People

Faculty

Jim Harrison/Harvard Magazine

My research and teaching focuses on the archaeology and history of the fall of the Roman Empire and the origins of medieval civilization, particularly the discovery of the past through the uncovery of new data from new natural scientific approaches to biomolecular evidence, climate change, etc.

Selected Publications

  • Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, A.D. 300-900 (2001)
  • Five Hundred Unknown Glosses from the Palatine Virgil (1993)
  • Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West (1986)
  • Index scriptorum operumque latino-belgicorum medii aevi: Nouveau répertoire des oeuvres médiolatines belges: XIIe siècle (1979)
  • Les annales du haut moyen âge occidental (1975)

 

Michael McCormick

Position: Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History; Chair, Standing Committee on Archaeology

Field: Medieval

Specialty: Early Medieval History; cultures, societies, and economies of the late Roman and early medieval Mediterranean basin; biomolecular archaeology; computational philology; paleography and codicology

Fall 2011:
- History 1040 The Fall of the Roman Empire
- History 2055hf Early Medieval History: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean: Seminar

Spring 2012:
- History 80f Carolingian Civilization
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History 2055hf Early Medieval History: Communications in the Early Medieval Mediterranean: Seminar

Contact Info

Robinson Hall

Room M-04

35 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

617.496.3290

 

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00 and by appointment