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"]
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, ed. The Past and Future of Medieval Studies.
Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1994.