Peter Heather

Peter Heather
Peter Heather
Born	8 June 1960; Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Academic background
Education	Maidstone Grammar School; New College, Oxford;
Thesis	The Goths and the Balkans (1987)
Academic advisors	John Matthews; James Howard-Johnston;
Influences	Edward Gibbon; E. A. Thompson;
Academic work
Discipline	History;
School or tradition	Oxford School
Institutions	Worcester College, Oxford; Yale University; University College London; King's College London;
Main interests	Late Antiquity

Peter John Heather (born 8 June 1960) is a British historian of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Heather is Chair of the Medieval History Department and Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. He specialises in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Goths, on which he for decades has been considered the world's leading authority.

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