English medievalist (born 1949)
Roger J. H. Collins (born 2 September 1949[1]) is anEnglishmedievalist, currently an honorary fellow in history at theUniversity of Edinburgh.
Collins studied at theUniversity of Oxford (Queen's andSaint Cross Colleges) underPeter Brown andJohn Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He then taught ancient and medieval history at the universities ofLiverpool andBristol. He arrived at the University of Edinburgh in 1994 and joined the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities before becoming an honorary fellow in the Department of History (now theSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology) in 1998.
His research has primarily concerned theEarly Middle Ages, with an emphasis onSpain, but also theFranks. His studies on theBasques and thePapacy (ongoing) have extended beyond this medieval period into the modern. His most recent publication is a book on the seventh- and eighth-century versions of theChronicle of Fredegar for theMonumenta Germaniae Historica.
Select bibliography
[edit]The following select list of writing. Only first printings and English versions are noted, as well as the latest revisions.
- Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (London:Macmillans, 1983, 2nd ed. 1995)
- The Basques (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, 2nd ed. 1990)
- The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–797 (Oxford:Blackwell, 1989, 2nd ed. 1994)
- Early Medieval Europe, 300–1000 (London: Macmillans, 1991, 2nd ed. 1999, 3rd ed. 2010)
- Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain (Aldershot:Variorum, 1992)
- (with Judith McClure)Bede's Ecclesiastical History: Introduction and notes, together with translations of Bede's Letter to Egbert and his Greater Chronicle (Oxford:Oxford University Press World's Classics, 1994, 2nd ed. 1996)
- Fredegar (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996)
- Oxford Archaeological Guide to Spain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
- Charlemagne (London: Macmillans, 1998)
- Visigothic Spain, 409–711 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
- (edited withPatrick Wormald andDonald Bullough)Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society: Studies presented to Professor J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)
- (edited with Peter Goldman)Charlemagne's Heir: New Approaches to the Reign of Louis the Pious (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
- (edited withAnthony Goodman)Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence (Basingstoke and New York:Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002)
- Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy (New York:Basic Books 2009)
- Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796-1031 (A History of Spain) (UK:Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
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