Bernard Bachrach

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Bernard Stanley Bachrach (born 1939 in the Bronx , New York City ) is an American medieval historian. He is a professor at the University of Minnesota . He is considered an expert on the military history of the Merovingians and Carolingians .

life and work

Bachrach graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens in 1957 and received his bachelor's degree from Queens College in 1962. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley with Bryce D. Lyon (and Francois Ganshof ). Then he was from 1967 Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where he later received a full professorship.

Bachrach takes a point of view of the continuity of Roman late antiquity in the early Middle Ages in Western and Central Europe also in the military, both in organization and in strategy and tactics. He argued about this, among other things, in a controversy with Richard Abels . He also published on the early history of Anjou County (including a biography of Fulk Nerra , whom he sees in the tradition of late Roman consuls), Judaism in the Middle Ages, Childhood in the Middle Ages (and psychology of medieval mystics and ascetics and mental illnesses in the Middle Ages, with the psychiatrist Jerome Kroll), History of the Alans and History of Institutions in the Early Middle Ages.

Fonts

  • Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751, University of Minnesota Press 1972
  • A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity Through the Early Middle Ages, University of Minnesota Press, 1973
  • Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe, Minneapolis, 1977
  • The Anatomy of a Little War, a diplomatic and military history of the Gundovald affair (568– Link-Text 586), Westview Press, 1994
  • State-Building in Medieval France: Studies in Early Angevin History, Ashgate Publ. 1995
  • Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West, Variorum, 1993.
  • Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040, University of California Press 1993
  • Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe, Ashgate Publ. 2002
  • with Jerome Kroll: The mystic mind, Routledge 2005
  • Early Carolingian Warfare. Prelude to Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press 2011
  • Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777). A diplomatic and military analysis, Brill 2013

With others he translated the Liber Historiae Francorum (Lawrence, Kan .: Coronado Press 1973) and the Saxon history by Widukind von Corvey (2014) into English.

literature

  • Gregory I. Halfond (Ed.): The medieval way of war. Studies in medieval military history in honor of Bernard S. Bachrach. Ashgate 2015 (with list of publications)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Abels, Stephen Morillo: A Lying Legacy? A preliminary discussion of images of antiquity and altered reality in medieval military history , in: Clifford Rogers, Kelly DeVries (Ed.): Journal of Medieval Military History , Volume 3, Boydell Press 2005, pp. 1–13, reply from Bachrach: A Lying Legacy Revisited. The Abels-Morillo Defense of Continuity , in: Journal of Medieval Military History, Volume 5, 2007, pp. 153-193
personal data
SURNAME Bachrach, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachrach, Bernard S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medieval and military historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx