THE JOINT CENTER FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
THE CROWD IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Please join us for a discussion with the author.
Thursday, December 5, at 5:00pm
Bowie-Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street.
Shane Bobrycki is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching center on late antique and medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, with a focus on the late antique and early medieval period (c. 300–1100). His book The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 2024) argues for the importance of collective behavior in post-Roman Europe, c. 500–1000. In the wake of urban and demographic decline, crowds became scarcer and smaller in Europe than in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds. But collective behavior remained central, in new ways, to political, religious, and economic life.