Draft:Noel Lenski
Noel Lenski (December 25, 1965) is an American classicist, focused in particular on the history of Roman law. He is Dunham Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. He co-authored the The Romans: From Village to Empire: A History of Rome from Earliest Times to the End of the Western Empire with Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, and Richard Talbert, which is a standard English-language introduction to Roman history.
Research
[edit]Lenski completed a bachelors in Classics at The Colorado College and a masters and PhD in Classics and Ancient History at Princeton (1995).
He focuses on Roman legal history and, in particular, on the history of the later Roman Empire, especially law and society. He is interested in power relations that took place at all levels of society, from emperor to enslaved person.
His research covers the entire period of late antiquity and includes studies in political, military, social, economic, religious, cultural and art history.