Rosamond McKitterick

Thomas Cussans

From the earliest times, individual monarchs and the institution of monarchy itself have crucially shaped the history of the British Isles. This book uses pictures, maps and an authoritative, readable text to tell their story - from Hengist and Horsa to Queen Victoria, from Brian Boru and Hywel Dda to Mary Queen of Scots, from the British rulers who fought against the Romans, through the Saxon chieftains who carved petty kingdoms and on past the Norman conquest of England, this volume recounts the lives, the times and the achievements of these extraordinary men and women.

The Times Kings & Queens of the British Isles

In this atlas, pictures of art and architecture accompanying an expertly written text are featured alongside stunning maps covering nearly a millennium of medieval civilizations around the world, capturing the Arab invasions of Europe, the empire of Charlemagne, the African kingdoms of Songhai and Mali, the Crusades, the Viking and Mongol invasions, and the T'ang and Ming empires, among other topics.

Atlas of the Medieval World

John Osborne

Joanna Story

Carol M. Richardson

Provides the first full study of the predecessor church of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction.

Old Saint Peter's, Rome

Rodney M. Thomson

Erik Kwakkel

"Books before print -manuscripts- were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances under which handwritten books were produced, used and collected. An important theme is the relationship between the physical book and its users. Can we reflect on reading practices through an examination of the layout of a text? To what extent can we use the contents of libraries to understand the culture of the book? The volume explores such issues by focusing on a broad palette of texts and through a detailed analysis of manuscripts from all corners of Europe"--Publisher's description.

Change and Development in the Medieval Manuscript

Turning Over a New Leaf

Professor of Early Medieval History Rosamond McKitterick

The writing and reading of history in the early Middle Ages form the key themes of this 2004 book. The primary focus is on the remarkable manifestations of historical writing in relation to historical memory in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth and ninth centuries. It considers the audiences for history in the Frankish kingdoms, the recording of memory in new genres including narrative histories, cartularies and Libri memoriales, and thus particular perceptions of the Frankish and Christian past. It analyses both original manuscript material and key historical texts from the Carolingian period, a remarkably creative period in the history of European culture. Presentations of the past developed in this period were crucial in forming an historical understanding of the Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian past and, in subsequent centuries, of early medieval Europe. They also played an extraordinarily influential role in the formation of political ideologies and senses of identity within Europe.

History and Memory in the Carolingian World

This is the first modern book in any language to examine the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe in its full social, political and cultural context. Rosamond McKitterick's account of the Carolingian kings from Pippin III (751-768) to Louis V (986-987) is not told simply in terms of the rise and fall of a line which made, but could not hold, an empire; rather, she presents the Carolingian kings as remarkable succession of, for the most part, able rulers who raised themselves above their peers, extended their authority and landed wealth, and were only gradually ousted by contemporaries similarly hungry for power.

The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987

This book provides a set of thematic interpretations of one of the most dynamic and formative periods in Europe's history. Chapters from the world's leading scholars of the period offer an authoritative, up-to-date and exciting approach to the subject.

Europe 400-1000

The Early Middle Ages

This book investigates the importance of literacy in early medieval Europe in a number of different societies between c. 400 and c. 1000.

The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe

Claudia Bolgia

An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.

Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, C.500-1400

Rome Across Time and Space

The first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.

The Liber Pontificalis

Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

Roland Quinault

This book assesses Gibbon's Decline and Fall in the light of modern research.

Edward Gibbon and Empire

Jonathan Riley-Smith

David Abulafia

Michael Jones

C. T. Allmand

Paul Fouracre

David Luscombe

Timothy Reuter

The second 'political' part of the fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 4, C.1024-c.1198, Part 2

Dorothy Whitelock

David Dumville

This 1982 collection of essays examines Ireland's relations with the rest of western Europe between AD 400 and 1200. They show the idiosyncratic ways in which Ireland responded to external stimuli and illustrate the view that early Irish history, religion, politics and art should be seen not in isolation but as vital contributors to the development of European culture. This was the firmly held opinion of Kathleen Hughes, to whose memory these essays, specially commissioned from leading scholars in the field, are dedicated. The range of essays reflects the diversity of early Ireland's history and the extent of her influence upon other cultures. The ecclesiastical tradition and hagiography form one area of study; political expansion and diplomatic history, as well as literary and artistic influences, are also discussed. The subjects are variously introduced as they affect Ireland's relations with Scotland, Anglo-Saxon England, Merovingian Gaul, the Scandinavians and the Welsh.

Studies in Memory of Kathleen Hughes

Ireland in Early Medieval Europe

Rosamund Mc Kitterick

Functional analysis of the written word in eight and ninth century Carolingian European society demonstrates that literacy was not confined to a clerical elite, but dispersed in lay society and used administratively as well.

Rosamond McKitterick

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