Francesca Tinti

Ikerbasque Research Professor, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Medieval, Modern and American History, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

Research line:

Early medieval church organization and pastoral care; transmission and preservation of early medieval records; languages and identities; early medieval Rome.

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Co-ordinating Editor of Early Medieval Europe; Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2021); Best First Book Prize for Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100 (Ashgate, 2010) awarded by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (2011); Best Research Aid Prize for The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins (Rome, 2016; co-authored with R. Naismith) awarded by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (2017); Best Article Prize for 'The Origins of Peter's Pence', EHR 134 (2019; co-authored with R. Naismith), awarded by the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (2021).

Previous research experience in the United Kingdom and Italy.

PhD in Medieval Church History awarded by the University of Padua (Italy) in 2000.

2024

Book / Odda of Deerhurst, Worcester and Lay Participation in the Written Culture of Pre-Conquest England

Deerhurst Lecture 2022

Francesca Tinti

Book / Nuevas perspectivas sobre los cartularios eclesiásticos medievales, ed. by Leticia Agúndez San Miguel and Francesca Tinti

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval

Leticia Agúndez and Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Coming to Rome in the Early Middle Ages

A Companion to Early Medieval Rome (c. 400-c. 1050), ed. by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner (Leiden: Brill, in press)

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / La production de cartulaires dans les cathédrales monastique anglo-normandes de Worcester et Cantorbéry

Ecrire à l’ombre des cathédrales, ed. by Gregory Combalbert and Chantal Senséby (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024)

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Rome and Early Medieval Britain

New Cambridge History of Britain, volume 1: c.410-c.1100, ed. Fiona Edmonds and Rory Naismith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press)

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Worcester’s Documentary Culture in the Time of Wulfstan

Wulfstan II: An Archbishop and His World, ed. by Catherine Cubitt and Andrew Rabin (Boydell and Brewer, forthcoming)

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of Benjamin Savill, England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 (Oxford, 2023)

Early Medieval Europe

Francesca Tinti

2023

Chapter / From Written Sources to Digital Tools: the PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in Context

Records and Processes of Dispute Settlements in Early Medieval Societies: Iberia and Beyond, ed. by Isabel Alfonso, José M. Andrade and André Evangelista Marques (Leiden: Brill. 2023)

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of Levi Roach, Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton, 2021)

Journal of British Studies

Francesca Tinti

2022

Book / Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c. 1050-c.1150 (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press/Boydell, 2022)

Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman (eds)

Chapter / Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c. 1050-c.1150

in Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c.1050-c.1150, ed. by Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press/Boydell, 2022)

Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman

Chapter / Constructing Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming's Cartulary

in Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c.1050-c.1150, ed. by Francesca Tinti and D. A. Woodman (Woodbridge: York Medieval Press/Boydell, 2022)

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of Cristina Corsi, The Route of the Franks: The Journey of Archbishop Sigeric at the Twilight of the First Millennium AD (Oxford, 2022)

Archeologia Medievale

Francesca Tinti

2021

Book / The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars and the Written Word (Leiden: Brill)

ed. by Robert Gallagher, Edward Roberts and Francesca Tinti

Book / Europe and the Anglo-Saxons (Cambridge: CUP)

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Latin and Germanic Vernaculars in Early Medieval Documentary Cultures: Towards a Multidisciplinary Comparative Approach

The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars and the Written Word, ed. by Robert Gallagher, Edward Roberts and Francesca Tinti (Leiden: Brill, 2021)

F. Tinti

Chapter / Signalling Language Choice in Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Charters, c.700-c.900

The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars and the Written Word, ed. by Robert Gallagher, Edward Roberts and Francesca Tinti (Leiden: Brill, 2021)

Edward Roberts and Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Anglo-Saxon Travellers and their Books, in Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. Claire Breay and Joanna Story (Dublin: Four Courts Press)

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections, ed. Claire Breay and Joanna Story

Francesca Tinti

2020

Book / Neighbours and strangers: Local societies in early medieval Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

Bernhard Zeller, Charles West, Francesca Tinti, Marco Stoffella, Nicolas Schroeder, Carine van Rhijn, Steffen Patzold, Thomas Kohl, Wendy Davies and Miriam Czock

Chapter / The English Presence in Rome in the Late Anglo-Saxon Period: Change or Continuity?

Cities, Saints, and Communities in Early Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Alan Thacker, ed. by Scott DeGregorio and Paul Kershaw (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020),

F. Tinti

2019

Chapter / El papel de la memoria en la producción de los cartularios de Worcester

From Charter to Codex: Studies on Cartularies and Archival Memory in the Middle Ages, ed. by Rodrigo Furtado and Marcello Moscone (Basel: Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales, 2019), ed. Rodrigo Furtado and Marcello Moscone

F. Tinti

Article / The Pallium Privilege of Pope Nicholas II for Archbishop Ealdred of York

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

F. Tinti

Article / The origins of Peter's pence

English Historical Review

Naismith, R.; Tinti, F.

Review / Review of Irina Dumitrescu, The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge, 2018)

Peritia

Francesca Tinti

2018

Chapter / Writing Latin and Old English in Tenth-Century England: Patterns, Formulae and Language Choice in the Leases of Oswald of Worcester

Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Rory Naismith and David Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

F. Tinti

2017

Book / Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100

Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100

Tinti, F.

Article / Latin, Old English and documentary practice at Worcester from Wærferth to Oswald

Anglo-Saxon England

Gallagher, R.; Tinti, F.

Review / Review of Rome and Religion in the Medieval World: Studies in Honor of Thomas F.X. Noble, ed. by Valerie L. Garver and Owen M. Phelan (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014)

Early Medieval Europe

Francesca Tinti

2016

Book / The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato)

R. Naismith and F. Tinti

Chapter / Looking for local priests in Anglo-Saxon England

Men in the Middle: Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe, edited by S. Patzold and C. van Rhijn (Berlin and Boston, 2016)

F. Tinti

Chapter / The preservation, transmission and use of papal letters in Anglo-Saxon England

Storehouses of Wholesome Learning IV: The Fruits of Learning, edited by R. Bremmer and K. Dekker, Mediaevalia Groningana New Series (Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA: Peeters, 2016)

F. Tinti

Review / Review of S. E. Kelly (ed.), Charters of Chertsey Abbey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

English Historical Review

F. Tinti

Review / Review of Ben Snook, The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar (Woodbridge, 2015)

The Heroic Age

F. Tinti

2015

Chapter / Fuentes escritas: transcripción, digitalización, historia social de la escritura

Nuevos temas, nuevas perspectivas en historia medieval. XXV Semana de Estudios Medievales, Nájera, del 28 de julio al 1 de agosto de 2014, edited by E. López Ojeda (Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2015)

F. Tinti

Article / The Fineness of Papal Antiquirores

The Numismatic Chronicle

R. Naismith, P. Northover and F. Tinti

Article / Benedictine reform and pastoral care in late Anglo-Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe

Tinti, F.

2014

Book / England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Pilgrimage, Art and Politics (Turnhout: Brepols)

ed. Francesca Tinti

Chapter / Introduction: Anglo-Saxon England and Rome

England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Pilgrimage, Art and Politics, edited by F. Tinti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014)

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / The archiepiscopal pallium in late Anglo-Saxon England

England and Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Pilgrimage, Art and Politics, edited by F. Tinti (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014)

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of S. E. Kelly (ed.), Charters of Glastonbury Abbey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

English Historical Review

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church: From Bede to Stigand, ed. by Alexander R. Rumble, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 12 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2012)

Early Medieval Europe

Francesca Tinti

2013

Chapter / Books and learning in the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England database

Limits to Learning. The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, edited by C. Giliberto and L. Teresi (Leuven, 2013), pp. 271-79

Francesca Tinti

2012

Article / The reuse of charters at Worcester between the eighth and the eleventh century: a case-study

Midland History

F. Tinti

Article / Personal names in the composition and transmission of Bede's prose Vita S. Cuthberti

Anglo-Saxon England

Tinti, F.

Review / Review of Intersections. The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400-1200. Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle, ed. by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010)

Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of The Homiletic Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan, by Joyce Tally Lionarons (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010)

Church History

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World, 690-900 by James T. Palmer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009)

English Studies

Francesca Tinti

2011

Review / Review of Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care. Essays in Honour of Bella Millett, ed. C. Gunn and C. Innes-Parker

English Studies

Francesca Tinti

2010

Book / Sustaining Belief. The Church of Worcester from c. 870 to c. 1100

Francesca Tinti

Chapter / England and the papacy in the tenth century

England and the Continent in the Tenth Century. Studies in Honour of Wilhelm Levison (1876-1947), edited by D. Rollason, C. Leyser and H. Williams (Turnhout, 2010)

Francesca Tinti

Review / Review of M. Cheney, D. Smith, C. Brooke and P. M. Hoskin (eds), English Episcopal Acta 33, Worcester 1062-1185 (Oxford University Press, 2007)

The English Historical Review

F. Tinti

Review / Review of S. E . Kelly (ed.), Charters of Peterborough Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters 14 (Oxford University Press, 2009)

The English Historical Review

F. Tinti

2009

Chapter / 'Si litterali memorie commendaretur': memory and cartularies in eleventh-century Worcester

Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, edited by S. Baxter, C. Karkov, J.L. Nelson and D. Pelteret (Farnham, 2009), pp. 475-97

Francesca Tinti

Article / Le strutture della ricerca in Gran Bretagna

Reti Medievali

Francesca Tinti

Review / Joint review of J. Crick (ed.), Charters of St Albans, Anglo-Saxon Charters XII (Oxford University Press, 2007) and S. E. Kelly (ed.), Charters of Bath and Wells, Anglo-Saxon Charters XIII (Oxford University Press, 2007)

The English Historical Review

Francesca Tinti

2021

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford (Trinity Term)

Prize for Best Article awarded by the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England to R. Naismith and F. Tinti, ‘The Origins of Peter’s Pence’, The English Historical Review (2019), pp. 521-52

2017

Prize for the Best Research Aid awarded to The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins (2016) by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

2011

Prize for the Best First Book awarded to Sustaining Belief (2010) by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

2024

Invited talk | Preservation, Renewal and Change in the Medieval Archive: Copying and Reframing Charters in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066

Dies medievales 2024 - Invited talk

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Oral presentation | The Documentary Production of Local Assemblies in Pre-Conquest England

Seminarios de primavera, CONNECT project - Oral presentation

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Oral presentation | Language Choice and Letter Writing in Early Medieval England

International Medieval Congress - Oral presentation

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2023

Invited talk | Wulfstan and Documentary Culture at Worcester: Putting Writing in Context

International Conference on ‘Archbishop Wulfstan and his Anglo-Saxon World - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Long-distance Travel from Early Medieval England: Foreign Environments, Novel Identities and Linguistic Challenges

21st Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Social Status, Lay Literacy and Multilingualism in Pre-Conquest England

Conference on ‘Status, Rank or Office? Social Boundaries in England, c. 900 – 1200 - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

2022

Invited talk | The Anglo-Saxons and Rome in the Seventh Century

International Conference ‘Still Caput Mundi? The Role of Rome between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the Western Mediterranean’, Universität Hamburg - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Setting One’s Affairs in Order before Travelling to Rome in the 8th-10th Centuries

Workshop on Materiality and Mobility: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe, Universität Tübingen - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Il code-switching nei documenti anglosassoni e franco-orientali: nuovi risultati da un approccio comparativo

Workshop Carte d’archivio altomedievali e centri di documentazione. Ricerche storico-linguistiche e riflessioni teorico-metodologiche, Naples – Santa Maria Capua Vetere - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Travelling to Rome in the Early Middle Ages

Workshop ‘In Search of the Holy: Early Medieval Travellers and Rome’, University of Padua - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Worcester, Odda of Deerhurst and Lay Participation in the Written Culture of Pre-Conquest England’

The Deerhurst Lecture 2022 - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | Anglo-Saxon Perceptions and Representations of Europe

International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

2021

Invited talk | El papel de la lengua en la documentación altomedieval: de la Inglaterra anglosajona a las regiones orientales del Imperio carolingio

Seminarios Escritura y Poder en la Edad Media, Universidad de Valladolid (held online) - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Languages and Boundaries in Early Medieval Charters: A Comparative Approach to the Evidence from England and the Middle Rhine Valley

Workshop on Bounding and Claiming Land in the Early Middle Ages, organized by the FEDE Project (originally planned at University of Oviedo, but held online) - Invited talk

Juan José Larrea y Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | From Perambulations to Pilgrimage: Mobility in Late Anglo-Saxon Local Societies

Cycle of seminars on Small Worlds: Archaeology and History, University of Tübingen (held online) - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Languages and Identities in Early Medieval England

Visiting Fellows’ Colloquium, All Souls College, University of Oxford - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Coming to Rome in the Early Middle Ages

International Conference ‘Reassessing Rome after Empire: an Urban History Approach’, British School at Rome - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Nameless People in the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Master in Digital Humanities, Universität Bonn (talk given online) - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

2020

Invited talk | L’edizione digitale del Becerro Galicano di San Millán de la Cogolla come esempio di Digital Manuscript Studies

Master II livello in Digital Humanities, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (held online) - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

2019

Invited talk | ‘The Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla and the first digital edition of a Spanish medieval cartulary’, International workshop on medieval European cartularies, École francaise de Rome, 18 November 2019

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | ‘Peter’s Pence: Another Case of English Exceptionalism?’

International Medieval Congress - Oral presentation

F. Tinti

2018

Invited talk | From Canterbury to Rome and Back: The Conferment of the Archiepiscopal Pallium in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Revisiting the “Europe of Bishops”: Episcopal Politics and Culture in Comparison, c.900-c.1100 - Invited talk

F. Tinti

Invited talk | Anglo-Saxon Travellers and their Books

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms - Invited talk

F. Tinti

2017

Invited talk | Writing in Latin and Old English in Anglo-Saxon England: The Charters Evidence

Intertwining Cultures: Latin, Old English, and Old Norse in Medieval England - Invited talk

F. Tinti

Invited talk | Bishops, Land and Monastic Identity: Narrative in the Closing Folios of Hemming’s Cartulary

Rethinking Reform 900-1150: The Narratives of Reform - Invited talk

F. Tinti

Oral presentation | From Parchment to Stone: Context, Motives and Perceptions of Code-Switching at Worcester and York

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists - Oral presentation

F. Tinti

2015

Conference organization | The Languages of Anglo-Saxon Diplomatics

International Medieval Congress - Conference organization

Francesca Tinti, Robert Gallagher and Kathryn A. Lowe

Invited talk | Fuentes documentales, cartularios y nuevas tecnologías: el ejemplo de la edición digital del Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla

Humanidades 2.0 - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | ‘From written sources to digital tools: using the PRJ database

International conference on ‘Procesos judiciales en las sociedades altomedievales. Un estudio comparativo en la Europa Occidental (siglos X-XI) - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The role of memory in the production of three different cartularies in eleventh-century Worcester

'Cartularies in Medieval Europe: Texts and Contexts’, Lisbon, 11-12 June 2015 - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The Interplay between Latin and Old English in the Worcester Episcopal Leases

International Medieval Congress - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | Language choice and diplomatic patterns in the leases of Bishop Oswald of Worcester

Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters 20th Annual Symposium - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The role of Old English in the Anglo-Saxon charters from Canterbury and Worcester

27th conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti and Katherine Wiles

2014

Invited talk | Fuentes escritas: transcripción, digitalización, historia social de la escritura

XXV Semana de Estudios Medievales - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Anglo-Saxon Offerings and Payments to the Papacy

International Conference on ‘Le role economique de l’Église en Italie de l’invasion lombard aux assaults musulmans’ - Invited talk

Rory Naismith and Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | ‘Who read charters in Anglo-Saxon England?

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8-10 May 2014 - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | Monks and secular clerics in the aftermath of the 10th–century Benedictine Reform

International Medieval Congress,¡ - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The Becerro Galicano Digital and the emergence of written Castilian

2nd Annual EDiT Colloquium - Oral presentation

David Peterson and Francesca Tinti

2013

Invited talk | The exploitation of landed property and Benedictine Reform attitudes in 10th- and 11th-century Worcester

International Workshop on ‘The Early Medieval Church: Sacred Space and Material Wealth in the Early Middle Ages’ - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Invited talk | Local Officers in Anglo-Saxon England

International workshop on ‘Labelling and Local Office’ - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The context of production of the earliest English cartularies in eleventh-century Worcester

Recovering the Cartulary: The Digital Edition of the Becerro Galicano of San Millán de la Cogolla - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | The English in Rome in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

Oral presentation | A little-known letter of Pope Nicholas II for Archbishop Ealdred: Problems and Significance

International Medieval Congress - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

2012

Conference organization | Session: Producing, Keeping, and Reusing Documents: Charters and Cartularies from Northern Iberia, 9th-12th Century

International Medieval Congress - Conference organization

Wendy Davies, Leticia Agundez, David Peterson

Invited talk | Local Priests in Anglo-Saxon England

Local Priests and Social Cohesion - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

2011

Invited talk | Benedictine Reform and Pastoral Care: What Relation?

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS) Easter Conference - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti

2010

Oral presentation | Archiepiscopal Journeys to Rome to Collect the Pallium

International Medieval Congress - Oral presentation

Francesca Tinti

2009

Invited talk | Three versions of a charter in four centuries and the use of the past at Worcester

Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium - Invited talk

Francesca Tinti