J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, CBE, FBA, FRHistS (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a British academic and one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period.

J. M. Wallace-Hadrill CBE FRHistS FBA
Born	29 September 1916 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Died	3 November 1985(1985-11-03) (aged 69)
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
Academic work
Era	Middle Ages
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval History
Institutions	University of Manchester Merton College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford
Main interests	Merovingian period

Life and career

Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where his father was a master at Bromsgrove School. He was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Manchester between 1955 and 1961. He then became a Senior Research Fellow of Merton College in the University of Oxford (where he held the office of Sub-Warden) from 1961 till 1974. He was Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1974 to 1983 and, between 1974 and 1985, a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1969 and delivered the Ford Lectures in 1971. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society between 1973 and 1976. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982. He is the father of the Roman historian Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and the brother of church historian, D.S. Wallace-Hadrill.

Bibliography

• The Barbarian West, 400–1000 (1952).
• The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with Its Continuations (1960).
• The Long-haired Kings (London, 1962).
• Early Germanic Kingship in England and the Continent (Oxford, 1971).
• Early Medieval history (1976).
• The Frankish Church (1983).
• Ideal and reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon society: studies presented to J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (1983).
• Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford, 1988).

References

Sources

• Wood, Ian (2005). Marshall, P.J. (ed.). "John Michael Wallace-Hadrill" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 124 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows III).
• Leyser, Karl (July 1986). "John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, (1916-85)". The English Historical Review. 101 (400). Oxford University Press: 561–563. doi:10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCC.561. JSTOR 571476.