Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine History at the
University of Cambridge. He read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford (1990-
93), after which he was elected to a Prize Fellowship (by examination) at All Souls
College, (where he was a Fellow from 1993 to 2006). 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 the 'Age of Justinian' and the Byzantine
Empire 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 was
awarded the prestigious International London Hellenic Prize for the best book
published in English relating to, or inspired by, Hellenic civilisation. His next book:
Byzantium: The Eternal Empire is due for publication in 2026. He is of both British
and Greek Cypriot heritage, and spends much of his time in Thessaloniki, where he
goes to write.