Chris Wickham

Chris Wickham was a British historian of early medieval Europe and especially of Italy. He was born in Rossett, Wales, in 1950 and educated at Millfield School and Keble College, Oxford, where he completed a doctorate in 1975 on the economy and society of eighth-century northern Tuscany. He taught at the University of Birmingham for nearly thirty years, becoming professor of medieval history, and in 2005 he was appointed Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College, a post he held until 2016. His research compared societies across Europe and the Mediterranean in the centuries after the fall of the western Roman Empire. Framing the Early Middle Ages (2005) won several major prizes, and The Inheritance of Rome (2009), written for general readers, surveys Europe from 400 to 1000. Later books include Medieval Europe and The Donkey and the Boat, on the Mediterranean economy. He died in 2026.

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