John Robert Martindale (born 1935) is a British historian specializing in the later Roman and Byzantine empires.
work Jones invited him to assist in his ongoing Roman prosopography project,[3] originally conceived by Theodor Mommsen.
[6][7] Jones noted in 1964 that Martindale had already by then checked all the dates and references to the Codex Theodosianus, the Codex Justinianus, and the Novels of Theodosius II, "an accomplishment that would surely qualify as a worthy contender for the thirteenth labour of Hercules".
[3] A large team of scholars was employed to read the authors of the period and draw excerpts from them.
[10] After the publication of the third volume, Michael Whitby noted that the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire was "a project which was initiated by Jones and seen through, in considerably expanded form, to improvement and completion by John Martindale".