Geoffrey Koziol

Contact

Office: 3116 Dwinelle
Hours: TuTh 2-3:30
Phone: (510) 642-0997
Fax: (510) 643-5323
Email: gkoz@berkeley.edu

Education

A.B., Princeton University, 1973
M.A., Stanford University, 1976
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1982

Research Interests

Politics and ritual in late Carolingian and Capetian France; Carolingian and post-Carolingian monasticism; political power and religious discourse; diplomatic (the study of charters and diplomas); historiography.

Undergraduate Teaching Interests

Just about anything to do with northern European culture from the Merovingians to the eve of the Hundred Years' War, but especially kingship, historiography, archaeology, women, monasticism, the cult of saints, ritual, liturgy, propaganda, political theory, and the transformation of political communities from kingdoms to states. Also contemporary political mythologies of medieval history.

Positions Held

1992-    Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1989-92 Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1985-89 Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

1982-85 Assistant Professor of History, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota

1980-82 Lecturer in Western Culture, Department of History, Stanford University

1994-96 Chair, Committee of Medieval Studies (UC Berkeley)

Selected Publications

The Footsteps of Kings: West Frankish Royal Diplomas and Their Stories (840-987) (forthcoming).

Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992).

"England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual," Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe, ed. Thomas N. Bisson, pp. 124-48 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).

"Charles the Simple, Robert of Neustria, and the vexilla of Saint-Denis," Early Medieval Europe 14/4 2006: 355-90.

"Is Robert I in Hell? The diploma for Saint-Denis and the mind of a usurper (January 25, 923)," Early Medieval Europe 14/3 (2006): 233-67.

"Truth and its consequences: Why Carolingianists don’t speak of myth," in Myth in Early Northwest Europe, ed. Stephen Glosecki, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2007).

"The Dangers of Polemic: Is Ritual Still an Interesting Topic of Historical Study?" Early Medieval Europe 11 (2002): 367-88.

"Political Culture," in France in the Central Middle Ages, 900-1200, ed. Marcus Bull, The Short Oxford History of France, gen. ed. William Doyle (Oxford, 2002), 43-76.

"Monks, Feuds, and the Making of Peace in Eleventh-Century Flanders," The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response, ed. Thomas Head and Richard Landes, pp. 239-59 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992)

Courses

Course websites under reconstruction.

Course websites available at: http://gkoziol.berkeley.edu/

History 4B: Western Civilization: The Middle Ages

History 100P: Gnostics, Templars, Wiccans, and Other Standbys of Popular Medieval History

History 155A: Europe in the Early Middle Ages

History 155B: Europe in the Later Middle Ages

History 156C: The Justice of the State in the Middle Ages

History 103B: Monks, Women, and the Otherworld

History 103B: How Does a Ritual Mean?

History 103B: Bodies Politic, Eucharistic, and Heretical in the Later Medieval Europe

History 103U: Biography from the Greeks to VH1

History 275B: Graduate Proseminar: Medieval Europe

History 280B: How Does a Ritual Mean?

History 280B: Archaeology and History

History 283: Writing through History; The Stakes of History

History 285B: The Re-formation of Europe: Monastic Reform between Benedict of Aniane and Bernard of Clairvaux

History 285B: The Carolingians

History 285B: Diplomatic with a Human Face

History 285B: Ethics and Political Practice under the Carolingians

Medieval Studies 200: Introduction to Materials and Methods: The Objects of Study

Non-Scholarly Interests

Fishing, camping and backpacking, tennis, roller-blading, skiing (downhill, though I enjoy cross-country when required), good novels, really good poetry (but it's hard to find), books on trout (much easier to find, and even bad ones are fun).