Paul J.E. Kershaw

Associate Professor (2001)

Head, Medieval Studies Program

On Leave: May 2011-August 2012

Office Hours: SPRING 2011: Tuesday, 10:30 - 11:30 (priority given to formally scheduled appointments), 11:30-12:30 (open office hours)

Office: 235 Nau

Phone: E-mail is the most effective means to contact me

Email: pjk3p (at) virginia.edu

Fields & Specialties

PhD, King's College, University of London,  1999

MPhil, Medieval History, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, 1991

BA (Hons), Medieval and Modern History, King's College, University of London, 1989

PUBLICATIONS

Peaceful Kings. Peace, Power and the Early Medieval Political Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2010). Link

'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

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