Author: Patrick J. Geary

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary consid …

In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiq …

Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential int …

Die romantische politische Philosophie des 19. Jahrhunderts versuchte, nationale Souveränitätsansprüche möglichst tief in der Geschichte zu verankern. Tatsächlich sind die Völker Europas nicht sonder …

The anonymous author who has come to be known as Fredegar put together a collection of historical sources, together with items of his own composing in the second half of the 7th century. His work for …

The anonymous author who has come to be known as Fredegar put together a collection of historical sources, together with items of his own composing in the second half of the 7th century. His work for …

Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos. 5-6 in the series: ‘Peter Abelard’ by Constant J. Mews and ‘Honorius Augustodunensis’ by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) was o …

Volume II of the AUTHORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES series contains nos. 5-6 in the series: ‘Peter Abelard’ by Constant J. Mews and ‘Honorius Augustodunensis’ by V.I.J. Flint. PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) was o …

Patrick J. Geary’s highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the Western medieval world is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or entire documents wh …

Die Chancen und ideologischen Gefahren der Arbeit mit rezentem und altem Genommaterial am Beispiel der Völkerwanderung. Spektakulär sind die Fortschritte, die die Genomik in jüngster Zeit erreicht ha …

In Phantoms of Remembrance, Patrick Geary makes important new inroads into the widely discussed topic of historical memory, vividly evoking the everyday lives of eleventh-century people and both thei …

The eminent historian Patrick J. Geary has written a provocative book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel about the role of language and ideology in the study and history …