Joanna StoryJoanna Story is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. Following a PhD in History at Durham University in 1995, she joined Leicester as a lecturer in 1996 becoming professor in 2011. She specialises principally within theperiod 600–900CE, covering the early English kingdoms, Francia, and Italy and connections between them, with emphasis on the material culture of the written word, manuscript and epigraphic evidence as well as sculpture, coinage and archaeology. Her projects and publications range widely, covering the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I, on Old St Peter's, Rome and The Impact of Diasporas in the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions (2011–2017). She worked with the British Library on their recent major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Art, Word, War and her current research centres on Insular Manuscripts AD 600–850 with most recently the launch of a 5-year project on Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne funded by an ERC Advanced Grant that is transforming understanding of scripts, scribes and scholars in post-Roman Europe through interdisciplinary investigations. Read More Read Less