Roger Collins

Roger Collins (* 1949 ) is a British historian who mainly deals with the history of the Middle Ages .

Roger Collins studied at St Cross College of the University of Oxford in Peter Brown and John Michael Wallace Hadrill . After teaching ancient and medieval history in Liverpool and Bristol, he has been teaching at Edinburgh University since 1994 . In 1998 he became an Honorary Fellow there.

Collins primarily researches the history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . His work Early Medieval Europe , published for the first time in 1991, is generally regarded as a standard work and was published in 2010 in a completely revised third edition. In contrast to some other researchers, he emphasizes the need for narrative , a narrative form of representation in which the often neglected political history is also taken into account. In addition to numerous specialist articles and contributions to anthologies (such as the New Cambridge Medieval History ), Collins has written several monographs on early medieval history. His specialty is the history of early medieval Spain.

In addition, Collins deals with the overarching history of the papacy and early medieval historiography.

Fonts

• Caliphs and Kings. Spain, 796-1031. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester et al. 2012, ISBN 978-0-631-18184-2 .
• Keepers of the Keys of Heaven. A History of the Papacy. Basic Books, New York NY 2009, ISBN 978-0-465-01195-7 .
• The Fredegar Chronicles (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Studies and Texts. Volume 44). Hahn, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-7752-5704-6 .
• Visigothic Spain, 409-711. Blackwell, Malden MA et al. 2004, ISBN 0-631-18185-7 .
• as co-editor with Anthony Goodman: Medieval Spain. Culture, Conflict and Coexistence. Studies in honor of Angus MacKay. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2002, ISBN 0-333-79387-0 .
• Charlemagne. Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 1998, ISBN 0-333-65054-9 .
• Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000. Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 1991, ISBN 0-333-36824-X (3rd edition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-00672-0 ).
• Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400-1000. Macmillan, London et al. 1983, ISBN 0-333-26283-2 (2nd edition ibid 1995, ISBN 0-333-64170-1 ).
• The Arab Conquest of Spain. 710-797. Blackwell, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-631-15923-1 (several reprint editions).
• The Basques. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 1986, ISBN 0-631-13478-6 (2nd edition, ibid. 1990, ISBN 0-631-17565-2 ).

Web links

• Page from Collins at the University of Edinburgh
• Publications by Roger Collins in the Opac der Regesta Imperii

Remarks

1. ↑ Catalog entry (LoC)
2. ↑ See Roger Collins: Making Sense of the Early Middle Ages. In: English Historical Review . Volume 124, 2009, pp. 641-665.