Timothy Barnes

Timothy D. Barnes ( born March 13, 1942 in Yorkshire ), actually Timothy David Barnes, is a British historian.

Barnes attended from 1949 to 1960, the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford and was a pupil of Sir Ronald Syme. 1964 Barnes gained a Bachelor and Master in 1967. It was established in 1970 and awarded a doctorate for his thesis in 1974 with the Conington Prize of the University of Oxford. Shortly after his graduation he was appointed Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at University College in Toronto. In 1972 he was Associate Professor and held this post until his retirement in 2007. Since 2008 He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh 's School of Divinity.

Barnes is internationally recognized as an outstanding expert on the history of early Christianity and late antiquity in general. In this context, Barnes has explained in numerous articles and monographs about with Tertullian, Eusebius of Caesarea and Athanasius, and generally with the Diocletian and Constantine's time. In addition, the late Roman history is one of its research priorities. Barnes treated in this regard the Historia Augusta, Ammianus Marcellinus and the Enmannsche imperial history. He is regarded as a fairly original researchers who represents quite different from the communis opinio research opinions or completely new views, such as in chronological or questions regarding the historian Ammianus. Several of his works are considered standard works.

Barnes has been honored with numerous awards ( so 1982 with the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History for his work Constantine and Eusebius ) and is since 1985 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Writings (selection )

  • Tertullian: A historical and literary study. Oxford 1971.
  • The sources of the Historia Augusta. Brussels 1978.
  • Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge / MA 1981.
  • The new empire of Diocletian and Constantine. London 1982.
  • Early Christianity and the Roman Empire. London 1984.
  • Athanasius and Constantius: theology and politics in the Constantinian empire. Cambridge / MA 1993.
  • From Eusebius to Augustine: selected papers. Aldershot 1994.
  • Ammianus Marcellinus and the representation of historical reality. Ithaca 1998.
  • Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History. Tübingen 2010.
  • Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire. Chichester, 2011. ( Review of R. Brendel )
  • Numerous articles, including Phoenix (Classical Association of Canada) and the Journal of Roman Studies, and several contributions to the research colloquia for the Historia Augusta.
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