Peter Frankopan

British historian

Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian and a professor of global history at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies the history of the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia, Russia and the Balkans.[1]

Frankopan in 2018

He wrote a book called The First Crusade: The Call from the East and published it in 2012.[2] Frankopan has written two popular books about the Silk Road, one is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015) the other one is The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World (2018).[3][4] Apart from Byzantine research and Silk Roads studies, Frankopan pays attention to the climate and environment and has published a book entitled The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (2023).[5][6]

Books change

Monographs change

  • The First Crusade: The Call from the East. Belknap Press. 2012. ISBN 9780674059948.
  • The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Bloomsbury. 2015. ISBN 9781408839973.
  • The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World. Bloomsbury. 2018. ISBN 9781526607423.
  • The Silk Roads: An Illustrated New History of the World. Bloomsbury. 2018. ISBN 9781408889930.
  • The Earth Transformed: An Untold History, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781526622563, 2023

Edited books change

  • The Hippodrome of Constantinople
  • The Statues of Constantinople
  • Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its reception
  • The Chora Church of Constantinople

References change

  1. "Professor Peter Frankopan". Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  2. Harris, Jonathan (2014). "The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan". The English Historical Review. 129 (537): 419–421.
  3. Anthony, Andrew (2018-11-17). "Peter Frankopan: 'I know my place… and it's not to shape answers for politicians'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. Jasanoff, Maya (2019-05-11). "The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan review – the present and future of the world". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  5. Rowe, Mark (2023-02-27). "The Earth Transformed - An Untold History". Geographical. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  6. "The Earth Transformed — an epic survey of our interaction with the environment". Financial Times. 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-03-07.