About
I’m an independent researcher and early medieval historian based in Leeds. My research covers various aspects of cultural continuity and change in the late Merovingian and early Carolingian worlds, focussing particularly on the eighth century and on aspects of identity, community and otherness. I’m especially interested in hagiography and the process of conversion from paganism to Christianity.
Available to review books/articles on these or related topics. Please email me to discuss:
rickybroome@hotmail.comOther Publications
Contributions to edited volumes ‘Pagans, Rebels and Merovingians: Otherness in the early Carolingian world’, in C. Gantner, R. McKitterick and S. Meeder (eds),
The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp 155-71.
Listen to my interview about this article with Glenn McDorman for “Agnus: The Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Podcast” at
claytemplemedia.com Full volume available from the publisher’s website ‘Approaches to the Frankish Community in the Chronicle of Fredegar and Liber Historiae Francorum’, in T.J. MacMaster, B.N. Morris, A. Gnasso, and E.E. Intagliata (eds),
The Long Seventh Century: Continuity and Discontinuity in an Age of Transition (Berne: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2015), pp. 61-85.
Full volume available from the publisher’s website Book reviews Review of W. Pohl and G. Heydemann (eds.), Strategies of Identification: Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe,
The Mediaeval Journal, 5 (2015), 129-33.
Full journal issue on the publisher’s website Review of J. Hines and N. IJssennagger (eds), Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours: From the Sixth Century to the Viking Age,
sehepunkte, 18 (2018).
Available to read for free on the journal’s website Review of A. Willemsen and H. Kik (eds.), Golden Middle Ages in Europe: New Research into early medieval communities and identities,
History, 103 (2018), 638-640.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.12672 Review of R. Meens
et al (eds.), Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong,
Early Medieval Europe, 26 (2018), 557-560.
DOI: 10.1111/emed.12303 Review of R. Flierman, Saxon Identities, AD 150-900,
History, 103 (2018), 845-847.
DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.12700 Conference reports With T. Barnwell, ‘Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past, 400-1000 AD’,
Networks and Neighbours, 1 (2013), 58-63.
Interviews With T. Barnwell, ‘Interview with James Palmer’, Networks and Neighbours, 2 (2014), 188-197.
Full journal issue available for free download Forthcoming Review of Rembold, Conquest and Christianization, for
The Medieaval Journal.
I am currently editing the following volumes to be published with
Kısmet Press:
Projects
Current research I am writing a short monograph about the conquest and conversion of Frisia and its integration into the Carolingian empire in the eighth and early ninth centuries.
Past research As a PhD student I was part of the HERA-funded ‘Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past’, a joint research project between the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Utrecht, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Project website
