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Walter Goffart

Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer

Office:    HGS 213

Phone:  (203) 432-1367

Email:    walter.goffart@yale.edu

Links:    Recent Publications

 

Education

    Harvard, AB 1955, PhD 1961.

Academic Positions

    University of Toronto, 1960-99; professor emeritus of history, 1999-.
    Yale University, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, History, 2000-.

Research Interests

    Late Rome, barbarian kingdoms, early middle ages, historical atlases.

Select Publications

  1. Barbarian Tides: the Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
  2. The Le Mans Forgeries (1966)
  3. Caput and Colonate (1974)
  4. Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation (1980)
  5. The Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon (1988; paperback 2005)
  6. Rome's Fall and After [collected articles] (1989)
  7. "Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms in Beowulf," in Colin Chase, ed., The Dating of "Beowulf" (1981) pp. 83-100
  8. "Paul the Deacon's Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium and the Early Design of Charlemagne's Succession," Traditio, 42 (1986 [1988]), 59-93
  9. "The Map of the Barbarian Invasions: A Preliminary Report," Nottingham Medieval Studies, 32 (1988), 49-64 (with 1 map)
  10. "The Map of the Barbarian Invasions: A Longer Look," in The Culture of Christendom, ed. Marc A. Meyer (1993), pp. 1-27
  11. "Breaking the Ortelian Pattern: Historical Atlases with A New Program, 1747-1830," Editing Early and Historical Atlases, ed. Joan Winearls (1995), 49-81
  12. "Christian Pessimism on the Walls of the Vatican Galleria delle carte geografiche," Renaissance Quarterly, 51 (1998), 788-827
  13. "Conspicuously Absent: Martial Heroism in the Histories of Gregory of Tours and Its Likes," in Gregory of Tours and His World, ed. Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood (2002), pp. 365-93
  14. "Does the Distant Past Impinge on the Invasion Age Germans?" in Andrew Gillett, ed., On Barbarian Identity. Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (2002), pp. 21-37
  15. "Bede's Vera lex historiae Explained," Anglo-Saxon England 34 (2005) 111-116.

Teaching

    Byzantine survey; the Frankish kingdom under the Merovingians and Carolingians; "narrators of barbarian history"; sources of early medieval history.

Activities

    Executive Fellow, Berkeley College. Other activities at Yale and beyond.

 

         

 

 
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