John Noël Dillon
John Noël Dillon teaches late antique, ecclesiastical, and medieval Latin to a wide range of students with diverse interests, including both MAR students in the History of the Church program at YDS and graduate students (MA/PhD) from the Medieval Studies Program of GSAS.
Dr. Dillon has expertise in Greek and Latin philology and Roman administration, law, and religion from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity. After finishing his PhD in Classics at Yale University, he taught as a post-doctorate fellow at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), as an assistant professor (“lecturer”) at the University of Exeter (UK), and as a visiting scholar at Peking University (China).
His publications include The Justice of Constantine: Law, Communication, and Control (Michigan), “Book I” of The Code of Justinian: A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek (Cambridge), and “The Emperor’s New Prose: The Style of Diocletian’s Legislation,” in Diocleziano: la frontiera giuridica dell’imperio (Pavia).
Dr. Dillon is also a scholarly translator specializing in ancient, medieval, and early modern history and culture. He translates French, German, and Italian, as well as Latin and Greek. His most recent major translation projects are Markus Friedrich’s The Jesuits: A History (Princeton) Hans-Ulrich Wiemer’s Theodoric the Great (Yale), which will be published in 2023.
Currently, Dr. Dillon is working on a new translation of the Theodosian Code for Cambridge University Press.
