Seminar: Violence in Land Disputes in Twelfth-Century
Tuscany.
Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham)
Thursday, May 19 / 4:00 PM / Harbor Room, University
center, UCSB.
Professor Wickham's interests are in early medieval
Italy; settlement patterns in medieval Italy, including
archaeology. He is currently writing a book on the socio-economic
history of post-Roman Europe and the Mediterranean,
400-800, a comparative analysis of all the post-Roman
regions from Denmark to Egypt, using documents, narratives
and archaeology.
This event is of interest to historians and scholars
of law, conflict resolution, Medieval and Renaissance
Italy, and Italian culture. Professor Wickham is one
of the editors of one of the premiere journals of History
and culture, Past and Present. Funding is also pending
form the Law and Society program.
Sponsored by Medieval Studies, the Department of History,
and the Department of French and Italian. Editor, Past
and Present; Fellow of the British Academy; Chair, British
School of Rome, Publications Committee; Group Leader,
European Science Foundation, Transformation of the Roman
World Project.
