Rosamond McKitterick

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Rosamond McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians, Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Much of her work focuses on the Frankish kingdoms in the 8th and 9th centuries and uses paleographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of political, cultural, intellectual, religious and social history of the early Middle Ages.

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• 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 Kings and Culture in the early Middle Ages (1995)
• History and Memory in the Carolingian World (2004)
• Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (2006)
• Charlemagne: the Formation of a European Identity (2008)
• (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)
• (ed.) The Early Middle Ages, 400-1000 (2001)
• (ed.) Atlas of the Medieval World (2004)