Steven Muhlberger

Professor of History
Nipissing University

My academic training focused on the Middle Ages, especially on historians in late ancient and early medieval times. I  have served as editor of the section for Late Antiquity in the Mediterraneanof the pioneering web resource, Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, ORB. Although it is suffering from link-rot, my section still can lead you to useful resources.

I am also interested in the history of democracy as a world phenomenon. I have created a World History of Democracy Site at which I have pre-published some material written by me and my collaborator, Phil Paine. Also included are links to reference sites useful to other researchers.

Most of my time is now devoted to the investigation of formal combats (duels, tournaments, and jousts) in the later Middle Ages. See some of the links on this page for more.

My lectures on the history of medieval England were chosen by ORB in 1999 as an Online Textbook.

Want to talk? Write me at stevem {at} nipissingu.ca.

My CV and personal bibliography

• A short CV
• Publications on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Publications on other subjects

Online scholarly material

• Late Antiquity
  • Overview of Late Antiquity
  • A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity
    Designed for the students in my fourth-year seminar on the World of Gregory of Tours, this has proved to be a very popular Web resource.

• The Middle Ages
  • Select Bibliography on Medieval Tournaments
  • Tales from Froissart: selections from the 14th-century chronicler of war and chivalry.
  • The Deeds of Arms collection: Accounts of formal deeds of arms of the 14th century.
  • Deeds of Arms -- From the Archives:  archival records of formal deeds of arms.
  • I edited the History section of the now-inactive Knighthood, Chivalry and Tournaments Library .
  • A conference paper on medieval re-creation in the present.

• History of Democracy
  • Time Makes More Converts than Reason (with Phil Paine).
  • Is There a History of Democracy? (with Phil Paine).
  • Democracy at the Basic Level: Government by consent in small communities (with Phil Paine).
  • Democracy in Ancient India (by Steve Muhlberger).
  • A History of the Vote in Canada: A Review Article (by Steve Muhlberger).
  • Chronology of Modern Democracy: Five Different Views (compiled by Steve Muhlberger).
  • Democracy in World History Today (2004) (by Steve Muhlberger)

  Courses being taught in 2012-3

  History 3137 -- Crusade and Jihad

  • Course outline TBA
  • Required Books for HIST 3137 -- TBA 

  History 3805 – History of Islamic Civilization

  • Course outline TBA
  • Required Books for HIST 3805
    • James L. Gelvin,  The Modern Middle East: a history, 3nd ed.  ISBN 0-19-976605-5
    • Others TBA

  History 4505 – Topics in Medieval History – Chivalry

  • Course outline
  • Required Books for HIST 4505 -- TBA

  Information on my books

  The Fifth-Century Chroniclers:  Prosper, Hydatius, and the Gallic Chronicles of 452 (1990)

   Updated April 24, 2012

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