Professor I. S. Robinson

Lecky Professor of History and Senior Fellow of Trinity College.

Research Interests

Professor Robinson's research covers the fields of papal and imperial history, chronicle writing and the history of ideas in eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe.

Select Publications
Books

• Eleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles. Herman of Reichenau, Berthold of Reichenau and Bernold of St Blasien (Manchester & New York: Manchester UP, 2008), pp. viii + 373.
• The Papal Reform of the Eleventh Century. Lives of Pope Leo IX and Pope Gregory VII  (Manchester & New York: Manchester UP, 2004), pp. vi + 423.   
• Die Chroniken Bertholds von Reichenau und Bernolds von Konstanz 1054-1100, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, nova series 14 (Hanover, 2003), pp. x + 645.
• Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken (Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters. Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe Band 14: Darmstadt, 2002), pp. viii + 453.
• Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999), pp. x + 408.   
• Authority and Resistance in the Investiture Contest: The polemical literature of the late eleventh century (Manchester & New York: Manchester UP, 1978), pp. x + 195.
• The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and innovation (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990; reprinted 1993), pp. xvi + 555.  

Articles

Professor Robinson is the author of chapters on ecclesiastical history in the New Cambridge Medieval History, volume 4, parts 1 and 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) and in The Cambridge History of Political Thought, c.350-1450 (Cambridge UP, 1988). His numerous other articles on various aspects of eleventh- and twelfth-century European history have been published in volumes of collected essays and in journals including Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters, English Historical Review, History, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Traditio  and Viator.

Teaching and Supervision

Professor Robinson teaches the following undergraduate modules:

• HI 1200 Europe: 1000-1250: War, Government and Society in the Age of the Crusades (first year module: Michaelmas Term)
• HI 1201 Europe, 1000-1250: Conflict of Church and State (first year module: Hilary Term)
• HI 3425 Empire and Papacy in the Eleventh Century (List I Honors module)
• HI 3482 The Reign of Charlemagne, 768-814  (List III Honors module)

He also teaches on the M.Phil programme in Medieval History and supervises doctoral students working on a variety of topics related to his research interests.

Professor Robinson on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

Room 3144
Department of History
Trinity College
Dublin 2.

Telephone: +353 1 896 1823
Fax: +353 1 896 3995
Email: hhmmrstn@tcd.ie