Bernard S. Bachrach is an American historian and a professor of history at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

. He specialises in the Early Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages was the period of European history lasting from the 5th century to approximately 1000. The Early Middle Ages followed the decline of the Western Roman Empire and preceded the High Middle Ages...

, mainly on the topics of Medieval warfare

Medieval warfare

Medieval warfare is the warfare of the Middle Ages. In Europe, technological, cultural, and social developments had forced a dramatic transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of cavalry and artillery...

, Medieval Jewry, and early Angevin history (he has written a biography of Fulk Nerra). He received the CEE Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota in 1993 and entered the College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College at Minnesota in 2000. He has also been the recipient of a McKnight Research Award. He has translated the Liber historiae Francorum

Liber Historiae Francorum

Liber historiae Francorum is a book that briefly starts as secondary source for early Franks in the time of Marcomer, and it gives a short breviarum of events until the time of the late Merovingians, where it becomes an important primary source of the contemporaneous history...

into English.

Works

• Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751, University of Minnesota Press
  University of Minnesota Press
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  , 1972. ISBN 0816606218
• Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire, University of Pennsylvania Press
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  , 2001. ISBN 0812235339
• The Anatomy of a Little War, a diplomatic and military history of the Gundovald affair (568-586), Westview Press
  Westview Press
  Westview Press is an American publishing house. It publishes textbooks and scholarly works for an academic audience.Westview was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado by Fred Praeger. The press was sold in 1991 to SCS Communications. HarperCollins acquired the company in 1995. Since 1998, it has...
  
  , 1994. ISBN 0813314925
• A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity Through the Early Middle Ages, University of Minnesota Press, 1973. ISBN 0816606781
• Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West, Variorum
  Variorum
  A variorum is a work that collates all known variants of a text. It is a work of textual criticism, whereby all variations and emendations are set side by side so that a reader can track how textual decisions have been made in the preparation of a text for publication...
  
  , 1993. ISBN 086078374X
• Fulk Nerra,the Neo-Roman Consul 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, University of California Press
  University of California Press
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  , 1993. ISBN 0520079965
• State-Building in Medieval France: Studies in Early Angevin History, Ashgate Publishing
  Ashgate Publishing
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  , 1995. ISBN 0860784681
• Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe, Ashgate Publishing, 2002. ISBN 0860788709
• The Medieval Church: Success or Failure?, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. ISBN 0030851858
• Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe, University of Minnesota Press, 1977. ISBN 0816608148
• Jews in Barbarian Europe, Coronado Press, 1977. ISBN 0872910881

External links

• Profile at the University of Minnesota website
• Author: Bernard S. Bachrach at LibraryThing
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