Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies Edited by: Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz The articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieval studies. Most of the issues examined span the period from roughly 400 to 1000 CE and regions stretching from westernmost Eurasia to the Black Sea and the Baltic. This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the heuristic structures and methodologies of research on “early medieval Europe.” Because of its geographic, chronological, thematic, and methodological diversity and scope, the collection also showcases the breadth of early medieval studies currently practiced in the United States. Celia Chazelle has taught at The College of New Jersey since 1992. She is the author of The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ’s Passion, and the co-editor, most recently, of The Crisis of the Oikoumene: The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth-Century Mediterranean. Felice Lifshitz has taught at Florida International University since 1989. She is the author of The Norman Conquest of Pious Neustria: Historiographic Discourse and Saintly Relics (684 - 1090), and of The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the Sacred in Francia (627 – 827).