Bonnie Effros
Biographic Data
| ID | 266829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Effros |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Effros |
| SIGNATURE | EFFROS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9568-0277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Making and Unmaking of a Wax Saint
Following the French Revolution, the papacy exported large numbers of previously unknown martyrial relics from the Roman catacombs. Many of those that went to France were enhanced with wax faces, hands, and feet, as well as fine clothing. Their lifelike features made them less macabre and more conducive to veneration than plain skeletons. Ultramontane clerics such as the influential abbot Prosper Guéranger initially encouraged their circulation i…
‘The Dignity that May Clothe a Tradesman’s Life’
The nineteenth century saw an influx of men of trade into English antiquarian circles, a development that caused significant consternation among those who were accustomed to gathering in more rarefied spaces. However, devoting one’s life to scholarship was not inexpensive, and these self-made scholars were often left scrambling to find reliable sources of income on which to live. This essay reconsiders the intersection between class and scholarsh…
A New Age of Saint Augustine? Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch, François Bourgade, and the Christians of North Africa (1838-1858)
Antoine-Louis-Adolphe Dupuch (1800-1856) served as the first bishop of Algiers in the newly conquered French colony. His contemporary François Bourgade (1806-1866), who served as a priest in both Algiers and Tunis, was a French missionary and philosopher. Both men were convinced that physical evidence of the late antique Christian past might lay a powerful historical foundation for religiosity in French North Africa. Arriving in the 1830s, Dupuch…
À armes égales
Un édifice de culte et son cimetière (fin du vie-milieu du xie siècle) ont été fouillés à Romilly-sur-Andelle, en Normandie, en 2006 et 2007. Plus de 720 tombes ont été mises au jour, constituant un corpus suffisamment conséquent pour mener une réflexion sur l’évolution de l’organisation de l’espace sépulcral et une étude approfondie des données biologiques de la population inhumée, incluant des analyses statistiques pertinentes. Nous présentons …
J ulia H ell . The Conquest of Ruins
Julia Hell’s The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome offers a panoramic vision of the tradition of resurrecting the memory of ancient Rome. As she leads her readers on a journey from the Roman defeat of Carthage in the second century BCE to postwar Germany, Hell observes the centrality of monumental classical ruins in the European imaginary. She demonstrates that over the centuries, as the tools for engaging with the Roman mod…
The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Romans and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power o…
Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean
This chapter assesses what ceramics can tell us about the interaction of Gaul with Mediterranean trade in the Merovingian period. Broken into three main chronological periods, the analysis suggests some of the possible developments that affected trade in African Red Slipware, amphorae, and associated artifacts. With precipitous drops in population and the abandonment circa 455 of the annona grain shipments, which also provided transport for ceram…
Bead and Garnet Trade Between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and Indian Worlds
Written sources document the pursuit of trade between India and the Mediterranean world during the early Middle Ages. These traded goods, notably spices, perfume, and luxury fabrics, rarely leave material remains as a result of their perishable nature. Two types of archaeological finds dated from the fifth and sixth centuries have helped fill some of the gaps in the documentary sources. The first includes small beads of green-colored glass found …
Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
Incidental Archaeologists
In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the Maghreb, Effros demons…
The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne ThesisBonnie EffrosBonnie EffrosBonnie Effros is Professor of History and Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)
Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa. Although they attracted considerably less attention among their cohort than more familiar Roman monuments such as triumphal arches and bridges, these prehistoric remains were similar to formations found in Brittany and other parts of France. The first effort to document these re…
Museum-building in nineteenth-century Algeria
This essay examines the fate of Roman antiquities in the course of the French conquest and colonization of Algeria, a military undertaking that began in July 1830 and resulted in the destruction of significant numbers of ancient remains over the following decades. Although French officials recognized the ideological significance of Roman remains for the French military and colonial venture, military officers who created the earliest museums to ho…
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis. 2013. xv+479 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-62-5 hardback £59. - Volume 89 Issue 347
Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
Journal Article Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. Get access Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 374. $110.00. Bonnie Effros Bonnie Effros University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr…
Uncovering the Germanic Past
"Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected side-effect of France's nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although their original owners were unknown, research by a growing number of amateur archaeologists of the bourgeois class determined that these …
Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme
This essay examines the contributions of Mme Hortense Lacroix Cornu to national archaeological projects in France during the reign of Napoleon III (Emperor 1852-1870). Cornu, whose mother had been a lady-in-waiting to Queen Hortense, knew Louis-Napoleon from early childhood. During his reign, Napoleon III respected Cornu for her loyalty and scholarship, and they shared mutual interests in history and archaeology. He followed many of her recommend…
Grave Goods and the Ritual Expression of Identity
Feasting the Dead
in the considerably less expensive Auteurs Latins du Moyen Age (Editions 'Les Belles Lettres', Paris) series.This left the former 'second book', in forty-one rather longer sections, available for the separate treatment it receives here.It was clearly intended by Isidore to serve as a school text, distinguishing the meaning of related or antithetical topics, both theological and philosophical.For example, it discusses the distinctions to be made b…
Themed edition
Selling archaeology and anthropology
The archaeological and anthropological exhibits included in the four Expositions universelles held in Paris between 1867 and 1900 and the Wiener Weltausstellung in the Austro‐Hungarian capital in 1873, contributed to the commercialization of antiquarianism and granted international attention to the amateur practitioners of these emerging disciplines. Displays of archaeological artefacts and human remains from the migration period and the early Mi…
Art of the 'Dark Ages'
During the past century, North American institutional and private collectors have rarely considered early medieval artefacts as a mainstream component of pre-modern European art. Unlike their British and European counterparts, historians and art historians in the United States and Canada have generally characterized the Early Middle Ages as a bleak period marked by few artistic advances or aesthetic considerations. Even the museums that acquired …
Markets in Early Medieval Europe
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discuss…
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discuss…
Incidental Archaeologists
In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the Maghreb, Effros demons…
The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne ThesisBonnie EffrosBonnie EffrosBonnie Effros is Professor of History and Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
Selling archaeology and anthropology
The archaeological and anthropological exhibits included in the four Expositions universelles held in Paris between 1867 and 1900 and the Wiener Weltausstellung in the Austro‐Hungarian capital in 1873, contributed to the commercialization of antiquarianism and granted international attention to the amateur practitioners of these emerging disciplines. Displays of archaeological artefacts and human remains from the migration period and the early Mi…
Bead and Garnet Trade Between the Merovingian, Mediterranean, and Indian Worlds
Written sources document the pursuit of trade between India and the Mediterranean world during the early Middle Ages. These traded goods, notably spices, perfume, and luxury fabrics, rarely leave material remains as a result of their perishable nature. Two types of archaeological finds dated from the fifth and sixth centuries have helped fill some of the gaps in the documentary sources. The first includes small beads of green-colored glass found …
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)
Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa. Although they attracted considerably less attention among their cohort than more familiar Roman monuments such as triumphal arches and bridges, these prehistoric remains were similar to formations found in Brittany and other parts of France. The first effort to document these re…
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis. 2013. xv+479 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-62-5 hardback £59. - Volume 89 Issue 347
Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology
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An English Empire
De partibus Saxoniae and the Regulation of Mortuary Custom
Au cours des trente-trois annees de guerre contre les Saxons d'Allemagne commencee en 772, Charlemagne a ordonne la conversion en masse et par la force de la population, cela en vue d'une assimilation plus rapide a l'interieur du Royaume franc. Un des aspects de la politique de Charlemagne a l'egard des Saxons concernait la regulation de leurs coutumes funeraires. En 782, trois mesures furent prises dans ce domaine, promulguees dans le Capitulati…
Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology
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Monuments and memory
Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
Epilogue
Some time in the second half of the sixth century, a married woman named Monegund living in Chartres gave birth to two daughters. After she lost both to untimely illnesses, she found no consolation for her grief and thus decided to devote the rest of her days to God. She courageously left her husband and built a cell in Chartres in order to model her life after that of the female desert saints. Allowing herself contact with the world solely throu…
Merowingerstudien . Theo Kölzer
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discuss…
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Clothing, jewelry, animal remains, ceramics, coins, and weaponry are among the artifacts that have been discovered in graves in Gaul dating from the fifth to eighth century. Those who have unearthed them, from the middle ages to the present, have speculated widely on their meaning. This authoritative book makes a major contribution to the study of death and burial in late antique and early medieval society with its long overdue systematic discuss…
Art of the 'Dark Ages'
During the past century, North American institutional and private collectors have rarely considered early medieval artefacts as a mainstream component of pre-modern European art. Unlike their British and European counterparts, historians and art historians in the United States and Canada have generally characterized the Early Middle Ages as a bleak period marked by few artistic advances or aesthetic considerations. Even the museums that acquired …
Markets in Early Medieval Europe
Feasting the Dead
in the considerably less expensive Auteurs Latins du Moyen Age (Editions 'Les Belles Lettres', Paris) series.This left the former 'second book', in forty-one rather longer sections, available for the separate treatment it receives here.It was clearly intended by Isidore to serve as a school text, distinguishing the meaning of related or antithetical topics, both theological and philosophical.For example, it discusses the distinctions to be made b…
Themed edition
Selling archaeology and anthropology
The archaeological and anthropological exhibits included in the four Expositions universelles held in Paris between 1867 and 1900 and the Wiener Weltausstellung in the Austro‐Hungarian capital in 1873, contributed to the commercialization of antiquarianism and granted international attention to the amateur practitioners of these emerging disciplines. Displays of archaeological artefacts and human remains from the migration period and the early Mi…
Grave Goods and the Ritual Expression of Identity
Uncovering the Germanic Past
"Uncovering the Germanic Past brings to light an unexpected side-effect of France's nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. While laying tracks for new rail lines, quarrying for stone, and expanding lands under cultivation, French labourers uncovered bones and artefacts from long-forgotten cemeteries. Although their original owners were unknown, research by a growing number of amateur archaeologists of the bourgeois class determined that these …
Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme
This essay examines the contributions of Mme Hortense Lacroix Cornu to national archaeological projects in France during the reign of Napoleon III (Emperor 1852-1870). Cornu, whose mother had been a lady-in-waiting to Queen Hortense, knew Louis-Napoleon from early childhood. During his reign, Napoleon III respected Cornu for her loyalty and scholarship, and they shared mutual interests in history and archaeology. He followed many of her recommend…
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX
Catherine Hills & Sam Lucy . Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis. 2013. xv+479 pages, numerous b&w illustrations, and tables. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 978-1-902937-62-5 hardback £59. - Volume 89 Issue 347
Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
Journal Article Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. Get access Ian Wood. The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii, 374. $110.00. Bonnie Effros Bonnie Effros University of Florida [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages 309–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr…
Museum-building in nineteenth-century Algeria
This essay examines the fate of Roman antiquities in the course of the French conquest and colonization of Algeria, a military undertaking that began in July 1830 and resulted in the destruction of significant numbers of ancient remains over the following decades. Although French officials recognized the ideological significance of Roman remains for the French military and colonial venture, military officers who created the earliest museums to ho…
The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis
Previous articleNext article FreeThe Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne ThesisBonnie EffrosBonnie EffrosBonnie Effros is Professor of History and Rothman Chair and Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida (e-mail: [email protected])PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code Secti…
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)
Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa. Although they attracted considerably less attention among their cohort than more familiar Roman monuments such as triumphal arches and bridges, these prehistoric remains were similar to formations found in Brittany and other parts of France. The first effort to document these re…
Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology
Incidental Archaeologists
In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the colony of Algeria. By linking the study of the Roman past to French triumphant narratives of the conquest and occupation of the Maghreb, Effros demons…
The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Romans and Germanic arrivals under the political control of the Merovingian dynasty, sought to preserve, use, and reimagine the political, cultural, and religious power o…
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