About the Author

Alexander Sarantis is currently Lecturer in Early Medieval European History at Aberystwyth University and Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Late Antique Archaeology at the University of Kent. His research interests include war and warfare across the period of Late Antiquity (3rd-7th c. A.D), Roman-barbarian relations, and barbarian migrations and settlements in the Roman provinces, with particular concentration on the East Roman empire in the reign of Justinian. Since finishing his D.Phil at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford in 2006 on The Balkans in the Reign of Justinian he has authored articles on barbarian groups such as the Gepids, Heruls, Sarmatians, Quadi and Lombards. He recently co-edited and contributed seven papers to War and Warfare in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives (two volumes, Leiden 2013).

Reviews

This is the best sort of military history… the present volume is in the business of marshaling vasta mounts of data from an arry of sources to reconstrict what happened. Justinian's Balkan Wars is an impressive success.
*The Medieval Review*

Alexander Sarantis' enormous, strenuous, and multilateral efforts must certainly be praised. This monograph is going to be a seminal reference source for all scholars studying Justinian's era.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

This is a superb study of exactly what is promised in the title… a compelling and coherent synthesis that alternates between narrative and analytical modes… The book is also readable: the explication of its main ideas and conclusions is engaging, intelligent, and written in lively English prose. Sarantis has finally made sense of this usually neglected region, placing it squarely at the center of Justinian’s attention.
*Speculum*