Assistant Professor (2001)

Western Europe, AD 400-1000

Office Hours: Monday, 1:15-3:15, and by appointment

Office: 223 Randall Hall

Email: pjk3pvirginia.edu

PhD, King's College, London University 1999.

MPhil, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1991.

BA (Hons), 1st Class, King's College, London University, 1989.

PUBLICATIONS 

Peaceful Kings. Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

'English History and Irish Readers in the Frankish World’, in D. Ganz and P. Fouracre, eds, Frankland. The Franks and the World of Early Medieval Europe (Manchester University Press, 2008), pp. 126-51.

‘Eberhard of Friuli, a Carolingian Lay Intellectual’, in P. Wormald and J. L. Nelsom, eds, Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 77-105.

'Laughter After Babel's Fall: Miscommunication and Misunderstanding in the Early Middle Ages', in Guy Halsall, ed., Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 179-202.

'Power, Prayer and Illness in Asser's Life of Alfred', Early Medieval Europe 10.2 (2001), pp. 201-224.

Contributing author, M. Handley, P.J.E. Kershaw, K. Lockyear, with W. Davies, K. Forsyth, J. Graham-Campbell and J.-P. Wilson, CISP Database of all Non-runic Inscriptions from Ireland, Scotland, Isle of Man, Wales, South-Western England and Brittany,400-1100 AD (initial release 2000, final release 2001) (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database). 

'Charlemagne', 'The Frankish Empire' , 'Military Organization in Post-Roman Europe', entries in C. Messenger, ed., The Reader's Guide to Military History (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

'The Alfred-Guthrum Treaty: Scripting Accommodation and Interaction in Viking-Age England', in D. Hadley and J.D. Richards, eds, Cultures in Contact. Scandinavian Settlement in England (Brepols, 2000), pp. 43-64.

Contributing author, W. Davies, J. Graham-Campbell, M. Handley, P.J.E. Kershaw, J. Koch, G. Le Duc and K. Lockyear, The Early Medieval Inscriptions of Brittany/Les inscriptions de la Bretagne du Haut Moyen Âge (Celtic Studies Publications, 2000).

'Time's Abuse and the Negligence of Men': Changing Attitudes to the Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany', in Davies et al., The Early Medieval Inscriptions of Brittany, pp. 6-22.

 LINKS

The Medieval Studies Program at Virginia: http://www.virginia.edu/medievalstudies/index.html

Classics at the University of Virginia: http://www.virginia.edu/classics/index.html

The University of Virginia hosts several significant digital projects of direct interest to scholars of late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:

St.Gall Monastery Plan Project, hosted at Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities: http://www.stgallplan.org/index.html

Rome Reborn 1.0: http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/