Julia Mary Howard Smith is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at All Souls College, Oxford. She was formerly Edwards Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow. Edwards is a graduate of Newnham College, University of Cambridge (BA, 1978) and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (D.Phil., 1985).
Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
"Einhard: the sinner and the saint", Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth series), 13, 2003, pp. 55–77.
Europe after Rome: a New Cultural History 500-1000. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. ISBN 9780192892638
Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c.1100, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. ISBN 9780521817752 (Edited with T.F.X. Noble)
"Portable Christianity: relics in the Medieval west (c.700-c.1200)" in Proceedings of the British Academy, 2012, 181 . pp. 143–167. ISSN 0068-1202
