ERIC J. GOLDBERG

DEPARTMENT: History DATE: May 2009

DATE OF BIRTH: May 15, 1969

CITIZENSHIP: United States

EDUCATION

INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE

University of Virginia Ph.D. 1998

University of Virginia M.A. 1993

University of Pennsylvania B.A. 1991

TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS: Kingship, Court, and Nobility under Louis the German, 817-876

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities 2004-2005

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Junior Faculty, A.C.L.S., 2003-2004

Book Subvention Prize, Medieval Academy of America 2002

Friedrich Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1999-2000

Dissertation-Finishing Fellowship, German Historical Institute 1997-1998

Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy of America 1997

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.) Fellowship 1995-1996

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2009- Associate Professor, M.I.T.

2007-2009 Associate Professor, Williams College

Spring 2008 Visiting Associate Professor, M.I.T.

2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Williams College

1998-1999 Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College

1997-1998 Lecturer, California State Universities, Los Angeles, Long Beach, & Pomona

SEMINARS, COLLOQUIA, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

February 2009 “Hunting in the Age of Charlemagne.” Presented at the Distinguished Faculty Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

February 2008 “Hounds of the Lords: Nobility, Masculinity, and Hunting Animals in the Early Middle Ages.” Presented at the conference Theorizing the Early Middle Ages, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR

April 2007 “The King as Hunter: Hunting and Royal Forests in the Early Middle Ages.” Presented at the annual conference of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Toronto

February 2006 “Hunting and the Birth of Europe.” Presented at San Francisco State University and at the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University, New York, NY

September 2006 “Hunting and the Birth of Europe.” Presented at the Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA

May 2005 “The Carolingian Hunt.” Presented at the International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI

July 2003 “Regina nitens sanctissima Hemma: Queen Emma (c.827-876), Bishop Witgar of Augsburg, and the Witgar-Belt.” Presented at the conference Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, Gregynog, Wales

October 2002 “Ludwig der Deutsche und das mährische Reich.” Presented at the conference Ludwig der Deutsche und Seine Zeit, Lorsch, Germany

May 2001 “Women at the Court of Louis the German.” Presented at the International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI

May 2000 “A Carolingian Crisis of Masculinity: Charles the Fat, Notker the Stammerer, and the Gesta Karoli.” Presented at the Charles Homer Haskins Society sessions on Masculinity in the Central Middle Ages, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI

November 1999 “The Carolingians and the Classics: Rudolf of Fulda, Tacitus, and the ‘Lost’ Historia Saxonum.” Presented at the conference on Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, UK

May 1999 “Carolingian Kingship and Itinerant Court in Early Medieval Germany.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI

May 1998 “The Ludwig-Psalter and the Portrait of Louis the German.” Presented at the University of California Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino CA

May 1998 “Sacrum palatium nostrum: Representations of the Carolingian Court as a Sacred Space in Art, Liturgy, and Literature.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI

February 1997 “Language, Court, and Kingdom in the Early Middle Ages.” Columbia University, New York, NY

April 1996 “Die Herrscherbilder Ludwigs des Deutschen als Geschichtsquellen.” Presented at the Institut für mittelalterliche Geschichte, University of Munich, Germany

May 1995 “Frankish Kingship and the Old High German Language.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo MI

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SERVICE

Carolingian Studies sessions organizer, International Conference on Medieval Studies, 2005, 2007.

Referee for Broadview Press, 2006.

New England Medieval Association, board of directors, 2001-2005.

Referee for Church History, 2003.

Institute for Research in the Humanities fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999-2000.

Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies visiting scholar, 1997-1999.

Deutsches Institut für Erforschung des Mittelalters visiting scholar, 1995-1996.

Medieval Academy of America member, 1994-present.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Late Antiquity

Early Middle Ages

Merovingian and Carolingian Europe

Anglo-Saxon England

Byzantine Empire

Kingship and politics

The nobility

Courts and court culture

Manuscripts, historical writing, and literary culture

Christianity, monasticism, and study of the Bible

HONORS THESES SUPERVISED AT WILLIAMS

2009 Shawn Woo, “Scripture and Tradition: A Rapprochement of the Reformations.”

2007 Kiana Scott, “Simon de Montfort: Lay Piety and Crusading Ideology in Thirteenth-Century England.”

2007 Shane Bobrycki, “Æthelstan, ‘King of all Britain’: Royal and Imperial Ideology in Tenth-Century England.”

2006 Geofre Schoradt, “The Legion Re-Envisioned: Analysis of the Roman Military: 4th Century AD.”

2003 Andrew McKinstry, “Practical Philosophy: Classical Values in the Life and Politics of the Emperor Julian.”

2001 Clare Murphy, "‘Muste vertus lerne, & curtas be’: Childhood and Court Society in Fifteenth-Century England as Revealed in Courtesy Books.”

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2006 Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 385 pages.

Articles in Refereed Journals

1999 “‘More Devoted to the Equipment of Battle Than the Splendor of Banquets’: Frontier Kingship, Martial Ritual, and Early Knighthood at the Court of Louis the German.” Viator 30: 41-78.

1995 “Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: the Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered.” Speculum. 70: 467-501. (Winner of the Medieval Academy of America’s Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize for the best first article in the field of medieval studies.)

1995 “The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisited: Sidonius Apollinaris and His Crisis of Identity.” Essays in History 35: 1-15.

Other Publications

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, Simon MacLean and Björn Weiler, eds. Turnhout: Brepols, 57-95.

2004 “Ludwig der Deutsche und Mähren. Eine Studie zu karolingischen Grenzkriegen im Osten,” in Ludwig der Deutsche und seine Zeit. Wilfried Hartmann, ed. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 67-94.

Book Reviews

2009 Charles R. Bowlus, The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955: the end of the age of migrations in the Latin West. In Early Medieval Europe.

2007 Guy Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900. In Early Medieval Europe.

2006 Wilfried Hartmann, Ludwig der Deutsche. In Early Medieval Europe.

2004 Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Early Middle Ages. The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000. In Speculum.

2001 Stefan Weinfurter, The Salian Century. Main Currents in an Age of Transition, trans. Barbara M. Bowlus. In Early Medieval Europe.

Encyclopedia Entries

2009 “Louis II, ‘the German,’ king of East Francia,” in Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: An Encyclopedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008 Twenty entries on Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian history, in the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Robert E. Bjork, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS

In Press

2010 “‘The Hunt Belongs to Man’: Some Neglected Treatises on Hunting and Falconry from the Court of Louis the German.” Forthcoming in Festschrift for John J. Contreni, Cullen Chandler and Steve Stofferahn, eds. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications.

Works in Progress

2011 Hunting and the Birth of Europe, A.D. 100-1000. Book manuscript.

2011 “King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, the Venerable Bede, and the Battle of Dunnichen/Nechtansmere (685).” Article manuscript.