Rate My Professor Matthew Innes

Innes's research focuses on the history of western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the eleventh century, specializing in economic, social, and cultural history. Key publications include State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), which received the Gladstone Book Prize from the Royal Historical Society; Introduction to Early Medieval Western Europe, 300-900: The Sword, the Plough and the Book (Routledge, 2007); and The Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2011, co-authored with Marios Costambeys and Simon MacLean). He has co-edited The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2004, with Yitzhak Hen) and Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Warren C. Brown, Marios Costambeys, and Adam J. Kosto). Innes was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research in 2004. He has participated in public lectures, appearing on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on the Carolingian Renaissance (2006) and the Battle of Tours (2014).