Ian S. Wood
Ian Wood is an English scholar of early medieval history, and a professor at the University of Leeds who specializes in the history of the Merovingian dynasty and the missionary efforts on the European continent.[1] Patrick J. Geary called him "the leading British historian of Francia".[2]
Biography
Wood received his BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a dissertation on Avitus of Vienne. He has taught at the University of Leeds since 1976, where he became a full professor in 1995, the same year he delivered the Jarrow Lecture. He is the author of three scholarly monographs and editor of two collections. His first monograph, The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751), was called a "wonderful book" and "one of the finest results of this new interest" in the Merovingian dynasty.[3]
Publications
Monographs
- The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751) (London, 1994)[4][5][6]
- Gregory of Tours (Bangor, 1994)
- The Missionary Life (Longman, 2001)[7]
Edited collections
- Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose (Liverpool, 2002, with Danuta Shanzer)
- Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments (2007, with Fred Orton and Clare Lees)[8]
References
- ↑ McCulloh, John M. (2001). "Rev. of Howard-Johnston, Hayward, The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages". The Journal of Religion 81 (2): 282–83. doi:10.1086/490829.
- ↑ Geary, Patrick J. (1996). "Central Politics: Kings, Their Allies and Opponents". French Historical Studies 19 (3): 757–63. doi:10.2307/286644.
- ↑ Richard A. Gerberding, Richard A. (1995). "Rev. of Wood, The Merovingian Kingdom". The International History Review 17 (3): 570–72.
- ↑ Hillgarth, J. N. (1995). "Rev. of Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms". The American Historical Review 100 (2): 502–3. doi:10.2307/2169038.
- ↑ Pohl, Walter (1995). "Rev. of Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms". Historische Zeitschrift 261 (1): 178–80.
- ↑ Goffart, Walter (1996). "Rev. of Wood, The Merovingian Kingdoms". The English Historical Review 111 (442): 660–61.
- ↑ Van Engen, John (2002). "The Future of Medieval Church History". Church History 71 (3): 492–522. doi:10.1017/s0009640700130240.
- ↑ Boldrick, Stacy (2008). "Out of Place: Fragments of History. Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments by Fred Orton, Ian Wood, Clare Lees". Oxford Art Journal 31 (3): 431–35.
External links
- Ian Wood's profile at the University of Leeds