Arranged by Research Assessment Exercise categories, as they last were, for ready scoring. Some of the items listed below are linked to downloads as Adobe PDF documents. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free if your machine doesn't already have it.
Published and forthcoming work
Books
Coins in Collections: care and use. A Guide to Best Practice by the COINS Project (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum forthcoming), main author with assistance from Mark Blackburn, Adi Popescu and Elina Screen. Unrefereed.
Rulers and Ruled on the Catalan Frontier, 880-1010: pathways of power, Studies in History (London: Royal Historical Society forthcoming).
Articles in journals
"Power over Past and Future: Abbess Emma and the nunnery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses" in Early Medieval Europe Vol. 12 Pt 3 (Oxford: Blackwells 2004 for 2003), pp. 229-258.
Winner of the Blackwells/Early Medieval Europe Prize for Best First Published Essay 2004. An electronic copy of the text of this paper is linked here, in PDF format; the definitive version is available through Wiley InterScience's web portal.
"The Political Range of Áedán mac Gabráin King of Dál Riata" in Pictish Arts Society Journal Vol. 17 (Brechin: Pictish Arts Society 2008), pp. 3-24.
This paper was first written in 2000 and was originally scheduled to emerge in 2001; as it finally came out it is missing its graphics and its endnotes, and spells my name wrong. A correct version can be downloaded here, with its bibliography here, both files in PDF format.
"Digitizing Numismatics: getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's coins to the world-wide web" in The Heroic Age Vol. 12 (online at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/12/foruma.php, last modified 12 June 2009 as of 17 June 2009).
"Currency change in pre-millennial Catalonia: coinage, counts and economics" in Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 169 (London: Royal Numismatic Society forthcoming), pp. 00-00.
"Arabic-named communities in ninth- and tenth-century Asturias and León, in court and at home" in Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Vol. 2 (London: Taylor-Francis forthcoming), pp. 00-00.
"Aprisio in Catalonia in perspective" in Early Medieval Europe (Oxford: Blackwells forthcoming), pp. 00-00.
Conference contributions
"Centurions, Alcalas and Christiani perversi: Organisation of Society in the pre-Catalan 'Terra de Ningú'" in A. Deyermond & M. Ryan (ed.), Early Medieval Spain: a symposium, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 63 (London: Queen Mary University of London forthcoming), pp. 00-00, invited
Reviews
Stephen D. White, Feuding and Peacemaking in Eleventh-Century France, Variorum Collected Studies Series (Aldershot: Ashgate 2005) in Early Medieval Europe Vol. 15 (Oxford: Blackwells 2006), pp. 124-125.
Other output
Doctoral Thesis
Since the publication of my thesis as a monograph (detailed above) will be quite different from the submission version of my thesis, and since people have been kind enough to cite that, I have created this page where PDF copies of my thesis chapters can be downloaded.
Exhibitions
The Imagery of War, Octagon Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 9 May to 27 August 2006; imaging, poster design and prints, accompanying virtual exhibition (design, imaging and code; texts by Mark Blackburn and Martin Allen, website framework by Shaun Osborne).
"Coin of the Moment: the gold penny of King Henry III, 1257-58", virtual exhibition page online since 19 July 2007 (imaging and code, text by Martin Allen, website framework by Shaun Osborne).
"Coin of the Moment: Harry Meader's Sea Gallantry Medal", virtual exhibition page online since 28 March 2008 (research, design, text, imaging and code; website framework by Shaun Osborne).
Anglo-Saxon Art in the Round. An Exhibition of Anglo-Saxon Coins and Artefacts to Celebrate the Acquisition by The Fitzwilliam Museum of the De Wit Collection of Early Anglo-Saxon Pennies, 23rd May to 7th September 2008, some imaging, prints and some installation, also accompanying virtual exhibition online at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/anglosaxon/, last modified 21 April 2009 as of 17 June 2009 (design, some imaging and code; texts by Mark Blackburn, website framework by Shaun Osborne).
Under revision after review
Journal articles
"Fixing Documents in Carolingian Catalonia: replacement, redaction and diplomatic method", submitted to Historical Methods (Washington: Heldref). Text available.
"The Continuation of Carolingian Expansion: edge cases from medieval Catalonia". Submitted to Viator (Turnhout: Brepols).
"Archbishop Ató of Osona: false metropolitans on the Marca Hispanica". Originally submitted to Journal of Medieval History (Amsterdam: Elsevier).
Under review
Chapters in books
"Coinage, Digitization and the World-Wide Web: numismatics and the COINS Project" in Brent Nelson & Melissa Terras (edd.), Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Saskatoon forthcoming), main author, co-authors to be decided.
For further details of works in progress, for several of which I have texts available, see the Projects page.
Conference and Seminar presentations
"Legends in their own Lifetime? The late Carolingians and Catalonia", Haskins Society Conference, Georgetown University (in session 'The Legend of Charlemagne and the Negotiation of Power'), 11 November 2008.
"The view from a coin room: the COINS project and numismatic study", EVA Vienna Conference 2008 "Digital Cultural Heritage: Essential for Tourism", Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (in session 'Coin Recognition Workshop'), 27 August 2008.
"Documents that shouldn't survive: preservation from before the archive in Catalonia and elsewhere". International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (in submitted session 'Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, II: was it filed or was it lost?'), 7 July 2008.
"Centurions, Alcalas and Christiani Perversi: organisation of society in the pre-Catalan terra de ningú". Second Colloquium on the Cultures of Christian and Islamic Iberia, University of Exeter, 3 September 2007.
"Uncertain Origins: comparing the earliest documentary culture in Carolingian Catalonia". International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (in submitted session 'Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, I: Formulas and Realities – Did Charters Reflect Real Life?'), 9 July 2007.
"Currency change in pre-millennial Catalonia: coinage, counts and economics". Department of Coins & Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 4 May 2007.
"Neo-Goths, Mozarabs and Kings: chronicles versus charters in tenth-century León". Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 7 February 2007.
"An ivory tower over the palace? Gothic self-image in tenth-century León". Fifth Conference of Historians of Medieval Iberia, St Andrews, 7 September 2006.
"Fixing documents in Carolingian-period Catalonia". International Medieval Congress, Leeds (in submitted session: 'Clods, altars, records and donors: reading narratives and emotions in early medieval charters'), 11 July 2006.
"Aprisio in Catalonia in perspective", Fourth Conference of Historians of Medieval Iberia, Exeter, 15 September 2005.
"Sales, swindles and sanctions: Bishop Sal·la of Urgell and the counts of Catalonia". International Medieval Congress, Leeds (in session: 'Telling Laymen What to Do'), 21 July 2005.
"The Continuation of Carolingian Expansion: splitting hairs in medieval Catalonia". Second Conference of Historians of Medieval Spain and Portugal, Liverpool, 15 September 2003.
"Archbishop Ató of Vic: ecclesiastical separatism in Carolingian Catalonia". EMERGE Conference 2003, St Andrews, 13 September 2003.
"Power over Past and Future: Abbess Emma and the abbey of Sant Joan de les Abadesses". Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 28 May 2003.
"The Political Range of Áedán mac Gabráin, King of Dál Riata". EMERGE Conference 2000, Edinburgh, 7 September 2000.