Michael Crawford (historian)

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Michael Hewson Crawford (1939-) is a British ancient historian and numismatist.

[edit] Biography

Michael Crawford was born in Twickenham on 7 December 1939.

He was educated at St Paul's School and Oriel College, Oxford (BA, MA), and the British School at Rome.

In the year 1964/65 he was Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. Also in 1964 he was elected Research Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. From 1969 until 1986 he was Fellow of Christ's and University Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Ancient History at University College London from 1986 until 2005, becoming Emeritus Professor on his retirement. He continues to undertake some teaching in the Department of History and works on Projet Volterra (sic). He has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Pavia (1983 and 1992), École Normale Supérieure (1984), University of Padua (1986), University of San Marino (1989), University of Milan (1990), University of L'Aquila (1990), École pratique des hautes études (1997).

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980.

[edit] Publications

• Michael H. Crawford and Mary Beard (1999). Rome in the Late Republic. Duckworth Publishers. ISBN 0-7156-2928-X. 

• M.H. Crawford, ed., Roman statutes (2 vols, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 64, London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 1996)

• Arnaldo Momigliano; Michael H. Crawford, and C.R. Ligota (1995). Ancient history and the antiquarian: essays in memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. London: Warburg Institute. ISBN 0-85481-095-1. 

• M.H. Crawford, ed., Antonio Agustin between Renaissance and counter-reform (London: Warburg Institute, 1993)

• Michael Crawford, The Roman republic (2nd edn, London: Fontana, 1992; 1st edn, Hassocks: Harvester Press; New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1978; London: Fontana, 1978)

• M.H. Crawford, C.R. Ligota, and J.B. Trapp, eds, Medals and coins from Budé to Mommsen (London: Warburg Institute, 1990)

• A.M. Burnett and M.H. Crawford, The Coinage of the Roman world in the late Republic: proceedings of a colloquium held at the British Museum in September 1985 (British Archaeological Reports International Series 326, Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1987)

• T.J. Cornell, M.H. Crawford, and J.A. North, Art and production in the world of the Caesars (Milan: Olivetti, 1987)

• Michael H. Crawford, ed., L'Impero romano e le strutture economiche e sociali delle provincie (Como: Edizioni New Press, 1986)

• Michael H. Crawford, Coinage and money under the Roman Republic: Italy and the Mediterranean economy (London: Methuen, 1985)

• M.H. Crawford, A catalogue of Roman Republican coins in the collections of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh (Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Museum, 1984)

• Michael Crawford and David Whitehead, Archaic and Classical Greece: a selection of ancient sources in translation (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

• Michael Crawford, ed., Sources for ancient history (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)

• Michael H. Crawford, La moneta in Grecia e a Roma (Bari: Laterza, 1982)

• Michael Crawford, 'Economia imperiale e commercio estero', Tecnologia, economia e società nel mondo romano: Atti del Convegno di Como, 27-29 sett. 1979 (1980), 207-218

• Michael H. Crawford, 'Ancient Devaluations: a general theory', Collection de l'École française de Rome 37 (1978) Les "dévaluations" à Rome. Epoque républicaine et impériale (Rome, 13-15 nov. 1975), 147-158

• Michael H. Crawford, Roman Republican coinage (London: Cambridge University Press, 1974)

• Mark Hassall, Michael Crawford, and Joyce Reynolds, 'Rome and the eastern provinces at the end of the second century B.C.', Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974), 195-200

• K.T. Erim, J. Reynolds, and M. Crawford, 'Diocletian's currency reform: a new inscription', Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971), 171-177

• Michael Crawford, Coin hoards and the pattern of violence in the late Republic (London: R. Clay & Sons, 1969)

• M.H. Crawford, The financial organization of Republican Spain, Numismatic Chronicle 9 (1969), 79-93

• Michael H. Crawford, Roman Republican coin hoards (London: Royal Numismatic Society, 1969)

• Michael H. Crawford, 'The edict of M. Marius Gratidianus', Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (1968), 1-4

• M.H. Crawford, 'War and finance', Journal of Roman Studies 54 (1964), 29-32

[edit] References and external links

• Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London, 1999), p. 448
• UCL Crawford biog. www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
• British Academy, The Fellowship. British Academy. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.