Mark Whittow Explained

Mark Whittow
Birth Date:	24 August 1957
Birth Place:	Cambridge, United Kingdom
Death Place:	Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Education:	Trinity College, Oxford
Thesis Title:	Social and Political Structures in the Maeander Region of Western Asia Minor on the Eve of the Turkish Invasions
Thesis Url:	https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7b5a641-80b4-46cb-8b41-21e53af80054
Thesis Year:	1987
Doctoral Advisor:	James Howard-Johnston
Major Works:	The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025

Mark Whittow (24 August 1957^[1] – 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.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Early life and education

Whittow was born in Cambridge.^[5] He attended Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton, Hampshire. From 1976 he read Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1987 earned a DPhil in Byzantine history and archaeology.^[2]

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.^{[2] [6]} He was Senior Proctor of the university for the 2016/2017 academic year.^[7] In November 2017, he was announced as the next Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; he was to take up the post in September 2018.^{[8] [9]}

Personal life

Whittow was married to Helen Malcolm, a QC and Deputy High Court Judge.^[8]

He died in a car accident in Oxfordshire on the evening of 23 December 2017, aged 60.^[6]

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)

External links

• Academia.edu profile

Notes and References

1. England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2018
2. Web site: President and Fellows: Mark Whittow: University Lecturer and Fellow in Byzantine Studies . Corpus Christi College Oxford . 27 December 2017 .
3. Web site: Dr Mark Whittow . Faculty of History, University of Oxford .
4. Web site: Professor Mark Whittow: Lecturer in Medieval History . St. John's College Oxford . https://web.archive.org/web/20161024094902/https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-mark-whittow/ . 24 October 2016 .
5. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007
6. News: Callum Keown . M40 crash victim named locally as leading Oxford professor Mark Whittow . Oxford Mail . 27 December 2017 .
7. News: Tom Powell . Tributes paid to 'witty, brilliant' Oxford University professor killed in M40 multi-car crash . London Evening Standard . 27 December 2017 .
8. Web site: Dr Mark Whittow to be Appointed as Oriel's Next Provost . Oriel College . 24 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201033508/http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/dr-mark-whittow-be-appointed-oriel%E2%80%99s-next-provost . 1 December 2017 .
9. News: Nadeem . Badshah . Oxford professor Mark Whittow killed in pile‑up . The Times . 28 December 2017 .