Patrick J. Geary
Encyclopedia
Patrick J. Geary is, effective January 1, 2012, Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study
and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at UCLA. He was educated at Spring Hill College
in Mobile, Alabama, the Catholic University of Leuven
, Belgium, and received his Ph.D in Medieval Studies from Yale
in 1974, where he studied with Robert S. Lopez
and Jaroslav Pelikan
. Geary's scholarship has made significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social and cultural history, including the cult of relics, literacy and social memory, conflict and dispute resolution, and the formation of ethnic identity. He has also published and spoken frequently on the development of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.
Geary has taught at Princeton University
, the University of Florida
, and Notre Dame University, and has held visiting professorships at several European universities. He recently served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America
and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for Medieval Studies at Notre Dame University.
Most recently, Geary has directed a multi-year, international collaborative project, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
, to produce a computerized image and object database of the famous Plan of St. Gall, a ninth-century Carolingian schematic drawing of a monastic complex.
"L'humiliation des saints," Annales, E.S.C. 34 (1979), pp. 27‑42
"Ethnic Identity as a Situational Construct in the Early Middle Ages," Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien vol. 113 (1983) pp. 15‑26
Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Age. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1985.
"Vivre en conflit dans une France sans état: Typologie des mécanismes de règlement des conflits (1050‑1200)," Annales, E.S.C. (1985) pp. 1107‑1133.
Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. French translation, Le monde Mérovingien Flammarion, 1989. German Translation, Die Merowinger, C. H. Beck, 1996 Korean Translation Vistabooks, 1999.
Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millennium, Princeton University Press, 1994. French translation Aubier 1996
Medieval Germany in America. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture 1995 (German Historical Institute, 1996).
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. German Translation: Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom Werden der Nationen. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2002.
Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Historians as Public Intellectuals. Southampton: University of Southampton, Centre for Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 2007 (The Reuter Lecture 2006).
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at UCLA. He was educated at Spring Hill College
Spring Hill College
Spring Hill College is a private, Roman Catholic Jesuit liberal arts college in the United States. It was founded in 1830 on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama, by Most Rev. Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, Alabama...
in Mobile, Alabama, the Catholic University of Leuven
Catholic University of Leuven
The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V.During France's occupation of Belgium in the...
, Belgium, and received his Ph.D in Medieval Studies from Yale
YALE
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in 1974, where he studied with Robert S. Lopez
Roberto Sabatino Lopez
Roberto Sabatino Lopez , also known as Robert S. Lopez, was an Italian-American historian of medieval European economic history...
and Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan was a scholar in the history of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history.-Early years:...
. Geary's scholarship has made significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social and cultural history, including the cult of relics, literacy and social memory, conflict and dispute resolution, and the formation of ethnic identity. He has also published and spoken frequently on the development of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.
Geary has taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
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, the University of Florida
University of Florida
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, and Notre Dame University, and has held visiting professorships at several European universities. He recently served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America
Medieval Academy of America
The Medieval Academy of America is the largest organization in the United States promoting excellence in the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for Medieval Studies at Notre Dame University.
Most recently, Geary has directed a multi-year, international collaborative project, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969...
, to produce a computerized image and object database of the famous Plan of St. Gall, a ninth-century Carolingian schematic drawing of a monastic complex.
Selected publications
Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Revised edition 1991. French translation Le Vol des Reliques. Aubier, 1993. Italian translation Coltura e Pensiero 2000."L'humiliation des saints," Annales, E.S.C. 34 (1979), pp. 27‑42
"Ethnic Identity as a Situational Construct in the Early Middle Ages," Mitteilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien vol. 113 (1983) pp. 15‑26
Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Age. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1985.
"Vivre en conflit dans une France sans état: Typologie des mécanismes de règlement des conflits (1050‑1200)," Annales, E.S.C. (1985) pp. 1107‑1133.
Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. French translation, Le monde Mérovingien Flammarion, 1989. German Translation, Die Merowinger, C. H. Beck, 1996 Korean Translation Vistabooks, 1999.
Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millennium, Princeton University Press, 1994. French translation Aubier 1996
Medieval Germany in America. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture 1995 (German Historical Institute, 1996).
The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. German Translation: Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom Werden der Nationen. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2002.
Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Historians as Public Intellectuals. Southampton: University of Southampton, Centre for Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 2007 (The Reuter Lecture 2006).
External links
- http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/faculty?lid=43
- http://www.ias.edu/news/press-releases/2011/11/21/geary-appt