Ian S. Wood

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Ian Wood (born 1950) is an English scholar of early medieval history, and a professor at the University of Leeds who specializes in the history of the Merovingian dynasty and the missionary efforts on the European continent. Patrick J. Geary called him "the leading British historian of Francia".

Biography

Wood received his B.A. First Class Honours in 1972, an M.A. in 1974 and Ph.D. on Avitus of Vienne in 1980 from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He taught at the University of Leeds from 1976 onwards, where he became a full professor in 1995, the same year he delivered the Jarrow Lecture, retiring from teaching in 2015. He is the author of three scholarly monographs and editor of two collections. His first monograph, The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751), was called a "wonderful book" and "one of the finest results of this new interest" in the Merovingian dynasty. Wood taught a range of courses on Roman history and early medieval history at Leeds including a special subject on 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'.

Publications

Monographs

• The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751) (London, 1994)
• Gregory of Tours (Bangor, 1994)
• The Missionary Life (Longman, 2001)
• The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013)

Edited collections

• Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose (Liverpool, 2002, with Danuta Shanzer)
• Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments (2007, with Fred Orton and Clare Lees)

External links

• Ian Wood's profile at the University of Leeds