Dr. Theo Riches

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests:

The ecclesiastical historiography of France and the Empire c.1000 and its depiction of relations with the laity.

Function within the cluster/Membership in projects and groups:

• Member of Project D5 “Blessed Are Those Who Practice Persecution for the Sake of Righteousness”: On the Uses of Tradition in the Era of Gregory VII
• Member of the study group Theories and Methods in comparative Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Co-organiser of the study group Media

Publications:

Articles

• ‘Gerard I of Cambrai, the Three Orders and the Problem of Human Weakness’, in John S. Ott and Anna E. Trumbore (eds), The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages (Aldershot, 2007), pp.122-136.
• ‘Episcopal Historiography as Archive: Some Reflections on the Autograph of the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium (MS Den Haag KB 75 F 15)’, Jaarboek voor middeleeuwse Geschiedenis X (2007), pp.7-46.
• ‘The Carolingian Sack of Aachen in 978 and its Historiographical Footprint’, in Paul Fouracre and David Ganz (eds), Frankland: The Franks and the world of early medieval Europe (Manchester, 2008), pp.191-208.
• ‘The Peace of God, the ‘Weakness’ of Robert the Pious and the Struggle for the German Throne’, Early Medieval Europe XVIII (2010), pp. 202-222.
• ‘The Changing Political Horizons of gesta episcoporum from the Ninth to the Eleventh Centuries’, in Ludger Körntgen and Dominik Waßenhoven (eds), Patterns of Episcopal Power: Bishops in Tenth and Eleventh Century Western Europe (Berlin, 2011), pp.51-62.

Reviews

• Review of Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (tr.), The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna by Agnellus of Ravenna (Washington D.C., 2004), Early Medieval Europe XV (August, 2007), pp.349-350.
• Review of The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government, by Thomas N. Bisson (review no. 754).
• Review of Reilly, Diane J., The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne, and the Saint-Vaast Bible. H-German, H-Net Reviews. September, 2009.
• History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: The Chronicle of Regino of Prüm and Adalbert of Magdeburg, by Simon MacLean (tr.), English Historical Review CXXV (2010), 947-949.
• Episcopus. Wissen über Bischöfe im Frankenreich des späten 8. bis frühen 10. Jahrhunderts by Steffen Patzold, Reviews in History, review no. 961

Misc.

• ‘The Peace of God’ in David Ditchburn, Simon MacLean and Angus MacKay (eds), Atlas of Medieval Europe, 2nd ed. (London, 2007), pp.81-83.

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