Peter Heather the Barbaian in Late Antiquity Review

Biography

Peter Heather joined the department in January 2008 as the Chair of Medieval History. He was educated at Maidstone Grammer School, earlier moving to New College Oxford to complete his undergraduate caste and doctoral work. Prior to joining Rex'south, Peter Heather worked at Academy College London, Yale University and Worcester College, Oxford.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Tardily Roman Empire
• Successor States to the Roman Empire
• Barbarian Hordes
• Tardily Roman and medieval legal systems
• The Evolution of Christianity c.200-1200 AD

Professor Peter Heather's research interests lie in the afterwards Roman Empire and its successor states. He is widely published in these matters, with a focus on the Goth and Visigoth kingdoms of the Medieval menses and publications including The Goths (Oxford, 1996) and (with D. Moncur), Politics, philosophy, and Empire in the fourth century (Liverpool, 2001). In recent years, his research has looked at propaganda in the late Roman elite, and issues of migration and ethnicity amongst the groups who dismantled the western one-half of the Roman Empire.  Future piece of work is likely to centre on developing legal systems of the Roman Empire and its successor states, and the evolution of particularly Christian authority structures in the aforementioned contexts.

Peter Heather is happy to to receive applications from students interested especially in

• Late Antiquity and the early Center Ages: c. 200-800 AD (merely a flake after even so for non-Carolingian topics).
• Barbarians and the Roman Empire
• Legal sources and the social history of dispute settlement
• The late & post-Roman development of the Christian Church, everything from Popes to ascetics
• States and their operations

For more details, delight see his full inquiry profile.

• Diversity and the roman empire

  Heather, P., 1 January 2014, Routledge International Handbook of Multifariousness Studies. Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 117-124 eight p. Inquiry output: Chapter in Book/Written report/Conference proceeding › Affiliate › peer-review . DOIs: https://doi.org/ten.4324/9781315747224-21

• The Tardily Roman imperial eye and its northwest borderland

  Heather, P., 3 November 2016, Social Dynamics in the Northwest Frontiers of the Belatedly Roman Empire. Roymans, N., Heeren, Due south. & De Clercq, W. (eds.). Amsterdam University Press, p. 11-38 (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies). Enquiry output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Refugees and the Roman Empire

  Heather, P. J., 1 Jun 2017, In: Periodical of Refugee Studies. 30, 2, p. 221-242 22 p., few020. Inquiry output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review . DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/few020

• Migration in Late Antiquity

  Heather, P., 2018, (Accustomed/In printing) Migration and the History of Poland. Research output: Affiliate in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Briefing newspaper › peer-review

• Race, Migration, and National Origins

  Heather, P., 2018, (Accepted/In press) History and memory. Sutcliffe, A. & Sleight, S. (eds.). Routlege Research output: Chapter in Volume/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• Migration and the Roman Empire

  Heather, P., 2017, Migration and Integration. Research output: Affiliate in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Briefing newspaper › peer-review

• The Politics of Accommodation

  Heather, P., 2013, Expropriations et confiscations dans les royaumes barbares: une approche régionale . Porena, P. & de la Riviere, Y. (eds.). Rome: Ecole Francaise de Rome, p. 297-318 21 p. Research output: Affiliate in Volume/Written report/Conference proceeding › Briefing paper › peer-review

• The Huns and Barbaric Europe

  Heather, P., 2015, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila. Maas, One thousand. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Printing, Cambridge, p. 351-77 26 p. Inquiry output: Chapter in Book/Report/Briefing proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

• A Tale of Ii Cities: Rome and Ravenna under Theoderic

  Heather, P., 2016, Ravenna: its function in medieval change and exchange. Nelson, J. & Herrin, J. (eds.). London: Plant of Historical Enquiry, p. xv-37 22 p. Enquiry output: Chapter in Book/Report/Briefing proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

• Freedmen: Forgotten Warriors of the Early on Eye Ages

  Heather, P., 2017, (Accepted/In press) Common Men and Women at War. Research output: Affiliate in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Briefing paper › peer-review

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