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I am currently a PhD candidate at the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge and a member of Trinity College, working with Prof Rosamond McKitterick. My research focuses on the interplay between identity, scholarship, and politics in the early Middle Ages. My PhD thesis concerns the spread and reception of works of Irish learning on the Continent in the eighth and ninth centuries. This research includes the study (and edition) of the Hiberno-Latin text known as the Liber ex lege Moysi and the continental reception of the Irish attitude towards Old Testament Law; the self-image of ‘Irish foundations’ on the Continent; and the earliest spread of the Collectio canonum Hibernensis.

Currently, I am working on the interplay between the notion of a Bavarian identity and the burgeoning tradition of scholarship in eighth- and ninth-century Bavaria. I am particularly interested in the ways in which a (politically motivated) sense of identity shaped the dissemination of ideas and learning.

This research involves detailed manuscript and textual study, including a critical edition of the intriguing eighth-century collection of canon law, known as the Collectio 400 Capitulorum.

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