Eric Christiansen

{{short description|British historian}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{infobox academic

|birth_date = 15 September 1937

|birth_place = Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2016|10|31|1937|9|15}}

|spouse = {{marriage|Sukey Hardie|1981}}

|occupation = Historian and academic

|education = Charterhouse School

|alma_mater = New College, Oxford

|workplaces = New College, Oxford

|discipline = History

|sub_discipline = {{hlist|Middle Ages|Crusades|Vikings}}

}}

Eric Christiansen (15 September 1937 – 31 October 2016) was a medieval historian and fellow emeritus of New College, Oxford University.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/eric-christiansen-sz3gvb3ps |title=Eric Christiansen | Register | The Times & The Sunday Times |website=The Times |access-date=2016-11-24}}{{cite news|author=Stephen Bates |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/nov/13/eric-christiansen-obituary |title=Eric Christiansen obituary | Education |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2016-11-24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/eric-christiansen/ |title=Eric Christiansen | The New York Review of Books |website=Nybooks.com |access-date=2016-11-24}}

Christiansen was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire and was educated at Charterhouse School after which he served in the ranks of the Northamptonshire Regiment. He became a fellow of New College after completing a thesis on modern Spanish history but subsequently specialised in medieval history.