Rosamond Mckitterick

Biographic Data

ID1208056
NAMERosamond Mckitterick
GIVEN NAMESRosamond
FAMILY NAMEMckitterick
SIGNATUREMCKITTERICK R
AFFILIATIONSNewham College
ORCID0000-0003-1296-0589
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS72
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT68
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Herrschaft, Delegation und Kommunikation in der Karolingerzeit

    Rosamond MckitterickARTICLESpeculum2026

  • Text and Paratext in the Early Medieval Book

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEQuaerendo2025

    The presentation of a text to a reading public may provide evidence, either of an accommodation to the expectations of anticipated readers, or of new ways to read a text. How a text was received by a scribe, as well as how, why, and in what circumstances the text was then presented, remain among the underlying considerations in any study of manuscripts. The role of ‘paratexts’, that is, all those elements in text presentation other than the main …

  • The Diffusion of Insular Culture in Neustria between 650 and 850

    Rosamond MckitterickCHAPTERBooks, Scribes and Learning in…2024

  • Nuns' Scriptoria in England and Francia in the Eighth Century

    Rosamond MckitterickCHAPTERBooks, Scribes and Learning in…2024

  • Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th centuries

    Rosamond MckitterickBOOKBooks, Scribes and Learning in…2024

    The focus of this volume is the book production of the Frankish regions of Western Europe in the early Middle Ages. By means of a detailed scrutiny of individual manuscripts, groups of manuscripts, and categories of texts, Dr McKitterick shows how they can be used to throw light on questions such as women and literacy, the knowledge of canon and secular law, and the English contribution to the religious culture of the Continent . Some of the stud…

  • The Homiliary of Agimund and its Implications for the Availability of Patristic Texts in Rome in the Early Middle Ages

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEThe Journal of Ecclesiastical…2024

    Agimund's Homiliary is extant in two eighth-century manuscripts in BAV, Vat. lat. 3835 and 3836 and is one of the very few Roman texts actually written in Roman script surviving from the early Middle Ages. This article argues that the Homiliary is a crucial piece of evidence for early medieval Roman liturgical and cultural life and the patristic resources of Rome. Agimund's Homiliary, and the late eighth-century additions which are actually part …

  • Sarah Greer. Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024

    Journal Article Sarah Greer. Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony: Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. Get access Sarah Greer. Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony: Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 206. Cloth $105.00. Rosamond McKitterick Rosamond McKitterick University of Cambridge, England Email: [email protected] Search for other w…

  • Exploring Transformations of the Roman World

    Rosamond MckitterickARTICLEZeitschrift für Antikes…2023

  • Roman Books and the Papal Library in the Early Middle Ages

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2023References: 46

    This paper offers a fresh appraisal of the problems of the existence, location and contents of the papal library, and the associated problems of Roman script and Roman book production in the early Middle Ages. The palaeography and codicology of books from Rome, and books possibly produced in Rome, between the sixth and the ninth centuries, are reassessed in the light of current scholarship. This includes a discussion of the possible loss of Roman…

  • Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium, written by Levi Roach

    Rosamond MckitterickARTICLEMedieval Encounters2022

  • The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEStudies in Church History2020References: 1

    Two case studies from eighth-century Rome, recorded in the early medieval history of the popes known as the Liber pontificalis , serve to introduce both the problems of the relations between secular or public and ecclesiastical or canon law in early medieval Rome and the development of early medieval canon law more generally. The Synod of Rome in 769 was convened by Pope Stephen III some months after his election in order to justify the depositio…

  • East and West in the Early Middle Ages

    Jörg Drauschke, Helmut Reimitz et al.BOOKEast and West in the Early Middle…2019

  • Writing the Early Medieval West

    Rosamond Mckitterick, Elina Screen et al.BOOKWriting the Early Medieval West2018

  • The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751–987

    Rosamond MckitterickBOOKFrankish Kingdoms under the…2018

    An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism; not only did it lay the foundations of the governmental and administrative institutions of Europe and the organisation of the Church, but it also securely established the intellectual and cultural traditions which were to dominate western Chri…

  • The Popes as Rulers of Rome in the Aftermath of Empire, 476–769

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEStudies in Church History2018References: 2

    This article explores the degree to which the rule and style of the bishops of Rome after the deposition of the last Roman emperor in the West in 476 had any imperial elements, in the light of the evidence contained within the Liber pontificalis . Papal rule in Rome was cast as a replacement of imperial rule in religious matters, an opportunity for the bishop to assume political responsibility and also a deliberate emulation of imperial behaviour…

  • The Papacy and Byzantium in the Seventh- And Early Eighth-Century Sections of the Liber Pontificalis

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2016Cited by: 1References: 23

    The Liber pontificalis , the serial biography of the popes running from Saint Peter to the end of the ninth century, first compiled in Rome during the ‘Gothic Wars’ in the sixth century and continued at various stages in the next three centuries, offers a distinctive narrative of the history of Rome and of the papacy in the early Middle Ages. This paper argues that the seventh- and early eighth-century sections, too often simply mined for nuggets…

  • The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe

    Open AccessR M McKitterick, S M Meeder et al.BOOKResources of the Past in Early…2015

    This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural heritage in the light of the transmission of texts and the extant manuscript evidence from the early middle ages.…

  • Europa Im Geflecht der Welt

    Dirk Hoerder, Stefan Burkhardt et al.BOOKEuropa Im Geflecht der Welt2015

  • Being R oman after R ome

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2014

  • The pleasures of the past

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2014

    The theme of ‘pleasure’ chosen for the 2013 L eeds I nternational M edieval C ongress celebrated not only concepts and perceptions of pleasure in the past, but also our fundamental intellectual enjoyment of the study of the past. Those whom medievalists study also engaged with the past at many levels and for many reasons, which included the sheer pleasure of it. In particular, the place of R ome in the historical imagination of the people of earl…

  • The scripts of the Prague Sacramentary, Prague Archivo O 83

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickARTICLEEarly Medieval Europe2012

    This article considers the light the scripts of the Prague Sacramentary throw on its place of production and early cultural and historical context. While various suggestions have been made about both its production and its early history, Bavaria and north Italy have been the generally agreed principal visible influences in its production, and the book's early history is associated with Carolingian Bavaria. The limitations of palaeographical evide…

  • Ego Trouble

    Richard Corradini, Matthew Bryan Gillis et al.BOOKEgo trouble2010

    Identity can be seen as a complex interface between the individual and society, whereby in each period of history the scope of individual identification has been dealt with in different ways and defined by different parameters. Conflicts and disruptions, failure and longing for change are unavoidable elements of this process. This volume deals with a number of authors of the Middle Ages, writing between the 5th and the 11th centuries, whose works…

  • Edward Gibbon and Empire

    Roland E Quinault, Rosamond Mckitterick et al.BOOKEdward Gibbon and Empire2009

  • Charlemagne

    Open AccessRosamond MckitterickBOOKCharlemagne2008

    Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. This magisterial study re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. It analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his death, and thereafter focuses on the evidence from Charlemagne's lifetime concerning the creation of the Carolingian dynasty and the growth of the kingdom, the court and the royal household, communications and identitie…

  • The New Cambridge Medieval History

    Open AccessRosamond Mckitterick, E James et al.BOOKThe New Cambridge Medieval…2005

    The first volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the transitional period between the later Roman world and the early middle ages, c.500 to c.700. This was an era of developing consciousness and profound change in Europe, Byzantium and the Arab world, an era in which the foundations of medieval society were laid and to which many of our modern myths of national and religious identity can be traced. This book offers a comprehensive reg…