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. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. It is the premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past Sidney Sussex College (often informally shortened to just Sidney) was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress Frances Sidney Countess of Sussex. 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. The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group
Books
- 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)
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