Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen's and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an honorary fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).

• Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to EinhardChapter 1Gregory of Tours and Spainin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515Chapter 2The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, ‘Fredegar’, and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613Previously unpublishedChapter 3Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studiesin Jörg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247Chapter 4Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidencein Matthias Becher & Jörg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91Chapter 5The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne’s imperial coronationin Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70Chapter 6The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagnein Peter Godman, Jörg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkrönung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322Chapter 7Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829in Régine LeJan (ed.), La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211Chapter 8The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorumin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211Chapter 9In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich FragmentsPreviously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.Chapter 10A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 473Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in ViennaPublications of Roger Collins

Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen's and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an honorary fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).

• Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to EinhardChapter 1Gregory of Tours and Spainin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515Chapter 2The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, ‘Fredegar’, and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613Previously unpublishedChapter 3Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studiesin Jörg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247Chapter 4Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidencein Matthias Becher & Jörg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91Chapter 5The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne’s imperial coronationin Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70Chapter 6The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagnein Peter Godman, Jörg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkrönung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322Chapter 7Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829in Régine LeJan (ed.), La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211Chapter 8The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorumin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211Chapter 9In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich FragmentsPreviously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.Chapter 10A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 473Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in ViennaPublications of Roger Collins

Roger Collins is an historian and author. He studied at the University of Oxford (The Queen's and St Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown and Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He was a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1994 to 1998. Since then, he has been an honorary fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Initially, his books concerned Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, but his studies of the Basques and of the papacy have extended to the present day. He has also written a memoir, Chased by Bulldogs. A Historian’s Tale (2025).

• Introduction: The Evolution of Early Frankish Historiography from Gregory of tours to EinhardChapter 1Gregory of Tours and Spainin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), A Companion to Gregory of Tours (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 498-515Chapter 2The Continuator of Marius of Avenches, ‘Fredegar’, and the Merovingian dynastic crisis of 613Previously unpublishedChapter 3Deception and Misrepresentation in Eighth Century Frankish Historiography: Two Case Studiesin Jörg Jarnut, Ulrich Nonn & Michael Richter (ed.), Karl Martel in zeiner Zeit (Sigmaringen: Beihefte der Francia 37, 1994), pp. 227-247Chapter 4Pippin III as Mayor of the Palace: The Evidencein Matthias Becher & Jörg Jarnut (ed.), Der Dynastiewechsel von 751: Vorgeschichte, Legitimationntrategie und Erinnerung (Munster, 2005), pp. 75-91Chapter 5The Lorsch Annals and Charlemagne’s imperial coronationin Joanna Story (ed.), Charlemagne: Empire and Society (Manchester U.P, 2005), pp. 52-70Chapter 6The Frankish Past and the Carolingian Present in the Age of Charlemagnein Peter Godman, Jörg Jarnut & Peter Johanek (ed.), Am Vorabend der Kaiserkrönung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 301-322Chapter 7Charlemagne and His Critics, 814-829in Régine LeJan (ed.), La royauté et les élites dans l’Europe carolingienne (Lille, 1998), pp. 193-211Chapter 8The Reviser Revisited: Another Look at the Alternative Version of the Annales Regni Francorumin Alexander Callendar Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History (Toronto: University Press, 1998), pp. 191-211Chapter 9In the Footsteps of Fredegar: the Based, Dillingen and Munich FragmentsPreviously unpublished, deriving from a lecture to the Early Medieval Seminar in the Institute for Historical Research, in the University of London in 2005.Chapter 10A Gift for Charles the Bald? MS Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek 473Previously unpublished, deriving from a presentation to a seminar in ViennaPublications of Roger Collins