CURRICULUM VITAE

updated January 15, 2012

Steven Muhlberger
Professor
Department of History
Nipissing University
North Bay, Ontario P1B 8L7

Phone: 705-474-3461 ext 4458
Fax: 705-474-1947
E-mail (preferred): stevem@nipissingu.ca

Academic Qualifications

1981 Ph.D. University of Toronto (Early Medieval History)
1974 M.A. University of Toronto (Medieval History)
1972 B.A. Michigan State University (History)

Academic Appointments

2004-         Professor, Nipissing University
1993-2004 Associate Professor, Nipissing University
1989-1993 Assistant Professor, Nipissing University
1988-1989 Assistant Professor, Trent University (Peterborough, Ont.) and Brock University (St. Catharines, Ont.)
1985-1988 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
1982-1984 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Scholarly Publications

Books

2005 -- Deeds of Arms: Formal combats in the late fourteenth century.  Highland Village, Texas:   The Chivalry Bookshelf.

2003 -- Jousts and Tournaments:  Charny and the rules for chivalric sport in fourteenth-century France.  Union City, California:   The Chivalry Bookshelf.

1990 -- The Fifth-Century Chroniclers: Prosper, Hydatius and the Chronicler of 452. Leeds: Francis Cairns Publications, Ltd.

On-line essays

2004 -- "Democracy in World History Today" at histdem/dwht2004.htm

2001 -- "Fighting for Fun?  What Was At Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?" at
froissart/fp.htm

1999 -- "A History of the Vote in Canada: A review article" at http://www.unipissing.ca./department/historyhistdem/canvote.htm.

1998 -- "Is There a History of Democracy?" at /muhlberger/muhlberger/histdem/history1.htm (with Phil Paine).

1998 -- "Democracy at the Basic Level: Government by consent in small communities" (with Phil Paine) at /muhlberger/muhlberger/histdem/localdem.htm.

1998 -- "Democracy in Ancient India" at "/muhlberger/muhlberger/histdem/indiadem.htm".

1996 -- Overview of Late Antiquity. In ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (http://orb.rhodes.edu/) at /muhlberger/muhlberger/orb/ovindex.htm

On-line reference works

1999 -- Editor, Chronology of Modern Democracy: Five Different Views in the World History of Democracy site at /muhlberger/muhlberger/histdem/chronpag.htm.

1998 to present -- Editor,World History of Democracy site, at /muhlberger/muhlberger/histdem/.

1997 to present -- Editor, Tales from Froissart, at tales.htm.

1997 to present -- Editor, "A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity" (using materials originally compiled by Haines Brown for his Images from History site), at /muhlberger/muhlberger/4505/show.htm.

1996 to present -- Editor, Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean. In ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies (http://the-orb.net/) at /muhlberger/orb/lt-atest.htmmuhlberger/histdem/canvote.htm/muhlberger/orb/lt-atest.htm.

Articles in print

forthcoming 2012 -- "Chivalry and Military Biography in the Later Middle Ages: The Chronicle of the Good Duke Louis of Bourbon." Solicited by the Journal of Medieval Military History.

forthcoming 2012 -- "Ancient India." Solicited by The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (Edinburgh University Press).

2011 -- "Republics and Quasi-Democratic Institutions in Ancient India: Their Significance Today." In The Secret History of Democracy, ed. Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 49-59.

2008 -- "The Combat of the Thirty against Thirty." In The Hundred Years War (part II): Different vistas, ed. Donald J. Kagay and L. J. Andrew Villalon, History of Warfare v. 51 (Leiden and Chicago: Brill), pp. 285-94.

1998 -- "War, Warlords and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century." In After Rome's Fall: Narratives and Sources of Early Medieval History, ed. Alexander Callander Murray (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 83-98.

1996 -- "Eugippius and the Life of St. Severinus," Medieval Prosopography, 17: 107-124

1993 -- (in collaboration with Phil Paine) "Democracy's Place in World History," Journal of World History, 4: 23-45.
Reprinted, 1997 in Bring History Alive!: A Source Book For Teaching World History, ed. Ross Dunn. Los Angeles, National Center for History in the Schools [UCLA]. Pp. 200-10.

1992 -- "Looking back from from mid-century: The Gallic Chronicler of 452 and the crisis of Honorius' reign." In Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? ed. John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. .

 1986 -- "Prosper's Epitoma Chronicon: Was there an edition of 443?" Classical Philology 81: 240-244.

 1984 -- "Heroic Kings and Unruly Generals: The `Copenhagen' Continuation of Prosper Reconsidered" Florilegium 6: 50-70.

 1984 -- "The Copenhagen Continuation of Prosper" (translation) Florilegium 6: 71-95.

 1983 -- "The Gallic Chronicle of 452 and its authority for British events" Britannia4:23-33.

Book Reviews

2010 - Review of Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. In Journal of World History 21(2010): 537-9.

2009 - Review of Mark Pegg, A Most Holy War. In Michigan War Studies Review,

2009 -- Review of Richard Kaeuper, Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry. In The Medieval Review,

2006 - Review of Anne Curry, Agincourt: A New History. In Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research 84 n. 338: 197-8.

2005 -- "Diverse Views of the Medieval Warrior," review of Adrian R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century, and Rachel Ann Dressler, Of Armor and Men in Medieval England: The chivalric rhetoric of three English knights' effigies.  In H-Albion reviews (H-Net); http://www.h-net.org/reviews/ (not yet posted to the web site).

2004 -- Review of Catherine Hanley, War and Combat 1150-1270: The evidence from Old French literature.  In De Re Militari, http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Hanley_WarCombat.htm

2004 -- Review of Alessandro Marcigliano, Chivalric Festivals at the Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este. In: Sehepunkte 4 n. 5,  http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/05/5185.html.
 
2003 -- Review of Duccio Balestracci, La Festa in Armi:  Giostre, tornei, e giochi de Medioevo.  In The Medieval Review http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ under Muhlberger 2001 -- Review of Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe. In American Historical Review, 106: 1430-1.

 2003 -- Review of  Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages.  In Canadian Journal of History, 38: 86-7.

 2001 -- Review of Mary Arlene Santina, The Tournament and Literaure: Literary representations of the Medieval Tournament in Old French Works, 1150-1226. In The Medieval Review http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ under Muhlberger.

 2000 -- Review of Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.  In International History Review, 22: 884-6.

 1997 -- Review of Guy Halsall, Settlement and Social Organization: The Merovingian Region of Metz. In Speculum 72: 831-832.

 1996 -- Review of H.W. Byrd, tr., Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus. In Bryn Mawr Medieval Reviews (http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bmr/search.html, under Muhlberger).

 1994 -- Review of John Dunn, ed., Democracy: The Unfinished Journey. In Journal of World History, 5: 378-380.

 1993 -- Review of Peter Heather, Goths and Romans: 334-489. In International History Review, 15: 336-337.

 1992 -- Review of Donald W. Treadgold, Freedom. A History. In Journal of World History, 3: 267-271.

Conference Papers

2011 -"What men-at-arms worried about: Captivity and ransom," in the History Seminar Series at Nipissing University

2011 - "Honor in the writings of Geoffroi de Charny," at the 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan

2010 -"Chivalry: Military biographies and other tales of the later Middle Ages" at the 45th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan; special lecture sponsored by De Re Militari and the Journal of Medieval Military History.

2007 - "Noble warriors or good soldiers: Conflicting views of the role of the 14th century man-at-arms," as a Nipissing University Research Lunch presentation, November 14

2007 - "Non-noble deeds of arms in the Late Middle Ages," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University

2006 - "The moral calculations behind medieval deeds of arms," Friends of the Medieval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum, October 12

2006 - Commentator on a panel on "Chivalry" at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July

2006 - "Chivalric deeds of arms as politics," 1st Annual Symposium, Friends of the Medieval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum, March 25

2005 – "The Combat of the Thirty," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2005 – "Ancient Democracy:  Comparisons between India and Greece," Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.  April 13.

 2005 – "Indian Democracy and World Perspectives," at "The Distinctiveness of Indian Democracy," Conference at the University of Delhi, April 8-9.

 2004 -- "Practical Chivalry 1350:  Geoffroi de Charny’s Questions on War,"
International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 2001 -- "We may lose more than we may gain:  Boldness and prudence among Froissart’s warriors," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 2000 -- "Web resources and scholarly readers" at "Ancient Studies -- New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and  Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval  Studies," conference at Salve Regina University.

 1996 -- "The Middle Ages as they were, or as they should have been? Recreation and re-creation in the Society for Creative Anachronism," at "The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture," conference at McMaster University.

 1989 -- Lead-off speaker at "Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity," conference at the University of Sheffield. Paper: "Looking back from mid-century: The Gallic Chronicler of 452 and the crisis of Honorius' reign."

 1989 -- "The economic significance of the Roman Empire and its meaning for the Early Middle Ages," Seminar, Department of History, University of Leeds.

 1988 -- "Hydatius and the editors: How good is our knowledge of early medieval chronology?" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 1987 -- "Perseverance in a post-Roman world: Eugippius and the Life of St. Severinus," Annual Meeting, Medieval Academy of America.

 1986 -- Co-organizer of session: "Medieval historians and their sources;" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. Paper: "History vs. Chronology: Medieval Chronicles and Modern Preconceptions."

 1985 -- "Military power and legitimate authority in the seventh-century West," and "The Church, the Empire, and the Barbarians: Fifth-century attitudes toward war and peace," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 1984 -- "Unruly generals and heroic kings: A Seventh-century look at the decline of Rome." International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 1983 -- "The Roman resistance to the barbarian invasions: The case of fifth-century Gallaecia." International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 1982 -- "Count Sebastian." International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

 1981 -- "Latin ascetic historians of Late Antiquity." International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.