How the Past was Used
Historical cultures, c. 750-2000
Edited by Peter Lambert and Bjorn Weiler
Author Information
Peter Lambert is Lecturer in Modern European History at Aberystwyth University. He works on historical culture in Nazi Germany, and the professionalization of History in the twentieth century. Publications include Mass Dictatorship as Ever-Present Past (2013), Historikerdialoge (2004), and Making History (2003). He is currently completing a study on the reception of Widukind and Charlemagne in the Third Reich.
Björn Weiler is Professor in History at Aberystwyth University. A historian of high medieval Europe, he has held visiting fellowships in Bergen, Cambridge (UK), Freiburg im Breisgau, and at Harvard. Publications include England and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (with Ifor Rowlands, 2002), King Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire (2006), Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture (2007), and Representations of Power in Medieval Germany (with Simon MacLean, 2006). He is working on a book on the experience of the past in high medieval Europe.
Contributors:
Haki Antonsson, University College London
Timothy Barrett, SOAS, University of London
Allison Busch, Columbia University
Richard Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Dimitri Kastritsis, University of St Andrews
Dimitris Krallis, Simon Fraser University
Peter Lambert, Aberystwyth University
Matthew Phillips, Aberystwyth University
Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University
Richard Rathbone, SOAS, University of London
Björn Weiler, Aberystwyth University