On-line essays
TThese are self-published, but nevertheless concern scholarly subjects and reflect scholarly resaerch.
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
Some compilations of useful materials found during my research and made avalable for others' convenience.>
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.
Articles in printPeer-reviewed or solicited
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. Vol 10:113-132
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 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" Britannia 4:23-33.
Book Reviews
2014 – Review of Martin van Creveld, Wargames: From Gladiators to
Gigabytes. In American Historical Review. 119: 1227-8.
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/showrev.cgi?path=99031161705114.
2004 -- Review of Alessandro Marcigliano, Chivalric Festivals at the
Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este. In: Sehepunkt 4 n. 5,
http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/05/5185.html.
2010 - Review of Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915:
Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. In Journal of World History
21(2010): 537-9.
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
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. Vol 10:113-132
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 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" Britannia 4:23-33.
Book Reviews
2014 – Review of Martin van Creveld, Wargames: From Gladiators to
Gigabytes. In American Historical Review. 119: 1227-8.
2010 - Review of Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905-1915:
Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. In Journal of World History
21(2010): 537-9.
1009 -- Review of Richard Kaeuper, Holy Warriors: The Religious
Ideology of Chivalry. In The Medieval Review,
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
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/showrev.cgi?path=99031161705114.
2004 -- Review of Alessandro Marcigliano, Chivalric Festivals at the
Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este. In: Sehepunkt 4 n. 5,
http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/05/5185.html.
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
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 Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the
conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe. In American Historical Review,
106: 1430-1.
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.
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."
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 -- "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
