Dr Michael Jackson Bonner is a Canadian political adviser and historian of Iran. A former classicist and student of James Howard-Johnston and Robert Hoyland, he read for a master's degree and doctorate in late-antique Iranian history at the University of Oxford. Michael has advised members of Cabinet in both federal and provincial Canadian governments, and is now a Director of Policy within the government of Ontario.
As part of the Gorgias Handbook Series, this book provides a political and military history of the Sasanian Empire in Late Antiquity (220s to 651 CE). The book takes the form of a narrative, which situates Sasanian Iran as a continental power between Rome and the world of the steppe nomad.