MIT History

Faculty

Eric J. Goldberg

Associate Professor of History

Eric Goldberg received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Virginia. He specializes in the history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, and his research focuses on the politics and culture of the Frankish and Anglo-Saxon worlds. His first book, Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876 , offers the first study in English of the reign of Charlemagne's 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 during the Early Middle Ages. He interests also include the history of the Church, monasticism, historical writing, warfare, 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, and he has been the recipient of the Medieval Academy of America's Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize. He was a professor at Williams College before coming to M.I.T. in 2009.

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