Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham FBA FLSW FRHistS
Wickham in 2022
Born	Christopher John Wickham (1950-05-18)18 May 1950 Rossett, Wales
Died	9 October 2026(2026-10-09) (aged 76)
Title	Chichele Professor of Medieval History
Spouse	Leslie Brubaker ​ (m. 1990)​
Awards	Deutscher Memorial Prize (2006)
Academic background
Education	Keble College, Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Thesis	Economy and Society in 8th Century Northern Tuscany (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Eric Stone
Other academic advisors	Donald Bullough
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval history social history Medieval Italy early medieval Europe

Christopher John Wickham FBA FLSW FRHistS (18 May 1950 – 9 October 2026) was a British historian and academic. From 2005 to 2016, he was the a professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He had taught at the University of Birmingham from 1977 to 2005.

Death

Wickham died on 9 October 2026 at the age of 76.

Written works

• Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000 (1981)
• Studi sulla società degli Appennini nell'alto Medioevo. Contadini, signori e insediamento nel territorio di Valva (Sulmona) (1982)
• Il problema dell'incastellamento nell'Italia centrale. L'esempio di San Vincenzo al Volturno (1985)
• The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Apennines in the Early Middle Ages (1988)
• Social Memory (1992; with James Fentress)
• 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; first published in Italian, 1995)
• Courts and Conflict in Twelfth-Century Tuscany (2003; first published in Italian, 2000)
• Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean 400–800 (2005)
• The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 (2009)
• Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900–1150 (2014; first published in Italian, 2013)
• Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century (2015)
• Medieval Europe (2016)
• The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950–1180 (2023)

References

Other websites

• Bibliography of Wickham's works until 2019
• The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham – review
• Speeding through the centuries (Another Review)

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