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 Denis Feeney FBA

Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture

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Professor William Fitzgerald FBA

Latin poetry, reception of the ancient world, neoclassicism, comparative literature, music and literature.

William Fitzgerald FBA

Professor William Harris FBA

Greek & Roman history, with special interests in Italy, the rise of the Roman Empire, literacy, & topics that verge on other disciplines, especially psychology, economics & environmental sciences

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