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Mark Whittow
Born(1957-08-24)24 August 1957
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Died23 December 2017(2017-12-23) (aged 60)
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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

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

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

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

  • 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

  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. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017.
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