Dr. Simon Loseby

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Senior Admissions Tutor
Department of History
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN UK

Office Telephone: + 44 (0)114 2222562
Office Fax: + 44 (0) 114 2788304
Active email: s.t.loseby@shef.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage: http://www.shef.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/simon-loseby.html


SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Late antique and early medieval history and archaeology, especially towns, trade, the Frankish kingdoms, and Gregory of Tours.


Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Marseille in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (monograph in preparation for OUP) 'The Mediterranean economy', in P.Fouracre (ed.), The New Cambridge Medieval History, I, c.500-c.700 (Cambridge, forthcoming)

‘Réseau éphémère: la disparition des villes antiques britanniques et ses implications continentales’, in A.Ferdière (ed.), Capitales éphémères (Suppl. à la Revue Archéologique du Centre) (Tours/Paris, forthcoming).

‘Decline and change in the cities of late antique Gaul’, in J.-U.Krause and C.Witschel (eds.), Die Stadt in der Spätantike – Niedergang oder Wandel? (in the Historia Einzelschriften series) (München, forthcoming)

‘Power and towns in late Roman Britain and early Anglo-Saxon England’, in G.Ripoll and J.M.Gurt (eds.), Sedes regiae (ann. 400-800) (Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres, Barcelona, 2000), pp. 319-70.

‘Marseille and the Pirenne thesis, II: ‘ville morte’?’, in I.L.Hansen and C.Wickham (eds.), The long eighth century (Transformation of the Roman World, vol.11) (E.J.Brill, Leiden, 2000), pp. 167-93.

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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Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:


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