Andrew Gillett is an Australian historian who is associate professor of history at the Department of Ancient History at

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Walter Goffart Walter Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years in the History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of To ...

of the

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, Gillett researches and teaches the field of

Late Antiquity Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...

Biography

Andrew Gillett is from

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. He received his BA in Australian Social History and Modern European History from the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

(1986), and an MA (1989) and

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(1994) in

Medieval Studies Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages. Institutional development The term 'medieval studies' began to be adopted by academics in the opening decades of the twentieth century, initially in the titles of books ...

at the Centre for Medieval Studies of the

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. His PhD was supervised by

, leader of the so-called

. At Toronto, Gillett was a co-student and intimate friend of

Michael Kulikowski Michael Kulikowski (born September 3, 1970) is an American historian. He is Professor of History and Classics and Head of the History Department at Pennsylvania State University. Kulikowski specializes in the history of the western Mediterranean w ...

. After gaining his PhD, Gillett taught at the universities of Toronto and

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. Gillett is currently associate professor of history at the Department of Ancient History at

. Gillett researches and teaches the field of

Western Europe Western Europe is the western region of Europe. The region's countries and territories vary depending on context. The concept of "the West" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to "the East" and originally applied to the ancient Mediterranean ...

. He is particularly interested in the role of communication in public life, and how the period of Late Antiquity has been constructed by modern historians. Gillett is well known as the editor of the book ''On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages'' (2002).

Selected works

* ''Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533'', 2003

References

Sources

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External links

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