Notes on Contributors
Alexandre Beaudet
is currently a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant in history and archeology at l’Université Laval of Québec. His work interests focus on the social and economic history of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, particularly regarding crafts and professions. For his Ph.D. he aims to understand the social distinction of early medieval craftsmen, especially those working with metal. In addition, his current research investigates production and exchange relations regarding blacksmiths. He is also a collaborator for two projets collectifs de recherche (PCR) in France: Le monastère de l’Île Barbe et son territoire and Sevrey, archéologie d’un village de potiers au Moyen Âge.
Marios Costambeys
is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy (Cambridge, 2007) and the co-author, with Matthew Innes and Simon MacLean, of The Carolingian World (Cambridge, 2011).
Simon Coupland
is a vicar in south-west London who has been studying and writing about Carolingian coinage for 40 years. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Affiliated Researcher at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden, and in 2025 was awarded the Ehrenpreis of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte.
Jan van Doren
is an early medieval cultural and legal historian whose work focuses on (in)justice, (in)equality, and corruption in eighth- and ninth-century continental Europe. On the side, he also investigates Carolingian culinary culture through recipes, cookbooks, and dietetic treatises transmitted in eighth- to tenth-century manuscripts. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project “The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts” at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, for which he is looking into the Collectio Dacheriana.
Valerie L. Garver
is Chair and Professor in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. Her research focuses on the early medieval history of women, gender, childhood, and family, as well as the historical and interdisciplinary study of material culture, especially textiles.
Kelly Gibson
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dallas and co-editor of Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, published by Peeters. Although she edited Vengeance in Medieval Europe: A Reader with Daniel Lord Smail (2009) and published “Claudius of Turin’s Insane Fury: The Rhetoric of Emotions and Community” (2021), most of her work focuses on saints’ lives, including “The Carolingian World through Hagiography” (2015) and “La vie monastique dans les Vies de saint Gall récrites au IXe siècle” (2014). She is currently expanding this contribution into a book-length study of travel and disability in the Carolingian Empire.
Eric J. Goldberg
is a historian of the early Middle Ages whose research focuses on the politics and culture of Carolingian Europe. He is a professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chair of its program in Ancient and Medieval Studies.
Thomas A. E. Greene
is Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Honors Program at the University of North Georgia. He works on the history of the senses and emotions in the Carolingian period. He also is interested in medievalism, particularly in the American South.
Laura A. Hohman
is a tenured Associate Professor of History at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. She earned her MA and her Ph.D. in history from the Catholic University of America. Her research interests are in the religious and cultural history of late antique and early medieval Europe. Her specific focus is on Carolingian pastoral care, sermons, popular culture, scribal agency, and educational systems through a detailed analysis of ninth-century manuscript compilations.
David J. Patterson
obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University’s Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. His research challenges commonly held ideas about medieval weather and climate, demonstrating the complex ways in which medieval observers interpreted atmospheric phenomena. His current book project is multidisciplinary in focus, straddling environmental and medieval history in an examination of meteorological and climatological phenomena in the Frankish world, ca. 500–900 CE. As a team member of Princeton’s Climate Change and History Research Initiative, his work reaches across disciplinary boundaries.
Martha Rampton
is an emerita professor of history at Pacific University Oregon. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in European medieval history. Her scholarly work focuses on women and magic in the early Middle Ages. Dr. Rampton has published widely on topics in her field and has recently authored two books on magic, women, and ritual; one with the University of Toronto Press and one with Cornell University Press. Dr. Rampton is the editor of the Brepols series Gendered Violence. She is the founder of Pacific University’s Center for Gender Equity.
Carine van Rhijn
is a historian of early medieval Europe at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is interested in cultural and religious history, and in the history of knowledge.
Elina Screen
is Curator: Medieval and Modern Collections in the Department of Money and Medals at the British Museum. Her research focuses on political and economic networks in the Carolingian world. She is also General Editor of the Medieval European Coinage Project and publishes on medieval numismatics.
Rachel Stone
is a digital resource librarian at the University of Bedfordshire and a visiting research associate at King’s College London, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2005. She has published extensively on Carolingian gender, women and religion, including Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire (2012) and Hincmar of Rheims, The Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga (2016) (co-translated with Charles West). She is currently translating Jonas of Orléans’ lay mirror De institutione laicali and working on a book on long-term trends in patriarchy.
Josh Timmermann
is the author of In the Footsteps of the Ancient Fathers: The Construction and Use of Patristic Authority in the Carolingian Era (Brill, 2025) and other studies concerned with the Carolingian reception of late antique Latin Christian writers, in particular Augustine and “Julianus” Pomerius. He teaches courses on history and ancient and medieval studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.