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Dr Jonathan Jarrett

Research Assistant (Documentation), Department of Coins and Medals

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Responsibilities

Jonathan is responsible for the continuing documentation of the Department's extensive collection and its eventual upload to the online catalogue. This involves identifying and accessioning items where necessary, cataloguing them to the required standard and trouble-shooting the upload process.
Since October 2008 Jonathan has also been a College Research Associate at Clare College, and since 2009 an Assistant Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. His outside research interests focus on power in the Middle Ages, the use of charter evidence by historians and the frontier between Christianity and Islam in early medieval Spain, especially in the area that has become modern Catalonia. He completed a doctoral thesis on this subject, with the title "Pathways of Power in late-Carolingian Catalonia", at the University of London in September 2005, and a book based on this work is due to be published through the Royal Historical Society in Spring 2010. He has taught medieval history in Birkbeck College and Kings College London and is currently lecturing and leading seminars in the course 'Medieval Europe 751-1215: Authority, Religion and Culture' at QMUL.

Appointments and academic history

2009- Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London

2008- College Research Associate, Clare College, Cambridge

2007 Assistant Lecturer, Department of History, King's College London

2006- Research Assistant (Documentation), Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum

2005-2006 Research Assistant, Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, working on the EMC & SCBI database projects

2005- Research Assistant, Birkbeck College, University of London, to Professor Matthew Innes for the Lay Archives Group

2004-2005 Research Assistant, University College London, to Professor Wendy Davies

2003-2004 Assistant Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London

2000-2005 Birkbeck College, University of London, Ph. D. in History: Pathways of Power in late-Carolingian Catalonia

1998-1999 Pembroke College, Cambridge, M. Phil. in Medieval History incl. thesis: The Political Relations of the Kingdoms of Northern Britain in the Early Medieval Period

1994-1997 Pembroke College, Cambridge, B. A. (Hons) in History (M. A. as of 2000)

Publications

"Power over Past and Future: Abbess Emma and the nunnery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses" in Early Medieval Europe Vol. 12.3 (Oxford: Blackwells 2003), pp. 229-258

"The Political Range of Áedán mac Gabráin King of Dál Riata" in The Pictish Arts Society Journal Vol. 17 (Brechin: Pictish Arts Society 2008), pp. 3-24

"Digitizing Numismatics: getting the Fitzwilliam Museum's coins to the world-wide web" in The Heroic Age Vol. 12 (online at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/12/foruma.php, last modified 12 June 2009 as of 18 June 2009)

Coins in Collections: care and use. A guide to best practice produced by the COINS Project (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum 2009), with assistance from Mark Blackburn, Klaus Vondrovec, Achille Felicetti & Jo Dillon.

"Centurions, Alcalas and Christiani perversi: organisation of society in the pre-Catalan 'terra de ningú'" in †A. Deyermond & M. Ryan (edd.), Early Medieval Spain: a symposium, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar 63 (London: Queen Mary University of London forthcoming)

"Currency change in pre-millennial Catalonia: coinage, counts and economics" in Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 169 (London: Royal Numismatic Society forthcoming)

Rulers and Ruled on the Catalan Frontier, 880-1010: pathways of power, Studies in History (London: Royal Historical Society forthcoming)

"Arabic-named communities in ninth- and tenth-century Asturias and León, at court and at home" in Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Vol. 2 (London: Taylor-Francis forthcoming)

"Coinage, Digitization and the World-Wide Web: numismatics and the COINS Project" in Brent H. Nelson & Melissa Terras (edd.), Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Tempe: University of Arizona Press forthcoming)

"Settling the Kings' Lands: aprisio in Catalonia in perspective" in Early Medieval Europe (Oxford: Blackwells forthcoming)

Conference and Seminar Presentations

14 July 2009, "How to Take Over an Archive: Sant Pere de Casserres and its Old and New Monks", International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (in session 'Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, I: Pushing the Boundaries')

11 November 2008, "Legends in their own Lifetime? The late Carolingians and Catalonia", Haskins Society Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC (in session 'The Legend of Charlemagne and the Negotiation of Power')

27 August 2008, "The view from a coin room: the COINS project and numismatic study", EVA Vienna Conference 2008 "Digital Cultural Heritage: Essential for Tourism", Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (in session 'Coin Recognition Workshop')

7 July 2008, "Documents that Shouldn't Survive: Preservation from before the Archive in Catalonia and Elsewhere", International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (in submitted session 'Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, II: Was It Filed or Was It Lost?)'

9 July 2007, "Uncertain Origins: comparing the earliest documentary culture in Carolingian Catalonia", International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (in submitted session 'Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Diplomatic, I: Formulas and Realities – Did Charters Reflect Real Life?')

7 February 2007, "Neo-Goths, Mozarabs and Kings: chronicles versus charters in tenth-century León", Institute of Historical Research Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, London

7 September 2006, "An ivory tower over the palace? Gothic self-image in tenth-century León", Fifth Conference of Historians of Medieval Iberia, St Andrews

11 July 2006, "Fixing documents in Carolingian-period Catalonia", International Medieval Congress, Leeds (in submitted session: "Clods, altars, records and donors: reading narratives and emotions in early medieval charters")

15 September 2005, "Aprisio in Catalonia in perspective", Fourth Conference of Historians of Medieval Iberia, Exeter

21 July 2005, "Sales, swindles and sanctions: Bishop Sal·la of Urgell and the counts of Catalonia", International Medieval Congress, Leeds (in session: "Telling Laymen What to Do")

15 September 2003, "The Continuation of Carolingian Expansion: splitting hairs in medieval Catalonia", Second Conference of Historians of Medieval Spain and Portugal, Liverpool

13 September 2003, "Archbishop Ató of Vic: ecclesiastical separatism in Carolingian Catalonia", EMERGE Conference 2003, St Andrews