Paul Stephenson

Paul Stephenson is a historian specializing in the political and cultural history of the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, particularly Byzantium. He is the author or editor of ten books, including The Serpent Column: a Cultural Biography (Oxford University Press) and New Rome: the Roman Empire in the East (Harvard University Press, 2022). He has held teaching and research posts at universities, museums, and institutes in seven countries, including professorial chairs at Wisconsin, Durham, Nijmegen, and Lincoln.[1][3][4]