Joanna Story
Joanna Elizabeth Story is a British historian whose specialty is the history of and relationship between Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia.
Biography[]
Story completed her doctorate at Durham University in 1995.[1] A professor of early medieval history at the University of Leicester, she has published a number of academic articles, and is the editor of a collection on Charlemagne. Her monograph Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870 was praised as "revealing, relevant, and a valuable contribution to medieval history and an extremely useful addition to the corpus of texts on this period in European history".[2] Story worked closely with colleagues at the British Library on their major international exhibition and associated exhibition catalogue Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Art, Word, War which ran from October 2018 to February 2019.
Bibliography[]
Monograph[]
- Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870 (Ashgate, 2003)
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War (Exhibition catalogue with Claire Breay (British Library Publishing 2018)
Edited collections[]
- Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005). ISBN 978-0719070884.
- Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent (with Hans Sauer; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011). ISBN 9780866984423.
References[]
- ^ Story, Joanna Elizabeth (1995). Charlemagne and Northumbria: The influence of Francia on Northumbrian politics in the later eighth and early ninth centuries (PDF). Durham: Durham University (Thesis). Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ Sprey, Ilicia J. (2006). "Review of Story, Carolingian Connections". Speculum. 81 (1): 279–81. doi:10.1017/s0038713400020297. JSTOR 20463698.
External links[]
- Joanna Story's page at University of Leicester
- Living people
- Academics of the University of Leicester
- British medievalists
- Women medievalists
- British women historians
- Alumni of Trevelyan College, Durham