Michael Idomir Allen

Department of Classics
University of Chicago
1010 E. 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Home tel.: (773) 288–1507
e-mail: frechulf@uchicago.edu

EMPLOYMENT

• Since 2003, Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Classics and the College, Associate appointment in History (since 2006), University of Chicago
• 1996 to 2003, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and the College, University of Chicago

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., June 1994, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Dissertation: "History in the Carolingian Renewal: Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 830), His Work and Influence." Supervisor: Professor Walter Goffart
• M.A., 1986, French Literature, Department of French, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
• B.A., summa cum laude, 1985, History, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
• High School Diploma, with Honors, 1981, Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth, Rhode Island

LANGUAGES

English, French, German, Italian, Latin

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2003 Médaille d’honneur de la Ville de Lisieux (conferred on the occasion of the round table, Autour de Fréculfe de Lisieux: écrire l’histoire dans la province ecclésiastique de Rouen au IXe siècle, 26 April 2003, organized to mark the publication of the CCCM edition of Frechulf)
• 2002 Affiliated Fellow, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
• 2001–2002 Forschungsstipendium, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, University of Münster (Westfalen, BRD)
• 1995-98 Research Fellowship in the Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (on leave 1996-97)
• 1994-95 George C. Metcalf Fellow, Victoria College, University of Toronto
• 1993-95 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• 1992-93 Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Fellowship
• 1991-92 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• 1991 Borsa di studio, Settimana internazionale di studio, Centro Italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, Italy
• 1988-91 Open Fellowship, University of Toronto
• 1988-91 Junior Fellowship, Massey College in the University of Toronto
• 1985-86 University Fellowship, Yale University
• 1985 Seymour Simches Scholar, Tufts University European Center, Talloires, France
• 1984 Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chapter of Massachusetts, Tufts University

RESEARCH

Interests

Medieval historical writing; Latin Palaeography and textual criticism; music theory

Publications (* reviewed submission)

Book

• *Frechulfi Lexouiensis episcopi Opera omnia. Ed. Michael I. Allen. 2 vols. (1. Prolegomena – Indices; 2. Textus). Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaeualis 169-169A. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002.

Articles

• *"Fréculfe de Lisieux: l’histoire de l’Antiquité comme témoignage de l’actualité," for Tabularia and Bulletin de la Société historique de Lisieux, in press
" Paleography." In World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 15, pp. **–***. Chicago: World Book, 2007
• *"Universal History 300-1000: Origins and Western Developments." In Historiography in the Middle Ages, ed. Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, pp. 17-42 (Chapter One).  Leiden: Brill, 2003
• *"Addenda and Corrigenda to ‘Flavius Renatus Vegetius,’ CTC, VI, 175–184." In Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum, vol. 8, pp. 346-50. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003
• *"The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin." In After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of the Early Middle Ages, ed. A. C. Murray, pp. 288–319. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998
" Bede and Frechulf at Medieval St. Gallen." In Beda Venerabilis: Historian, Monk and Northumbrian, ed. L. A. J. R. Houwen and A. A. MacDonald, pp. 61–80. Mediaevalia Groningana, 19. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1996
• *"The Metrical Passio Crispini et Crispiniani of Henry of Avranches." Analecta Bollandiana 108 (1990): 357–86

Reviews

• M. K. Lafferty, Walter of Châtillon’s ‘Alexandreis.’ Epic and the Problem of Historical Understanding. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998. In The Classical Review N.S. 51 (2001): 453-55.
• F. Mantello and A. G. Rigg, eds. Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographic Guide. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996. In University of Toronto Quarterly, forthcoming.
• Paul Gerhard Schmidt, ed. Karolellus atque Pseudo-Turpini Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1996. In Journal of Medieval Latin, forthcoming.
• Rosamond McKitterick, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 2: c. 700- c.900 (Cambridge, 1995). In Journal of Ecclesiastical History, in press
• James C. Russell, The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation (Oxford, 1993). In Catholic Historical Review 81 (1995): 416-17
• M. M. Hildebrandt, The External School in Carolingian Society (Leiden: Brill, 1992). In Speculum 69 (1994): 173-74

Translations

• Pierre Riche. The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Pp. 398
• Georg Holzherr. Einsiedeln: The Monastery and Church of Our Lady of the Hermits. Munich: Schnell und Steiner, 1988. Pp. 104

Work in Progress

• A volume of studies on Frechulf of Lisieux. Monograph on universal historical writing in the ninth century. Edition of ‘Lesser Chronicles’ of the ninth century (Chronica minora saec. IX, for CCCM, including Ado of Vienne and Claudius of Turin).
• A new Latin critical text of the Letters of Lupus of Ferrières.
• Several reviews

Papers and Lectures

“ Palaeography,” for the Graduate Workshop on Sources and Methods, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 24 May 2007
“ Palaeography,” for the Graduate Workshop on Sources and Methods, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 26 May 2005
“ Ioca monachorum: Monastic Pranks in the Dark Ages,” fireside chat for the Kuvia/Kangeiko Winter Festival, University of Chciago, 21 January 2005
“ Palaeography,” for the Graduate Workshop on Sources and Methods, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 20 May 2004
“ Philology as a Historical Science,” lecture and three-hour workshop at the Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame, 29-31 January 2004
“ Making Frechulf’s Histories,” for Editing from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, Centre for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University, 25 October 2003
“ Scribes, Scholars, and Texts at Frechulf’s Scriptorium at Lisieux,” for Manuscripts and Libraries in the Carolingian World, Augustinianum, Città del Vaticano, 26 May 2003
“ Fréculfe de Lisieux: l’histoire de l’Antiquité comme témoignage de l’actualité,” for Autour de Fréculfe de Lisieux: écrire l’histoire dans la province ecclésiastique de Rouen au IXe siècle, 26 April 2003
“ Christian Epigraphy at Rome” (hour-long workshop), and “Medieval Progresses through Ancient Rome” (hour-long lecture), Latin/Greek Program and the Catholic Heritage Series, St. John Cantius Parish, Chicago, 6 April 2003
“ Classical Sources  in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books,” for the Graduate Workshop on Sources and Methods, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, at the Newberry Library, 11 November 2002
“ Latin Paleography,” for the Graduate Workshop on Sources and Methods, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 4 April 2002
“ Frechulf von Lisieux: ein karolingischer Althistoriker als Zeuge seiner Zeit,” for
· English version for the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Worshop, University of Chicago, 21 May 2002
· Berliner Mittelalter-Colloquium, 7 February 2002
· Mittellatteinisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, 9 January 2002
· Mittelalter-Forum, Universität Muenster, 24 October 2001
“ Präsenz der Antike in der Geschichtsschreibung der Karolingerzeit,” two-hour guest lecture for the course “Antike im Mittelalter” (Prof. Christel Meier-Staubach, Seminar für Mittellateinische Philologie), Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, 13 November 2001
“ Biblical Historia and Exegesis in the Historiae of Frechulf of Lisieux,” for Lo studio della Bibbia nell’Alto Medioevo, Gargnano (Italy), 28 June 2001
“ The Problem of the Early Medieval Author before the Episteme,” for the Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Workshop, 5 June 2001
“ Beauty in Skin and Ink,” for Humanities Open House, University of Chicago, 28 October 2000; also for Undergraduate Convivium, University of Chicago, 21 February 2001
“ Paleography,” a four-hour-long special workshop for the students and faculty of the Chicago Consortium in Ancient History, Newberry Library, 3 March 2000
“ The Illuminated Bible of Charles the Bald,” for The University of Chicago Library Society, 3 November 1999
“ Carolingian Politics and Learning in the San Paolo Bible (ca. 870),” for Humanities Open House, University of Chicago, 23 October 1999
“ Hintergrund und Aussicht des karolingischen Imperiums im Lichte zwei Universal-’Chroniken’ des neunten Jahrhunderts (Frechulf von Lisieux und Ado von Vienne),” for Karl der Große und das Erbe der Kulturen (8. Symposium des Mediävistenverbandes), Leipzig, 16 March 1999
“ Letters, Grammar, and Rhetoric in the Historiae of Frechulf of Lisieux,” for Pannel Session on Grammar and Rhetoric: Classical Theory and Medieval Practice, American Philological Association, Chicago, 28 December 1997
“ Hannibal Comes to Chicago: The New Newberry Livy,” for Humanities Open House, University of Chicago, 25 October 1997
“ The Chronicle of Claudius of Turin,” Medieval Workshop, University of Chicago, 9 April 1997
“ New and Old in the Chronicle of Claudius of Turin,” Chicago Humanities Institute, University of Chicago, 22 January 1997
“ The Textual Transmission of Augustine’s De musica,” for Round Table on Augustine’s De musica, Thirty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9 May 1995
“ Carolingian Views of the Barbarian Invasions: Frechulf of Lisieux and the Historiography of the Ninth Century,” Society for French Historical Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, 22 March 1996
“ The Historiae of Frechulf of Lisieux as speculum principis,” Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 6 May 1995
“ The Classical Tradition in Carolingian Princely Education,” Third Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Boston, Massachusetts, 10 March 1995
“ Medieval Chronicles and Narrative Histories,” two-hour guest lecture for Materials of Medieval History (Walter Goffart), University of Toronto, 29 September 1994
“ The Origins and Causes of the Hundred Years War,” one-hour guest lecture for Medieval History (Bernice Kaczinski), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 6 April 1994
“ The Text and Transmission of Frechulf’s Histories,” two-hour guest lecture for Editing of Latin Texts (John Magee), University of Toronto, 29 March 1994
“ Medieval Chronicles and Narrative Histories,” one-hour guest lecture for Materials of Medieval History (Walter Goffart), University of Toronto, 24 September 1992
“ Carolingian Capitularies: Origins, Function, and Transmission,” two-hour guest lecture for Medieval Legal Traditions (Roger E. Reynolds), University of Toronto, 26 February 1992
“ Computers, Texts, and Editing,” two-hour guest lecture for Editing of Latin Texts (Virginia Brown), University of Toronto, 6 November 1991
“ The Earliest Manuscripts of Frechulf of Lisieux and the Carolingian Renewal,” Eighteenth Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, 12 October 1991
“ Oral and Written Law in the Carolingian Age,” two-hour guest lecture for Medieval Legal Traditions (Roger E. Reynolds), University of Toronto, 24 October 1990

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