1st Edition
From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians
Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to Einhard
Chapter 1
Gregory of Tours and Spain
in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515
Chapter 2
The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, ‘Fredegar’, and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613
Previously unpublished
Chapter 3
Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studies
in Jörg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247
Chapter 4
Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidence
in Matthias Becher & Jörg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91
Chapter 5
The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne’s imperial coronation
in Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70
Chapter 6
The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagne
in Peter Godman, Jörg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkrönung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322
Chapter 7
Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829
in Régine LeJan (ed.), La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211
Chapter 8
The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorum
in Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211
Chapter 9
In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich Fragments
Previously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.
Chapter 10
A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 473
Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in Vienna
Publications of Roger Collins
Biography
Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen's and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an honorary fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).
