Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
- Assistant Professor, Department of History
Education
- B.A. at Yale University, 1988
- Ph.D. at University of Pennsylvania, 1994
Contact Information
| Ballantine Hall, Rm. 708 |
| (812) 855-3431 |
| www.indiana.edu/~dmdhist/ |
Background
I specialize in the history and material culture of early medieval Europe. I have a background in archaeology and architectural history, and I combine those topics with the study of the way history was written in the Early Middle Ages. I have published a Latin edition and an English translation of the ninth-century author Agnellus' Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna). Each of these volumes includes a study of the text, in which I explore Agnellus' literary models and sources, and explain why the text has its rather idiosyncratic form and chronological structure. I have also edited a book entitled Historiography in the Middle Ages. My current project grew out of my work on early medieval Ravenna: I am writing a book on the history of Ravenna from the Roman to the Carolingian era, in which I plan to discuss the city in the context of patterns of urbanism in Italy during the period. Finally, I am the Executive Editor of The Medieval Review, an online book review journal in medieval studies. I teach surveys and upper-level courses on medieval history, as well as more specialized courses on topics related to the western European Early Middle Ages.
Research Interests
- Early medieval Europe
- Medieval historiography
- Urban change in Late Antiquity
- Material culture and archaeology
Courses Recently Taught
- Medieval Heroes
- Medieval Civilization
- Early Medieval History
- Byzantine History
- The Carolingian Empire
- Anglo-Saxon England
Publication Highlights
Books
Agnellus Ravennatis. Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, edited Latin text with introduction. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 199. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2006.
The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Historiography in the Middle Ages.Boston, MA: E.J. Brill Academic Publishers, 2003.
Articles
"Charlemagne's Silver Tables: The Ideology of an Imperial Capital." Early Medieval Europe 12 (2003): 159-77.
"Year-Dates in the Early Middle Ages," in Chris Humphrey and W. M. Ormrod, eds., Time in the Medieval World, (Rochester, NY: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp. 5-22.
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