The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity

Caillan Davenport is Associate Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at The Australian National University. He was educated at the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford before holding posts at Queensland, Macquarie University, and ANU. He has received an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. He is the author of A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (2019), which won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize.Meaghan McEvoy is Senior Lecturer in History at The Australian National University. She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and the University of Oxford, and has held fellowships at the British School at Rome and Dumbarton Oaks. Prior to joining ANU, she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (Oxford), an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (Frankfurt), and a Senior Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Macquarie University. She is the author of Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 (Oxford, 2013) and co-editor of special editions of the journals Antiquité Tardive and the Journal of Late Antiquity.

All the chapters demonstrate an excellent understanding of their subject matter, with no factual errors, and conclusions that are entirely warranted by the evidence and arguments presented within them.