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Dr. Rosamond McKitterick is Professor of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge, Fellow and Vice-Master of Sidney Sussex College, and has published on literacy, manuscript transmission, perceptions of the past, historical writing and political culture in the early middle ages. Her current interests are the migration of ideas and transmission of knowledge in the early middle ages, the implications and impact of the historical and legal texts produced during the sixth and seventh centuries in Rome and Rome’s transformation into a Christian city. 

She received the degrees of M.A., Ph.D., and Litt.D. from the University of Cambridge and studied Palaeography in Munich under Bernhard Bischoff in 1974-75. Since 1999 she has held the Chair in Medieval History in the University of Cambridge since 1999, after having been awarded a Personal Chair in 1997. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce, a Korrespondierendes Mitglied of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2002 she was the Hugh Balsdon Fellow, British School at Rome 2002, and in 2005-2006 Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study (NIAS), in a theme group on The Formation of Carolingian Identity. From October to December 2010 she was Scaliger Fellow in the Universiteitsbibliotheek in Leiden and from March to May 2011 the Lester K. Little Resident Scholar in Medieval Studies at the American Academy in Rome. She has taught summer schools and master classes in Palaeography and Codicology in Amsterdam, Leiden, Glasgow, Rome, London and Cambridge She was awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken International Prize for History by the Royal Dutch Academy in 2010.

In addition to over one hundred and forty articles and chapters in books, her previous monographs include 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, 6th to 9th centuries (1994), The Frankish kings and culture in the early middle ages (1995), History and memory in the Carolingian world (2004) and French edition Histoire et memoire dans le monde carolingien (2009), Perceptions of the past in the early middle ages (2006) Charlemagne: the formation of a European identity/Karl der Grosse, published in English and in German (2008) and Turning over a new leaf: change and development in the medieval book (with Erick Kwakkel and Rodney Thomson) (Leiden, 2012). Her edited books include The uses of literacy in early medieval Europe (1990), Carolingian culture: emulation and innovation (1994), The New Cambridge Medieval History, II c. 700-c. 900 (1995), Edward Gibbon and Empire (with Roland Quinault) (1996), The Short Oxford History of Europe: the early middle ages (2000), The Times Atlas of the Medieval World (2003); Ego Trouble: authors and their identities in the early middle ages (with R. Corradini, I. van Renswoude and M. Gillis) (2010); Rome across Time and Space. Cultural transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c. 500-1400 (with C. Bolgia and J. Osborne) (2011), Old St Peter’s, Rome (with John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Jo Story) (Cambridge, 2013).

Rosamond McKitterick est professeur d’histoire médiévale à l’Université de Cambridge, Fellow et Vice-Master de Sidney Sussex College, et a publié sur l’alphabétisation, la transmission manuscrite, les perceptions du passé, l’écriture de l’histoire et la culture politique du Haut Moyen Âge. Ses centres d’intérêts actuels portent sur la transmission des idées et de la connaissance au Haut Moyen Âge, les implications et l’impact des textes historiques et juridiques produits dans la Rome des VIe et VIIe siècles, et la transformation de Rome en une cité chrétienne.
Elle est titulaire d’un Master of Arts, d’un doctorat et d’un doctorat d’habilitation ès-lettres de l’université de Cambridge. Elle a également étudié la paléographie à Munich. Elle est titulaire de la chaire d’histoire médiévale de l’université de Cambridge depuis 1999, après avoir eu une chaire personnelle dès 1997. Elle est membre de la Royal Historical Society et de la Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce, membre correspondant des Monumenta Germaniae Historica et de l’Académie autrichienne des sciences, membre correspondant de la Medieval Academy of America. Elle a enseigné dans des écoles d’été et des Master classes en paléographie et codicologie à Amsterdam, Leyde, Glasgow, Rome, Londres et Cambridge. Elle a reçu en 2010 le prix international d’Histoire Dr A. H. Heinecken de l’Académie royale des Pays-Bas.