A list of publications

After setting the fiscal structures of the Ottonian Reich in context historiographically and in comparison with contemporary alternatives, this paper discusses recent attempts to measure the extent of Otto I’s fiscal lands, using two case studies to consider the challenges of generalisation. It then focuses on confiscations to emphasise the d…[Read more]

A late ninth-century Latin manuscript, Paris BnF Lat. 5095, preserves the unique copy of Anastasius Bibliothecarius’s so-called ‘Collectanea’. This collection of texts documents the tribulations of Pope Martin and Maximus the Confessor, put on trial by Emperor Constans II in Constantinople in 655 in the course of the monothelite crisis. This chapt…[Read more]

One of the characteristics of Francia under Carolingian rule was an increase both in church conciliar activity and in the written records for this activity. This chapter examines the manuscript transmission of the records of one particular council, that which met in Aachen in 862 to discuss King Lothar II’s marriage. It assesses its the i…[Read more]

Unpaginated AAM

Unpaginated submission version of published book chapter (‘Competing for the Holy Spirit: Humbert of Moyenmoutier and the Question of Simony’, in Francois Bougard, Philippe Depreux and Régine Le Jan (eds.), Compétition et sacré au haut Moyen Âge: entre médiation et exclusion (Brepols, Collection du Haut Moyen Age: Turnhout, 2015), pp. 327–34)

Yvonne Seale on a bizarre and fanciful piece of genealogical scholarship and what it tells us about identity in late 19th-century America.

Unpaginated version of book chapter published in Christine Kleinjung and Stefan Albrecht (eds.), Das lange 10. Jahrhundert – Struktureller Wandel zwischen Zentralisierung und Fragmentierung, äußerem Druck und innerer Krise (Mainz, 2015), pp. 49–59

Unpaginated submission version of chapter published in East Anglia and the North Sea World.