Bryan Ward-Perkins is an archaeologist and historian of the later Roman Empire and early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the transitional period between those two eras, an historical sub-field also known as Late Antiquity. Ward-Perkins is a fellow and tutor in history at Trinity College, Oxford. The son of historian John Bryan Ward-Perkins, he was born and raised in Rome and spoke Italian from childhood.
Books in order of publication:
1984: From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages: urban public building in Northern and Central Italy AD 300–850. Oxford: Clarendon Press
2005: The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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