Joanna Story

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

Joanna Story
Professor Story in 2019
Academic background
Alma mater	Durham University
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	Early medieval history Anglo-Saxon England Carolingian Francia
Institutions	University of Leicester

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".^[1]

A Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester, she has published a number of academic articles, and is the editor of a collection on Charlemagne. 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".^[2] 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). ISBN 978-0719070884.
• Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent (with Hans Sauer; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011). ISBN 9780866984423.