Dr James Howard-Johnston

M.A., D.Phil.
University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

Email: james.howard-johnston@ccc.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

History of Byzantium AD 500-1100: historiography, institutional development, and international relations (with special reference to Armenia and Bulgaria).

Selected Publications:

• 'Pride and Fall: Khusro II and his regime, 626-628' in East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity. pp. 93-113
• 'The Two Great Powers in Late Antiquity: a Comparison' in The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East III, States, Resources and Armies. (Princeton, 1995)
• 'Crown Lands and the Defence of Imperial Authority in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries', Byzantinische Forschungen. Vol XXI (1995) pp. 75-100
• 'Anna Komnene and the Alexiad' in Alexios I Komnenos, I Papers of the Second Byzantine International Colloquium. (Belfast, 1996) pp. 260-302
• 'Gibbon and the Middle Period of the Byzantine Empire' in Edward Gibbon and Empire. (Cambridge, 1997) pp. 53-77
• 'Pouvoir et contestation a Byzance', Europe. Vol 822 (1997) pp. 60-73
• 'Trading in Fur from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages' in Leather and Fur: Aspects of Early Medieval Trade and Technology. (London, 1998) pp. 65-79
• The Armenian History attributed to Sebeos. (Liverpool, 1999) 77-361pp.
• 'Heraclius' Persian Campaigns and the Revival of the East Roman Empire, 622-630', War in History. Vol 6 (1999) pp. 1-44
• (ed.) The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages . (Oxford, 1999)
• 'Byzantium, Bulgaria and the Peoples of Ukraine in the 890s' in Materialy po Arkheologii, Istorii i Etnografii Tavrii. Vol 7 (Simferopol, 2000) pp. 342-56
• 'The De Administrando Imperio: a Re-examination of the Text and a Re-evaluation of its Evidence about the Rus' in Les centres proto-urbain russes entre Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient. (Paris, 2000) pp. 301-36
• 'The Education and Expertise of Procopius', Antiquite Tardive. Vol 8 (2000) pp. 19-30
• 'Byzance avant l'an mil: l'etranger europeen aux marges de l'Europe' in Byzance et l'Europe. (Paris, 2001) pp. 51-62
• 'Armenian Historians of Heraclius: an Examination of the Aims, Sources and Writing-Methods of Sebeos and Movses Daskhurantsi' in The Reign of Heraclius (610-641): Crisis and Confrontation. (Leuven, 2002) pp. 41-62
• 'Social Change in Early Medieval Byzantium' in Lordship and Learning. (Woodbridge, 2004) pp. 39-50
• 'Pride and Fall: Khusro II and His Regime, 626-628' in East Rome, Sasanian Persia and the End of Antiquity. (Aldershot, 2006) pp. 93-113

Future Publications:

• 'The Destruction of the Late Antique World Order' in Current Research in Sasanian Archaeology and History. (Durham, 2006)
• 'Al-Tabari on the last great war of Antiquity' in East Rome and Sasanian Persia at the End of Antiquity: Historiographical and Historical Studies. (Aldershot, 2006) pp. 1-22
• 'A Short Piece of Narrative History: War and Diplomacy in the Balkans, winter 9212-spring 924' in Memorial volume for Sir Steven Runciman. (Cambridge, 2006)
• 'Byzantium and Its Neighbours' in Oxford Handbook to Byzantine Studies. (Oxford, 2007)
• 'Byzantine Sources for the Study of the Khazars' in Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on the Khazar Khaganate. (2007)
• 'Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century' in . (2007)

Research Interests and Activities

• Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages