# Peter Heather
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Peter John Heather (born 8 June 1960) is a British historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Peter is Chair of the Medieval History Department and Professor of Medieval History at King's College London. Heather specializes in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Goths, on which he for decades has been considered the world's leading authority.
Britain: What Real Civilizational Collapse Actually Looks Like
Everywhere Rome fell, civilization transformed. In Britain, it stopped.
That's not a myth. That's what actually happened. Everywhere else the empire fell — Gaul, Hispania, Italy, North Africa — the barbarian successor kingdoms absorbed Roman administration and kept the machine running. The Franks …
Marcus Aurelius Was the Best Emperor Rome Ever Had — And It Wasn't Enough
Rome didn't fall because it ran out of great men. It fell because it reached a point where being great simply wasn't enough anymore.
Marcus Aurelius was arguably the most competent emperor Rome ever produced. Stoic philosopher trained from childhood. Disciplined administrator. Physically brave gen…
Marcus Aurelius Was the Best Emperor Rome Ever Had — And It Wasn't Enough
Rome didn't fall because it ran out of great men. It fell because it reached a point where being great simply wasn't enough anymore.
Marcus Aurelius was arguably the most competent emperor Rome ever produced. Stoic philosopher trained from childhood. Disciplined administrator. Physically brave gen…
Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse?
How does an empire spanning three continents and half a millennium fall apart?In the final episode of our series on the Roman Empire, we're joined by Professor Peter Heather to unravel Rome's collapse - from the chaos of the third-century crisis to the deposition of the last Western emperor. Why di…
Mary Beard on Ruling the Roman Empire
What did it take to rule an empire that was never meant to have an emperor?In this second episode of our series on the Roman Empire, we're joined by classicist Mary Beard to trace how Roman leadership evolved over a thousand years - from the competitive power-sharing of the Republic, to the careful…
Why Do Empires Fall?
For centuries, the Roman Empire commanded unparalleled control over the world around it. It expanded its borders through trade and conquest, sucking resources from the periphery into its thriving centre - Rome. And then, suddenly, everything changed. The Empire entered a state of crisis and rapidly…
Why Empires Fall
For centuries, the Roman Empire commanded unparalleled control over the world around it. It expanded its borders through trade and conquest, sucking resources from the periphery into its thriving centre - Rome. And then, suddenly, everything changed. The Empire entered a state of crisis, and rapidl…
Imperial Collapse Expert: The Real Reason Empires Fall - And Why America Is Next
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This is a conversation with Peter Heather - a professor of history at the King’s College London and the world’s leadi…
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