Paul maudsley

About me

I’m a historian of late antiquity and the early middle ages. My expertise lies in the later Roman Empire and its western successor states, covering the period from the fourth to the early eighth centuries.

My research is situated at the intersections of legal, social, and political history. I’m particularly interested in punishment and what its use tells us about the nature of society. I’ve explored these issues in an article in the Journal of Late Antiquity, which examines the treatment of defeated usurpers and rebels in the later Roman Empire. My current research focuses on the penalty of exile. Several publications have already arisen from this work, including a forthcoming study (co-authored with Prof. Julia Hillner) that investigates female banishment from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the end of late antiquity, and a chapter that employs digital mapping techniques to analyse clerical exile in the Vandal kingdom of North Africa. I’ve also been keen to showcase my work in more public-facing formats, such as the Historical Association’s History Journal

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