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Eric J. Goldberg

Associate Professor of History

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1998.
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1991.

Contact
On Leave
egoldber@mit.edu


Biography
Eric Goldberg specializes in the history of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. His research focuses on kingship, politics, and elites in the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon worlds, and he wrote his first book on the reign of Charlemagnes grandson, Louis the German (840-876). He is currently working on a second book titled Hunting and the Birth of Europe about hunting and aristocratic culture between the reign of Constantine the Great and the First Crusade. He interests also include the history of the Church, monasticism, historical writing, the Vikings, and the Byzantine empire. Professor Goldberg has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Counsel for Learned Societies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

Courses Taught
HIST 124: The Vikings
HIST 225: The Middle Ages
HIST 301E: The Fall of Rome
HIST 301E: Three Historians of the Dark Ages
HIST 325: The World of Charlemagne
HIST 329: The Christianization of Europe
HIST 425: The First Crusade

Selected Publications
Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

Regina nitens sanctissima Hemma: Queen Emma (827-876), Bishop Witgar of Augsburg, and the Witgar-Belt,¯ in Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, 800-1500, ed. Simon MacLean and Björn Weiler (Turnhout, 2006), 57-95.

Ludwig der Deutsch und Mähren. Eine Studie zu karolingischen Grenzkriegen im Osten, in Ludwig der Deutsche und seine Zeit, ed. Wilfried Hartmann (Darmstadt, 2004), 67-94.

Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: the Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered.¯ Speculum 70 (1995), 467-501.


Research Interests
The early Middle Ages, kingship, politics, political culture, the Church, the nobility, monasticism.

Theses Advised
Clare Murphy, 01, Childhood and Court Society in Fifteenth-Century England as Revealed in Courtesy Books¯
Andrew McKinistry 03, Practical Philosophy: Classical Values in the Life and Politics of the Emperor Julian¯
Geofre Schoradt 06, The Roman Army in the Fourth Century¯
Kiana Scott, 07, Simon de Montfort and the Ideology of Crusade¯
Shane Bobrycki, 07, Athelstand, King of All Britain: Royal and Imperial Ideology in Tenth-Century England¯
James Walker Matthews, 08, Justinian and the West: Politics, Ideology, and Warfare in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean¯
James Clayton, 08, Lanfranc of Canterbury: The Politics of Reform of an Anglo-Norman Bishop¯
David Matthias, 08, Poverty and the Poor in Charlemagnes Empire¯

Program Connections at Williams
Religion


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