Giusto Traina (born 1959) is a prominent Italian ancient historian and Byzantinist. Since 2011 he has been professor of

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at Sorbonne Université, and a former senior member of the

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(2014-2019). He is the author of numerous books and articles. Formerly interested in ancient landscapes and techniques, he is currently involved in a long-term research about ancient Armenia. He was awarded the ''Premio Nazionale 'Cherasco Storia (2011) for his book ''La resa di Roma. Battaglia a Carre, 9 giugno 53 a.C.'' (Laterza 2010). He is a member of the Conseil Scientifique de la recherche historique de la Défense. He was recently Fellow of the Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Summer 2014), of the Bogliasco Foundation (February 2016), and of the Topoi Excellence Cluster at Berlin (Spring 2016; Summer 2017). He was Dumanian Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (Spring term 2017). He is presently visiting professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. In the Anglophone world he is most noted for his book ''428 AD : An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire'' (Princeton, 2009), in which he which gives a panoramic view across the geographical extents of the Roman Empire in a single year.

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Publication list at the ''Comité Français des Études Byzantines'' (CFSB): http://www.cfeb.org/curiculum/mb_traina.pdf. {{DEFAULTSORT:Traina, Giusto 1959 births 20th-century Italian historians Armenian studies scholars Living people 21st-century Italian historians