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Peter Heather
Born (1960-06-08) 8 June 1960 (age 63)
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Education
  • Maidstone Grammar School
  • New College, Oxford
ThesisThe Goths and the Balkans (1987)
Academic advisors
  • John Matthews
  • James Howard-Johnston
Influences
  • Edward Gibbon
  • E. A. Thompson
Academic work
Discipline
  • History
School or traditionOxford School
Institutions
  • Worcester College, Oxford
  • Yale University
  • University College London
  • King's College London
Main interestsLate 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.[1]

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Peter Heather

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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...

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Goths

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June 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2019. Heather, Peter (1999). "The Creation of the Visigoths". In Heather, Peter (ed.). The Visigoths from the Migration...

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Huns

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New York: Garland. ISBN 978-0815300335. Heather, Peter (1996). The Goths. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Heather, Peter (1995). "The Huns and the End of the Roman...

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Heather McDonald

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Ostrogoths

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sees these as two names for one people as will be discussed below. Peter Heather, in contrast, has written that: Ostrogoths in the sense of the group...

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Visigoths

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mean that they are, after all, perceived as two different peoples". Peter Heather has written that Wolfram's position is "entirely arguable, but so is...

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Heathers

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Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire

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Heather 2006, pp. 64–67, 96–97, 110, 116. Heather 2006. Heather 2006, pp. 432–437. Heather 2006, pp. 443–445. Peter Brown, The Making of Late Antiquity (Massachusetts:...

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Amalaric

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kingdom was faced with a Frankish threat from the north; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis...

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Agila I

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was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania (549 – March 554). Peter Heather notes that Agila's reign was during a period of civil war following...

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Heruli

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Heather, Peter (2007). The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195325416. Heather,...

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Odoacer

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Press. ISBN 978-0-52143-543-7. Heather, Peter (1996). The Goths. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-63120-932-4. Heather, Peter (2005). The Fall of the Roman...

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Wielbark culture

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the Vandals. This expansion has been associated by historians such as Peter Heather with the contemporary Marcomannic Wars. By the late 3rd century AD,...

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Crossing of the Rhine

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Rhine frontier were weakened or withdrawn in order to protect Italy. Peter Heather (2009), on the other hand, argued that this hypothesis does not explain...

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Hunnic language

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notes that some Hunnic names cannot be Turkic in origin. The historian Peter Heather, while he supported the Turkic hypothesis as the "best guess" in 1995...

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Heather Mills

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Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English former model, businesswoman and animal rights activist. Mills first came to public attention in...

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History of the Huns

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However, Peter Heather notes that in the absence of reliable data the climate change hypothesis is unprovable. As a second possibility, Heather suggests...

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Athanagild

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Hispania Baetica (Andalusia). The pretext for their arrival is unclear. Peter Heather states that Jordanes implies that Agila had summoned them. Isidore of...

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Constantine the Great

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providential role in the millenary economy of the salvation of humanity". Peter Heather argues that it is most plausible that Constantine had been a Christian...

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Vandals

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Roman province of Raetia in the winter of 401/402. From this, historian Peter Heather concludes that at this time the Vandals were located in the region around...

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Calluna

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Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae. It is a low-growing...

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Ermanaric

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Baltic Sea to the Black Sea as far eastwards as the Ural Mountains. Peter Heather is skeptical of the claim that Ermanaric ruled all Goths except the...

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Bloody Disgusting

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co-owners/co-founders Brad Miska and Tom Owen, business partners Peter Lutrell and Heather Lutrell, and part-owner Michael Green whose company The Collective...

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