Associate Professor of History
- B.A. (1991) University of Pennsylvania
- M.A. (1993) University of Virginia
- Ph.D. (1998) University of Virginia
- Eric.J.Goldberg@williams.edu
- Stetson H19
- 413.597.2107
- Office Hours
- Tuesday 1-4, or by appointment
- Courses
- HIST 124: The Vikings
- HIST 225: The Middle Ages
- HIST 301E: Debating the Dark Ages
- HIST 325: The World of Charlemagne
- HIST 327: Knighthood and Chivalry
- HIST 329: The Christianization of Europe
- HIST 425: The First Crusade
- Research
- Late Antiquity, early medieval Europe, the Carolingian empire, kingship and politics, monasticism.
- Thesis Students
- Clare Murphy, '01, "Childhood and Court Society in Fifteenth-Century England as Revealed in Courtesy Books"
- Andrew McKinistry '03, "Practical Philosophy: Classical Values in the Life and Politics of the Emperor Julian"
- Geofre Schoradt '06, "The Roman Army in the Fourth Century"
- Kiana Scott, '07, "Simon de Montfort and the Ideology of Crusade"
- Shane Bobrycki, '07, "Athelstand, 'King of All Britain': Royal and Imperial Ideology in Tenth-Century England"
- Selected Publications
- Books:
- Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German, 817-876. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Articles:
- "Regina nitens sanctissima Hemma: Queen Emma (827-876), Bishop Witgar of Augsburg, and the Witgar-Belt," in Representations of Power in Medieval Germany, 800-1500, ed. Simon MacLean and Björn Weiler (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005).
- "Ludwig der Deutsche und Mahren. Eine Studie zu karolingischen Grenzkriegen im Osten." In Wilfried Hartmann, ed., Ludwig der Deutsche und seine Zeit (Darmstadt, 2004), pp. 67-94.
- “‘More Devoted to the Equipment of Battle Than the Splendor of Banquets’: Frontier Kingship, Martial Ritual, and Early Knighthood at the Court of Louis the German,” Viator 30 (1999), 41-78.
- “Strasbourg Oaths (842),” “Treaties of Verdun and Coulaines (843),” and “Louis the German (840-876).” John Jeep (ed.), Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia (Garland: New York, 1999).
- “Popular Revolt, Dynastic Politics, and Aristocratic Factionalism in the Early Middle Ages: the Saxon Stellinga Reconsidered.” Speculum 70 (1995), 476-501. (Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize.).
- “The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisted: Bishop Sidonius Apollinaris of Clermont (c.430-479) and His Crisis of Identity.” Essays in History 35 (1995), 1-15.