James Howard-Johnston

James Howard-Johnston
Born (1942-03-12) March 12, 1942 (age 82)
Dublin, Ireland [1]
Academic background
EducationChrist Church, Oxford
ThesisStudies in the Organization of the Byzantine Army in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1971)
Doctoral advisorDimitri Obolensky
Academic work
InstitutionsCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Doctoral studentsMark Whittow, Peter Heather, Peter Frankopan
Notable worksThe Last Great War of Antiquity

James Douglas Howard-Johnston (born 12 March 1942) is an English historian of the Byzantine Empire. He was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford. He is an emeritus fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His approach to Byzantium follows that of Edward Gibbon and concentrates on comparisons between the Byzantine state and its Western counterparts. Howard-Johnston has also done research on Late Antiquity, especially the Roman–Persian Wars and the early history of Islam.

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