Neil Christie

Neil Christie is a British archaeologist and historian. He is professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester.

Christie studied archaeology at Newcastle University. After obtaining his doctorate, he held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, and was later employed there to prepare the excavation report on Santa Cornelia. He was also a Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford. He joined Leicester in 1992 and was subsequently appointed professor.

Christie is the reviews editor for Medieval Archaeology . He was a founding member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group in 1987, and serves as its secretary and reviews editor of its journal. He also holds a faculty position at the British School at Rome.^[1]

• War and Warfare in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives (Late Antique Archaeology, Volumes 8.1, 8.2). (edited, with Alexander Sarantis). Brill, Leiden, 2013.
• Vrbes Extinctae. Archaeologies of Abandoned Classical Towns (ed. N. Christie & A. Augenti), Ashgate, Farnham, 2012.
• Medieval Rural Settlement. Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600, edited by N. Christie & P. Stamper. Oxbow Books/Windgather Press, Oxford, 2011.
• The Fall of the Western Roman Empire. An Archaeological and Historical Perspective. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2010.
• From Constantine to Charlemagne: An Archaeology of Italy, AD 300–850, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006. NC Italy book^{[clarification needed ]}
• Landscapes of Change. Rural Evolutions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, (ed. N Christie), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2004.
• Ethnography and Archaeology in Upland Mediterranean Spain. Manolo's World: Peopling the Recent Past in the Serra de L'Altmirant, 1994–98, (edited with P. Beavitt, J. Gisbert Santonja, J., Segui, V Gil Senis), Leicester Archaeology Monograph, 12, Leicester, 2004.
• Towns and Their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, (The Transformation of the Roman World, Volume 9), (eds. G. P. Brogiolo, N. Gauthier and N. Christie), ESF/Brill, Leiden, 2000.
• Towns in Transition: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, (eds. N Christie & S. Loseby), Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1996.
• The Lombards. The Ancient Langobards, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1995.
• Settlement and Economy in Italy, 1500 BC - AD 1500: Papers of the Fifth Conference of Italian Archaeology, (ed. N. Christie), Oxbow Monograph 41, Oxford, 1995.
• Three South Etrurian Churches: Santa Cornelia, Santa Rufina and San Liberato, (ed. N. Christie), Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome, Volume 4, London, 1991.

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