Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins

M.A., D.Phil.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

Trinity College

Email: bryan.ward-perkins@trinity.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Bryan Ward-Perkins, who trained as both a historian and an archaeologist, researches on Late Antiquity (circa AD 300-750), primarily in the Mediterranean region, and is Chair of Oxford's research 'Centre for Late Antiquity'. He has published mainly on urban and economic history, and was a joint editor of the final volume of the "Cambridge Ancient History" (covering the period 425 to 600). He is happy to supervise widely within the period circa 250-800.

Selected Publications:

• From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy AD 300-850. (Oxford, 1984)
• 'The Towns of Northern Italy: Rebirth or Renewal?' in The Rebirth of Towns in the West AD 700-1050. (London, 1988)
• 'The cities' in Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XIII, The late Empire, AD 337-425. (Cambridge, 1998) pp. 371-410
• 'Constantinople, Imperial Capital of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries' in Sedes Regiae (ann.400-800). (Barcelona, 2000) pp. 63-81
• 'Specialized Production and Exchange' in The Cambridge Ancient History XIV, Late Antiquity - Empire and Successors A.D. 425-600. (Cambridge, 2001) pp. 346-391
• The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. (Oxford, 2005) 239pp.
• 'The Making of Late Antiquity' in Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected. (London, 2007)

Future Publications:

• 'Where is the Archaeology and Iconography of Arianism? ' in Late Antique Archaeology 5.1: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity. (Leiden )
• 'The End of Temples: An Archaeological Problem' in Spaetantiker Staat und religioeser Konflikt. (? Muenster, 2004)
• 'Jones and the Late Roman Economy ' in A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire. (Leiden, 2007) pp. 193-212

Research Interests and Activities

• Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Selected Links to External Websites

• Centre for Late Antiquity