Prof Simon MacLean

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3313

Email

sm89@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

Mediaeval History, 71 South Street

Office hours

On Research Leave

 

Research areas

Early medieval European history, in particular the Carolingian Empire and its successor kingdoms, 8th-12th centuries; medieval queenship.

Selected publications

• Hincmar of Rheims, De ordine palatii and royal assemblies in the late Carolingian Empire

  MacLean, S., 21 Aug 2023, Versammlungen im Frühmittelalter. Patzold, S. & Depreux, P. (eds.). de Gruyter, p. 179-192 14 p. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Royal adultery, biblical history and political conflict in Tenth Century Francia: the Lothar Crystal reconsidered

  MacLean, S., 1 Oct 2022, In: Francia. 49, p. 1-25 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Who were the Lotharingians? Defining political community after the end of the Carolingian Empire

  MacLean, S., Jan 2021, Historiography and Identity IV. Writing History Across Medieval Eurasia. Mahoney, D. & Pohl, W. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 247-274 28 p. (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (CELAMA); vol. 30).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Forum: Pauline Stafford's 'Queens. Concubines and Dowagers', 30 years on

  MacLean, S., 6 Jun 2020, In: Medieval People. 35, 1, p. 13-16 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  The Edict of Pîtres, Carolingian defence against the Vikings, and the origins of the medieval castle

  MacLean, S., Dec 2020, In: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 30, p. 29-54

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Royal marriage, Frankish history and dynastic crisis in Regino of Prüm’s Chronicle

  Goldberg, E. & MacLean, S., 2019, In: Medieval Worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies. 10, p. 107-129 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  'Waltharius': treasure, revenge and kingship in the Ottonian wild west

  MacLean, S., 1 May 2018, Emotion, violence, vengeance and law in the Middle Ages. Gilbert, K. & White, S. D. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 225-251 27 p. (Medieval law and its practice; vol. 24).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Ottonian queenship

  MacLean, S., 6 Apr 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 247 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  The Carolingian past in post-Carolingian Europe

  MacLean, S., Mar 2016, The Making of Europe. Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett . Hudson, J. & Crumplin, S. (eds.). Brill, p. 11-28 18 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Cross-channel marriage and royal succession in the age of Charles the Simple and Athelstan (c. 916-936)

  MacLean, S., 1 Dec 2015, In: Medieval Worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies. 1, 2, p. 26-44 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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