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Prof. Richard Burgess
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University of OttawaAcademy or College
Academy of the Arts and HumanitiesYear Elected
2012Areas of Interest
chronicles, late roman history, late roman historiography, editing manuscripts, decline and fall of the roman empire, late roman coinage
BURGESS, Richard - Department of Classical and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
Richard Burgess is the pre-eminent historian of the Later Roman Empire in Canada. He is especially notable for his accuracy and his proficiency in a variety of auxiliary sciences. He has produced an impressive stream of important and original work involving the history, historiography, and coinage of the century and a half that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
BURGESS, Richard - Département d’études anciennes et de sciences de la religion, Université d’Ottawa
Richard Burgess est sans contredit le plus éminent spécialiste du Bas-Empire romain au Canada. Il se distingue notamment par la précision de ses écrits et ses compétences dans plusieurs disciplines connexes. Il est l’auteur d’un nombre impressionnant de publications originales sur l’histoire, l’historiographie et la numismatique des cent cinquante années précédant la chute de l’Empire romain occidental.