Professor Rosamond McKitterick

Faculty of History West Road Cambridge CB3 9EF Tel: (+44) (0)1223 335328 Fax: (+44) (0)1223 335968

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Sidney Sussex College Cambridge CB2 3HU Tel: (+44) (0)1223 338800 Fax: (+44) (0)1223 338884 rdm21@cam.ac.uk

The political, cultural, intellectual, religious and social history of Europe in the early middle ages, with particular interests in the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries as well as palaeography and manuscript studies.

Teaching

Continental Europe, fifth to tenth centuries, especially the Carolingian period. The Vikings in Europe, c.800 - c.1000. British History, fifth to tenth centuries.

Areas of Research Supervision

All parts of Continental western Europe and Anglo-Saxon England, fifth to tenth centuries on political, religious, cultural, social, intellectual and economic themes.

Chief Publications

• The Frankish Church and the Carolingian reforms, 789-895 (1977)
• The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 (1983)
• The Carolingians and the Written Word (1989)
• Books, scribes and learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, sixth to ninth centuries
• The Frankish Kingsand Culture in the early middle ages (1995)
• (ed.) The Uses of Literacy in early medieval Europe (1990)
• (ed.) Carolingian Culture: emulation and innovation (1994)
• (ed.) The New Cambridge Medieval History, II: c.700 - c.900 (1995)
• (ed., with Roland Quinault) Edward Gibbon and Empire (1996)
• History and its audiences, 2000
• History and memory in the Carolingian world, 2004
• (ed.) The Short Oxford history of Europe: the early middle ages, 2001 (in Spanish: La alta edad media, 2002)
• (ed) The Times Atlases: mapping History. The medieval world, 2003
• Perceptions of the past in the early middle ages (2006)
• Charlemagne: The formation of Carolingian identity (2008); (in German: Karl der Grosse, 2008)