Peter Heather is an historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Late Antiquity (c 300-600 is a Periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in The Early Middle Ages is a period in the History of Europe following the fall of the Western Roman Empire spanning roughly five centuries from AD 500
Heather was born in Northern Ireland in 1960. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of He was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and New College, Oxford (MA, DPhil). Maidstone Grammar School ( MGS) is a Grammar school located in Maidstone, United Kingdom. New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. In the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts ( MA) is awarded to Bachelors "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. He has held appointments at University College London and Yale University and was Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford until December 2007. University College London ( UCL) is a multi-faculty university institution based in the United Kingdom and a constituent college of the University of London He joined the history department of King's College London in January 2008. King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London.
He is considered a leading authority on the barbarians in the Roman era. "Barbarian" is a pejorative term for an uncivilized person either in a general reference to a member of a nation or Ethnos perceived The Roman Era is a period in Western history when Ancient Rome was the centre of power of the world around the Mediterranean Sea, where Latin was the
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Further reading
Select list of publications
- Peter Heather, The Goths and the Balkans, A. D. 350-500 (University of Oxford DPhil thesis 1987)
- Peter Heather and John Matthews, The Goths in the Fourth Century (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991)
- Peter Heather, Goths and Romans 332-489 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
- Peter Heather, 'The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe', English Historical Review cx (1995), pp. 4-41
- E. A. Thompson, The Huns; revised and with an afterword by Peter Heather (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996)
- Peter Heather, The Goths (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
- Peter Heather, ed. , The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: an ethnographic perspective (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999)
- Peter Heather, 'The Late Roman Art of Client Management: Imperial Defence in the Fourth Century West' in Walter Pohl, Ian Wood, and Helmut Reimitz, eds. , The Transformation of Frontiers: From Late Antiquity to the Carolingians (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2001), pp. 15-68
- Thomas Hodgkin, The Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire; introduced by Peter Heather (London: Folio Society, 2000-2003)
- Politics, Philosophy, and Empire in the Fourth Century: Select Orations of Themistius; translated with an introduction by Peter Heather and David Moncur (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001)
- Peter Heather, 'State, Lordship and Community in the West (c. AD 400-600)' in Averil Cameron, Bryan Ward-Perkins, and Michael Whitby, eds. Dame Averil Millicent Cameron, DBE, FBA (born February 8, 1940) is Warden of Keble College Oxford, Professor of Late Antique and Bryan Ward-Perkins is an archaeologist and historian of the later Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the transitional period between those , The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume xiv, Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, A. D. 425-600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 437-468
- Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire (London: Macmillan, 2005 and London: Pan Books, 2006)
- Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
References
External links
- The Fall of the Roman Empire, Guardian review by John Man, December 17 2005
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