Peter Heather

Peter Heather is currently Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London. He has held appointments at University College London and Yale University and was Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at Worcester College, Oxford until December 2007.

Books in order of publication:

The Goths in the Fourth Century. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1991.

Goths, and Romans 332-489. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

The Goths. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1996.

The Visigoths from the Migration Period to the Seventh Century: an ethnographic perspective. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: a New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development, and the Birth of Europe. London: Macmillan, 2009.

The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders. London–New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300. Knopf, 2023.

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West. Yale University Press, 2023.