Geoffrey Koziol

Associate Professor of History

Professor Koziol is a medievalist whose long-term research goal is to understand the nature of alliances in making France and French political culture. That project has led him to investigate forgery, oaths, and ideas of truth in 9th- and 10th-century administrative procedures and sources. He is currently working on diplomatics and the non-pragmatic purposes of writing in the 10th century, in preparation of an alternative history of the 10th-century civil wars that emphasizes honor, family, and memory. He is the author of Begging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France, and, most recently, a chapter on "Political Culture" in the forthcoming Oxford History of Medieval France.

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