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We interrupt any attempts at being serious for some serious own-horn-tooting.

My co-edited collection of essays, The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade, is now out (or will be very, very soon). I'm really tremendously proud of it and not just because it's the first English-language book specifically on the Charlemagne legend in the Middle Ages. It's also got essays of really extraordinary quality from both established scholars and real up-and-comers: Paul Dutton, Jay Rubenstein, Tom Noble, Dan Callahan, Elizabeth Pastan, Wendy Hoofnagle, Anne Latowsky, and Jace Stuckey (my co-editor). Take a look and buy it (please) if you're so inclined.




- Revisiting The "judeo-christian" Tradition
Just to toot my own horn for a moment, I have just co-edited a special issue of the journal Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, 2:2 (2012) entitled "Revisiting the 'Judeo-Christian' Tradition." Some really wonderful essays there (and...

- An Empire Of Memory: The Legend Of Charlemagne, The Franks, And Jerusalem Before The First Crusade
the bookNow for your buying pleasure: Beginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary...

- Tony, Meet Chuck
Tony Soprano, please meet Charles -- also known as Charlemagne (or Karl der Grosse, if you're German). Tony looks unimpressed... If you live in the US, and unless you've been living under a rock lately, you know that the last episode of HBO's...

- Scala And Federico's Posthistorical Middle Ages
Liz Scala and Sylvia Federico have recently published an essay collection of great interest to scholars of medievalism, The Post-Historical Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). The publisher's summary reads: "This collection of original essays...

- Smfs Best Article Cfp
The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship announces the 2013 competition for the Best Article on Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages.  The Prize alternates every other year between a published essay and a first book, in any area of medieval...



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