From Rome to Western Christendom: A Socio-Economic Shift
Ian Wood is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leeds, where he taught for 39 years before retiring in 2015. With expertise in late Roman culture, Barbarian kingdoms of the Dark Ages, Anglo-Saxon sculpture, Northumbrian monasticism, eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century historiography of the Barbarian Invasions, he is also a Fellow of the British Academy. His major publications include books that deal with the history of the Franks between 450 and 751, hagiographical accounts of missionary activity in the early Middle Ages, the historiography of the early Middle Ages, the transformation of the Roman World, and the development of a Christian economy. Between 1992 and 1998 he was a coordinator of a major European project on the transformation of the Roman World.
Food for Thought: Podcast with Ian Wood