Rhiannon Garth Jones

Rhiannon Garth Jones is a medieval historian who works with material culture and textual sources to think about how people used the past to define their own identity and project power. She specialises in the impact of ancient Rome on cultures, empires, and religions up to the present day. Her PhD explored the Abbasid visual language of power and the caliphs' relationship with Rome during the so-called “Golden Age” of Islam, offering new insights on the development of art and architecture in this pivotal period. She has also written about the historic role of poetry and sport in the modern Arabian Gulf, the religious reception of Sheba and Solomon myths, early 20th century archaeology and its museum legacy, early Islamic ideas of Rome, and more.