My Academic Work

It's been a long time since I was a student at the University of Queensland: almost five years now since I stopped working on my unfinished PhD thesis. I didn't write very much as a PhD candidate, so everything on this page dates back to my honours year (1993) or earlier.You can read my one published PhD article, Royal Participation in Episcopal Elections in Merovingian Gaul, elsewhere on the web at Electronic Antiquity.

So, here's what I have in pdf format in the order I wrote it. Anyone who wants to cite these works should keep in mind that they are close to ten years old, and are certainly no longer cutting edge (which may seem an odd thing to say about late antique and early medieval history, but there you go).

• In Praise of Constantine [50K, zipped] (1992) - my first big assignment, from third year.
• Why Were the Vandals So Unpopular? [45K, zipped] (1993) - the big assignment from the first semester of my Honours year.
• The Chronicles of Spain [694K, zipped] (1993) - my Honours thesis. I'm especially pleased by the fourth chapter, which contained original material at the time I wrote it.
• Translations of the Chronicles [79K, zipped] (1993) - I suffered and struggled through the translation of my original sources from Latin to English during my Honours year, so I feel it's a public service to make my very literal and sometimes incomprehensible translations available to others. I have translations of the chronicles of Hydatius of Lemica (including passages in italics that were translated by S. Muhlberger in his book, The Fifth-Century Chroniclers, published in 1990), the Continuation of Hydatius, the parts of Isidore of Seville that fall within the scope of my thesis, plus the anonymous (and blessedly short) Chronicle of Zaragoza. There's a translation of John of Biclaro's Chronicle in K.B. Wolf's Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, also published in 1990, though I disagree withsome of Wolf's interpretations.

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