Simon Corcoran

Simon Corcoran is an ancient historian and senior research fellow at University College, London. 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.

He is working on Projet Volterra which aims to produce an extensive on-line database of law (Roman, Germanic or ‘barbarian’, and ecclesiastical) for the period AD193-900. He is a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

Quotation
Greed is a motive everyone can understand. Lactantius includes greed and avarice as a notable part of the tetrarchic maladministration practised by Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Maximinus, and indeed the cause of the inflation the edict seeks to curb. Thus it is Diocletian's greed that gives rise to the Prices Edict itself.
Simon Corcoran
Empire of the Tetrarchs

Bibliography of works

Books

*cite book
last = Corcoran
first = Simon
title = The Empire of the Tetrarchs, Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324
publisher = Oxford University Press
date = 2000
pages =440 pages
edition=2nd Ed.
url =http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198153047
isbn =0-19-815304-X

elected Publications

*Citation
year=2007
first=Simon
last=Corcoran
contribution=Two tales, two cities: Antinoopolis and Nottingham
editor-first=John
editor-last=Drinkwater
editor2-first=Benet
editor2-last=Salway
title=Wolf Liebeschuetz reflected: Essays presented by Colleagues, Friends, and Pupils
series=BICS Supplement 91
publisher=University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies
pages=193-209
isbn=9781905670048
*Citation
last = Corcoran
first = Simon
editor-first=Dietrich
editor-last=Boschung
editor-first2=Werner
editor-last2=Eck
contribution=The Tetrarchy: policy and image as reflected in imperial pronouncements
title=Die Tetrarchie: Ein neues Regierungssystem und seine mediale Präsentation
series=ZAKMIRA Schriften 3
publisher=Reichert Verlag: Wiesbaden
year=2006
pages=31-61
isbn=389500510X
*citation
last = Corcoran
first = Simon
contribution=Emperor and citizen in the era of Constantine
editor-first=Elizabeth
editor-last=Hartley
editor-first2=Jane
editor-last2=Hawkes
editor-first3=Martin
editor-last3=Henig
editor-first4=Frances
editor-last4=Mee
title=Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor
publisher=Lund Humphries
year=2006
pages=41-51
isbn=0853319286
*Citation
year=2006
first=Simon
last=Corcoran
contribution=Before Constantine
title=The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
editor-first=Noel
editor-last=Lenski
publisher=Cambridge University Press
pages=35-58
isbn=9780521521574
*Citation
year=2000
first=Simon
last=Corcoran
title=The sins of the fathers: a neglected constitution of Diocletian on incest
journal=Journal of Legal History
volume=21.2
pages=1-34
publisher=Routledge
issn=0144-0365

ee also

*Professor Michael Crawford

External links

* [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/volterra Volterra Project at UCL]
* [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.08.04.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.8.4] Review of "The Empire of the Tetrarchs"