Dr Simon MacLean
Simon MacLean
MA, MPhil (Glasgow), PhD (London), FRHS - Reader
Contact Details
E-mail - sm89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463313
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334
Teaching and Research Interests
Early medieval Europe (8th to 11th centuries); in particular the political, social and cultural history of the Carolingian Empire and its successor kingdoms; the Vikings; kingship and queenship
Main Publications
Authored Books
- The Carolingian World (co-authored with M. Costambeys and M. Innes) (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2011), 505pp
- History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: the Chronicle of Regino of Prum and Adalbert of Magdeburg (Manchester University Press: Manchester, 2009), 328pp
- Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003), 286pp [Details]
Edited Books
- Atlas of Medieval Europe (2nd ed., Routledge: London, 2007) (ed., with D. Ditchburn and A. Mackay), 339pp
- Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, c.800-1500 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2006) (ed., with B. Weiler), 350pp
Articles
- ‘Recycling the Franks in Twelfth-Century England: Regino of Prüm, the Monks of Durham and the Alexandrine Schism’, Speculum 87 (2012), pp. 649-681
- 'Monastic Refom and Royal Ideology in the Late Tenth Century: Edgar and Aelfthryth in Continental Perspective', in C. Leyser, D. Rollason and H. Williams (eds.), England and the Continent in the Tenth Century: Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947) (Brepols: Turnhout, 2011), pp. 255-75
- 'Legislation and Politics in Late Carolingian Italy: the Ravenna Constitutions', Early Medieval Europe 18 (2010), pp. 394-416
- 'Britain, Ireland and Europe, c.900-c.1100', in P. Stafford (ed). A Companion to the Early Middle Ages. Britain and Ireland, c.500-1100 (Blackwell: London, 2009), pp. 358-75
- 'Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prum's Chronicle', English Historical Review 124 (2009), pp. 1- 28
- 'Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France: Adso's "Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist" Reconsidered', Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire / Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis 86 (2008)
- ‘Making a Difference in Tenth-Century Politics: King Athelstan’s Sisters and Frankish Queenship’, in P. Fouracre and D. Ganz (eds.), Frankland. The Franks and the World of Early Medieval Europe (Manchester UP: Manchester, 2008), pp. 167-90
- ‘Apocalypse and Revolution: Europe around the Year 1000’, Early Medieval Europe 15 (2007), pp. 86-106
- '“After his death a great tribulation came to Italy…” Dynastic Politics and Aristocratic Factions after the Death of Louis II, c.870-c.890’, Millennium Jahrbuch 4 (2007), pp. 239-60
- ‘Ritual, Misunderstanding and the Contest for Meaning: Representations of the Disrupted Royal Assembly at Frankfurt (873)’, in S. MacLean and B. Weiler (eds.), Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, c.800-1500 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2006), pp. 97-120
- ‘Introduction’ (with B. Weiler), in S. MacLean and B. Weiler (eds.), Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, c.800-1500 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2006), pp. 1-14
- ‘Queenship, Nunneries and Royal Widowhood in Carolingian Europe’, Past and Present 178 (2003), pp. 3-38
- ‘The Carolingian Response to the Revolt of Boso, 879-87’, Early Medieval Europe 10 (2001), pp. 21-48
- ‘Charles the Fat and the Viking Great Army: the Military Explanation for the End of the Carolingian Empire’, War Studies Journal 3 (1998), pp. 74-95
Administrative Duties
- Director of Postgraduate Studies
- Mediaeval Studies Seminar Co-ordinator
- Director, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Research Students
I am willing to supervise postgraduate students on any topic relating to continental European history between the eight and eleventh centuries.
Current students
- Robert Houghton, The Role of the People in Mantua and Parma, c.900-1200 (with Frances Andrews)
- Roberta Cimino, Queenship in Tenth-Century Italy
- Edward Roberts, Flodoard of Rheims and his Annals
Former students
- Christian Harding, The Community of St Philibert and Carolingian Politics
- Steven Robbie, Politics and Identity in Post-Carolingian Europe: the Duchies of Swabia and Burgundy
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching of First and Second Level Mediaeval History and offers the following Honours courses:
- The Vikings: Invasion, Settlement and Conversion, c.750-1050
- The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire, c. 750-900
- 'A Century of Iron': rulers, warriors and scholars in Tenth Century England and Germany
- Queens and Queenship in Early Mediaeval Europe
Other Publications
