J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

John Michael Wallace-Hadrill CBE (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of Manchester (1955-61), a Senior Research Fellow of Merton College in the University of Oxford (1961-74), Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford (1974-83) and a Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (1974-85). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1969 and delivered the Ford Lectures in 1971. He was President of the Royal Historical Society (1976-80) and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982.

Michael Wallace-Hadrill was one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period. His son is the Roman historian Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

Bibliography

• The Frankish Church (1983).
• The Barbarian West, 400–1000 (1952).
• The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with Its Continuations (1960).
• The Long-haired Kings (London, 1962).
• Early Germanic Kingship in England and the Continent (Oxford, 1971).
• Early Medieval history (1976).
• Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford, 1988).

• Ideal and reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon society: studies presented to J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (1983).