Emily Albu

Emily Albu (born November 21, 1945) is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of Classics and sits on several committees and boards. Her research focuses on the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity, and the Middle Ages. She is the author of a number of books, reviews, and articles.

Biography

Emily Albu is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis where she has held various positions since 1995. She teaches undergraduate classes in such areas such as Classics, Greek, Latin Literature, Roman Comedy, the history of women in the Middle Ages, and films on the ancient world. Her graduate seminars include various topics concerning Late Antiquity and methodological approaches to the study of the classical world. At UC Davis she was member of the Committee on Committees in 2017-18, and as of 2019 she was a member of the Program Committee for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Since 2019, she has served as Associate Editor of the University of California Press journal Studies in Late Antiquity (SLA). Since 2007, Albu has been on the Statewide Advisory Board for California History - Social Science Project through the California Subject Matter Project which works to provide high quality professional development and historical instruction in California schools.

Education

In 1967 Emily Albu obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Latin and Greek from the College of Wooster. She went on to the University of California, Berkeley where she obtained a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature focusing on Latin and Greek in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and Old French/Old Provençal in 1975.

Research

As a current Active Emerita at the University of California, Davis, Dr. Emily Albu plans to remain active in scholarship post-retirement. Her research interests include the reception of classical culture, Late Antiquity, the twelfth century, mapping the world in the Middle Ages, and medieval histories and monastic chronicles.

Publications

Books

2014: The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

2006: Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, ed. H.A. Drake and eo-ed. Emily Albu, Susanna Elm, Michael Maas, Claudia Rapp, Michele Salzman (Hampshire, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate).

2001: The Normans in Their Histories: Propaganda, Myth, and Subversion (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer).

1998:  Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd ed., with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana Robert.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998; 113-202.  (6 chapters slightly revised from the 1991 Macmillan edition).

1994: Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare, ed. with Carter Lindberg.  Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press.

1991: Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, Jean-Loup Seban, and Mark A. Noll.  New York:  Macmillan; 145-255. (6 chapters, from 324 through the eleventh century).

Articles and Pamphlets

In Press: “Antioch and the Normans,” in Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World, ed. Paul Oldfield and Kathryn Hurlock (Boydell and Brewer).

“Worldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia Ecclesiastica,” in Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations, ed. Elisabeth van Houts, Giles Gasper, Daniel Roach, and Charlie Rozier (Boydell and Brewer).

2014: “The Battle of the Maps in a Christian Empire,” in The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and Identity, ed. Claudia Rapp and H. A.  Drake (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 202-16.

2011: “Fulgentius the Mythoclast: Cooling Pagan Passions in Christian Late Antiquity,” Electronic Antiquity 14.1; 81-94.

2011: “Viewing Rome from the Roman Empires,” in Twelfth-Century Rome: Mirror of Mediterranean Religions, ed. Louis Hamilton and Stefano Riccioni.  A special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures in Confluence and Dialogue 17; 493-509.

2010: “Normans and the Kingdom of the English,” Chapter 4 in Nations in Medieval Britain, ed. Hirokazu Tsurushima (Donington, Eng.: Shaun Tyas), 61-70. (slightly revised from Seiyoshi Kenkyu article of 2007).

2009: “Disarming Aeneas: Fulgentius on Arms and the Man,” in The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, ed. Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski (Surrey, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate), 21-30.

2008: “Rethinking the Peutinger Map,” in Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods, ed. Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger (Leiden and Boston: Brill), 111-19.

2008: “Gladiator at the Millennium,” in Celluloid Classics: New Perspectives on Classical Antiquity in Modern Cinema, ed. Kirsten Day, Arethusa 41, no. 1 (winter), 185-204.

2007: “Normans and the Making of the Kingdom of the English,” Seiyoshi Kenkyu (Study of Occidental History) 36; 199-210.

2006: “The Reichenau Map? Rethinking the Peutinger Map,” AVISTA Forum Journal 16; 36-7.

2005: “Imperial Geography and the Medieval Peutinger Map,” Imago Mundi 57; 136-48.

2005: “Probing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: The Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum,” Anglo-Norman Studies 27; 1-15.

2004: “Robert Guiscard,” in Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia,” ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (New York and London: Routledge), 969-70.

2004: “Maps, Texts, and Travels in the Middle Ages: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 39^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6 May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI,” with Natalia Lozovsky, AVISTA Forum Journal 14.

2003:  “The Normans and Their Myths,” Haskins Society Journal 11; 123-35.

2000:  “Bohemond and the Rooster:  Byzantines, Normans, and the Artful Ruse,” in Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed. Thalia Gouma-Peterson (NY and London: Garland), 157-68.

1999: “Teaching the Classical Tradition,” with Michele Valerie Ronnick.  Educational Papers.   American Philological Association, 1999, 48 pages.

1995: “Scandinavians in Byzantium and Normandy,” in Peace and War in Byzantium:Essays in Honor of George T. Dennis, S.J., ed. Timothy S. Miller and John Nesbitt (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press), 114-22.

1994: “Dudo of St.-Quentin: The Heroic Past Imagined,” The Haskins Society Journal 6; 111-18.

1994: “Predatory Friendship:  Evidence from Medieval Norman Histories,” in The Changing Face of Friendship, Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion 15 (Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press; 115-       29.

1992:  (1985-1992): “Bibliography of the Classical Tradition for 1980-1982,” with Meyer Reinhold, Classical and Modern Literature 5, no. 3 (spring 1985), 141-268 [reviewed by George A. Kennedy in The Classical Outlook  (December-Janduary 1986-1987), 71];  “... for 1983,” CML 6, no. 3 (Spring 1986), 151-225; “... for 1984,” CML 7, no. 3 (Spring 1987), 151-245;  “... for 1985,” CML 8, no. 3 (Spring 1988), 151-234;  “... for 1987,” CML 10, no. 3 (Spring 1990), 183-286;  “... for 1988,” CML 11, no. 3 (Spring 1991), 215-291;  “... for 1989,” CML 12, no. 3 (Spring 1992), 215-96.

1990:  Co-editor, Newsletter of the Institute for the Classical Tradition, with Meyer Reinhold (semiannual, 1983-1990).

1988:  An Annotated Bibliography of Byzantine Sources in English Translation.  Brookline, Massachusetts: Hellenic College Press.

1988:  “Suda,” Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 11 (New York: Scribners), 501-2.

1987:  The Classical Tradition: Teaching and Research, with Meyer Reinhold. Educational Papers, 4. New York: American Philological Association, 28 pages.

1986:  “Dancing with Rhetoricians in the Gardens of the Muses: Recent Contributions to the Study of Byzantine Literature,” Byzantine Studies/Etudes byzantines 13, part 1), 1-23.

1986:  “Norman Views of Eastern Christendom: From the First Crusade to the Principality of Antioch,” in The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West During the Period of the Crusades, ed. Vladimir P. Goss and Christine Verzar Bornstein (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), 115-21.

1982:  “VITA: Anna Comnena,” Harvard Magazine  (March-April), 38-9.

1982:  “Anna Komnena,” Dictionary of the Middle Ages, vol. 1 (New York: Scribners), 303-4.

1982:  “An Annotated Bibliography of Byzantine Sources in English Translation,” Byzantine Studies/Etudes byzantines 9, part 1; 68-87.

1979:  “The Suda  on the Pagan Gods,” East European Quarterly 23, no. 4 (winter), 385-94.

1979:  “The Medieval World: The Norman View,” Bunting Institute Working Paper, 14 pp.

1978:  “Norman Historiography,” Bunting Institute Working Paper, 17 pp.

1976:  “A Note on William IX,” Arion, new series 3/4; 490-2.

Reviews

2010: Amanda Jane Hingst, The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis, in The American Historical Review 115, no. 4 (October), 1204-5.

2007:  Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth, in Isis 98, no. 4 (December), 817-18.

2006:  Geoffrey Malaterra, The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard, trans. Kenneth Baxter Wolf, in Speculum 81, no. 3 (July), 850-2.

2003:  Jon Soloman, The Ancient World in the Cinema; in The Classical World 96, no. 4, 454-5.

2001:  David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book, for The Medieval Review [tmr-l@listserv.cc.wmich.edu]

2000:   Rob Helmerichs, website on the Planctus for William Longsword                                               [www.haskins.cornell.edu/PWLreviews.html]

1997:  Adelbert Davids, ed., The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium, in Religious Studies Review 23, no. 3 (July), 308.

1995:  Brian Scott, ed. and trans., Liudprand of Cremona, Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana, in Speculum 70, no. 2 (April), 397-398.

1993:  Gerard O'Daly, The Poetry of Boethius, in Religious Studies Review 19, no. 2 (April), 162-3.

1991:  Deno John Geanakoplos, Constantinople and the West, in Religious Studies Review 17, no. 4 (October), 366-7.

1988:  James Marshall Campbell and Martin R. P. McGuire, ed., The Confessions of St. Augustine: Books I-IX (Selections), in New England Classical Newsletter 15, no. 3 (February), 47-8.

1987:  Paul J. Alexander, The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition, in The Catholic Historical Review 73 (April), 271-2.

1986:  Niall Slater, Plautus in Performance, in The Wooster Alumni Magazine (Summer), 32-3.

1986:  Deno John Geanakoplos, Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen through Contemporary Eyes, in Speculum 61 (July), 653-4.

1985:  Hanne Carlsen, A Bibliography to the Classical Tradition in English Literature, in Newsletter of the Institute for the Classical Tradition 5 (October).

1985:  Iiro Kajanto, Papal Epigraphy in Renaissance Rome, in Newsletter of the Institute for the Classical Tradition 4 (March).

1984:  Elizabeth M. and Michael J. Jeffreys, Popular Literature in Late Byzantium, in Speculum 59 (July), 721-2.

1983:  James J. Wilhelm, ed. and trans., The Poetry of Arnaut Daniel, in Speculum 58 (October), 1026-7.

1983:  R.C. Johnston, ed., Jordan Fantosme's Chronicle, in Speculum 58 (April), 456-8.

1977:  Jeanne Tsatsos, Empress Athenais-Eudocia, in The Greek Orthodox Theological Review 22, no. 3 (fall), 341-4.