Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies

1. Introduction: Early Medieval Studies in Twenty-First-Century America
Celia Chazelle, Felice Lifshitz

Part I. Paradigms: Romanitas, Ethnicity, and Visual Culture

2. Material Ethnogenesis? A Crystal Conch of the “Goths”
Genevra Kornbluth

3. Ethnic and Primitive Paradigms in the Study of Early Medieval Art
Lawrence Nees

4. The Amber Trail in Early Medieval Eastern Europe
Florin Curta

5. “Romanness” in Early Medieval Culture
Celia Chazelle

Part II. Methods: Texts and Manuscripts from Carolingian Francia

6. A Cyborg Initiation? Liturgy and Gender in Carolingian East Francia
Felice Lifshitz

7. Are They Not Like Us? The Carolingian Fisc in Military Perspective
Bernard S. Bachrach

8. The Carolingian Creation of a Model of Patrilineage
Constance Brittain Bouchard

9. Political History
Jason Glenn

Part III. Periodization: From the “Fall of Rome” and Pirenne to Kabbalah

10. Drawing a Line Under Antiquity: Archaeological and Historical Categories of Evidence in the Transition from the Ancient World to the Middle Ages
Michael Kulikowski

11. Mitteleuropa: The Making of Europe Between Byzantium and the Latin West, CA. 800–1025
Charles R. Bowlus

12. Period Trouble: The Impossibility of Teaching Feminist Medieval History
Lisa M. Bitel

Avainsanat: History, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Ancient History, Medieval Literature, Classical and Antique Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History