What is Peter Frankopan?
[[File:Peter Frankopan.JPG|thumb|Frankopan in 2018]] '''Peter Frankopan''' (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian and a professor of global history at [[Worcester College, Oxford]]. He is also the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He studies the history of the [[Byzantine Empire]], [[Anatolia]], [[Russia]] and the [[Balkans]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Peter Frankopan|url=https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-peter-frankopan|access-date=2023-03-06|website=Faculty of History, University of Oxford|language=en}}</ref> He wrote a book called ''The First Crusade: The Call from the East'' and published it in 2012.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harris|first=Jonathan|date=2014|title=The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu050|journal=The English Historical Review|volume=129|issue=537|pages=419–421}}</ref> Frankopan has written two popular books about the [[Silk Road]], one is ''The Silk Roads: A New History of the World'' (2015) the other one is ''The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World'' (2018).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Anthony|first=Andrew|date=2018-11-17|title=Peter Frankopan: ‘I know my place… and it’s not to shape answers for politicians’|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/17/peter-frankopan-interview-new-silk-roads-china-russia-iran|access-date=2023-03-06|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Jasanoff|first=Maya|date=2019-05-11|title=The New Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan review – the present and future of the world|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/11/new-silk-roads-peter-frankopan-review|access-date=2023-03-06|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Apart from Byzantine research and Silk Roads studies, Frankopan pays attention to the climate and environment and has published a book entitled ''The Earth Transformed: An Untold History'' (2023).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rowe|first=Mark|date=2023-02-27|title=The Earth Transformed - An Untold H