Ian N. Wood

Ian Wood (born 1950) is an English scholar of early medieval history, and a professor at the University of Leeds who specializes in the history of the Merovingian dynasty and the missionary efforts on the European continent.Patrick J. Geary called him "the leading British historian of Francia".

Wood received his B.A. First Class Honours in 1972, M.A. in 1974 and Ph.D. on Avitus of Vienne in 1980 from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He taught at the University of Leeds from 1976 onwards, where he became a full professor in 1995, the same year he delivered the Jarrow Lecture, retiring from teaching in 2015. He is the author of several monographs and edited collections as well as around two hundred scholarly articles. His first monograph, The Merovingian Kingdoms (450-751), was called a "wonderful book" and "one of the finest results of this new interest" in the Merovingian dynasty. Wood taught a range of courses on Roman history and early medieval history at Leeds including a special subject on 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'.

A festschrift in his honour is to be published in 2017.

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