Geoffrey Koziol

Professor
Office Hours: 
Tu 1-2:30
3116 Dwinelle
(510) 642-0997
gkoz@berkeley.edu
Education: 

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

Curriculum Vitae: 
CV 2012.doc
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.

Profile: 

Positions Held

2007-present:    Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1992-2007:        Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1989-1992:        Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley

1985-1989:        Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

1982-1985:        Assistant Professor of History, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota

1980-1982:        Lecturer in Western Culture, Department of History, Stanford University

1994-1996:        Chair, Committee of Medieval Studies (UC Berkeley)

Non-Scholarly Interests

Fishing, camping and backpacking, tennis, roller-blading, skiing (downhill), good novels, really good poetry (but it's hard to find), and a somewhat embarrasing love of murder mysteries

Courses

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

Representative Publications: 

Books

The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)

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

Select Articles

“Christian Political Discourses,” in The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Christianity, ed. John Arnold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) 

“What ever happened to wisdom?  Why we have Mirrors for Princes but none for Presidents,” in Why the Middle Ages Matter, ed. Celia Chazelle et al. (New York: Routledge, 2012), 183-198

“What Charles the Simple told the canons of Compiègne,” in Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication, ed. Steven Vanderputten (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011), 159-181

“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): 233-267

“Charles the Simple, Robert of Neustria, and the vexillaof Saint-Denis,“ Early Medieval Europe 14/4 2006: 355-390

“The Dangers of Polemic: Is Ritual Still an Interesting Topic of Historical Study?” Early Medieval Europe 11/4 (2002): 367-388

“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: Oxford University Press, 2002), 43-76

"England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual," in Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe, ed. Thomas N. Bisson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), 124-148

"Monks, Feuds, and the Making of Peace in Eleventh-Century Flanders," in The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response, ed. Thomas Head and Richard Landes (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992), 239-259