Rosamond McKitterick

Rosamond McKitterick, FRSA ( born May 31, 1949 in Chesterfield) is a British historian.

Rosamond McKitterick grew up in Australia and was awarded the Master, 1976, Ph.D. Walter Ullmann and the Litt D. at the University of Cambridge. She also spent a year studying Latin Palaeography Bernhard Bischoff at the University of Munich (1974 /75). In 1997 she received at the University of Cambridge after a long teaching personal Chair. Since 1999 McKitterick teaches as Associate Professor Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. She is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Monumenta Historica Germaniae as well as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts. Her research focus is in particular the Lore, churches and cultural history of the Carolingian period. She is internationally recognized as one of the best connoisseurs of that time. Basic was her book, The Carolingians and the Written Word, a comprehensive reassessment of the role of literacy in all areas of Carolingian society.

Writings

Monographs

  • Charlemagne. Translated from English by Susanne Fischer, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-14149-4.
  • Charlemagne. The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge [ et al ], 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-71645-1.
  • History and Memory in the Carolingian World. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-53436-9. ( Review )
  • The Frankish Kings and Culture in the Early Middle Ages. 14 papers ( Variorum Collected Studies Series ). Brookfield, Aldershot ( Hampshire) 1995.
  • The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol 2: C. 700 -C. 900, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al 1995, ISBN 0-521-36292- X ( editor and four posts).
  • Books, scribes and learning in the Frankish kingdoms, sixth to ninth centuries. 13 papers ( Variorum Collected Studies Series ). Brookfield, Aldershot ( Hampshire) 1994.
  • The Carolingians and the Written Word. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989, inter alia, 3rd edition 1995
  • The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-983. Longman, London-New York 1983, 3rd edition 1990.
  • The Frankish church and the Carolingian Reforms, 789-895. London 1977, ISBN 0-901050-32-6.

Editorial Boards

  • The Short Oxford History of Europe: The Early Middle Ages. Europe 400-1000. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. (Own contribution )
  • Carolingian Culture. Emulation and Innovation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al 1994.
  • The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 1990, 3rd edition, 1998.
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