Field-Of-Study: Medieval History

Walter Goffart’s research has ranged from late Roman taxation (Caput and Colonate, 1974) through ninth-century forgeries (The Le Mans Forgeries, 1966) to modern historical atlases (Historical Atlases, 1570-1870, 2003); it still covers that range.  His other books are Barbarians and Romans: The Techniques of Accommodation (1981); The Narrators of Barbarian History (1988); and, most lately,

After teaching there from 1963 to 2001, Marcia L. Colish retired from Oberlin College as Frederick B. Artz Professor of History emerita. Since then she has been a Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor, and Lecturer in History at Yale University. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at the Weston School of Theology