Professor Alice Rio

My first monograph was about notaries’ handbooks in the early medieval Frankish kingdoms, and my second was a comparative study of what happened to slavery in post-Roman Europe. I am currently finishing my first trade book, a narrative history of the early middle ages written through the experiences of a handful of women who travelled from one region of Europe to another (or were in some ways the bearers of a minority culture within their households), using the most expansive possible definition of “Europe”, from Iceland to the Caucasus and from Andalusia to the Baltic. My next project is about households, and how cultural reproduction and suppression are achieved within them. As Chichele Professor, part of my remit (and one of the nicest parts of my job) is to be a point of contact and advice for the medieval history graduate and postdoctoral community. I am the organiser for the Medieval History Research seminar at All Souls (every Monday, 5pm during term-time). I also convene the MSt in Medieval History.