Professor Christopher Wickham
MA, DPhil, FBA
Chichele Professor of Medieval History and Fellow since 2005
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Background
- Senior Lecturer (1987), Reader (1988), and from 1995 Professor of Early Medieval History, University of Birmingham (from 1997 to 2005)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Keble College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1975)
Research interests
- Medieval Italy, c.400-1250, with a regional focus on Tuscany and on central Italy more generally
- Early medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
- Currently working on the development of Rome in the period c.900-1200
Selected publications
- The Inheritance of Rome (London, 2009), 651 pp.
- Framing the Early Middle Ages (Oxford, 2005), 990 pp.
- Legge, pratiche e conflitti. La risoluzione delle dispute nella Toscana del XII secolo (Rome, 2000), 521 pp. (translated as Courts and conflict in twelfth-century Tuscany, Oxford, 2003)
- Comunità e clientele nella Toscana del XII secolo (Rome, 1995), 286 pp. (translated as Community and clientele, Oxford 1998, and Communautés et clientèles, Rennes, 2001)
- The Mountains and the City (Oxford, 1988; Ital. Trans., Turin, 1997), 461 pp
- (with J.W. Fentress), Social Memory (Oxford, 1992), 229 pp
- Land and Power in Early Medieval Europe (London, 1994)
- Early Medieval Italy (London, 1981; Ital. Trans., Milan, 1982), 256 pp
Other professional memberships and roles