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{{Short description|British historian and archaeologist (1957–2017)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_place = Cambridge, United Kingdom20172308df=y}}| death_place = Oxfordshire, United Kingdom| death_cause = | era = | region = University of ReadingKing’s College London>University of Oxford (1998–2017)}}| 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 =ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7b5a641-80b4-46cb-8b41-21e53af80054| thesis_year = 1987| doctoral_advisor = James Howard-Johnston| doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = | principal_ideas = | major_works = The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600–1025| awards = | influences = | influenced = | website = | footnotes = }}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.WEB,www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/40/, President and Fellows: Mark Whittow: University Lecturer and Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Corpus Christi College Oxford, 27 December 2017, WEB,www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-mark-whittow, Dr Mark Whittow, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, WEB,www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-mark-whittow/, Professor Mark Whittow: Lecturer in Medieval History, St. John’s College Oxford,web.archive.org/web/20161024094902/https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-mark-whittow/, 24 October 2016,

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.{{citation |last1=Goldman |first1=Lawrence |author-link=Lawrence Goldman |last2=Leyser |first2=Henrietta |author-link2=Henrietta Leyser |title=Mark Whittow obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |date=1 January 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/01/mark-whittow-obituary |access-date=1 January 2018}} From 1976 he read Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, and in 1987 earned a DPhil 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.NEWS, Callum Keown,www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/15794931.M40_crash_victim_named_locally_as_leading_Oxford_professor/, M40 crash victim named locally as leading Oxford professor Mark Whittow, Oxford Mail, 27 December 2017, He was Senior Proctor of the university for the 2016/2017 academic year.NEWS, Tom Powell,www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tributes-paid-to-witty-brilliant-oxford-university-professor-killed-in-m40-multicar-crash-a3727646.html, Tributes paid to ‘witty, brilliant’ Oxford University professor killed in M40 multi-car crash, London Evening Standard, 27 December 2017, In November 2017, he was announced as the next Provost of Oriel College, Oxford; he was to take up the post in September 2018.WEB,www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/dr-mark-whittow-be-appointed-oriel%E2%80%99s-next-provost, Dr Mark Whittow to be Appointed as Oriel’s Next Provost, Oriel College, 24 November 2017,www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/dr-mark-whittow-be-appointed-oriel%E2%80%99s-next-provost," title="web.archive.org/web/20171201033508www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/dr-mark-whittow-be-appointed-oriel%E2%80%99s-next-provost,">web.archive.org/web/20171201033508www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/about-college/news-events/news/dr-mark-whittow-be-appointed-oriel%E2%80%99s-next-provost, 1 December 2017, NEWS, Nadeem, Badshah,www.thetimes.co.uk/article/oxford-professor-mark-whittow-killed-in-pile-up-rzhsfqw83, Oxford professor Mark Whittow killed in pile‑up, The Times, 28 December 2017,

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) {{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}}

References

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External links

• Academia.edu profile

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