Simon Corcoran ( ) is a British
ancient historian
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and lecturer in ancient history within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology,
Newcastle University
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Corcoran was a senior research fellow at
University College, London
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from 1999 to 2015. He received his D.Phil. from
St John's College, Oxford in 1992. He was awarded the
Henryk Kupiszewski Prize for his book ''The Empire of the Tetrarchs'' in 1998. At University College he worked on '
Projet Volterra
Projet Volterra is a European project of ancient legal history databases of the Institute of Classical Studies and elsewhere.
Overview
Projet Volterra was established to promote the study of Roman law in its full social, political and legal co ...
', an extensive on-line public database of law (
Roman
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*Rome, the capital city of Italy
*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
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Germanic or ‘barbarian’, and