Mark Whittow

Mark Whittow
Born	(1957-08-24)24 August 1957 Cambridge,United Kingdom
Died	23 December 2017(2017-12-23)(aged 60) Oxfordshire,United Kingdom
Academic background
Education	Trinity College, Oxford
Thesis	Social and Political Structures in the Maeander Region of Western Asia Minor on the Eve of the Turkish Invasions(1987)
Doctoral advisor	James Howard-Johnston
Academic work
Institutions	University of Reading King's College London University of Oxford(1998–2017)
Notable works	The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025

Mark Whittow(24 August 1957– 23 December 2017) was a British historian, archaeologist, and academic, specialising in theByzantine Empire.He was auniversity lecturerat theUniversity of Oxfordand aFellowin Byzantine Studies atCorpus Christi College, Oxford.

Early life and education

Whittow was born in Cambridge.He attendedLord Wandsworth CollegeinLong Sutton, Hampshire.From 1976 he read Modern History atTrinity College, Oxford,and in 1987 earned aDPhilin Byzantine history and archaeology.

Academic career

Whittow was a research fellow and lecturer atOriel Collegeand held faculty positions at theUniversity of Readingand atKing's College London,before returning to Oxford in 1998 as a fellow ofSt Peter's Collegeand University Lecturer in History. He became a fellow of Corpus Christi and University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies in 2009.He wasSenior Proctorof the university for the 2016/2017 academic year.In November 2017, he was announced as the nextProvost of Oriel College, Oxford;he was to take up the post in September 2018.

Personal life

Whittow was married to Helen Malcolm, aQCand Deputy High Court Judge.

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

Selected works

• The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)ISBN9781349247653
• 'Recent Research on the Late Antique City in Asia Minor: the Second Half of the 6th c. Revisited', inRecent Research in Late Antique Urbanism,ed. L. Lavan, JRA Supplementary Series 42 (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001), pp. 137–53ISBN1887829423
• 'Early Medieval Byzantium and the End of the Ancient World',Journal of Agrarian Change9 (2009), pp. 134–53
• 'The Middle Byzantine Economy (600–1204)', inThe Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire,ed.J. Shepard(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 465–92
• 'The Late Roman/Early Byzantine Near East', inThe 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)ISBN9781138225039

External links

• Academia.edu profile