John W. Barker | |
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Born | John Walton Barker October 7, 1933 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
Died | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. | October 24, 2019 (aged 86)
Education | Brooklyn College (BA) Rutgers University (MA, PhD) |
Spouse | Margaret (née Grabowski) |
Academic career | |
Discipline | Historian |
Main interests | Byzantine History and Classical Music |
John Walton Barker (October 7, 1933 – October 24, 2019) was an American historian and specialist in Byzantine history and classical music.[1]
He was the author of a number of works on Byzantine history, including Justinian and the Later Roman Empire (1966) and Manuel II Palaeologus: 1391-1425: A study in late Byzantine Statesmanship (1969). Later in his career, he also wrote books on Richard Wagner: Wagner and Venice (2008), Wagner and Venice Fictionalized: Variations on a Theme (2012).[2]
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