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Michael E. Moore

Medieval and European History

Office: 115 SH

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Email: michael-e-moore@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Research

Michael Edward Moore is a member of our Medieval and European contingent. He received all his degrees: B.A., M.A. and Ph.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research centers on ecclesiastical, legal and scholarly traditions of medieval Europe, and the formation of early medieval political culture and kingship. He has explored connections between the modern and the medieval, writing on topics such as humanism from the Middle Ages to the postmodern era, outlawry and torture, and on modern themes such as the seventeenth-century Benedictine scholar Jean Mabillon (to him that is modern), as well as literary and philosophical figures of Central Europe, such as Czeslaw Milosz.

Dr. Moore has presented his scholarship internationally, at conferences in the U.S. and Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in academic publications in the U.S., Belgium, Canada, Israel, Italy, France, and the Netherlands.

His dissertation is the basis of a book manuscript: "A Sacred Kingdom: Bishops and Frankish Royal Power (450-850)." This work traces the intellectual, legal and political connections and conflicts among religious and secular authorities from the 4th to the 9th century.

Teaching

Professor Moore has lectured to students in Western Civilization II (16:002:AAA), and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages (16E:116). At the graduate level, he has offered the History Workshop: Theory and Interpretation (16:299). In future semesters, he will provide an array of courses in Medieval history.

Selected Publications

  • "Meditations on the Face in the Middle Ages (With Levinas and Picard)," in: Literature and Theology (expected March, 2010) – in press.
  • "Canon Law and Royal Power in the Councils and Letters of St. Boniface" in: The Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law Vol.28 (2009), forthcoming.
  • "Passage to Antiquity," in: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies Vol.1 (2010), 1-14, in press.
  • "Boniface and the Sources of Canon Law," in: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Esztergom, Hungary, 3-9 August, 2008; Monumenta juris canonici, Series C, Subsidia (Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2009), in press.
  • "Jean Mabillon and the Sources of Medieval Ecclesiastical History: Part Two": American Benedictine Review 60:2 (June, 2009), 121-134.
  • "Jean Mabillon and the Sources of Medieval Ecclesiastical History: Part One": American Benedictine Review 60:1 (March, 2009), 76-93.
  • "The Spirit of the Gallican Councils, A.D. 314-506," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 39 (2007), 1-52. [Nb.: actually to appear in 2009].
  • "An Historian’s Notes for a Miloszan Humanism," The Journal of Narrative Theory 37.2 (2007) 191-216.
  • "Wolves, Outlaws, and Enemy Combatants," Eileen Joy, Myra Seaman, Kimberly Bell, Mary Ramsey, eds., Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages; New Middle Ages Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) 217-236.
  • "Prologue: Teaching and Learning History in the School of Rheims," Sally Vaughn, ed., Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe,1000-1200; Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Vol.8 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006) 19-49.
  • "Reading Livy Against Livy: The Dream and Nightmare of (American) Empire," The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 10.3 (2005) 149-159.
  • "Bede’s Devotion to Rome: The Periphery Defining the Center," Bède le Vénérable entre tradition et postérité , Stephane Lebecq, Michel Perrin et Olivier Szerwiniack, eds. (Lille: CEGES, 2005) 199-208.
  • "Demons and the Battle for Souls at Cluny," Studies in Religion/Sciences réligieuses 32.4 (2003) 485-497.
  • "Carolingian Bishops and Christian Antiquity: Distance from the Past, Canon-Formation, and Imperial Power," Alaisdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink, eds., Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near-East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West, (Leuven: Peeters, 2003) 175-184.
  • "Euro-medievalism: Modern Europe and the Medieval Past," Collegium No. 24 (Bruges: College of Europe, Summer 2002) 67-79.
  • "The God of Culture," (Review essay of the Paltinis Diaries, which document the school of Constantin Noica in Romania) East European Politics and Societies 16:2 (Spring, 2002) 572-588.
  • "The King's New Clothes: Royal and Episcopal Regalia in the Frankish Empire," Stewart Gordon, ed., Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (New York: St. Martin's / Palgrave, 2000) 95–135.
  • "La Monarchie carolingienne et les anciens modeles irlandais," Annales – Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 51 (1996) 307–324.
  • "An Interview with Czeslaw Milosz on Revolution, the Sublime, and the World's End," Cross Currents, A Yearbook of Central European Culture 4 (1985) 85–97.

Selected Reviews

  • Review of Félix Ravaisson, Of Habit, trans. Clare Carlisle and Mark Sinclair (London: Continuum, 2009), to appear in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (2010), in press.
  • Review of Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments, trans. Reginald Gibbons (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), to appear in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (2010), in press.
  • Review of Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. Volume 2, Journals EE-KK, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, et al., eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), to appear in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 15:2 (2010), in press.
  • Review of Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross, eds., Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), in: The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 14:6 (2009) 750-752.
  • Review of Mary Anne Perkins, Christendom and European Identity: The Legacy of a Grand Narrative since 1789 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004), in: The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 11:7 (2006) 823-825.
  • Review of George Hugo Tucker, Homo Viator: Itineraries of Exile, Displacement & Writing in Renaissance Europe (Paris: Droz, 2003); in: The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 10:2 (2005) 260-262.

Awards & Service

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), 2010
  • Visiting Scholar with Summer Fellowship, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History/ Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt, Germany), 2009
  • Visiting Scholar with Summer Fellowship, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History/ Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt, Germany), 2007
  • Visiting Scholar with Summer Fellowship, Herzog August Library/ Herzog-August Bibliothek (Wolfenbüttel, Germany), 2006
  • Guest Scholar, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History/ Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt, Germany), 2005
  • American Philosophical Society – Franklin Research Grant, 2004
  • Visiting Scholar with Summer Fellowship, Max-Planck Institute for History/ Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte (Göttingen, Germany), 2002
  • Medieval Academy of America, Travel Grant, 2001
  • DAAD Study Visit Fellowship / German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), 2001
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foreign Area Fellow, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), 2000
  • Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, 1984
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