Peter Sarris - Biography#

Peter Sarris read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford (1990-93), after which he was elected to a Prize Fellowship (by examination) at All Souls College, Oxford (where he was a Fellow from 1993 to 2006). His Oxford DPhil was on the great estates of late antique Egypt. He moved to Cambridge as a University Lecturer in 2000, and has held Visiting Fellowships at Rice University, Texas, and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington D.C. (Harvard University). He has published extensively on the history of the Middle Ages both East and West, and is a leading authority on the 'Plague of Justinian' and the 'Age of Justinian' more generally. His latest book JUSTINIAN: EMPEROR, SOLDIER, SAINT (Basic Book, 2023) was a Sunday Times, London Evening Standard, BBC History Magazine, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Juristen Zeitung 'Book of the Year', and has been awarded the prestigious International London Hellenic Prize (2023) for the best book published in English relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilisation. He is a professorial Fellow of Trinity College. He is currently writing an economic history of western Eurasia: 'Beyond the Jade Gate: A History of Western Eurasia from Attila to Columbus'.