Mark Whittow

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Mark Whittow
Born(1957-08-24)24 August 1957
Died23 December 2017(2017-12-23) (aged 60)
Academic background
EducationTrinity College, Oxford
ThesisSocial and Political Structures in the Maeander Region of Western Asia Minor on the Eve of the Turkish Invasions (1987)
Doctoral advisorJames Howard-Johnston
Academic work
Institutions
Notable worksThe Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025

Mark Whittow (24 August 1957[1] – 23 December 2017) was a British historian, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in the Byzantine Empire. He was a university lecturer at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2][3][4]

Early life and education[edit]

Whittow was born in Cambridge.[5] He attended Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton, Hampshire.[6] From 1976 he read Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1987 earned a DPhil in Byzantine history and archaeology.[2]

Academic career[edit]

Whittow was a research fellow and lecturer at Oriel College and held faculty positions at the University of Reading and at King's College London, before returning to Oxford in 1998 as a fellow of St Peter's College and University Lecturer in History. He became a fellow of Corpus Christi and University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies in 2009.[2][7] He was Senior Proctor of the university for the 2016/2017 academic year.[8] In November 2017, he was announced as the next Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; he was to take up the post in September 2018.[9][10]

Personal life[edit]

Whittow was married to Helen Malcolm, a QC and Deputy High Court Judge.[9]

He died in a car accident in Oxfordshire on the evening of 23 December 2017, aged 60.[7]

Selected works[edit]

  • The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996) ISBN 9781349247653
  • 'Recent Research on the Late Antique City in Asia Minor: the Second Half of the 6th c. Revisited', in Recent Research in Late Antique Urbanism, ed. L. Lavan, JRA Supplementary Series 42 (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001), pp. 137–53 ISBN 1887829423
  • 'Early Medieval Byzantium and the End of the Ancient World', Journal of Agrarian Change 9 (2009), pp. 134–53
  • 'The Middle Byzantine Economy (600–1204)', in The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, ed. J. Shepard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 465–92
  • 'The Late Roman/Early Byzantine Near East', in The New Cambridge History of Islam I, ed. C. Robinson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 72–97
  • (ed. with Marc Lauxtermann) Byzantium in the Eleventh Century: Being in Between. Papers from the 45th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, Oxford, 24–26 March 2012 (London: Routledge, 2017) ISBN 9781138225039

References[edit]

  1. ^ England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2018
  2. ^ a b c "President and Fellows: Mark Whittow: University Lecturer and Fellow in Byzantine Studies". Corpus Christi College Oxford. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Dr Mark Whittow". Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
  4. ^ "Professor Mark Whittow: Lecturer in Medieval History". St. John's College Oxford. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016.
  5. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
  6. ^ Goldman, Lawrence; Leyser, Henrietta (1 January 2018), "Mark Whittow obituary", The Guardian, retrieved 1 January 2018
  7. ^ a b Callum Keown (27 December 2017). "M40 crash victim named locally as leading Oxford professor Mark Whittow". Oxford Mail.
  8. ^ Tom Powell (27 December 2017). "Tributes paid to 'witty, brilliant' Oxford University professor killed in M40 multi-car crash". London Evening Standard.
  9. ^ a b "Dr Mark Whittow to be Appointed as Oriel's Next Provost". Oriel College. 24 November 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017.
  10. ^ Badshah, Nadeem (28 December 2017). "Oxford professor Mark Whittow killed in pile‑up". The Times.

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