Mark Whittow (24 August 1957England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2018 – 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.
Early life and education Whittow was born in Cambridge.England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007 He attended Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton, Hampshire. He began reading modern history in 1976 at Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1987 earned a D.Phil. in Byzantine history and archaeology.
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. He was Senior Proctor of the university for the 2016/2017 academic year. In November 2017, he was announced as the next Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; he was to take up the post in September 2018.
Personal life Whittow was married to Helen Malcolm, a QC and 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) '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 '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)
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External links Academia.edu profile