Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians, since 1999 Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 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 the political, cultural, intellectual, religious and social history of the early Middle Ages.
Rosamond McKitterick was born Rosamond Pierce in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, on 31 May 1949. From 1951 to 1956 she lived in Cambridge, England, where her father had a position at Magdalene College. In 1956 she moved with her family to Western Australia where she completed primary and secondary school and completed an honours degree at the University of Western Australia. In 1971 she returned to Cambridge University to pursue her career. She holds the degrees of M.A., Ph.D., and Litt.D.
She married David John McKitterick, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and they have one daughter.[2]
She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and then became a Professorial Fellow of Sidney Sussex. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts).[3]