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Matthew Gabriele is a Professor of Medieval Studies and Chair of the Dept. of Religion & Culture at Virginia Tech.

His research and teaching focus on religion, violence, nostalgia, and apocalypse (in various combinations), whether manifested in the Middle Ages or modern world. This includes events and ideas such as the Crusades, the so-called “Terrors of the Year 1000,” and medieval religious and political life more generally. He also has presented and published on modern medievalism, such as recent white supremacist appropriations of the Middle Ages and pop culture phenomena like Game of Thrones or video games.

He has published several books and numerous articles. He also has presented at dozens of national and international conferences and ...more

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	The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author), David M. Perry (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 3,305 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe – How Charlemagne's Dynasty Fell and Why It Matters for Understanding Political Collapse by Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author), David M. Perry (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2024 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade by Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J. Stuckey (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval Europe 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James T. Palmer (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Essays on Medieval Europe in Honor of Daniel F. Callahan (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 174) by Michael Frassetto (Editor), Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John D. Hosler (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts (Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures, 7) by William J. Purkis (Editor), Matthew Gabriele (Goodreads Author) (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Scientists can measure the oxygen isotopes in dental enamel to determine where in the world long-dead people were born. From the Bronze Age through to the medieval period, we’re finding people buried in British graves who were born in Asia and Africa. That number peaked, unsurprisingly, during the Roman period, but never falls to zero throughout the Middle Ages.”
― Matthew Gabriele, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

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“Not only (supposedly) was he carried off to the gates of Hell by demons and only rescued by the apostle St. Bartholomew, Guthlac was threatened physically by non-Christian peoples, wild beasts, and duplicitous fellow monks.”
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“Too often, because we have the advantage of writing from our own present, from their future, we think of history as necessarily hurtling toward some predestined conclusion. But it never works like that.”
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