Staff research
Dr William Bowden (Archaeology)
Professor Doug Lee (Classics)
My research focuses on warfare, diplomacy and international relations, and religious life in Late Antiquity. These interests are reflected in my first three books, which dealt respectively with the role of information in late Roman foreign relations, pagan-Christian relations in late antiquity, and the social history of warfare in Late Antiquity. My most recent book, the final volume of the Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome, was a more general history of the period 363–565 AD. For my current project I am preparing a volume on warfare in the Roman world from Republic to Late Antiquity for Cambridge University Press's Key Themes in Ancient History series.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/people/doug.lee
Professor Chris Loveluck (Archaeology)
Dr George Woudhuysen (Classics)
My research focuses on the history of the later Roman Empire under the sons and successors of Constantine (especially Constantius II and Julian), attempting to combine a revisionist account of the politics of the period with a social history of the governing class. I am currently writing a book, based on my doctoral thesis, on the empire from c. 330 to 363. I am also interested in late antique and medieval attempts to write Roman history, letters and letter collections, and the manuscripts and transmission of later Latin texts.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/people/george.woudhuysen
Emeritus Professor John Drinkwater (Classics)
John Drinkwater is a specialist on the history of Roman Gaul and the later Roman empire in the west. His many publications include The Gallic Empire: Separatism and Continuity in the North-Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, A.D. 260–274 (1987), Fifth-century Gaul: a Crisis of Identity? (1992) (edited with Hugh Elton), ‘Maximinus to Diocletian and the ‘Crisis’, in The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume XII, and The Alamanni and Rome, 213–496 – Caracalla to Clovis (2007). He has also co-edited a Festschrift in honour of Wolf Liebeschuetz.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/people/john.f.drinkwater
Emeritus Professor Wolf Liebeschuetz (Classics)
Wolf Liebeschuetz, a former student of A.H.M. Jones and Arnaldo Momigliano, is a distinguished scholar in the field of Late Antiquity, as recognised by his election as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991. His many publications include Barbarians and Bishops: Army, Church and State in the Age of Arcadius and Chrysostom (1990), The Decline and Fall of the Roman City (2001), and Decline and Change in Late Antiquity: Religion, Barbarians and their Historiography (2006). His research interests are Roman religion in the imperial period, and the transformation of the late Roman into the medieval world, especially the development of late Roman cities.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/people/abzwl
Emeritus Professor Andrew Poulter (Archaeology)
My research interests focus on the Roman provinces of central and eastern Europe and the Balkans in the Roman and early Byzantine periods. I have excavated extensively at late Roman sites in Bulgaria as part of research programmes launched to identify and explain changes in the dramatic physical and economic character of cities in Late Antiquity. I have published a number of items relating to these (and other) projects. My expertise also includes the development of new methods in field archaeology (photogrammetric recording of complex multi-level structures) and developing new approaches to site-specific intensive survey.
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/departments/classics-and-archaeology/people/andrew.poulter