1. Rosamond Deborah McKitterick was born on 31 May 1949 and is an English medieval historian.
17 Facts About Rosamond McKitterick
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Rosamond McKitterick is an expert on the Frankish kingdoms in the eighth and ninth centuries AD, who uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious, and social history of the Early Middle Ages.
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Rosamond McKitterick is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College and Professor Emerita of Medieval History in the University of Cambridge.
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McKitterick was born Rosamond Pierce in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, on 31 May 1949.
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Rosamond McKitterick holds the degrees of MA, PhD, and LittD from the University of Cambridge.
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Rosamond McKitterick was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge and then became a professorial fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
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Noble considers Rosamond McKitterick to be "one of the most original and productive historians of Europe's early Middle Ages".
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Rosamond McKitterick has supervised 42 PhD theses to completion, as of October 2015, with five more in progress.
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Rosamond McKitterick has been a member of the council of the British School at Rome.
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In 2015 Rosamond McKitterick was elected to the Lectio Chair at the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven's Centre for the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
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On 16 March 2017, Rosamond McKitterick was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
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Rosamond McKitterick is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Rosamond McKitterick was the President of the Ecclesiastical History Society.
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Rosamond McKitterick is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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On 15 October 2018 Rosamond McKitterick delivered the James Lydon Lecture in Medieval History and Culture at Trinity College Dublin with "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages".
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In 2018 Rosamond McKitterick was honoured with a Festschrift, Writing the Early Medieval West, to mark her retirement in September 2016.
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Rosamond McKitterick married David McKitterick, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1976.