Simon Corcoran is an ancient historian

Ancient history

Ancient history is the study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC...

 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, an extensive on-line public database of law (Roman

Roman law

Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments which occurred before the 7th century AD — when the Roman–Byzantine state adopted Greek as the language of government. The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence — from the Twelve...

, Germanic or ‘barbarian’, and ecclesiastical) for the period AD193-900.

Corcoran is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Late Antiquity

Journal of Late Antiquity

The Journal of Late Antiquity is an academic journal and the first international English-language journal devoted to the Late Antiquity. The journal was founded in 2008 and is published twice a year by the Johns Hopkins University Press....

 and has served on the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the Ancient, Byzantine and Modern periods....

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Gregorian Code discovery

In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway

Benet Salway

Richard William Benet Salway is an ancient historian at University College London. His areas of speciality include later Roman history, Greek and Roman epigraphy and onomastics, Roman law, and travel and geography in the Graeco-Roman world.-Biography:...

 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 original evidence yet discovered of the Gregorian Codex.

External links

• Volterra Project at UCL (2008 archive version)
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.8.4 Review of The Empire of the Tetrarchs