Christopher Dyer facts for kids
Christopher Charles Dyer is a very smart historian from England. He used to be a professor at the University of Leicester, where he taught about local history. He is known for studying how people lived their everyday lives a long time ago. He was also given a special award called the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2008 for his important work.
Early Life and Education
Christopher Dyer went to the University of Birmingham to study history. One of his teachers there was a famous historian named Rodney Hilton. After finishing his studies, Mr. Dyer taught at other universities, including the University of Birmingham and the University of Edinburgh. Guess what? One of his students at Edinburgh was Gordon Brown, who later became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom! Mr. Dyer joined the University of Leicester in 2001.
What He Studies
Professor Dyer is famous for looking into the daily lives of people from the Middle Ages in England. He studies how they made money, what their communities were like, and how society changed. His work often focuses on the central part of England, called the English Midlands, from the time of the Anglo-Saxons all the way up to the 1500s.
He gave some special talks called the "Ford Lectures" at the University of Oxford in 2000 and 2001. These talks were about how the economy and society in England changed during the later Middle Ages. On October 25, 2013, Professor Dyer gave another lecture called "Corby, Northamptonshire and Beyond: The History of Industry in the Countryside" at The Marc Fitch Lectures.
His Books
Professor Dyer has written many important books about medieval life. Some of his well-known books include:
- Making a Living in the Middle Ages: the People of Britain, 850–1520 (published in 2002)
- Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c. 1200–1520 (published in 1989)
- Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: the Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1540 (published in 1980)
- An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages (published in 2005), which was based on his Ford Lectures.
