Personal Statement
I am an early medieval and digital historian, currently working on the AHRC-DFG funded project Monastic Economies in the Carolingian Age – Farfa and Fulda. I completed my PhD here at the University of Liverpool, examining advice to kings and queens in Carolingian Europe (c. 751-888). I then took a brief – if frequently delayed – trip across the Pennines to the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub at the University of Leeds, before returning to Liverpool.

Research Overview
My research, in general, studies early medieval western European political, intellectual and gender history. I use digital methods to answer these historical questions, with an emphasis on textual methods. I am also interested in the implications of digital methods on the study of history, and how digital methods might be made more accessible and approachable.

My role on the Monastic Economies project focuses on the creation of digital textual editions of the archival documents of the monastery of Farfa, in Lazio, Italy. It also involves comparative analysis of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany, and their use of leases to manage their relationships with their land. The digital edition will use the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards. Within this project, I am also interested in the interactions between monastic intellectual culture and the economic and social lives of monastic communities.

Outside my current position, I am working on a monograph *Advising the Carolingians*, based on my doctoral research project. This monograph uses digital methods to analyse advice written for Carolingian kings and queens, tracking key concepts, such as justice, over time. I argue that Carolingian advisers debated the purpose of power through producing advice texts for rulers. They advanced a moral framework for the exercise of legitimate authority, to which they then held kings and queens.