Historiography, Medieval

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).

Bak, Janos M. "The Medieval Symbology of the State: Percy E. Schramm's Contribution." Viator, 4 (1973), 33-64.

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

Benson, Robert L., and Johannes Fried. eds. Ernst Kantorowicz. Erträge der Doppeltagung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997.

Bloch, R. Howard, and Stephen G. Nichols, eds. Medievalism and the Modernist Temper. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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

Caenegem, R. C. Van. Guide to the Sources of Medieval History. Europe in the Middle Ages. Selected Studies 2. New York: North-Holland Publishing Company /Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland Publishing Company, 1978. Van Caenegem comments not only upon the medieval sources but also upon the scholarly traditions that studied them. There is also a later edition, published in French as Introduction aux sources de l'histoire medievale, updated and translated by L. Jocque.Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Turnhout: Brepols, 1997.

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 whose tabloid tone establishment medievalists love to hate, but, perhaps for this reason, some students find it a memorable introduction to twenty major medieval historians of the twentieth century.

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 scholarship on the Middle Ages, but this broad survey does situate that research 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 [2002]), 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 antecedents to the Annalistes.

Flemming, Robin. "Picturesque History and the Medieval in Nineteenth-Century America." The American Historical Review, 100 (1995): 1061-1094.

France, John. "Recent Writing on Medieval Warfare: From the Fall of Rome to c. 1300." The Journal of Military History, 65 (2001) p. 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.

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

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

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 Monumenta Germaniae researchers, 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.

Morrison, Karl F. "Fragmentation and Unity in American Medievalism." The Past before Us. Edited by Michael Kammen. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1980. Pp. 49-77.

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.

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

________, 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.

Reuter, Timothy. "The Medieval Nobility in Twentieth-Century Historiography." In Companion to Historiography. Edited by Michael Bentley. London / 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.

Spiegel, Gabriel M. The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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.