Dr. Steve Muhlberger

Books

2021 Jean Cabaret d'Orville, The Chronicle of the Good Duke Louis II of Bourbon. Translation and commentary by Steven Muhlberger.

2019 (with Will McLean) Murder, Rape, and Treason: Judicial Combats in the Late Middle Ages. Deeds of Arms Series, 5. Freelance Academy Press, Wheaton, Illinois.

2015 Will a Frenchman Fight? Deeds of Arms Series, 4. Freelance Academy Press, Wheaton, Illinois.

2014 Charny's Men-at-Arms: Questions Concerning the Joust, Tournaments and War. Freelance Academy Press, Wheaton, Illinois.

2012 The Combat of the Thirty. Deeds of Arms Series, 2. Freelance Academy Press, Wheaton, Illinois.

2005 Deeds of Arms: Formal Combats in the Late Fourteenth Century. Trans. and comm. Highland Village, Texas: The Chivalry Bookshelf.

2003 Jousts and Tournaments: Charny and the Rules for Chivalric Sport in Fourteenth Century France. Union City, California: The Chivalry Bookshelf.

1990 The Fifth Century Chroniclers: Prosper, Hydatius and the Chronicler of 452. Leeds: Francis Cairns Publications, Ltd.

Online Essays

2004 “Democracy in World History Today.”

2001 “Fighting for Fun? What Was At Stake in Formal Deeds of Arms of the 14th Century?”

1999 “A History of the Vote in Canada: A Review Article,” Read more

1998 “Is There a History of Democracy?” (with Phil Paine).

1998 “Democracy at the Basic Level: Government by Consent in Small Communities” (with Phil Paine).

1998 “Democracy in Ancient India.”

1996 Overview of Late Antiquity, in ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Online Reference Works

1999 Editor, Chronology of Modern Democracy: Five Different Views, in the World History of Democracy site.

1998 to present Editor, World History of Democracy site.

1997 to present Editor, Tales from Froissart.

1997 to present Editor, “A Visual Tour through Late Antiquity” (using materials originally compiled by Haines Brown for his Images from History site).

1996 to present Editor, Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean, in ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Articles in Print

2012 “Chivalry and Military Biography in the Later Middle Ages: The Chronicle of the Good Duke Louis of Bourbon.” Solicited by the Journal of Medieval Military History, vol. 10, pp. 113 to 132.

2012 “Ancient India.” Solicited by The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy. Edinburgh University Press.

2011 “Republics and Quasi Democratic Institutions in Ancient India: Their Significance Today.” In The Secret History of Democracy, ed. Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 49 to 59.

2008 “The Combat of the Thirty against Thirty.” In The Hundred Years War (part II): Different Vistas, ed. Donald J. Kagay and L. J. Andrew Villalon, History of Warfare v. 51 (Leiden and Chicago: Brill), pp. 285 to 294.

1998 “War, Warlords and Christian Historians from the Fifth to the Seventh Century.” In After Rome's Fall: Narratives and Sources of Early Medieval History, ed. Alexander Callander Murray (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 83 to 98.

1996 “Eugippius and the Life of St. Severinus,” Medieval Prosopography, 17: 107 to 124.

1993 (in collaboration with Phil Paine) “Democracy's Place in World History,” Journal of World History, 4: 23 to 45. Reprinted 1997 in Bring History Alive! A Source Book for Teaching World History, ed. Ross Dunn. Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools (UCLA), pp. 200 to 210.

1992 “Looking Back from Mid Century: The Gallic Chronicler of 452 and the Crisis of Honorius' Reign.” In Fifth Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?, ed. John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 28 to 37.

1986 “Prosper's Epitoma Chronicon: Was There an Edition of 443?” Classical Philology, 81: 240 to 244.

1984 “Heroic Kings and Unruly Generals: The 'Copenhagen' Continuation of Prosper Reconsidered.” Florilegium, 6: 50 to 70.

Reviews

2014 Review of Martin van Creveld, Wargames: From Gladiators to Gigabytes. In American Historical Review, 119: 1227 to 1228.

2010 Review of Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied 1905 to 1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy. In Journal of World History (2010): 537 to 539.

2009 Review of Richard Kaeuper, Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry. In The Medieval Review.

2009 Review of Mark Pegg, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

2005 “Diverse Views of the Medieval Warrior,” review of Adrian R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century, and Rachel Ann Dressler, Of Armor and Men in Medieval England, in H-Albion Reviews (H-Net)

2004 Review of Catherine Hanley, War and Combat 1150 to 1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature, in De Re Militari

2004 Review of Alessandro Marcigliano, Chivalric Festivals at the Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d'Este, in Sehepunkte 4, no. 5

2003 Review of Duccio Balestracci, La Festa in Armi: Giostre, Tornei, e Giochi de Medioevo, in The Medieval Review

2003 Review of Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages. In Canadian Journal of History, 38: 86 to 87.

2001 Review of Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe. In American Historical Review, 106: 1430 to 1431.

2001 Review of Mary Arlene Santina, The Tournament and Literature: Literary Representations of the Medieval Tournament in Old French Works, 1150 to 1226, in The Medieval Review

2000 Review of Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. In International History Review, 22: 884 to 886.

1997 Review of Guy Halsall, Settlement and Social Organization: The Merovingian Region of Metz. In Speculum, 72: 831 to 832.

1996 Review of H. W. Byrd, tr., Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus, in Bryn Mawr Medieval Reviews (now The Medieval Review)

1994 Review of John Dunn, ed., Democracy: The Unfinished Journey. In Journal of World History, 5: 378 to 380.

1993 Review of Peter Heather, Goths and Romans: 334 to 489. In International History Review, 15: 336 to 337.

1992 Review of Donald W. Treadgold, Freedom: A History. In Journal of World History.

Conference Papers

2011 “What Men-at-Arms Worried About: Captivity and Ransom,” History Seminar Series, Nipissing University.

2011 “Honor in the Writings of Geoffroi de Charny,” 46th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

2010 “Chivalry: Military Biographies and Other Tales of the Later Middle Ages,” 45th International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan; special lecture sponsored by De Re Militari and the Journal of Medieval Military History.

2007 “Noble Warriors or Good Soldiers: Conflicting Views of the Role of the 14th Century Man-at-Arms,” Nipissing University Research Lunch presentation, November 14.

2007 “Non-Noble Deeds of Arms in the Late Middle Ages,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2006 “The Moral Calculations behind Medieval Deeds of Arms,” Friends of the Medieval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum, October 12.

2006 Commentator on a panel on “Chivalry,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July.

2006 “Chivalric Deeds of Arms as Politics,” 1st Annual Symposium, Friends of the Medieval Studies Society of the Royal Ontario Museum, March 25.

2005 “The Combat of the Thirty,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2005 “Ancient Democracy: Comparisons between India and Greece,” Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, April 13.

2005 “Indian Democracy and World Perspectives,” at “The Distinctiveness of Indian Democracy,” Conference at the University of Delhi, April 8 to 9.

2004 “Practical Chivalry 1350: Geoffroi de Charny's Questions on War,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2001 “We May Lose More Than We May Gain: Boldness and Prudence among Froissart's Warriors,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

2000 “Web Resources and Scholarly Readers,” at “Ancient Studies, New Technology: The World Wide Web and Scholarly Research, Communication, and Publication in Ancient, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies,” conference at Salve Regina University.

1996 “The Middle Ages as They Were, or as They Should Have Been? Recreation and Re-Creation in the Society for Creative Anachronism,” at “The Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture,” conference at McMaster University.

1989 Lead-off speaker at “Fifth Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity,” conference at the University of Sheffield. Paper: “Looking Back from Mid Century: The Gallic Chronicler of 452 and the Crisis of Honorius' Reign.”

1989 “The Economic Significance of the Roman Empire and Its Meaning for the Early Middle Ages,” Seminar, Department of History, University of Leeds.

1988 “Hydatius and the Editors: How Good Is Our Knowledge of Early Medieval Chronology?” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

1987 “Perseverance in a Post-Roman World: Eugippius and the Life of St. Severinus,” Annual Meeting, Medieval Academy of America.

1986 Co-organizer of session: “Medieval Historians and Their Sources,” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. Paper: “History vs. Chronology: Medieval Chronicles and Modern Preconceptions.”