Chris Wickham

British medieval historian at Oxford who wrote Framing the Early Middle Ages, The Inheritance of Rome, and Medieval Europe — the leading authority on the economic and social history of early medieval Europe — who applies Marxist social history methodology to the transformation from Roman to medieval Europe.

Provides the most comprehensive economic history of the transformation from Roman to medieval Europe — Framing the Early Middle Ages's comparative analysis of 400–800 AD across all of Europe and the Mediterranean demonstrates that the collapse of Roman taxation and trade networks, not barbarian invasions, explains the period's economic simplification.