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| Dr. Simon Loseby | Room C1, 1 Clarkehouse Road
Telephone: (0114) 222 2562
Email: s.t.loseby@sheffield.ac.uk | Simon Loseby read Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University as an undergraduate before taking an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of York. He then returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate, holding a junior research fellowship at St.Annes College (1991-1993) and a Bowra Fellowship at Wadham College (1993-95), the latter in conjunction with a British Academy post-doctoral research fellowship. He has been a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Sheffield since 1995, and was a member of the European Science Foundation-funded project on the Transformation of the Roman World (1994-98).
Simon's research interests include all aspects of the history and archaeology of late antiquity and the early middle ages (c.300 - c.900) and the transition from the ancient to the medieval world, but in particular towns, trade, Frankish Gaul, and the writings of Gregory of Tours.
Simon's current research includes a monograph, Marseille in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, for publication by Oxford University Press, and a chapter on 'The Mediterranean economy' for the New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 1, are nearing completion. My research interests will then centre on a general book on late antique and early medieval cities, a monograph on Late Antique and Early Medieval Provence, project for which I was awarded my British Academy PDF, and further work on aspects of the fascinating world of Gregory of Tours. | | Selected Publications 'Marseille and the Pirenne thesis, II: "ville morte"', in C.Wickham and I.Hansen (eds.), The long eighth century (Leiden, 2000).
'Power and towns in late Roman Britain and early Anglo-Saxon England', in Gisela Ripoll and Josep M.Gurt (eds.), Sedes regiae (ann. 400-800) (Barcelona, 2000), pp. 319-70.
Map 15 'Arelate-Massalia' and Map 16 'Forum Iulii-Nicaea', for R.J.A.Talbert (ed.), The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (Princeton, 2000) (with introductions and directories for the maps at pp. 219-43 of the Map-by-Map Directory).
'Urban failures in late antique Gaul', in T.Slater (ed.), Decline and Towns, 100-1600 (Aldershot, 2000), 72-95
'Marseille and the Pirenne thesis, I: Gregory of Tours, the Merovingian kings and "un grand port"', in Richard Hodges and William Bowden (eds.), The sixth century: production, distribution and demand, (Leiden, 1998), pp. 203-29.
'Gregory's cities: urban functions in sixth-century Gaul', in I.N.Wood (ed.), Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian period: an ethnographic perspective (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 1998), pp. 239-70.
co-edited with N.Christie, Towns in transition: urban evolution in late antiquity and the early middle ages (Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1996), including 'Arles in late antiquity: Gallula Roma Arelas and urbs Genesii', pp. 45-70.
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