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Peter Heather

About Peter Heather

Peter Heather (born 1960) is a British historian of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. After studies at Oxford he taught at University College London and Worcester College, Oxford, and later became Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. His earlier books include Goths and Romans 332-489 (1991) and The Goths (1996); after this book he published Empires and Barbarians (2009), The Restoration of Rome (2013) and, with John Rapley, Why Empires Fall (2023).

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The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

Peter Heather

2005 · Postwar Contemporary · History

Peter Heather's book is a narrative and argument about how the western half of the Roman Empire came to an end in the fifth century. It is organized in three parts, Pax Romana, Crisis and Fall.

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