Peter Heather

Peter Heather is Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He read for a BA in Modern History at New College Oxford and completed his doctorate on relations between Goths and the Roman Empire at the same venue. After a (very) brief stint in HM Treasury, he has held teaching positions at University College London, Worcester College Oxford, and King's College London. He is a specialist in the dynamic, mutually transformative interactions of more and less complex societies in the first millennium AD, publishing extensively on the subject, including The Fall of Rome (2005) and Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and State Formation in the First Millennium (2009). His current project is a thousand-year history of the development of European Christianity.