Ian N. Wood
Ian Nicholas Wood (* 1950 in London ) is an English medievalist . He currently teaches early Middle Ages history as a professor at Leeds University .
Wood received his PhD from Oxford University . He is considered to be an excellent expert on the history of the early Middle Ages, especially the Merovingian period . His comprehensive account The Merovingian Kingdoms is now considered a standard work. Furthermore, he has dealt with the topic in several essays and also contributed several articles to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde .
Other focal points of his research are the history of missions in Europe, early medieval historiography and the transition period from late antiquity to the Middle Ages, which Wood is also intensively involved with. From 1992 to 1998 he was a director of the European Science Foundation's comprehensive Transformation of the Roman World program . He is co-editor of the journal Early Medieval Europe .
In 2019 Wood was elected to the British Academy .
Fonts
- The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751 . 1994.
- The missionary life. Saints and the Evanglization of Europe 400-1050 . 2001.
- Avitus of Vienne. Letters and Selected Prose . 2002 (with Danuta Shanzer)
- The World of Gregory of Tours . 2002 (edited with K. Mitchell).
- Europe in Late Antiquity (= Oldenbourg floor plan of history , vol. 43). Oldenbourg, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-11-035264-8 .
- Essays in the Cambridge Ancient History and the New Cambridge Medieval History
Web links
- Literature by and about Ian N. Wood in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Homepage (English)
Remarks
- ↑ German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages : Review in Vol. 54.1 .
- ↑ Review by H-Soz-u-Kult , 2003.
- ^ Review at H-Soz-u-Kult, 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wood, Ian N. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Ian Nicholas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English medievalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |