Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director for the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University.
His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The First Crusade, a major monograph about Byzantium, Islam and the West in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was published in 2012.
His latest book, The Silk Roads, was published in 2015 to huge critical acclaim and is a number one Sunday Times Bestseller.
Alongside researching and writing non-fiction, Frankopan also writes for the international press.