the weekly rate.Oh earded angel, you are reallya lyric poet rom Germanywho wants to get acquainted with Paris.You know that etween its paving-stonesthere are lines which one must not step on.

And you dreamo spending your Sunday at Garches

Te weather is a it oppressive and your hair is longoh good little poet, youre rather stupid and too lond.Your eyes look so much like those two ig alloonsoating o in the pure airwherever chance takes them


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REMEMBR ANCE

Vassili Tomadakis

Son of Angeliki Laiou

hank you or eing here, and thank you to Dumarton Oaks or holding thismemorial service.As I was coming here yesterday evening, when the ca made a lef on R Street rom

28th, the driver glanced in his rearview mirror and said that he noticed I had a sad look

on my ace. He was quite perceptive, this driver, ecause it is a it emotional or me to ehere. My memories o the wonderul years I spent here are inextricaly tied to memories omy mother.

It was nearly twenty years ago when we moved to Washington afer my mother wasnamed director o Dumarton Oaks. I must coness to you that it took her some time toadjust to that position. At the outset, she missed Camridge, and especially having dailycontact with her students, and there were aspects o eing in an administrative positionthat rustrated her.

But she grew to love Dumarton Oaks greatly, so much so that even in her last ewweeks, we shared many a laugh over stories rom our time here. Tere were two primary

reasons why she came to view her time here with such ondness. First, she had a prooundrespect or the purpose and mission o Dumarton Oaks. She considered Dumarton Oaksto e an invaluale resource in urthering Byzantine studies, which was her lies work andpassion. She was also an admirer o the history o Dumarton Oaks and o Roert andMildred Bliss; indeed, in stories she would tell o Mildred Bliss, whom she had never met,one could always detect a sense o aection. My mother was ercely loyal to this institution,and held strong elies aout what initiatives would est serve Dumarton Oaks, and atno time did she hesitate to voice those elies, either while she was here or afer she returnedto Camridge.

But the primary reason that she so greatly appreciated the time that she spent here

was the long-lasting ond that she had with many o you. By the end o her tenure here,nearly nine years, she had ormed riendships and relationships which were very importantto her to her last day. And it was images o my mother interacting with all o the people orwhom she cared so much that ashed through my mind as I approached Dumarton Oaksyesterday in that ca. I can see her now chatting with Don Smith, or Gail, or Larry and the


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rest o the garden sta during her morning walks with our dog through her elovedgardens; I can still picture her making jokes with Silvio, or ony, or other memerso the house sta eore one o the dinners at our old house at 1735 32nd Street; and Ican recall visiting her in her oce to nd her sharing a laugh with Marlene, Nancy, or

Suzanne. Tese images and many others are very clear, and very dear, to me. So whilethe cadriver may have thought he saw sadness on my ace yesterday, the act is thatthese memories are very happy ones or me, ecause you all made my mother eel likeamily while she was here.


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INTERLUDE

Mandoline

Gabriel Faur (18451924)

words by Paul Verlaine (18441896)translated by Emily Ezust

Les donneurs de srnadesEt les elles couteuseschangent des propos adesSous les ramures chanteuses.

Cest ircis et cest Aminte,Et cest lternel Clitandre,Et cest Damis qui pour mainteCruelle ait maint vers tendre.

Leurs courtes vestes de soie,Leurs longues roes queues,Leur lgance, leur joie

Et leurs molles omres leues,

ourillonnent dans lextaseDune lune rose et grise,Et la mandoline jaseParmi les rissons de rise.

Te givers o serenadesAnd the lovely women who listenExchange insipid wordsUnder the singing ranches.

Teres Tyrsis and Amyntas,And theres the eternal Clytander,And theres Damis who, or many aHeartless woman, wrote many

a tender verse.

Teir short silk coats,Teir long dresses with trains,Teir elegance, their joy

And their sof lue shadows,

Whirl around in the ecstasyO a pink and grey moon,And the mandolin prattlesAmong the shivers rom the reeze.


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REMEMBR ANCE

Henry Maguire

Former Director of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

Professor in History of Art, Te Johns Hopkins University

Angeliki arrived at Dumarton Oaks with a clear vision o the direction that theinstitution should take. She had a strong, even passionate, view o what DumartonOaks could achieve y taking an active rather than a passive role. She elieved thatDumarton Oaks should use its treasures and its dual position, eing oth within

Washington and within Harvard, as a springoard to actively promote scholarship,intellectual inquiry, and outreach eyond the walls o the Georgetown estate.Being a Byzantinist, Angeliki oviously took a special interest in Byzantium, ut

her vision went ar outside the connes o that medieval empire. In 1994, or example,she organized a major conerence here on the occasion o the fieth anniversary o theConversations that took place at Dumarton Oaks in 1944, which estalished the asis or theUnited Nations Charter. Within Dumarton Oaks itsel, she ostered a much greater degreeo dialogue etween the three areas o Byzantine, Pre-Columian and Landscape Studies.Te interdisciplinary collaoration produced at least one ground reaking project, thecolloquium on Byzantine garden culture, which took place in Novemer 1996. Tis meeting

lef a permanent mark in its susequent pulication, which was the rst ook ever devotedto the suject o Byzantine gardens. And here I should mention Angelikis own love o thegardens at Dumarton Oaks; I think o her, particularly, welcoming guests into her livingroom in the old Directors House, with its pots and vases ull o plants and owers, and withits tall windows looking out upon the greenhouses and open to the scents rom outside.

Within the Byzantine program itsel, one o Angelikis rst moves upon ecomingdirector, was to reinstate the position o director o Byzantine Studies, which had eenunoccupied or many years. Te two directors who had preceded her, Roert Tomson andGiles Constale, had taken on the duties o director o Byzantine Studies in addition to theirother administrative responsiilities. But Angeliki thought that, i her amitious agenda orByzantine Studies were to e realized, it would e necessary once again to convert the task orunning the many-aceted Byzantine program into a ull-time position. And, i I may say so,under her guidance it did indeed ecome a ull time jo, and more so.

Even while she gave me, the new director o Byzantine Studies, considerale reedomto create my own initiatives, Angeliki hersel was responsile or a constant stream olectures, seminars, round tales, colloquia, conerences, and research projects. Many o


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these undertakings resulted in important pulications, either in Dumbarton Oaks Papersor in separate volumes. And their range was extraordinarily diverse, as is witnessed ythe ollowing titles: Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and MedievalSocieties, which appeared in 1993; Law and Society in Byzantium, edited together with

Dieter Simon in 1994; Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire, co-editedin 1998 with Hlne Ahrweiler; Te Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and theMuslim World, edited with Roy Mottahedeh, which came out in 2001; and culminating inthe monumental three-volume Economic History of Byzantium, pulished in 2002, and itssynthesis, Te Byzantine Economy, which she co-authored with Ccile Morrisson in 2007.Nor should I omit to mention the important Hagiography Dataase, an amitious projectthat was egun during the second year o her tenure. Te scope o these collaorations,rom which I have only drawn a ew examples, is testimony to the range o Angelikis

vision and the readth o her amitions or Byzantine Studies at Dumarton Oaks. Teyalso demonstrate her elie in the necessity o connecting the study o Byzantium to the

wider concerns o medieval history, in topics such as the crusades or the status o women insociety. She elt strongly in the need to demonstrate that students o Byzantium, Islam, andthe European West have much to learn rom each other.

Finally, Angeliki had a deep concern or the welare o the eld o Byzantinestudies outside the precincts o Dumarton Oaks. She continued the program o jointappointments with American universities. Within the institution, the numerous projectsthat she oversaw provided temporary employment or a numer o promising youngByzantinists, who were negotiating the dicult transition etween the completion o theirdoctorates and their rst teaching posts.

Tere can e ew, i any, Byzantinists working today who have not proted rom

the work that Angeliki initiated and ostered at Dumarton Oaks. Certainly, she can ecompared to the person who received the ve talents in the parale told y Matthew. Wecan take these talents oth in the archaic sense, as representing the nancial resourcesequeathed y the Blisses, ut also in the contemporary sense, as standing or Angelikisown very considerale ailities. And certainly, ollowing the parale, she more thandouled her gifs, producing a wonderul interest on what she had een entrusted with.


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For me, it is hard to elieve that she has gone, so vivid are my recollections oDumarton Oaks while she was its director. Although her many pulications remain as alasting legacy o her work, her departure has still lef a huge void, depriving our eld o oneo its strongest advocates and champions.

I will close with two memories o my time at Dumarton Oaks while she wasdirector. Te rst memory is o one o the ellows talks, given in the study. At the starto the talk, the speaker showed a slide o a cartoon, which depicted a drawing o twoChristmas trees. One o the trees was orderly, with its ranches trimmed into a perecttriangle and with its ornaments neatly aligned into horizontal rows. It was laeledConservative Christmas ree. Te other tree was disorderly, its ranches sticking out atrandom and its ornaments placed hither and thither without any apparent plan or logic.Tis tree was laeled Lieral Christmas ree. On seeing the cartoon, Angeliki said rmly:I preer the rst tree.

My second memory is o the annual Christmas party at Dumarton Oaks. Angeliki

is standing eside the Christmas tree. As always or a pulic occasion, she is strikinglydressed. Te tree, o course, is a picture o orderliness, resemling the rst one shownin the cartoon, with all o its ranches neatly trimmed and with its ornaments perectlyaligned. Angeliki is cradling in her arms Hatcher, the inant son o Lynn Jones and therst ay to have een orn to a resident ellow o Dumarton Oaks. Like the goodhegoumenissa that she was, Angeliki was a tough and exacting administrator, ut she wasnot araid o innovation, and she could also show a more tender side toward those whowere under her care.

We owe her an enormous det o gratitude or what she has doneoth orDumarton Oaks and or the humanities, in the roadest sense, that the institution

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INTERLUDE

Gnossienne No. 3

Erik Satie (18661925)

Angeliki on holiday in Siphnos.


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REMEMBR ANCE

Marlene Chazan

Director of Financial Operations, Dumbarton Oaks

In celerating the lie o Angeliki, I am here today to talk aout her as the director oDumarton Oaks, particularly her administrative role. Beore the arrival o any director,there is much speculationWill it e another Harvard proessor? Will it e a Byzantinist?What changes will the person make? And on and on. I hope that it will come as no surprise

to our current and ormer director here today that as potential names are released to therumor mill, the strengths and weaknesses o the prospective directors are collectivelydeated and dissected. When we heard that Angeliki had een appointed, I would descriea eeling o oreoding across the institution. Most o us did not know her personally utall o us heard that she was tough, serious, no-nonsense. It was hard or us to imaginehow this person would act as our director. Shortly afer the news o her appointment, weheard that she wanted to meet with many o us to learn aout each area. My rst meetingwith Angeliki occurred eore she was ocially the director. She met me at the ront doorand we walked the long hallway to the study in complete silence. I was intimidated to saythe least. But y the end o our rst meeting, I was impressed with her apparent intellect,

her sense o humor, the excellent questions she asked o me, and the astute commentsthat she made. As Angeliki met more o the sta and as she egan her role as director, myrst impression o her was shared y many. She took an active interest in all aspects oDumarton Oaks and the sense o oreoding was replaced y great respect.

Angeliki worked very hard and expected the same rom all o us. She proalywould have een horried to learn though that when she called the Byzantine Lirarywith a request, it was all hands on deck until the request was ullled and work literallystopped or everyone working there. Te garden sta knew that she would walk throughthe gardens almost daily eore she arrived at the oce and they would hear aout it i sheound anything not to her liking. She asolutely loved the gardens. But, she proaly did

not oresee that in etween garden superintendents the jo o acting garden superintendentwould all to her. I rememer well the weekly meetings that she and I attended with thegarden sta in the reectory garage, where she intently listened to what was going on andthen would set the goals and workload or the week. But the most dicult task she acedin the gardens was overseeing the replanting o the Rose Garden. She recognized the hugesignicance o this project and made sure that we had a gifed team o proessionals and


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scholars to advise us every step o the way. Everyone in this room knows the successulresult o that eort.

But what I rememer most is her loyalty and aection or the sta. More than oncewe hopped on a plane to Camridge to argue or or against a proposed policy that Angeliki

elt was important to the people working at Dumarton Oaks. Once, afer a particularlyusy time, Angeliki arranged a eautiul appreciation lunch or the entire sta. She wantedit elegant and memorale. She made sure it was a catered aair so that none o our sta hadto work and all could enjoy the afernoon. But her avorite sta event was the Christmaslunch she shared with the housemen. At that time, the housemen had a separate kitchen.For this occasion, they would team up and cook an enormous amount o ood. And thereAngeliki would sit, surrounded y the men, enjoying the ood, laughing at their stories, andtaking immense pleasure in spending the day with this wonderul group. She elt genuineaection or each and every one o them.

Her crowning achievement and, I elieve, her most important legacy was the astute

nancial planning she put into place to ensure that unds would e availale or theinevitale expansion o space. Angeliki realized that we would have to eventually uild inorder to accommodate our growing collection o ooks and activities. So, with her amousunrelenting resolve, we worked on a nancial plan, which would cover us during periodso ination or deation and would result in unding the massive construction project werecently completed. It was an amazing achievement that, when we were ready to uild, theunds were there. We are still in a good nancial position even in this depressed economy asa result o the strict udgeting and the nancial plans and reserves we created so many yearsago. Tis is my proudest memory o Angeliki and the one I wanted to share most this day.

As we gather today to honor Angeliki, I cant leave the podium without sharing my

heartelt aection or her. I admired her not only in her role as the director ut as a ellowmother and as a cherished riend. Anyone who knew Angeliki was aware that her greatestsource o pride and love was her son, Vassili, whom she aectionately called the kid.Tey had a wonderul relationship and I would look orward to hearing the latest Vassiliupdates. No matter when I saw her, she always asked me aout my amily. She had theuncanny aility to recall the last thing I had told her aout them, and she would ollow up


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INTERLUDE

O virtus sapientie

Hildegard of Bingen (10981179)

edited and translated by Barbara Newman, Hildegard of Bingen: Symphonia,2nd ed. (Ithaca: Cornell Univeristy Press, 1998), 100101.

O virtus Sapientieque circuiens circuisti,comprehendendo omniain una via que haet vitam,

tres alas haens,quarum una in altum volatet altera de terra sudatet tercia undique volat.laus tii sit, sicut te decet,o Sapientia.

O energy o Wisdom!You circled, circling,encompassing all thingsin one path possessed o lie.

Tree wings you have:one o them soars on high,the second exudes rom the earth,and the third utters everywhere.Praise to you, as ets you,O Wisdom!


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REMEMBR ANCE

Ccile Morrisson

Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics, Dumbarton Oaks

C.N.R.S.Collge de France

oday, Angeliki would have een 68, and, or a ew months, we would have een thesame age. I she were still with us, she might not approve o a celeration o herirthday. I once ventured to wish her well on one April 6 some years ago, adding stupidlythat I hoped she did not eel the urden o one more year. Her immediate reply was clear

cut and sharp, though its exact wording escapes me: She had no intention o aging anddidnt care aout one more year. Needless to say, this was the rst and only time I wishedher a happy irthday! Tis story reveals her stamina and love o lie then and later, as coulde seen during her last pulic appearance at Dumarton Oaks or the Spring Symposiumin 2008. No one, including Angeliki, could have oreseen the dire and sweeping turn oevents which took her lie on Decemer 11.

At the end o Septemer, as the eginning o the all semester approached, worriedaout some throat prolems and speech diculties that might impede her teaching, she wentto the doctor and got the ateul diagnosis. She arranged everything to work through her lastmonths and meet as many o her commitments as she could, while acing ravely a hopeless

ght. As Mike McCormick recalls o his last visit to her in Massachusetts General Hospital,she was weak ut then as always well groomed . . . lucid and typically analytical, . . . totallyproessional, still interested in the current economic crisis, the riots in Greece, and, o course,in her students, nally not orgetting aout her visitors amily. Similarily when I went to seeher in Camridge on Novemer 20, her voice was aint ut her will as strong as eore, herattentive devotion to her riends personal travails intact. She ocused on how to complete thethird and nal volume o the French handook, Le monde byzantin, which she had workedon to the limit o her strength, and we spoke o how to continue to support the students shewas leaving ehind. She hardly spoke aout hersel, only wondering how it was that the newso her atal illness had not spread in Athens afer she had not een ale to deliver in person

her speech in the Academy on the anniversary o the Greek declaration o war against Italyand the Axis orces. For once, her penetrating judgment was at ault: she had underestimatedthe awe she inspired even in her intimate and closest riends. No one to whom she had toldthe truth would have dared reach the trust she had placed in them, each had kept her secretundisclosed, unale to share its urden.


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When the ormal announcement o her atal illness came, ollowed a ew days later,y that o her death on Decemer 11, the unexpected news came as a rutal shock or alarge community at Harvard, at Dumarton Oaks, in Europe, and especially in Greece,where her uneral took place on Decemer 19, and was attended y the highest authorities

o the Hellenic Repulic. Greece had lost a distinguished personality: not only a greathistorian o Byzantium, and a permanent memer o the Academy o Athens since 1998,ut also a prominent gure in the nations politics. Her inorn sense o social justice andher interest in contemporary issues had led to her nomination in the Greek Parliamentin April 2000. For six months, she served as the deputy secretary under the Minister oForeign Aairs George Papandreou in the socialist government o Constantine Simitis. Incharge o the Greek diaspora, she traveled rom Europe to Russia and urkey to Australiaand the Far East, including China. Tere she had lectured later in the University o Nankaiand always recalled this experience with pleasure and interest.

But Greece and the Greek diaspora are not alone in this loss. Many agreed in sharing

their grie that they elt like orphans deprived o an irreplaceale mentor. Even those whoknew only her imposing proessional gure or who had worked hard under her demandingauthority were aware o the unair and untimely passing o an exceptional gure.

Looking in retrospect at her proessional achievements, one is impressed y theirprecocity: Harvard PhD at age twenty-ve under the great historian o the Crusades,Roert Lee Wol; successor to Peter Charanis at Rutgers at thirty-our; rst emaledirector o the Gennadios Lirary in Athens at thirty-seven, Dumarton Oaks Proessor oByzantine History at orty, rst woman chair o a department, that o history, at orty-our,rst woman director o Dumarton Oaks at orty-seven, second woman to e elected to theAcademy o Athens at the age o fy-eight. Tis litany o distinctions owes nothing to lair

du temps: it was just the sheer recognition o the power o her intellect, o her outstandingand multiaceted scholarship, and o her administrative ailities. Anyone who ever saw andheard her take the oor at a conerence will never orget her commanding presence andthe alertness o her look. Her incisive questioning could cut to the quick and was muchdreaded, especially y the applicants to a junior ellowship at Dumarton Oaks. I know,however, rom hearsay that those questioned recognized that she was also at the same time,


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in the Greek tradition o maieutics, helping them to dene a ruitul direction o theircoming research. Without her, Dumarton Oakss symposia and many other events aroundthe world will never e the same. She was a star o our small world; some compared herto la Callas and my husand was not the only one who aectionately called her la basilissa.

We are today, in the words o Rilke, like Verwandte, die sich im Sterbezimmereiner wirklich beliebten Person begegnen . . . relatives who see each other at the deathedo someone they truly loved. One lives in this deep memory, the other in that . . .bis derSchmerz hinter ihnen breit wird, until the pain ehind them roadens out. Tey sit down,lower their oreheads and say nothing . . . they are close to each other as never eore.

So ar, we have een listening to various rememrances o her as a devoted mother,a great Byzantinist, and an active director who initiated and made possile the presentdevelopment o Dumarton Oaks. Our own memories have een renewed and rereshed,surely the est way to keep her alive or years. Her ooks, however, wil l surely e a longerlasting testimony. Her immense and innovative individual scholarship will e recalled

elsewhere, in Dumbarton Oaks Papers o course; in theAbhandlungen o the AustrianAcademy o Sciences where she had een elected a corresponding memer three years ago;in Speculum y the Medieval Academy o America; and in many other places. So no needto dwell upon it now.

But her work was not only an individual one. She elieved in true collaoration andI would like to evoke, nally, what it meant to have the privilege o working with her, thegreatest opportunity in my lie. When she planned Te Economic History of Byzantiumin 1993, she chose the memers o the editorial oard to represent the various disciplinesor sources she considered relevant to this wide and hardly touched suject: archivaldocuments, archaeology, law, coins, and money. She always took into account diverging

opinions and altered her previous plan in consequence. Her sense o organization wasimpeccale; incoming texts circulated already annotated in her ast ut clear handwriting.Dicult points were discussed over successive axes going to and ro rom me and JacquesLeort in Paris to her in Athens or Dumarton Oaks, wherever she happened to e. ButSHE did most o the work, writing several important chapters and checking the contentsand the translations o thousands o pages. Te readth o the enterprise was such that it


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INTERLUDE

Voyage Paris

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

poem by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)translated by Peter Low

Ah! la charmante choseQuitter un pays morosePour ParisParis joli

Quun jour dt crer lAmour.

Ah, how delightul it isto leave a dismal placeand head or Paris!Beautiul Paris,

which one day Love had to create!


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CLOSING REMARKS

Jan Ziolkowski

Ihave only a ew closing remarks. Mainly I would like to reiterate my gratitude to oursinger and speakers or having made the past hour a magical time. For picking thesite (an undeveloped area that Angeliki yearned to see cultivated), or conceiving o thememorial, and or putting it into eect, I am grateul to Gail Grin.

I invite you sometime to cross the ront lawn and to visit at the southeast corner,on our side o the wall rom where the entrance to the Dumarton Oaks park is locatedat R Street. Tere you will nd a pink marle ench that aces the main uilding, witha matching pink marle irdath eore it. Te ench and irdath are oth enduring,strong, and eautiul, traits that we can identiy with Angeliki. It is not dicult to pictureher on the ench, her ack warmed y a sun that will arrive each day rom Greece, her eyessurveying the propertyand keeping a strict eye on the directors oce.

Dumarton Oaks is a place o inscriptions. Te ones outside, anking the entrance,tell what the ounders intended y their equest. Te ones within the walls reveal muchaout the characters o sta memers who have cared deeply or this unique institution

and or whom it has reciprocated with equally proound aection. A avorite inscriptiono mine can e read in ront o the greenhouse, where it is said o William James Gray,superintendant rom 1922 to 1937, that He won the regard o all who knew him and anenduring place in their memory. Te dignity o his spirit is gathered into the shadows othese gardens he loved so well.

For Angeliki an inscription has een chosen rom Alexis de ocqueville (18051859),who oserved that Le pass nclairant plus l avenir, l esprit marche dans les tnres.Te aphorism earned a second wind thanks to Hannah Arendt (19061975), who in herook entitled Past and Future (La crise de la culture) translated the words pessimistically asSince the past has ceased to throw its light upon the uture, the mind o man wanders in

oscurity. But the pessimism retains a healthy wisp o idealism i we render the sentenceinstead as reerring to what can happen ut has not necessarily done so. I take it to meanWhen the past no longer illuminates the uture, the spirit walks in darkness.

Tat moment has not and will not come, so long as we have historians like Angelikiand so long as institutions such as this one keep history alive.


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