Michael Kulikowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kulikowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kulikowski |
| SIGNATURE | KULIKOWSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9688-2452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Old Names, New Peoples
Bits and Bridles
Escaping from the sack of Amida in 359, the historian Ammianus Marcellinus encountered a runaway horse pulling behind it the dead body of a groom who had tied himself to the horse and fallen off (19.8.6–7). The article argues that errors in text and punctuation and a lack of equestrian knowledge have led to an illogical interpretation of the passage. Where most translators describe the groom being tied to the reins, we should understand habena as…
Essays on Malalas in Historiographical Context (on J. Borsch, O. Gengler, and M. Meier, edd., Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas im Kontext spätantiker Memorialkultur)
The Historia Augusta
Understanding Ammianus Marcellinus, Book by Book
This article examines the now complete Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus , begun in the 1930s by Pieter de Jonge and completed in 2018 by J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler. It starts with a detailed consideration of the final volume, the commentary on Book 31, and addresses aspects of it that reflect both the strengths and the weaknesses of the whole commentary series. From there, it conclude…
The Tragedy of Empire
Urban Prefects in Bronze
A small number of inscribed bronze tesserae from the fifth and sixth centuries are an essential source for the history of the urban prefecture and the praetorian prefecture. This article presents a complete catalogue of these objects, both certainly attested and genuine and uncertainly attested or false, including two previously unknown examples. It considers the various, inconclusive hypotheses for the function of the tesserae. It then considers…
The Triumph of Empire
Regional Dynasties and Imperial Court
Although it is normal, and indeed profoundly necessary, to break up the historical past into periods that can be studied in a more or less manageable way, many topics are illuminated by deliberately ignoring traditional historiographical boundaries, opening up a broader comparative analysis by considering them across a wider span of time. Roman imperial history is certainly one such example, not least because the habit of imposing a sharp divide …
Rome's Gothic Wars
Religions of Roman Spain
Dramatic regional differences within the Iberian Peninsula were always characteristic of the religious history of ancient Spain. Although long predating the Roman conquest, these differences are accessible to the modern scholar only as a result of the Roman conquest. Roman conquest brought with it religious practices, chief among them the habit of inscription, which have left traces in the material record. The religious diversity of Iberia follow…
Medieval Historiographical Terminology
The term annals/annales as it is generally used by modern medievalists – to describe Easter tables with infrequent historical notations or similar works without the Easter table apparatus – is inaccurate and can be dangerous, because it can give us a false idea of the development and nature of medieval historiography. The word was never used with this strict meaning in the Middle Ages, when it generally meant only ‘history’ or ‘written record of …
The Archaeology of War and the 5th C. ‘Invasions’
This paper examines the extent to which warfare is particularly characteristic of the 5th c. and whether the typical scholarly focus on barbarian invasion in this period is justified by the evidence. It then examines the ways in which archaeological and literary evidence do and do not shed light on one another in the context of 5th c. warfare, taking a series of specific examples, including the re-occupation of high places in northern Spain, the …
Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the Date and Place of its Composition
The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus poses numerous structural puzzles for the historian, among them the anomalous final book, numbered 31 in the manuscript tradition. This book, which treats the Gothic rebellion of a.d. 376–378 and the campaign of Adrianople, is loosely connected to the other extant books, which conclude with events of a.d . 375. The present article argues that Book 31 was in origin a separate monograph, drafted in Greek at An…
The Western Kingdoms
This article analyzes the emergence of kingdoms in a territory previously held by Roman magistrates. It shows that fifth-century kingdoms came into existence faute de mieux, and the mieux was known and desired by everyone: a functional Roman Empire in which reges had a recognizable place as clients of the empire and participants in its affairs. Only when that prospect became hopeless did they create territorial kingdoms, as a distinctly second-be…
Cemeteries in Society in Merovingian Gaul
Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity
Visigothic Spain, 409-711
Journal Article Visigothic Spain, 409–711 Get access Visigothic Spain, 409–711, by Roger Collins (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 263. £24.99). Michael Kulikowski Michael Kulikowski University of Tennessee-Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 160–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem401 Published: 01 February 2008
Marius Maximus in Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
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Hispania in Late Antiquity
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic h…
Rex Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum
Nation versus Army
Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the former Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity. Today, two paradigms dominate interpretation of barbarian Europe. In history, theories of how tribes formed (‘ethnogenesis’) assert the continuity of Germanic identities from prehistory through the Middle Ages, and see cultural rather than biological factors as the …
Fronto, the bishops, and the crowd
Augustine’s Epistula 11* was addressed to the bishop of Hippo by an aristocratic laymen called Consentius. The letter recounts, ostensibly verbatim, the tribulations of the Spanish monk Fronto in his efforts to prosecute what he regards as a heretical conspiracy amongst the clergy of Hispania Tarraconensis. Fronto's narrative is a rare first‐person account of the late antique judicial process, in all its complexity of overlapping imperial and ecc…
Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography , I
Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography. I: The Chronici canones of Eusebius of Caesarea: structure, content, and chronology, ad 282–325; II: The Continuatio antiochiensis Eusebii: a chronicle of Antioch and the Roman near east during the reigns of Constantine and Constantius II, ad 325–350. By Richard W. Burgess with Witold Witakowski. (Historia Einzelschriften, 135.) Pp. 361. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999. DM 144. 3 515 07530 5 - Vo…
Marius Maximus in Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Western Kingdoms
This article analyzes the emergence of kingdoms in a territory previously held by Roman magistrates. It shows that fifth-century kingdoms came into existence faute de mieux, and the mieux was known and desired by everyone: a functional Roman Empire in which reges had a recognizable place as clients of the empire and participants in its affairs. Only when that prospect became hopeless did they create territorial kingdoms, as a distinctly second-be…
Barbarians in Gaul, Usurpers in Britain
In the first decade of the fifth century Gaul and Britain, Spain and Italy all suffered from a succession of barbarian invasions and Roman civil wars. We possess not just one but several literary accounts of the crisis, along with chronicles, poetry, and imperial laws that all help to illuminate its course, but the sequence of events bristles with technical difficulties. These have not been satisfactorily resolved in the countless modern narrativ…
Urban Prefects in Bronze
A small number of inscribed bronze tesserae from the fifth and sixth centuries are an essential source for the history of the urban prefecture and the praetorian prefecture. This article presents a complete catalogue of these objects, both certainly attested and genuine and uncertainly attested or false, including two previously unknown examples. It considers the various, inconclusive hypotheses for the function of the tesserae. It then considers…
Barbarians in Gaul, Usurpers in Britain
In the first decade of the fifth century Gaul and Britain, Spain and Italy all suffered from a succession of barbarian invasions and Roman civil wars. We possess not just one but several literary accounts of the crisis, along with chronicles, poetry, and imperial laws that all help to illuminate its course, but the sequence of events bristles with technical difficulties. These have not been satisfactorily resolved in the countless modern narrativ…
Late Antiquity
The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with great reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecede…
The Career of the "Comes Hispaniarum" Asterius
IN THE YEAR 420, THE ROMAN COMES ASTERIUS launched an attack on a group of Vandals in the Roman province of Gallaecia, forcing them to break off their war against the Sueves and fight the Romans instead. This campaign has long been known to us from the work of the Gallaecian bishop Hydatius, who continued the fourth-century chronicle of Eusebius-Jerome down to 468. Hydatius' account presents certain problems, but until recently our knowledge of A…
Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography , I
Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography. I: The Chronici canones of Eusebius of Caesarea: structure, content, and chronology, ad 282–325; II: The Continuatio antiochiensis Eusebii: a chronicle of Antioch and the Roman near east during the reigns of Constantine and Constantius II, ad 325–350. By Richard W. Burgess with Witold Witakowski. (Historia Einzelschriften, 135.) Pp. 361. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999. DM 144. 3 515 07530 5 - Vo…
Nation versus Army
Ethnicity has been central to medieval studies since the Goths, Franks, Alamanni and other barbarian settlers of the former Roman empire were first seen as part of Germanic antiquity. Today, two paradigms dominate interpretation of barbarian Europe. In history, theories of how tribes formed (‘ethnogenesis’) assert the continuity of Germanic identities from prehistory through the Middle Ages, and see cultural rather than biological factors as the …
Fronto, the bishops, and the crowd
Augustine’s Epistula 11* was addressed to the bishop of Hippo by an aristocratic laymen called Consentius. The letter recounts, ostensibly verbatim, the tribulations of the Spanish monk Fronto in his efforts to prosecute what he regards as a heretical conspiracy amongst the clergy of Hispania Tarraconensis. Fronto's narrative is a rare first‐person account of the late antique judicial process, in all its complexity of overlapping imperial and ecc…
Rex Germanorum, Populos Sclavorum
Hispania in Late Antiquity
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic h…
Marius Maximus in Ammianus and the Historia Augusta
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Visigothic Spain, 409-711
Journal Article Visigothic Spain, 409–711 Get access Visigothic Spain, 409–711, by Roger Collins (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; pp. 263. £24.99). Michael Kulikowski Michael Kulikowski University of Tennessee-Knoxville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, Issue 500, February 2008, Pages 160–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cem401 Published: 01 February 2008
Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity
Cemeteries in Society in Merovingian Gaul
Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the Date and Place of its Composition
The Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus poses numerous structural puzzles for the historian, among them the anomalous final book, numbered 31 in the manuscript tradition. This book, which treats the Gothic rebellion of a.d. 376–378 and the campaign of Adrianople, is loosely connected to the other extant books, which conclude with events of a.d . 375. The present article argues that Book 31 was in origin a separate monograph, drafted in Greek at An…
The Western Kingdoms
This article analyzes the emergence of kingdoms in a territory previously held by Roman magistrates. It shows that fifth-century kingdoms came into existence faute de mieux, and the mieux was known and desired by everyone: a functional Roman Empire in which reges had a recognizable place as clients of the empire and participants in its affairs. Only when that prospect became hopeless did they create territorial kingdoms, as a distinctly second-be…
Religions of Roman Spain
Dramatic regional differences within the Iberian Peninsula were always characteristic of the religious history of ancient Spain. Although long predating the Roman conquest, these differences are accessible to the modern scholar only as a result of the Roman conquest. Roman conquest brought with it religious practices, chief among them the habit of inscription, which have left traces in the material record. The religious diversity of Iberia follow…
Medieval Historiographical Terminology
The term annals/annales as it is generally used by modern medievalists – to describe Easter tables with infrequent historical notations or similar works without the Easter table apparatus – is inaccurate and can be dangerous, because it can give us a false idea of the development and nature of medieval historiography. The word was never used with this strict meaning in the Middle Ages, when it generally meant only ‘history’ or ‘written record of …
The Archaeology of War and the 5th C. ‘Invasions’
This paper examines the extent to which warfare is particularly characteristic of the 5th c. and whether the typical scholarly focus on barbarian invasion in this period is justified by the evidence. It then examines the ways in which archaeological and literary evidence do and do not shed light on one another in the context of 5th c. warfare, taking a series of specific examples, including the re-occupation of high places in northern Spain, the …
Regional Dynasties and Imperial Court
Although it is normal, and indeed profoundly necessary, to break up the historical past into periods that can be studied in a more or less manageable way, many topics are illuminated by deliberately ignoring traditional historiographical boundaries, opening up a broader comparative analysis by considering them across a wider span of time. Roman imperial history is certainly one such example, not least because the habit of imposing a sharp divide …
Rome's Gothic Wars
The Triumph of Empire
Urban Prefects in Bronze
A small number of inscribed bronze tesserae from the fifth and sixth centuries are an essential source for the history of the urban prefecture and the praetorian prefecture. This article presents a complete catalogue of these objects, both certainly attested and genuine and uncertainly attested or false, including two previously unknown examples. It considers the various, inconclusive hypotheses for the function of the tesserae. It then considers…
The Tragedy of Empire
Understanding Ammianus Marcellinus, Book by Book
This article examines the now complete Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus , begun in the 1930s by Pieter de Jonge and completed in 2018 by J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst and H.C. Teitler. It starts with a detailed consideration of the final volume, the commentary on Book 31, and addresses aspects of it that reflect both the strengths and the weaknesses of the whole commentary series. From there, it conclude…
The Historia Augusta
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