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Rosamond McKitterick

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Born: May 30 1949

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Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians. Since 1999, she has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge where she is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Much of her work focuses on the Frankish kingdoms in the 8th and 9th centuries and uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious and social history of the early Middle Ages.

From 1951 to 1956 McKitterick 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. She holds the degrees of M.A., Ph.D., and Litt.D.

In 1971 she returned to Cambridge University to pursue her career. She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and then became a Professorial Fellow of Sidney Sussex. She is also on the Editorial Board of the journal 'Networks and Neighbours'.

She married David John McKitterick, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, and they have one daughter.

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Books from Rosamond McKitterick

Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity

Atlas of the Medieval World

The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000

The Carolingians and the Written Word

The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 2: c.700 - c.900

History and Memory in the Carolingian World

Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation

The Government of England Under Henry I

Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century

Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages

Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291

Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis

The Times Atlas of European History

Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book

Ireland in Early Medieval Europe: Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes

Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England

Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait

Clement VI: The Pontificate and Ideas of an Avignon Pope

The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069-1215

History and Geography in Late Antiquity