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Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970), known also as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones, was a 20th-century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire.
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Arnold Hugh Martin Jones FBA (9 March 1904 – 9 April 1970), known also as A. H. M. Jones or Hugo Jones, was a 20th-century British historian of classical antiquity, particularly of the later Roman Empire.
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Work Jones's book, The Later Roman Empire, 284–602 (1964), is a narrative history of late Rome and early Byzantium, beginning with the reign of the Roman tetrarch Diocletian and ending with that of the Byzantine emperor Maurice. A modern criticism of this work is its almost total reliance on literary and epigraphic primary sources, a methodology which mirrored Jones's own historiographical training. Archaeological study of the period was in its infancy when Jones wrote, which limited the amount of material culture he could include in his research. He published his first book, The Cities of the Eastern Roman Provinces, in 1937. In 1946, he was appointed to the chair of the Ancient History department at University College, London. In 1951, he moved to Cambridge University and assumed the same post there. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1947. Jones was reportedly an extremely fast reader with an encyclopedic memory. His disdain for "small talk" sometimes made him seem remote and cold to those who did not know him well, but he was warmly regarded by his students. He was sometimes criticised for not fully acknowledging the work of other scholars in his own footnotes, a habit…
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Further reading A. H. M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire. Edited by David M. Gwynn. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2008 (ISBN 978-90-04-16383-6, hardback).