Ian N. Wood

Ian N. Wood, FBA (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.

[1] Patrick J. Geary called him "the leading British historian of Francia".

[2] Wood received his BA (with first class honours) in 1972, MA in 1974 and PhD on Avitus of Vienne in 1980 from Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

He became Professor of Early Medieval History in 1995, the same year he delivered the Jarrow Lecture.

He is the author of several monographs and edited collections as well as around two hundred scholarly articles.