Name Patrick Geary Role Historian | Fields Middle Ages | |
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Born September 26, 1948 (age 76) ( 1948-09-26 ) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Civilization in the West, The Myth of Nations, Furta sacra, Living with the dead in the Middl, Before France and Germany Similar People Mark Kishlansky, Patricia O'Brien, Gerd Althoff, Johannes Fried, Gabor Klaniczay | ||
Patrick j geary identity and identifying in the early middle ages
Patrick J. Geary (born September 26, 1948) is an American medieval historian and Professor of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He also holds the title of Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Patrick j geary identity and identifying in the early middle ages
- Tracing medieval migration through next generation sequencing patrick j geary
- Early life and education
- Career
- Selected publications
- References
Tracing medieval migration through next generation sequencing patrick j geary
Early life and education
Born in Louisiana, Geary was educated at Spring Hill College, in Mobile, Alabama and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1974, he received his Ph.D in medieval studies from Yale University, where he studied with Roberto Sabatino Lopez and Jaroslav Pelikan.
Career
Geary's primary area of research has been in the early Middle Ages, from ca. 500-1100 A.D. His scholarship has made significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social and cultural history, including the cult of relics, literacy and social memory, conflict and dispute resolution, and the formation of ethnic identity in early Europe. He has also published and spoken frequently on the development of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.
Over the course of his career, he has taught at Princeton University, the University of Florida, UCLA and the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting professorships at several European universities. In 2009, he served as the president of the Medieval Academy of America, and was previously director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval Institute at University of Notre Dame.
At UCLA from 2005 to 2012, Geary directed a multi-year, international collaborative project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to produce a computerized image and object database of the Plan of Saint Gall, a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from the early 9th century.
At the Institute for Advanced Study, Geary has worked with an interdisciplinary team of North American and European researchers to apply advanced DNA analysis to early medieval burial remains from Italy and central Europe to help understand population movement and social structures during the so-called "barbarian migrations."