Peter Fibiger Bang
Born	(1973-06-25)25 June 1973 Horsens,Denmark
Alma mater	University of Aarhus Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Historian
Institutions	University of Copenhagen

Peter Fibiger Bang (born 25 June 1973) is a Danish historian of Rome, empire, cross-cultural comparison andworld history.^[1] Bang's main research interests areRoman economic history,Roman imperial power andhistorical sociology – as well as the reception ofClassical culture in later ages.

Born inHorsens,Denmark, in 1973, Bang studiedHistory,Latin andGreek at theUniversity of Aarhus from 1992 to 1999. In 1997, he was a visitor at theUniversity of Leicester, where he studiedRoman Archaeology. In 1999, he moved toCorpus Christi College,University of Cambridge, to work on hisPhD in the Faculty of Classics, supervised by professorPeter Garnsey and professorKeith Hopkins. During the autumn of 2001, he was a visitor, with professorRichard Saller, at theUniversity of Chicago.

Since 2002 Bang has been employed, currently as the professor of Roman history, in the department of history (The Saxo Institute) at theUniversity of Copenhagen.

In 2005 he initiated, in co-operation with professorC. A. Bayly, and was elected chair of a European-based research network,Tributary Empires Compared, to stimulate historical comparison between theRoman,Mughal andOttoman Empires.^[2] This network was funded byCOST till 2009.

During his employment in Copenhagen, Bang has been a visiting professor, fellow or academic affiliate at a range of institutions and for varying periods of time: at theUniversity of Tübingen in 2004, at King's College,University of Cambridge in 2007, at theUniversity of Heidelberg in 2011, at the Department of Classics,Stanford University in 2014, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences,Zhejiang University in 2017, at the RomanIslam Centre,University of Hamburg in 2020, at the Centre for Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age,University of Tübingen in 2022 and at theUniversity of Freiburg in 2023.

Bang has authored, edited or co-edited fifteen volumes as of autumn 2025, as well as written a substantial number of articles, chapter contributions, reviews and essays. In addition to his academic activities, Bang writes on an occasional basis for the Danish newspaper,Weekendavisen.

• The Roman Bazaar. A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2008,ISBN 978-0-521-85532-7
• Tributary Empires in Global History, Palgrave, 2011,ISBN 978-0-230-29472-1 (co-editor)
• Universal Empire. A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History, Cambridge University Press, 2012,ISBN 978-1-107-02267-6 (co-editor)
• The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean, Oxford University Press, 2013,ISBN 978-0-19-518831-8 (co-editor)
• Irregulare Aliquod Corpus? Comparison, World History and the Historical Sociology of the Roman Empire, Copenhagen 2014,ISBN 978-87-997650-0-3
• The Oxford World History of Empire, 2 Vols. Oxford University Press 2021,ISBN 9780197533970 (co-editor)
• The Roman Empire and World History, Cambridge University Press, 2025,ISBN 978-1-316-51610-2

• Personal websiteArchived 2012-03-09 at theWayback Machine at SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen
• Tributary Empires Compared – research project on empire and imperialism

• 1973 births
• Living people
• People from Horsens
• 21st-century Danish historians
• Danish classical scholars
• Aarhus University alumni
• Historians of ancient Rome
• Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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