Mark Whittow

Whittow was born in Cambridge.^[5] He attended Lord Wandsworth CollegeinLong 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]

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]

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]

• 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

• Academia.edu profile