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Higher Education
1974 Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
1973 M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, Yale University
1970 A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama.
Positions
Professor of History, UCLA 1993-present
Professor of History and Robert M. Conway Director, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1998-2000.
Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, July, 1993 to1998
Director, UCLA Humanities Consortium, October, 1996 to 1998.
Professor of History, University of Florida, 1986 to 1993.
Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1980 to 1986.
Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1974‑1980
Visiting Professor, Central European University, 2003.
Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 2002.
Directeur d'Etudes associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales,
Paris, 1984, 1990, 2003.
Gast Professor, Universität Wien, 1983
Major Fellowships and Awards:
1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
1973‑74 Yale Prize Teaching Fellowship
1976 Austrian Government Research Grant
1977‑80 Princeton University Bicentennial Preceptorship
1981 American Philosophical Society Research Grant
1981 German Academic Exchange Service Research Grant
1984‑86 L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation Grant
1986‑87 Dept. of History Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
1987‑88 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
1990 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
1990-91 Member, Institute for Advanced Study
1990-91 Guggenheim Fellow
1994-94 NEH Public Programs. Creating Ethnicity: The Use and Abuses of History
1998-2000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant
2001 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship—Postponed
2001 National Humanities Center Senior Fellowship--Postponed
Beirat, Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen 2000-
Princeton University Department of History Advisory Committee 1994-1997.
Penn State University Medieval Studies Advisory Committee 1993-
American Historical Association (Program Committee 1989-90, Nominating Committee 1990-91)
Medieval Academy of America (Councillor, 1988‑91)
Western Society for French History (Governing Council 1981-82)
German Studies Association
Member, Consulting Board of editors, University of Michigan Press Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization
Editor, Latin Authors of the Middle Ages Variorum.
Medieval Section Editor, Recently Published Articles
Associate Editor, Exemplaria.
Contributor, American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature: Northern Europe to 900.
PUBLICATIONS
Books and monographs
Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1978. Revised edition 1991. French translation Le Vol des Reliques. Aubier, 1993. Italian translation Coltura e Pensiero 2000.
Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Age.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1985.
Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. French translation, Le monde Mérovingien Flammarion, 1989. German Translation, Die Merowinger, C. H. Beck, 1996 Korean Translation Vistabooks, 1999.
Civilization in the West, with Mark Kishlansky and Patricia O'Brien. New York,
HarperCollins, 1990. Second revised edition 1995. Third revised edition 1997.
The Unfinished Legacy: A Brief History of Western Civilization, with Mark
Kishlansky and Patricia O'Brien. New York, HarperCollins, 1992.
Societies and Cultures in World History, with Mark Kishlansky, Patricia O'Brien,
and Bin Wong. New York, HarperCollins, 1994.
Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994.
Japanese translation Hakusuisha Publishing Co., Ltd, 1999. Published electronically by ACLS History E-Book Project, 2002.
Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millennium,
Princeton University Press, 1994. French translation Aubier 1996.
Medieval Germany in America. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture 1995 (German Historical Institute, 1996).
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. German Translation: Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom Werden der Nationen. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2002.
Editions, Translations
Céline: Remembering Louisiana 1850‑1871, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1988.
French Translation, Ma Louisiane au temps de la Guerre de Sécession, Perrin, Paris, 1990.
Readings in Medieval History, Broadview Press, 1989. Second revised edition 1997.
Translation of Heinrich Fichtenau, Lebensordnungen des 10. Jahrhunderts: Studien
über denkart und Existenz im einstigen Karolingerreich (Stuttgart: 1984). Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991.
with Gerd Althoff and Johannes Fried, Medieval Concepts of the Past: Ritual, Memory, Historiography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Television
Co-author with Gene Rosow, six one-hour television programs for R & B Pictures (Santa Monica) and Raphael Films, (Paris, France) Chevalier:
El Cid: Soldier of Fortune
William of Aquitaine and Ulrich von Lichtenstein: In the Service of the Ladies
Richard the Lionheart: the King who would be Knight
William Marshal: The Perfect Knight
Bertrand du Guesclin and the Black Prince: Mercenaries in the Hundred Years
War
Federigo de Montefeltro: The Last Knight
Refereed Publications
(* indicates that a revised version was rerinted in Living with the Dead)
*"Saint Helen of Athyra and the Cathedral of Troyes in the Thirteenth Century,"
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7 (1977) pp. 149‑168.
"Songs of Roland in Twelfth Century Germany," Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum
und Deutsche Literatur, 105 (1976), pp. 112‑115.
"Un fragment recemment découvert du Chronicon Moissiacense," Bibliothèque de
l'Ecole des chartes, 136 (1978), pp. 69‑73.
"Der Clm 3851 und Ellwangen im zehnten Jahrhundert," Deutsches Archiv, 33 (1977)
pp. 167‑170.
*"The Ninth Century Relic Trade‑‑A Response to Popular Piety?" Religion and the
People, ed. J. Obelkevich (Chapel Hill: 1979), pp. 8‑19.
*"La coercition des saints dans la pratique religieuse médiévale," in La Culture
populaire au moyen âge ed. Pierre Boglioni (Montreal:1979) pp. 146‑161.
*"L'humiliation des saints," Annales, E.S.C. 34 (1979), pp. 27‑42.
*"Zur Problelematik der Interpretation archäologischer Quellen für die Geistes‑ und
Religionsgeschichte," Archaeologia Austriaca, 64 (1980), pp 111‑118.
"Past Reckoning, The Medieval Origins of Nursing," The Nursing System: Issues,
Ethics and Politics, G. Donnelly et. al. (New York:1980), pp. 186‑192.
"Kievian Rus' and Medieval Myopia‑‑A Western Medievalist's Perspective," Russian
History/Histoire russe 5 (1978), pp.195‑196.
"Humiliation of Saints," in Saints and their Cults: Studies in Religious Sociology,
Folklore and History, ed. Stephen Wilson (Cambridge: 1983) pp. 123‑140
"Ethnic Identity as a Situational Construct in the Early Middle Ages,"
Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien vol. 113 (1983) pp. 15‑26. Reprinted in Folk Life in the Middle Ages, ed. Edward Peters, Medieval Perspectives 3 (1988) [1991], 1-17.
*"The Saint and the Shrine: The Pilgrim's goal in the Middle
Ages," Wallfahrt kennt keine Grenzen ed. Lenz Kriss‑Rettenbeck and Gerda Möhler (Munich: 1984), 265‑274.
"Liturgical Perspective in La Queste del Saint Graal," Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques 12 (1985), 205‑217.
*"Sacred Commodities: The Circulation of Medieval Relics," in Commodities and
Culture ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1986) 169‑191.
*"Vivre en conflit dans une France sans état: Typologie des mécanismes de règlement
des conflits (1050‑1200),"Annales, E.S.C. (1985) 1107‑1133.
*"Germanic Tradition and Royal Ideology in the Ninth Century: The Visio Karoli
Magni," Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 21 (1987), 274‑294.
*"Echanges et relations entre les vivants et les morts dans la société du Haute
Moyen Age," Droit et Cultures, 12 (1986), 3‑17.
*"I Magi e Milano," Il Millennio Ambrosiano: La città del vescovo dai carolingi al
Barbarossa, ed. Carlo Bertelli, Milan: Edizioni Electa Spa, 1988, 274‑287.
"The Renunciation of Renunciation in Monastic Life," in Austin B. Creel and Vasudha
R. Narayanan, eds. Monasticism in the Christian and Hindu Traditions: A Comparative Study (Edwin Mellen, 1990.) 191-200.
"Mémoire monastique et obli onomastique en Provence," Histoire et société: Mélanges
offerts à Georges Duby III Le moine, le clerc et le prince (Aix-en-Provence, 1993), 61-65.
"Moral Obligations and Peer Pressure: Conflict Resolution in the Medieval
Aristocracy," Georges Duby: L'écriture de l'Histoire, ed. Guy Lobrichon and Claudie Amado, Brussels: 1996, 217-222.
"Insular Religion?" Journal of British Studies, 32 (1993), 71-75.
"Literacy and Violence in Twelfth-Century Bavaria: the so-called "Murder Letter"
of Count Siboto IV," with John B. Freed, Viator 25 (1994),115-129.
*"Saints, Scholars, and Society: The Elusive Goal," in Saints: Studies in Hagiography, edited by Sandro Sticca.Binghamton, N.Y. : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies,1996, pp. 226‑257.
"Entre gestion et Gesta: Aux origines des cartulaires," in Cartulaires: Actes de
la table ronde, Ecole nationale des chartes, ed.Olivier Guyotjeannin, Laurent Morelle and Michel Parisse. Paris, 1993, 13-26.
"The evolution of production power and partentage structures in eighth-century Provence," Production pouvoir et parenté dans le monde méditerranéen, ed Claude H. Breteau and Nello Zagnoli, Paris: 1993, 129-145.
"Die Provence zur Zeit Karl Martells," Karl Martell in seiner Zeit, ed. J. Jarnut
et. al. Beihefte der Francia 37. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen, 1994, 382-392.
"Imperial Memory in Eleventh Century Provence," in Ethnogenese und Überlieferung: Angewandte Methoden der frühmittelalterforschung, ed. Karl Bruner und Brigitte Merta. Vienna: 1994, 256-263.
"Visions of Medieval Studies in North America," in The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, ed. John Van Engen. Notre Dame: 1994, 45-57.
"Frühmittelalterliche Historiographie. Zusammenfassung," in Anton Scharer and Georg Scheibelreiter, eds. Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter. Vienna, 1994, 539-542.
"Extra-Judicial Means of Conflict Resolution," in La Justicia nel Alto medioevo. Settimani di studio del Centro Italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo. Spoleto, 1995, 571-605.
"Mittelalterforschung morgen und heute: Eine amerikanische Perspektive," in Otto Gerhard Oexle, ed. Stand und Perspektiven der Mittelalterforschung am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft 2 (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen: 1996), 75-97.
"Die Bedeutung von Religion und Bekehrung im frühen Mittelalter," in Dieter Geuenich ed. Die Franken und die Alemannen bis zur "Schlacht bei Zülpich (496/97) Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1998, 438‑450.
La memoria degli archivi et la distruzione del passato alla fine del primo millennio d.C.," in Storiografia: Rivista anuale di storia 2 (1998) Massimo Mastrogregori, ed. Il potere die ricordi: Studi sulla tradizione come problema di storia (Rome, 1992):163‑192. (Italian translation of portions of Phantoms of Remembrance).
“Geschichte als Errinerung?" in Evelyn Schulz und Wolfgang Sonne eds..Kontinuität und Wandel.Geschichtsbilder in verschiedenen Fächern und Kulturen. Zuerich: vdf.Verlag an der ETH Zuerich, 1999. 115‑140.
"Mémoire," in Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Occident Médiéval, ed. Jacques Le Goff and Jean‑Claude Schmitt, (Paris, 1999): 684-698.
“Barbarians and Ethnicity,” in Late Antiquity, ed. Peter Brown, Glen Bowersock, and Andre Grabar, Cambridge MA, 1999. 106-129.
"Land, Language and Memory in Europe 700‑1100," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society vol ix (1999):169-184.
"Monastic Memory and the Mutation of the Year Thousand," in, Barbara Rosenwein and Sharon Farmer. Eds. Monks and Nuns Saints and Outcasts: Essays in honor of Lester K. Little. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY 2000, pp. 19-36..
"The Historical Material of Memory," in Giovanni Ciappelli, ed. Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 17-25.
"Auctor et Auctoritas dans les cartulaires du haut moyen age" in Auctor et Auctoritas Invention et conformisme dans l’écriture médiévale. Actes du colloque de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (14-16 juin 1999). ed. Michel Zimmerman. Mémoires et documents de l’École des Chartes 59 (Paris: 2001), 61-71.
"Vergleichende Geschichte und Sozialwissenschaftliche Theorie." In Michael Borgolte (Hg.), Das europäische Mittelalter im Spannungsbogen des Vergleichs. Zwanzig internationale Beiträge zu Praxis, Problemen und Perspektiven der historischen Komparatistik. Redation: Ralf Lusiardi, Berlin 2001.
"Gift Exchange and Social Science Modeling: the Limitations of a Construct," Valentin Groebner & Bernhard Jussen, eds.Negotiating the Gift (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) In press.
“Teutonische Rassenideologie im Amerika des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts,” in : Zur Geschichte der Gleichung 'germanisch – deutsch: Sprache und Namen, Geschichte und Institutionen ed. H. Beck, D. Geuenich, H. Steuer, in press.