Christopher Wickham

Christopher John Wickham (born 1950) is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University. His special interests are in early medieval Europe and in 12th century Italian society.

[edit] Academic Career

He was Professor of Medieval History at Birmingham University before becoming Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University in 2005. In January 2007, The American Historical Association awarded Wickham its James Henry Breasted Prize for his book Framing the Early Middle Ages, which also won the 2005 Wolfson History Prize and the 2006 Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Books

Economy and society in 8th century northern Tuscany (1975)
Early medieval Italy : central power and local society, 400-1000 (1981)
The mountains and the city: the Tuscan Appenines in the early Middle Ages (1988)
City and countryside in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: essays presented to Philip Jones edited by Trevor Dean and Chris Wickham. (1990)
Land and power : studies in Italian and European social history, 400-1200 (1994)
Community and clientele in twelfth-century Tuscany : the origins of the rural commune in the plain of Lucca (1998)
Courts and conflict in twelfth-century Tuscany (2003)
Framing the early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400-800 (2005)

Recent Major Articles

'Un pas vers le moyen âge' in Les campagnes de la Gaule à la fin de l'Antiquité (ed. P. Ouzoulias et al.), (Antibes, 2001) pp. 555-67
'Medieval studies and the British School at Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome. Vol lxix (2001) pp. 35-48
'Paludi e miniere nella Meremma toscana, XI-XIII secoli' in Castrum 7 (ed. J.-M. Martin), (Rome, 2001) pp. 451-66
(with E. Fentress), 'La valle dell'Albegna fra i secli VII e XIV' in Siena e Maremma nel Medioevo (ed. M. Ascheri), (Sienna, 2001) pp. 59-82
'Rural economy and society' in Italy in the early middle ages (ed. C. La Rocca), (Oxford, 2001) pp. 118-43
'Society' in The Early Middle Ages (ed. R. McKitterick), (Oxford, 2001) pp. 59-94
'Una valutazione sull'archeologia medievale italiana', Quaderni storici. Vol cvi (2001) pp. 295-301
'Comunidades rurales y señorio debil: el caso del norte de Italia, 1050-1250' in Comunidades locales y poderes feudales en la Edad media (ed. I. Álvarez), (Logroño, 2001) pp. 395-415