James Howard-Johnston | |
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Born | 12 March 1942 |
Education | Christ Church, Oxford |
Academic career | |
Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Notable works | The Last Great War of Antiquity |
Thesis | Studies in the Organization of the Byzantine Army in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | Dimitri Obolensky |
Doctoral students | Mark Whittow, Peter Heather, Peter Frankopan |
James Douglas Howard-Johnston (born 12 March 1942) is an English historian of the Byzantine Empire. He was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford. He is an emeritus fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His approach to Byzantium follows that of Edward Gibbon and concentrates on comparisons between the Byzantine state and its Western counterparts. Howard-Johnston has also done research on Late Antiquity, especially the Roman–Persian Wars and the early history of Islam.
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