Professor
Pauli Murray 554
Office Hours: Monday 12:15-1:45pm and Friday 9:30-11am
wolv@ad.unc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Education
University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Notre Dame, Indiana
Ph.D., Medieval History, January 1997
M.M.S., Medieval Studies, August 1991
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
B.S.F.S. cum laude, Russian and East European Studies, December 1986
Research Interests
Lisa Wolverton has concentrated much of her published research on the Czech Lands in the early and central Middle Ages. Her current work engages Central Europe and Slav-German relations more broadly, and includes a study of Czech involvement in the German civil war of the late 11th century, a close analysis of Lampert of Hersfeld’s Annals and his modes of composition, and a comprehensive reconceptualization of Frankish eastward imperialism over the course of many centuries.
Some Notable Publications
Medieval Elbe: Slavs and Germans on the Frontier
“The Elbian Region as Predatory Landscape, 900-1200 CE: Slavery, Slaughter, and Settler Colonialism,” Mediaevalia 43 (2022): 101-35 [Special issue: Medieval Unfreedoms in a Global Context, ed. Elizabeth Casteen].
“Why Kings?” in Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality, ed. Debra Blumenthal, Kathryn Reyerson, Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher, and Ann Zimo (London: Routledge, 2020), 91-107.
“The Deeds of Margrave Wiprecht of Groitzsch (d. 1124),” intro. and trans. by Jonathan R. Lyon and Lisa Wolverton, in Jonathan R. Lyon, Noble Society: Five Lives from Twelfth-century Germany (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 22-91.
Cosmas of Prague: Narrative, Classicism, Politics (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2015).
Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages: Essays to Honor John Van Engen, ed. by David C. Mengel and Lisa Wolverton (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014).
Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs, trans. and intro. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009).
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, by Ian McNeely with Lisa Wolverton (New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008).
—translations published in Korean (2009), Indonesian (2010), Arabic (2010), Japanese (2010), and Portuguese (2013)
Hastening toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Courses Taught (as schedule allows)
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HIST 57 - Dogs, Past and Present
HIST 250/GSLL 250 Central Europe: Medieval to Modern
HIST 303 Medieval Spain
HIST 398 Late Medieval Holy Women
GERM 416 The Viking Age