Profile picture of Lisa Wolverton

Lisa Wolverton

Professor
Clark Honors College, History, Medieval Studies, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
lwolvert@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6158
Office: 325 McKenzie Hall

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, 1997

B.S.F.S., Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 1986

Research

 

My current projects include a study of Czech involvement in the Saxon War, a book-length analysis of Lampert of Hersfeld's Annals, another on the composite "Deeds of Wiprecht of Groitzsch", a set of essays on Central Europe in the Ottonian era, and (with Jonathan Lyon and Christopher Halsted) a website dedicated to Slavs and German along the medieval Elbe:  https://medievalelbe.uoregon.edu

 

Publications

Cosmas of Prague:  Narrative, Classicism, Politics (CUA Press, 2015)

Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the Czechs, trans. and intro. (CUA Press, 2009)

Hastening Toward Prague:  Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands (Penn, 2001)

Also:

Christianity and Culture in the Middle Ages:  Essays to Honor John Van Engen, ed. with David C. Mengel (UND Press, 2014)

Reinventing Knowledge:  From Alexandria to the Internet, by Ian F. McNeely with Lisa Wolverton (W.W. Norton, 2008)