Ask The Expert - Dr. Peter Heather
February 23, 2006
We are happy to announce that Dr. Peter Heather has agreed to answer questions from our forum members. Every forum member can ask one question only (to make you consider what you would like discussed carefully), no follow up replies to keep the thread clean and to make it easier for the Professor to go through the questions. We also would like to point out to stick to your question to the area of his expertise, which is the period of the late roman empire. After a week or two (depending how many questions we have) Professor Heather will answer those which he thinks are the most interesting or applicable...
Dr Heather (DPhil (Oxon), Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History) at Worcester College, Oxford University, has published widely on the later Roman Empire (East and West), its cross-border relations, and the political, social and cultural history of its successor states in the period c250-600 AD. His current interests include the role of propoganda in the late Roman elite, and the related phenomena of ethnicity and migration among the groups who dismantled the western half of the Roman Empire.
Selected Publications:
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Visigoths
The Huns