Christopher Allen Snyder is Professor

Professor

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 of European History

History of Europe

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 and Director of the Honors Program at Marymount University

Marymount University

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 in Arlington, Virginia. He is an expert in Roman

Roman Britain

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, Sub-Roman

Sub-Roman Britain

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, and Medieval Britain, and specifically King Arthur

King Arthur

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Biography

He got his Ph.D.

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in Medieval History

Middle Ages

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 in 1994 from Emory University

Emory University

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 in Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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Snyder appeared on The History Channel for The Barbarians II: The Anglo-Saxons in 2006 and on History v. Hollywood: King Arthur in 2004. At Marymount he served as Chair of the Department of History

History

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 & Politics

Politics

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1998–2007.

Publications

• An Age of Tyrants: Britain and the Britons, A.D. 400–600, Pennsylvania State University 1998, ISBN 0271017805.
• The World of King Arthur, Thames & Hudson 2000, ISBN 0500051046.
• The Britons (The Peoples of Europe), Wiley-Blackwell 2003, ISBN 063122260X.
• Early Peoples of Britain and Ireland: An Encyclopedia [2 volumes], Greenwood 2008, ISBN 1846450098.