MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY:
SELECTED READINGS ON RESEARCH TRENDS

"AHR Forum:  Historiographic "Turns" in Critical Perspective."  American Historical Review 117 (2012): 698-813.

Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, and Patrick J. Geary, eds.  Medieval Concepts of the Past:  Ritual, Memory, Historiography, Publications of the German Historical Institute. Cambridge, Engl. / Washington, D.C.:  German Historical Institute, 2002.  "The first part tries in brief compass to capture a sense of the nature of both German and American medieval historical scholarship in the twentieth century with a view to explaining how and why the traditions diverged and how they are converging once again, ..." --Speculum 79 (2004): 121.

American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature. 3rd ed. Edited by Mary Beth Norton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Section 20: "Medieval Europe" (1:617-703).

Barker, John W., ed., Pioneers of Byzantine Studies in America [= Byzantinische Forschungen 27 (2002)].

Brakke, David. "The Early Church in North America: Late Antiquity, Theory, and the History of Christianity." Church History 71 (2002): 473-91.

Cantor, Norman F. Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century. New York: William Morrow, 1991. A book senior medievalists hate for its tabloid tone, but, perhaps for this reason, some students find it a memorable introduction to twenty major medieval historians of the twentieth century.
Chazelle, Celia, and Felice Lifshitz, eds.. Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

Chanpion, Micahel, and Andrew Lynch, eds. Understanding Emotions in Early Europe. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.
Robert M. Citino.  "Review Essay.  Military Histories Old and New:  A Reintroduction." American Historical Review, 112 (2007): 1070-90.  Only a couple of pages here actually concern the scholarship on the Middle Ages, but this broad survey does situate medieval military history within the broader field of military history.

Crosby, Alfred W. "The Past and Present of Environmental History." American Historical Review, 100 (1995): 1077-89.

Colish, Marcia L.  "Haskin's Renaissance Seventy Years Later:  Beyond Anti-Burckhardtianism." The Haskins Society Journal:  Studies in Medieval History 11 (1998): 1-15.

Damico, Helen, and Joseph B. Zavadil. Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline. Vol. 1: History. Vol. 2: Literature and Philology. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995 and 1998.

Dewald, Jonathan.  "`A la Table de Magny':  Nineteenth-Century French Men of Letters and the Sources of Modern French Historical Thought."  American Historical Review 108 (2003): 1009-33.  Analyzes precursors of the Annalistes.

France, John.  "Recent Writing on Medieval Warfare: From the Fall of Rome to c. 1300." The Journal of Military History 65 (2001):  441-73.  A historiographical essay looking at literature on this subject written within the last 25 years.

Freedman. Paul, and Gabrielle Spiegel, "Medievalisms Old and New: The Rediscovery of Alterity in North American Medieval Studies," The American Historical Review 103 (1998): 677-704.
Geary, Patrick J., and Gabor Klaniczay, eds. Manufacturing Middle Ages: Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

Greetham, D. C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1994.

Hadley, D. M.  "Bibliographical Essay [concerning Medieval Masculinity]," in Masculinity in Medieval Europe, edited by Hadley,.New York: Longman, 1999. Pp. 256-72.

Hannawalt, Barbara. "Medievalists and the Study of Childhood." Speculum 77 (2002): 440-60 (includes biblio).

Heitzenrater, Richard P.  "Inventing Church History." Church History 80 (2011): 737-48.

Holsinger, Bruce W.  "Medieval Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and the Genealogies of Critique." Speculum 77 (2002): 1195-1227.

Howe, John. "The Nobility's Reform of the Medieval Church." American Historical Review, 93 (1988): 317-39.

Knowles, David. Great Historical Enterprises: Problems in Monastic History. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1961. A short introduction to the Bollandists, the Maurists, the MGH scholars, et al.

Little, Lester K., and Barbara H. Rosenwein, eds. Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. [Four groups of readings on the "Fall of Rome," "Feudalism," gender, and "religion and society."]

Melve, Leidulf. "'The Revolt of the Medievalists':  Directions in Recent Research on the Twelfth-Century Renaissance." Journal of Medieval History, 32 (2006); 231-52.

Muir, Edward. "The Italian Renaissance in America." The American Historical Review 100 (1995): 1095-1118.

Nees, Lawrence, ed. Approaches to Early Medieval Art. Symposium in Speculum 72 (1997): 959-1143.

 

Noble, Thomas F. X. "Carolingian Religion." Church History 84 (2015): 287-307.

Peters, Edward. "More Trouble with Henry: The Historiography of Medieval Germany in the Angloliterate World, 1888-1995." Central European History 28 (1995): 1-28.

Peters, Edward, and Walter P. Simons. "The New Huizinga and the Old Middle Ages." Speculum 74 (1999): 587-620.

Powell, James M., ed. Medieval Studies: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992. 

Putnam, Laura. "The Transnational and the Text Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast." American Historical Review 121 (2016): 377-402.

Reuter, Timothy. "The Medieval Nobility in Twentieth-Century Historiography." In Companion to Historiography, edited by Michael Bentley. New York: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 179-202.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. "The Crusading Movement and Historians." The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. 1-12.

Rosenwein, Barbara H. "Review Essay: Worrying about Emotions in History." American Historical Review 107 (2002): 821-45.
Sigurdur, Gylfi Magnússon and István M. Szuárto. What is Microhistory? Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Smail, Daniel Lord, and Andrew Shryock. "History and the 'Pre," American Historical Review 118 (2013): 709-37 [examines "modernity" and the Premodern"]
Spiegel, Gabriel M. The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Unger, Richard. "Commerce, Communicatioon, and empire: Economy, Technology, and Cultural Encounters." Speculum 90 (2015): 1-27.

Van Engen, John. "The Future of Medieval Church History." Church History 71 (2002): 492-522.

Van Engen, John. “Multiple Options: The World of the Fifteenth-Century Church,” Church History 77 (2008):  257-284

Van Engen, John, ed. The Past and Future of Medieval Studies. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1994.