| The Carolingians and the written word R McKitterick Cambridge University Press, 1989 | 935 | 1989 |
| Charlemagne: The formation of a European identity R McKitterick Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009 | 535 | 2009 |
| History and memory in the Carolingian world R McKitterick Cambridge University Press, 2004 | 525 | 2004 |
| The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians 751-987 R McKitterick Routledge, 2018 | 453 | 2018 |
| The Frankish church and the Carolingian reforms, 789-895 R McKitterick Royal Historical Soc., 1977 | 342 | 1977 |
| The uses of literacy in early mediaeval Europe R McKitterick Cambridge University Press, 1992 | 329 | 1992 |
| Carolingian culture: emulation and innovation R McKitterick Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 251 | 1994 |
| The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, C. 1198-c. 1300 R McKitterick, D Abulafia Cambridge University Press, 1995 | 197 | 1995 |
| The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 1, C. 500-c. 700 P Fouracre, R McKitterick, D Abulafia Cambridge University Press, 1995 | 147 | 1995 |
| Perceptions of the Past in the early Middle Ages R McKitterick University of Notre Dame Press, 2006 | 130 | 2006 |
| The writing of history M Innes, R McKitterick Carolingian culture: emulation and innovation, 193-220, 1994 | 121 | 1994 |
| Constructing the past in the early Middle Ages: the case of the Royal Frankish Annals R McKitterick Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 7, 101-129, 1997 | 111 | 1997 |
| Books, scribes and learning in the Frankish kingdoms, 6th-9th centuries R McKitterick Routledge, 1994 | 79 | 1994 |
| The illusion of royal power in the Carolingian annals R McKitterick The English Historical Review 115 (460), 1-20, 2000 | 76 | 2000 |
| The Early Middle Ages: Europe 400-1000 R McKitterick (No Title), 2001 | 75* | 2001 |
| The Carolingian renaissance of culture and learning R McKitterick Charlemagne: Empire and society, 151-166, 2005 | 71 | 2005 |
| Nuns' scriptoria in England and Francia in the eighth century R McKitterick Francia 19 (1), 1-35, 1992 | 71 | 1992 |
| Political ideology in Carolingian historiography R McKitterick The uses of the past in the early Middle Ages, 162-174, 2000 | 69 | 2000 |
| Charles the Bald (823-877) and his library: the patronage of learning R McKitterick The English Historical Review 95 (374), 28-47, 1980 | 69 | 1980 |
| Edward Gibbon and empire R McKitterick, R Quinault Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 61 | 2002 |
