Professor John Matthews FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Subjects
Classics

Current post

Yale University John M Schiff Professor Emeritus of Classics and History

Past appointments

Departments of Classics and History, University of Cambridge Professor of Roman History

1996 -

Yale University John M Schiff Professor of History and Classics

1996 -

University of Oxford Professor of Late Roman History

1992 - 1996

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Middle and Later Roman History

1969 - 1992

Publications

The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business and Daily Life in the Roman East

John Matthews - Published in 2006 by Yale University Press

Laying down the law: a study of the Theodosian code

John Matthews - Published in 2000 by Yale University Press

The Roman Empire of Ammianus

John Matthews - Published in 1989 by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

Western aristocracies and imperial court AD 364-425

John Matthews - Published in 1975 by Clarendon Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Esther Eidinow FBA

Ancient Greek history and culture, especially religion and magic; interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical analysis.

Esther Eidinow FBA

Professor Christopher Pelling FBA

Greek and Latin historiography and biography, especially the literary criticism of prose texts, in particular Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, and Tacitus

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Professor Greg Woolf FBA

Ancient economies, societies, civilizations. The archaeology and history of the Roman Empire and its neighbours at the very large scale

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