Joanna Elizabeth Story is a British historian whose speciality is the history of and relationship between Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia.

Biography

Story completed her doctorate at Durham University in 1995 with a thesis titled "Charlemagne and Northumbria: The influence of Francia on Northumbrian politics in the later eighth and early ninth centuries". A Professor of Early Medieval History at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_lab ...

, she has published a number of academic articles, and is the editor of a collection on

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first ...

. Her monograph ''Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870'' was praised as "revealing, relevant, and a valuable contribution to medieval history and an extremely useful addition to the corpus of texts on this period in European history". Story worked closely with colleagues at the British Library on their major international exhibition and associated exhibition catalogue
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Art, Word, War
' which ran from October 2018 to February 2019.

Bibliography

Monograph

*''Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750–870'' (Ashgate, 2003) *''Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War'' (Exhibition catalogue with Claire Breay (British Library Publishing 2018)

Edited collections

*''Charlemagne: Empire and Society'' (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2005). . *''Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent'' (with Hans Sauer; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011). .

References

External links

Joanna Story's page
at University of Leicester {{DEFAULTSORT:Story, Joanna Living people Academics of the University of Leicester British medievalists Women medievalists Year of birth missing (living people) British women historians Alumni of Trevelyan College, Durham