Dr Mark Whittow
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: mark.whittow@ccc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Whittow is a medieval historian and archaeologist, specialising in the Mediterranean and Byzantine worlds, AD 500-1300, with particular emphasis on landscape and settlement patterns, and the social and political forces that shaped them. He carries out field work on Byzantine sites in Turkey, and is currently writing The Transformation of Europe: the Feudal Revolution and Material Culture, 900-1250 with Dr Rosamund Faith. He is also Honorary Secretary of the Council for British Research in the Levant, a body supported by the British Academy that exists to promote, sponsor and carry out research in the Levant (viz. Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and Syria).
Selected Publications:
- 'Ruling the Late Roman and Early Byzantine City: A Continuous History', Past and Present. Vol CXXIX (1990)
- 'Rural Fortifications in Western Europe and Byzantium, 10th-12th century' in Bosporos - Court, City and Country in Byzantium. (Amsterdam, 1995) pp. 57-74
- The making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025. (London, 1996) 477pp.
- 'The Survey of Medieval Castles of Anatolia (1992-6): the Maeander Region' in Fifty Years of Anatolian Archaeology. (1998)
- 'Rome and the Jafnids: Writing the History of a Sixth-Century Tribal Dynasty' in The Roman and Byzantine Near East, Volume 2, Some recent archaeological research. (Portsmouth, R.I, 1999) pp. 207-224
Future Publications:
- The Feudal Revolution. (London)
- Oxford History of Medieval Europe V: 1000-1100. Vol V (Oxford)
- 'The Life of St Lazaros of Galesion: How to found and maintain a successful monastery' in Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries. (Belfast, 2007)
- 'The Middle Byzantine Economy, 600-1204' in . (http://oxhistonline.modhist.ox.ac.uk/publications/21/, 2007)
- 'The Political Geography of the Byzantine World: Geographical Survey' in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. (Oxford, 2007)
- 'The Late Roman Early Byzantine Near East' in The New Cambridge History of Islam. Vol I (Cambridge, 2007)
- 'Nikopolis ad Istrum: backward and Balkan?' in The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Danube and Beyond. (Oxford, 2007)
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