Matthew Gabriele

Matthew Gabriele is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Medieval & Early Modern Studies in the Department of Religion and Culture.  He teaches on the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Discovery, and modern perceptions of the "medieval."

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he has published articles on the emperor Otto III, Charlemagne in the Oxford Chanson de Roland, the genesis of the anti-Jewish violence of the First Crusade, and the memory of the Carolingians around King Philip I (1060-1108) of Francia.  He has also co-edited, with Jace Stuckey, an interdisciplinary volume of essays on the medieval legend of Charlemagne entitled The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade (Palgrave Macmillan: New Middle Ages Series). In Summer 2008, he attended a NEH Institute on "Holy Land & Holy City in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." In Spring 2010, he'll be a visiting professor in the Religion und Politik Exzellenzcluster at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Feel free to contact him if you'd like an offprint of any of these articles and see his CV for full citations.

His current research focuses on the intersection of religion and violence. He is working on a number of articles related to the early medieval legend of Charlemagne and an article on the violent religious rhetoric in Seung-Hui Cho's manifesto. If you're a student at Virginia Tech and would like to help with one of these projects, please see the posting at VT's Undergraduate Research Institute. His book project is tentatively entitled The Legend of Charlemagne and the Origins of the First Crusade.

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