Christopher Dyer

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Professor Christopher Dyer ( b. 1944) is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.

1 Background
2 Work
3 Recent publications
4 External links

[edit] Background

Educated at the University of Birmingham, he has taught at the universities of Birmingham, and Edinburgh where he counted amongst his students current Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. He came to the Univerisity of Leicester in 2003

[edit] Work

Professor Dyer is well known as the historian of everyday life, a recurring theme in his publications. Dyer looks at the economic and social history of medieval life, with an emphasis on the midlands region of England from the Saxon period through to the 16th century. He was invited to deliver the Ford Lectures in the University of Oxford in a lecture series entitled 'An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages'.

[edit] Recent publications

Making a Living in the Middle Ages. The People of Britain, 850-1520 (London and New Haven, 2002 (Yale UP); London, 2003 (Penguin);), New Haven, 2003 (American paperback, Yale UP), 403 pp.

‘The urbanizing of Staffordshire: the first phases’, Staffordshire Studies, 14 (2002), pp. 1-31

(with Jane Laughton), ‘Seasonal patterns of trade in the later middle ages: buying and selling at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 1400-1520’, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 46 (2002), pp. 162-84.

‘Villages and non-villages in the medieval Cotswolds’, Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 120 (2002), pp. 11-35.

'The archaeology of medieval small towns’, Medieval Archaeology, 47(2003), 85-114.

'(with Phillipp Schofield), ‘Estudios recientes sobre la historia agraria y rural medieval britanica’, Historia Agraria, 31 (2003), pp. 13-33.

'Birmingham in the middle ages’, in Birmingham: Bibliography of a City, ed. C. Chinn (Birmingham, 2003), pp. 1-14.

'Alternative agriculture: goats in medieval England’, in People, Landscape and Alternative Agriculture. Essays for Joan Thirsk, ed. R. Hoyle (Agricultural History Review Supplement Series, 3, 2004), pp. 20-38.

'(with M. Ciaraldi, R.Cuttler and L. Dingwall), ‘Medieval tanning and retting at Brewood, Staffordshire; archaeological excavations 1999-2000’, Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, 40 (2004), pp. 1-57.