Ian Wood is Emeritus Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds, where he taught from 1976 to 2015. He is the author of many articles in early medieval history and several books, including The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751 (Routledge, 1994), The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe 400–1050 (Routledge, 2001), The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages (Oxford, 2013), and The Transformation of the Roman West (Oxford, 2018). He is the co-author, with Danuta Shanzer, of Avitus of Vienne, Letters and Selected Prose (Liverpool, 2002), and with Fred Orton and Clare Lees, Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Monuments (Manchester, 2007), with Chris Grocock, The Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (Oxford, 2014), and with Alexander O’Hara, Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast (Liverpool, 2017). He was a coordinator of the European Science Foundation project on The Transformation of the Roman World (1989–92, 1992–80), and he was elected to the British Academy in 2019.
The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West: Towards a Temple Society