Professor Christopher Dyer FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1995
- Subjects
- Archaeology, Medieval studies
- Sections
- Archaeology , Medieval Studies
Summary
After an early start in archaeology, he became an economic and social historian of the middle ages. His first book (based on his PhD thesis) traced the development of a great estate, of the bishops of Worcester, paying equal attention to the lords' management of their lands, and the activities of their peasant tenants. Subsequent work examined the standards of living of all sections of late medieval society in England, and then traced social end economic development in Britain from the 9th to the 16th centuries. He also explored the evidence for a transition to capitalism towards the end of the middle ages, following this with a study of trade and farming of a Cotswold wool merchant. He also works in medieval archaeology, focussing on the origin, development and decline of rural settlements and landscapes. His articles and essays include studies of towns, deserted villages,houses, popular rebellions, social mentalities, diet, consumers and luxury goods, and medieval goats. He is currently writing a book on peasant farming.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of History, Centre for English Local History, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
Past appointments
University of Leicester Professor of Regional and Local History
2001 -
University of Birmingham Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor
1970 - 2001
University of Edinburgh Assistant Lecturer in Medieval History
1967 - 1970
British Academy appointments
Member of Council
Publications
A country merchant, 1495-1520: trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages
Christopher Dyer - Published in 2012 by Oxford University Press
An age of transition? Economy and society in England in the later Middle Ages
Christopher Dyer - Published in 2005 by Oxford University Press
Making a living in the middle ages: the people of Britain, 850-1520
Christopher Dyer - Published in 2002 by Yale University Press
Village, hamlet and field: changing medieval settlements in central England
Carenza Lewis, Patrick Mitchell-Fox and Christopher Dyer - Published in 1997 by Windgather Press
Standards of living in the later Middle Ages: social change in England, 1200-1520
Christopher Dyer - Published in 1989 by Cambridge University Press
Lords and peasants in a changing society: the estates to the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540
Christopher Dyer - Published in 1980
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Matthew Collins FBA
Biomolecular archaeology; interdisciplinary approaches for the recovery and interpretation of molecular signals from ancient materials, with a specific focus on proteins and their breakdown products
Professor Martin Millett FBA
Archaeology Art and Archaeology of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces Prehistoric Archaeology
Professor Teresa Webber FBA
The palaeography of western medieval manuscripts and documents; the history of medieval books, book-collections and libraries
