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| Peter Sarris | |
|---|---|
| Name | Peter Sarris |
| Occupation | Historian, Academic |
| Known for | Byzantine studies, Late Antiquity, Medieval history |
Peter Sarris is a scholar of Byzantine Empire and Late Antiquity whose work spans social, economic, legal, and administrative history of the Eastern Roman Empire and its neighbours. He has held academic posts at leading United Kingdom institutions and contributed to interdisciplinary debates involving historians, classicists, archaeologists, and philologists. His writings engage sources ranging from Procopius and Jordanes to legal compilations such as the Corpus Juris Civilis and the Ecloga.
Sarris was educated in United Kingdom institutions with training in Classical studies, Medieval studies, and ancient languages, including Greek language and Latin language, and undertook postgraduate research on topics connected to the Byzantine Empire, Late Antiquity, and the Ottoman Empire's antecedents. His doctoral work drew on primary texts such as the Strategikon and the works of John of Antioch, and engaged with methodologies from scholars including Edward Gibbon, Arnaldo Momigliano, and Miroslav Hroch. During his formative years he participated in scholarly networks associated with the British Academy, the Royal Historical Society, and international conferences hosted by institutions like Dumbarton Oaks and the Warburg Institute.
Sarris has held professorial and research positions at universities including the University of Cambridge, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Oxford, and has been affiliated with research centres such as Dumbarton Oaks, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at University College London. He has supervised doctoral candidates who proceeded to posts at institutions including the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Toronto. Sarris has served on editorial boards for journals like the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, the Journal of Byzantine Studies, and the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, and participated in grant panels for funders such as the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the European Research Council.
Sarris’s research addresses the interaction of legal codes, fiscal administration, and social structures in the Byzantine Empire and neighbouring polities such as the Sasanian Empire, the Arab Caliphate, and the Bulgarian Empire. He has examined the role of provincial elites, landholding patterns, and fiscal reform under emperors like Justinian I, Heraclius, and Basil II, while drawing on sources including the Notitia Dignitatum, the Syrian Chronicle of Zuqnin, and inscriptions from Asia Minor and the Levant. His comparative studies bring into dialogue historians such as Peter Brown, Walter Pohl, Henri Pirenne, and John Haldon, and archaeological evidence from sites like Constantinople, Ephesus, Antioch, and Sardis. Sarris has contributed chapters to collective volumes on topics including the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, the historiography of Procopius of Caesarea, and the reception of the Corpus Juris Civilis in medieval polities. His work engages methodologies from economic history, prosopography as practised by scholars at the Prosopography of the Byzantine World projects, and comparative institutional analysis influenced by Douglass North and Joseph Schumpeter.
Sarris has been a Fellow of learned societies including the British Academy and elected to academies and trusts recognizing contributions to Byzantine studies and Medieval studies. He has received research fellowships from institutions such as Dumbarton Oaks, the Institute for Advanced Study, and national funding bodies like the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His publications have been cited in award-winning works on Late Antiquity and incorporated into reading lists for prizes administered by the Royal Historical Society and the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.
- Sarris, P., (monograph) on fiscal and social structures in the Byzantine Empire addressing figures such as Justinian I and Heraclius. - Sarris, P., essays in edited volumes on the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and the reception of the Corpus Juris Civilis. - Sarris, P., contributions to journals including the Byzantinische Zeitschrift, the Journal of Byzantine Studies, and the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. - Sarris, P., chapters in collective works alongside scholars like Peter Brown, John Haldon, and Walter Pohl on topics relating to Late Antiquity, imperial administration, and provincial societies.
Category:Byzantine studies scholars