PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Chris Wickham taught at Birmingham for nearly thirty years before coming to Oxford as Chichele Professor in 2005. He has travelled to Rome for short and long research visits over a hundred times.
a breathtaking book... Wickham is the most ambitious and provocative of medieval historians. Peter Thonemann, Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2014 This book is quite revolutionary in reframing the study of medieval Rome as a social history of its people and their places, with the pope as the bishop of diocese. Caroline Goodson, The Times Literary Supplement. inspiring ... a masterly example of comparative history, in which similarities and differences between Rome and other Italian cities are carefully weighed and interpreted ... [a] marvellous book Antonio Sennis, History Today Certainly this book is an achievement. It is very learned and refers equitably to a huge amount of scholarship about Rome ... Moreover, Wickham is more methodologically self-conscious than most medievalists, and aware of why and how historiographies have developed. Paolo Squatriti, The Medieval Review the sophistication of his arguments will appeal to a specialist audience, but the clear, conversational style and lack of jargon, coupled with his obvious grasp of the evidence and historiography, make both of these volumes accessible to nonspecialists. Wickham's passion for medieval Italian urban history comes across on every page. Corinne Wieben, H-Net
