Katharine Keats-Rohan
is a medievalist who has published widely over the past twenty years.
Her earliest work was in intellectual history. The work of the
twelfth-century bishop and thinker, John of Salisbury, is the primary
focus of her own research, she has also worked on Peter Abelard with
Professor David Luscombe at Sheffield University. She has also
undertaken a major inquiry into the Continental Origins of English
Landholders 1066-1166, seeking the origins of the men who conquered
England in 1066 or settled here thereafter.
This work built upon her research interests in north-west France, which
include studies of Brittany and Maine and the community of the abbey of
Mont-Saint-Michel. Interests closer to home include the medieval
borough of
Wallingford,
where she is an active member (on both wings!) of The Wallingford
Historical and Archaeological Society (TWHAS). She is closely
associated with
prosopography as a historical method, directing
the Unit for Prosopographical Research at
Linacre College, Oxford, since 1993. An online tutorial
for those embarking on prosopography was written for the History
Faculty at Oxford and is available at
http://prosopography.modhist.ox.ac.uk
Together with Christian Settipani, of the CNRS group
L’Année Epigraphique, she established
Prosopographica et Genealogica as an imprint of the Unit. Also a
founding member in 2003 of a joint Oxford-Trier group, Netwerk
Interferenzonomastik (NIO) (
Network
for Research on Interference and Interculturalization in Onomastics),
based at the University of Trier. She became a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society in 2002. Currently she is working with Dr Caroline
Bowden and others on the '
Who were
the Nuns?' project at Queen Mary,
University of London.