Project Leader of the YFF Research Project

“THE ‘FORGING’ OF CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IN THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY (c.820-c.1200)” (2007-2011)
The YFF Project web-page

Publications

Monographs/Books Edited :

Karolingskoje monetnoje delo i rimskaja imperskaja tradicija (Carolingian coinage and Roman imperial tradition). Kazan: Open Society Institute, 2000, 165 pp.

The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877),
Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, no. 16. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xii,
394 pp., 64 ill.

Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary, and Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, eds.
Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State Formation in Early
Medieval Europe, Cursor Mundi, no. 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. 266 pp.

Articles:

• Ildar H. Garipzanov, Patrick J. Geary, and Przemyslaw Urbanczyk,
Introduction: Gentes, "Gentile" Identity, and State Formation in Early
Medieval Europe. In Franks, Northmen, and Slavs: Identities and State
Formation in Early Medieval Europe , ed. Ildar H. Garipzanov , Patrick J.
Geary, and Przemyslaw Urbanczyk, 1-14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.

• "Frontier Identities: Carolingian Frontier and gens Danorum." In ibid.,
113-42.

• “Metamorphoses of the Early Medieval signum of a Ruler in the Carolingian World.” Early Medieval Europe 15,4 (2006): 419-64.


• “The Annals of St. Bertin (839) and Chacanus of the Rhos.” Ruthenica 5 (2006): 3-8.


• ”Recepcija antichnogo nasledija v karolingskuju epohu: imperskij kod vlasti i problema ‘Karolingskogo vozrozhdenija’” (The reception of classical heritage in the Carolingian epoch: the imperial code of authority and the problem of the ‘Carolingian revival’). Srednije Veka 66 (2005): 3-22; and 67 (2006): 116-39.


• “Carolingian Coins in Ninth-Century Scandinavia: A Norwegian Perspective.” Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 (2005): 43-71. 


• “Communication of Authority in Carolingian Titles.” Viator 36 (2005): 41-82.


• “Karl den Stores kejsermønter i Norge og Sverige – Forslag til nydatering.” Nordisk Numismatisk Unions Medlemsblad 2005, no. 4: 140-3.


• “The Carolingian Abbreviation of Bede’s World Chronicle and Carolingian Imperial ‘Genealogy’.” Hortus Artium Medievalium 11 (2005): 291-8. 


• “David, imperator augustus, gratia Dei rex: Communication and Propaganda in Carolingian Royal Iconography.” In Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variants, ed. Aziz Al-Azmeh and Janos M. Bak, CEU Medievalia, no. 6 (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004), 89-117.



• “Fastigium as an Element of the Carolingian Image of Authority: The Transformation of the Roman Imperial Symbol in the Early Middle Ages.” Majestas 10 (2002): 5-26. 



• “The Coinage of Tours in the Merovingian Period and the Pirenne Thesis.” Revue belge de numismatique 2001 (147): 79-118. 



• “Searching ‘National’ Identity in the Middle Ages (The Response of a Europeanist).” Ab Imperio 2001, fasc. 3: 143-6.



• “Postimperskiye obshchestva kak predmet istoricheskogo izucheniya (Post-imperial societies as a subject of historic study).” In Gumanitarnoje znanije v sistemakh politiki i kul'tury, 163-5. Kazan: Unipress, 2000.



• “The Image of Authority in Carolingian Coinage: The Image of a Ruler and Roman Imperial Tradition.” Early Medieval Europe 8 (1999): 197-218.



• “Poyavlenije monetnogo tipa XPICTIANA RELIGIO i vzaimootnoshenija Karolingskogo gosudarstva s Kordovskim emiratom v kontse VIII- nachale IX vv. (The appearance of the monetary type XPICTIANA RELIGIO and the relations between the Carolingian state and the amirat of Cordova at the end of the eighth and at the beginning of the ninth centuries).” In Antichnost': Politika i kul'tura, 84-91. Kazan: Unipress, 1998.



• “O kharaktere mental’nosti rimskogo obshchestva perioda ranney Respubliki (On the nature of mentality of Roman society in the Early Republic).” Uchenyje zapiski Kazanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 134 (1998): 181-6.


• “Titulatura pervyh karolingskihk koroley: Karl Velikiy i rimskaja imperskaja tradicija (The titles of early Carolingian kings: Charlemagne and Roman imperial tradition).” In Antichnost': miry i obrazy, 45-53. Kazan: Unipress, 1997.


• “Vandal'skije monety i imperskaja tradicija: problema preemstvennosti (Vandalic coins and the imperial tradition: The problem of continuity).” In Antichnost': Istoriya i istoriki, 47-52. Kazan: Unipress, 1997.



• “Problemy izuchenija imperij (Problems of imperial studies).” In Gumanitarnyje nauki: Problemy i aspekty izuchenija, 38-43. Kazan, 1997.



• “Rol’ rimskikh koloniy v vojne Rima s Gannibalom (The role of Roman colonies in the war of Rome against Hannibal).” In Uchenyje zapiski, no. 1, 101-10. Kazan: Tatarskij gosudarstvennyj gumanitarnyj institut, 1997.



• “Rekonstrukcija rimsko-karfagenskogo dogovora 306 g. do n.e. (The reconstruction of the Roman-Carthaginian treaty of 306 B.C.).” In Antichnyj Vestnik, pt. 2, 115-23. Omsk, 1994.



• “Howard Scullard i prosopograficheskije issledovanija Rimskoj respubliki v Velikobritanii (Howard Scullard and prosopographic studies of the Roman republic in the United Kingdom).” In Antichnaya istoria i sovremennaya istoriografiya, 56-61. Kazan: Kazan State University, 1991.

• “Rimskij imperializm: Analiz ponatija (Roman imperialism: Analysis of the
definition).“ In Aktual'nyje voprosy otechestennoj i vseobschej istorii,
111-5. Kazan: Kazan State University, 1991.

(forthcoming)

• Carolingian Coins in Early Viking Age Scandinavia (ca. 754-ca. 900):
Chronological Distribution and Regional Patterns.² Nordisk Numismatisk
Årskrift 2005-2006 (2008): c.30 pp.

• Annales Quelferbytani: Changing Perspectives of a Local Narrative.² In
Zwischen Niederschrift und Wiederschrift: Frühmittelalterliche Hagiographie
und Historiographie im Spannungsfeld von Kompendienüberlieferung und
Editionstechnik, ed. Richard Corradini and Max Diesenberger, Forschungen
zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, no. 15, c.20 pp. Vienna: Österreichische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008.

CV: 
Born in 1966, Kazan (Russia). Undergraduate studies in history at Kazan State University (1983-1988). Kandidat of Historical Sciences in classical history (Kazan State University, 1991). MA in medieval studies at Central European University (Budapest, 1998). PhD in medieval history at Fordham University (New York, 2004). Training in archeology (1984, 1986): in Bol’shije Tigany (early medieval Hungarian burial mounds), Biliarsk (medieval urban site of the Volga-Bulgaria period), and Sevastopol (classical-Byzantine urban site). Training in medieval Latin and Latin paleography (Moscow State University, 1996). Training in numismatics (American Numismatic Society, New York, 1998). Member of the Weekly Academic Seminar “Classical Monday” (1983-1999).
As senior lecturer at the Department of Ancient and Medieval History at Kazan State University (1994-1999), I taught undergraduate courses in Latin and medieval history and supervised MA theses in my field. My extracurricular activities included work at an entrance examination commission in history and participation in the working commission writing a new mission statement and charter for the university. I have presented papers at a dozen of international conferences in Europe and North America.


I started my professional career as a historian of classical Rome. Gradually, my research interests shifted to the metamorphoses of the classical tradition after the “fall” of Rome, and finally, I moved to studying the Early Middle Ages per se, with a particular interest in Carolingian and Viking studies. Different educational and research experiences made me an ardent advocate of the interdisciplinary approach combining the traditional historical text analysis with the methods and techniques of numismatics, archeology, diplomatics, art history, and anthropology. I applied this approach in my previous doctoral and postdoctoral projects, and it also permeates the current YFF project.

Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2004 - 2007

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