Ed Roberts

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Early medieval historian at the University of Kent | Reviews editor, Early Medieval Europe | Convenor @earliermiddleages.bsky.social kent.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/roberts.html

Rob Gallagher poses with a copy of his exciting new book The Written Word in Early Medieval England.

Reconstruction of a wooden church from the Carolingian period

A view of the city of Tübingen, Germany

A parchment codex resting on a table (Lambeth Palace Library MS 351, c.1100)

A parchment charter issued in 947 by King Otto I of East Francia in favour of the abbey of St Gall.

Portrait of Bede in an 11th-century manuscript

Portraits of five canonical authorities in an 11th-century manuscript

Illustration of the council of Ephesus in 431 in an 11th-century manuscript

Screenshot from the now defunct DigiZeitschriften website

Copy of Living in a Carolingian World, edited by Valerie Garver

Screenshot from the DigiZeitschriften website announcing its closure on 31 December 2025

The five-storey pagoda at Daigo-ji, Kyoto

A teacher and a group of enthusiastic students looking at some original early medieval legal records.

A dog chilling out.