Simon Corcoran Explained

Simon J.J. Corcoran
Known For:	Roman Law
Alma Mater:	St John's College, Oxford
Employer:	Newcastle University
Occupation:	Historian
Website:	http://www.roman-empire.co.uk

Simon Corcoran is a British ancient historian and lecturer in ancient history within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University.^[1]

Corcoran was a senior research fellow at University College, London 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.^[2] At University College he worked on 'Projet Volterra', an extensive on-line public database of law (Roman, Germanic or ‘barbarian’, and ecclesiastical) for the period AD193–900.

From 2014 Corcoran has been a member of the Steering Committee of the British Epigraphy Society.^{[1] [3]} He is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Late Antiquity and a Scientific Advisor for Revue Antiquité tardive.^{[4] [5]} From 2006 to 2009 he served on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and on the council for the British Institute at Ankara from 2011 to 2015.^{[1] [6] [7]}

In 2016 Corcoran was a member of the panel for BBC Radio 4's In Our Time episode on Justinian's Legal Code with Caroline Humfress and Paul du Plessis.^[8]

Gregorian Code discovery

In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway to identify previously unknown fragments of the Gregorian Code. The "Fragmenta Londiniensia" are seventeen pieces of parchment estimated to date from AD400, the document having been cut up and re-used as book-binding material. This is the first direct evidence yet discovered of the Gregorian Codex.^{[9] [10] [11] [12]}

Bibliography of works

Selected publications

• Book: Corcoran. Simon. The Würzburg fragment of Justinian’s constitutions for the administration of recovered Africa . Brepols. 9782503566757 . 96–113. http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=227877. https://web.archive.org/web/20161118074416/http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=227877. 2016-11-18 . en. 2016. Freu, C.. Janniard, S.. Ripoll, A.. Libera curiositas. Mélanges d'histoire romaine et d'Antiquité tardive offerts à Jean-Michel Carrié..
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Herrin. J. Nelson. J. Ravenna: Its Role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange. Institute of Historical Research. 9781909646148. 163–197. http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=228035. en. Roman law in Ravenna. 2016.
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Salway. Benet. Crawford. Michael. Frier. B. The Codex of Justinian. A New Annotated Translation with Parallel Latin and Greek Text. 2016. Cambridge University Press. 1407–1485. http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/pub_details2.aspx?pub_id=228034. en. Sixth Book, First to Twentieth Titles. 9780521196826.
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Research Network Imperium and Officium. Verlag. Vienna. 9783700177050. 219–236. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1417830/. The Augusti and Caesars say: Imperial communication in a collegiate monarchy. 2015.
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond: Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009-2010. Routledge . 2015 . 9781409457381. 67–94. https://www.routledge.com/Conversion-in-Late-Antiquity-Christianity-Islam-and-Beyond-Papers-from/Papaconstantinou-Schwartz/p/book/9781409457381. From unholy madness to right-mindedness: or how to legislate for religious conformity from Decius to Justinian.
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Hincmar of Rheims. 2015. Manchester University Press. 129–155. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091407/. Hincmar and his Roman legal sources.
• Book: Corcoran. Simon. Radner. Karen. State Correspondence in the Ancient World. Oxford University Press. New York. 172–209. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/state-correspondence-in-the-ancient-world-9780199354771. State correspondence in the Roman Empire: Imperial communication from Augustus to Justinian. Oxford Studies in Early Empires . 2014. 978-0-19-935477-1 .

See also

• Professor Michael Crawford
• Benet Salway

External links

• Volterra Project at UCL (2008 archive version)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.8.4 Review of The Empire of the Tetrarchs
• Web site: video. An explanation of the ancient Roman stele at Kiparissos, Greece.. Simon. Corcoran. . 16 December 2009.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staff Profile - History, Classics and Archaeology, School of - Newcastle University . Ncl.ac.uk . 2016-11-08 . 2016-11-13.
2. Web site: Staff page at UCL. https://web.archive.org/web/20090419171941/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/People/Academic_Staff/corcoran. 2009-04-19.
3. Web site: Steering Committee . The British Epigraphy Society . 2016-11-13.
4. Web site: Journal of Late Antiquity . Project MUSE . 2016-11-17.
5. Web site: Revue Antiquité tardive . Association pour l’Antiquité tardive . 2016-11-17.
6. Web site: Journal of Late Antiquity . The Johns Hopkins University Press . 3 December 2009.
7. Web site: Home . BIAA . 2016-11-13.
8. Web site: In Our Time: Justinian's Legal Code. BBC Radio 4 . November 2016 .
   • Extended podcast version: link
9. Web site: Lost Roman legal text found . Roger . Pearse . 27 January 2010 . 27 January 2010.
10. News: Cracking the codex: Long lost Roman legal document discovered . Jack . Malcolm . 28 January 2010 . . These fragments are the first direct evidence of the original version of the Gregorian Code. Our preliminary study confirms that it was the pioneer of a long tradition that has extended down into the modern era and it is ultimately from the title of this work, and its companion volume the Codex Hermogenianus, that we use the term ‘code’ in the sense of ‘legal rulings’..
11. News: Experts identify scraps of lost Roman law text: Copy of the Gregorian Code, which was first drafted in AD300, had been chopped up and used to cover medieval book . Kennedy . Maev . 28 January 2010 . The Guardian . The fragments were bought by a private collector at a sale in London. After failing either to translate the script or identify the subject, he circulated photocopies which eventually reached Salway and Corcoran..
12. Web site: Rachel Kaufman . Lost Roman Codex Fragments Found in Book Binding . National Geographic . 2010-02-10 . 4 February 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604031049/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100203-lost-codex-gregorianus-roman-law-book/ . 4 June 2011 . dead . dmy-all .