Publications
Selected publications
- Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World (Book - 2020)
- Reviving Carthage’s Martyrs: Archaeology, Memory, and Catholic Devotion in the French Protectorate of Tunisia (Journal article - 2019)
- Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa (Book - 2018)
- Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy (Book - 2018)
- Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s) (Journal article - 2017)
- Colliding Empires: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830–1870 (Chapter - 2018)
- The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis (Journal article - 2017)
- Uncovering the Germanic Past Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914 (Book - 2012)
- 'Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme': Hortense Lacroix Cornu (1809-1875) and the Musee des Antiquites Nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Journal article - 2012)
- Art of the 'Dark Ages': Showing Merovingian artefacts in North American public and private collections (Journal article - 2005)
2023
'The Dignity that May Clothe a Tradesman's Life': Joseph Mayer and Antiquarian Patronage in Nineteenth-Century England
Effros, B., & Schofield-Lea, H. (2023). 'The Dignity that May Clothe a Tradesman's Life': Joseph Mayer and Antiquarian Patronage in Nineteenth-Century England. NORTHERN HISTORY, 60(2), 168-202. doi:10.1080/0078172X.2023.2185173
2022
Bodily Objects: Encounters with Material Culture
Effros, B. (2022). Bodily Objects: Encounters with Material Culture. In A Cultural History of Objects: In the Medieval Age: Volume 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 171-188).
2020
Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World
Effros, B., & Moreira, I. (2020). Pushing the Boundaries of the Merovingian World. In B. Effros, & I. Moreira (Eds.), Unknown Book (pp. 1-31). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234188.013.55
Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries In France
Effros, B. (2020). Two Centuries of Excavating Merovingian-Era Cemeteries In France. In B. Effros, & I. Moreira (Eds.), Unknown Book (pp. 76-95). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234188.013.5
Germany's ancient pasts: archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700
Effros, B. (2020). Germany's ancient pasts: archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700. ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 77(3), 394-397. doi:10.1080/00033790.2019.1662944
Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World
Effros, B., & Moreira, I. (Eds.) (2020). Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/
Afterword: Whose 'dark ages'?
Effros, B. (2020). Afterword: Whose 'dark ages'?. In Digging into the Dark Ages: Early Medieval Public Archaeologies (pp. 347-355).
2019
Reviving Carthage’s Martyrs: Archaeology, Memory, and Catholic Devotion in the French Protectorate of Tunisia
Effros, B. (2019). Reviving Carthage’s Martyrs: Archaeology, Memory, and Catholic Devotion in the French Protectorate of Tunisia. Archeologia Medievale, 46, 65-73. doi:10.1400/276312
Elizabeth de Bierbais and the Relics of Gertrude of Nivelles
Effros, B. (2019). Elizabeth de Bierbais and the Relics of Gertrude of Nivelles. In J. Hamburger, & E. Schlotheuber (Eds.), The Liber Ordinarius of Nivelles Houghton Library, Ms Lat 422 Liturgy As Interdisciplinary Intersection (pp. 153-163). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck GmbH.
Le strategie dell’archeologia cristiana tra fine Ottocento e inizi Novecento
Effros, B. (2019). Le strategie dell’archeologia cristiana tra fine Ottocento e inizi Novecento. In A. Di Muro, & R. Hodges (Eds.), Il santuario di San Michele a Olevano sul TuscianoCulto dei santi e pellegrinaggi nell’altomedioevo (secc. VI-XI)Atti del Convegno Internazionale “La Grotta di San Michele ad Olevano sul Tusciano” Salerno, 24-25 novembre 2018. Rome: Viella.
2018
Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa
Effros, B. (2018). Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Colliding Empires: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830–1870
Effros, B. (2018). Colliding Empires: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830–1870. In Objects of War The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement (pp. 50-77). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy
Effros, B., & Lai, G. (Eds.) (2018). Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. Retrieved from http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/press/unmasking-ideology
Indigenous Voices at the Margins: Nuancing the History of French Colonial Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Algeria, 1830-1870
Effros, B. (2018). Indigenous Voices at the Margins: Nuancing the History of French Colonial Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Algeria, 1830-1870. In B. Effros, & G. Lai (Eds.), Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy (pp. 201-225). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
The Global Reach of Imperial and Colonial Archaeology,
Effros, B., & Lai, G. (2018). The Global Reach of Imperial and Colonial Archaeology,. In B. Effros, & G. Lai (Eds.), Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy (pp. xxi-xxxi). Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
2017
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)
Effros, B. (2017). Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s). BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 50(1), 61-81. doi:10.1017/S0007087417000024
The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis
Effros, B. (2017). The Enduring Attraction of the Pirenne Thesis. Speculum, 92(1), 184-208. doi:10.1086/689473
2016
Museum-building in nineteenth-century Algeria Colonial narratives in French collections of classical antiquities
Effros, B. (2016). Museum-building in nineteenth-century Algeria Colonial narratives in French collections of classical antiquities. JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS, 28(2), 243-259. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhv035
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan: Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
Effros, B. (2016). Competitive Archaeology in Jordan: Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites. COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY, 58(2), 590-592. doi:10.1017/S0010417516000219
Christian Sapin, Les cryptes en France. Pour une approche archéologique, IVe-XIIe siècle (Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2014)
Effros, B. (2016). Christian Sapin, Les cryptes en France. Pour une approche archéologique, IVe-XIIe siècle (Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2014). H-FRANCE, 16. Retrieved from http://www.h-france.net/vol16reviews/vol16no253Effros.pdf
Faire de l’archéologie chrétienne en France à la fin du XIXe siècle
Effros, B. (2016). Faire de l’archéologie chrétienne en France à la fin du XIXe siècle. In M. Delcourt-Vlaeminck (Ed.), Le R. P de la Croix, un Tournaisien archéologue. Exposition créée au Musée d’Archéologie de Tournai (Belgique) du 15 octobre 2016 au 17 avril 2017 (pp. 40-43). Tournai: Musée d’Archéologie de Tournai.
Peur du genre? Oublier les Amazones pour mieux connaître les femmes du haut moyen âge
Effros, B. (2016). Peur du genre? Oublier les Amazones pour mieux connaître les femmes du haut moyen âge. Bulletin de Liaison de l’Association française d’archéologie mérovingienne, 40, 83-89.
2015
Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis
Effros, B. (2015). Spong Hill IX: chronology and synthesis. ANTIQUITY, 89(347), 1260-1261. doi:10.15184/aqy.2015.122
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
Effros, B. (2015). The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 120(1), 309-310. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.1.309
Allen J. Frantzen, Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England, Anglo-Saxon Studies 22 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014),
Effros, B. (2015). Allen J. Frantzen, Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England, Anglo-Saxon Studies 22 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2014),. The Medieval Review, 15.05.09.. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3631
2014
The Merovingian cemetery of Bergeijk-Fazantlaan
Effros, B. (2014). The Merovingian cemetery of Bergeijk-Fazantlaan. ANTIQUITY, 88(339), 330-331. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00050602
BLAMING IT ON THE "BARBARIANS" <i>Alleged Uses of Nose</i>-<i>Cutting Among the Franks</i>
Effros, B. (2014). BLAMING IT ON THE "BARBARIANS" <i>Alleged Uses of Nose</i>-<i>Cutting Among the Franks</i>. JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY, 26(1), 74-80. doi:10.1353/jowh.2014.0016
2013
La professionalisation de l’archéologie mérovingienne au XIXe siècle
Effros, B. (2013). La professionalisation de l’archéologie mérovingienne au XIXe siècle. In C. Lorren (Ed.), La Gaule, le monde insulaire et l’Europe du Nord au haut Moyen Âge. Actualité de l’archéologie en Normandie (Ve-Xe siècles). Actes des XXVIIe Journées internationales d’Archéologie mérovingienne, Caen, 29 septembre – 1er octobre 2006 (Vol. 28, pp. 355-363). 2013: AFAM.
2012
Uncovering the Germanic Past Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914
Effros, B. (2012). Uncovering the Germanic Past Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914. Oxford University Press.
'Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme': Hortense Lacroix Cornu (1809-1875) and the Musee des Antiquites Nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Effros, B. (2012). 'Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme': Hortense Lacroix Cornu (1809-1875) and the Musee des Antiquites Nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Journal of the History of Collections, 24(1), 25-43. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhq044
Casimir Barrière-Flavy and the (Re)Discovery of Visigoths in Southwestern France
Effros, B. (2012). Casimir Barrière-Flavy and the (Re)Discovery of Visigoths in Southwestern France. In S. Patzold, A. Rathmann-Lutz, & V. Scior (Eds.), Geschichtsvorstellungen. Bilder, Texte und Begriffe aus dem Mittelalter. Festschrift für Hans-Werner Goetz (pp. 559-576). Cologne: Böhlau.
Looking for Christians among the Barbarians: Merovingian-Era Cemeteries and the Origins of Medieval France
Effros, B. (2012). Looking for Christians among the Barbarians: Merovingian-Era Cemeteries and the Origins of Medieval France. Quaestiones medii aevi novae, 17, 57-68.
2011
Contested Origins: French and German Views of a Shared Archaeological Heritage in Lorraine
Effros, B. (2011). Contested Origins: French and German Views of a Shared Archaeological Heritage in Lorraine. In G. Klaniczay, & M. Werner (Eds.), Multiple Antiquities—Multiple Modernities: Ancient History in Nineteenth-Century European Cultures (pp. 305-333). Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.
Thoughts on the Provenance of Some Merovingian-Era Buckles at the University of Missouri
Effros, B. (2011). Thoughts on the Provenance of Some Merovingian-Era Buckles at the University of Missouri. MVSE: Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri, 44-45, 59-79.
Writing History from Manuscript and Artifact: Building an Object-Based Narrative of the Early Middle Ages in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Effros, B. (2011). Writing History from Manuscript and Artifact: Building an Object-Based Narrative of the Early Middle Ages in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France. In Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (pp. 133-150). Turnhout: Brepols.
2010
Caring for Body and Soul Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World
Effros, B. (2002). Caring for Body and Soul Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World. University Park, PA: Penn State Press.
Anthropology and Ancestry in Nineteenth-Century France: Craniometric Profiles of Merovingian-Period Populations
Effros, B. (2010). Anthropology and Ancestry in Nineteenth-Century France: Craniometric Profiles of Merovingian-Period Populations. In W. Pohl, & M. Mehofer (Eds.), Archäologie der Identität (Vol. 17, pp. 233-244). Vienna: Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,.
2009
Artistic, Scholarly, and Popular Depictions of the ‘première race’ in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Effros, B. (2009). Artistic, Scholarly, and Popular Depictions of the ‘première race’ in Late Nineteenth-Century France. In H. Reimitz, & B. Zeller (Eds.), Vergangenheit und Vergegenwärtigung: Frühes Mittelalter und europäische Erinnerungskultur (Vol. 14, pp. 71-91). Vienna: Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
The Germanic Invasions and the Academic Politics of National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Effros, B. (2009). The Germanic Invasions and the Academic Politics of National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France. In J. Bak, J. Jarnut, & P. Monnet (Eds.), Gebrauch und Missbrauch des Mittelalters, 19.-21.Jahrhundert/Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages, 19th-21st Century/Usages et mésuages du Moyen Age du XIXe au XXIe siècle (Vol. 17, pp. 81-94). Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
2008
Selling archaeology and anthropology: early medieval artefacts at the <i>Expositions universelles</i> and the <i>Wiener Weltausstellung</i>, 1867–1900
Effros, B. (2008). Selling archaeology and anthropology: early medieval artefacts at the <i>Expositions universelles</i> and the <i>Wiener Weltausstellung</i>, 1867–1900. Early Medieval Europe, 16(1), 23-48. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00220.x
Themed edition: Early medieval material culture in the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century imagination
EFFROS, B., & WILLIAMS, H. (2008). Themed edition: Early medieval material culture in the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century imagination. Early Medieval Europe, 16(1), 1-2. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.00222.x
Auf der Suche nach Frankreichs ersten Christen: Camille de la Croix und die Schwierigkeiten eines Klerikers als Archäologe im späten 19. Jahrhundert
Effros, B. (2008). Auf der Suche nach Frankreichs ersten Christen: Camille de la Croix und die Schwierigkeiten eines Klerikers als Archäologe im späten 19. Jahrhundert. In S. Brather (Ed.), Zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter: Archäeologie des 4. bis 7. Jahrhunderts im Westen (Vol. 57, pp. 119-146). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Early Medieval Europe
Effros, B., & Williams, H. (Eds.) (2008). Early Medieval Europe (Vol. 16). Wiley-Blackwell.
2006
Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity
Effros, B. (2006). Grave goods and the ritual expression of identity. In From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms (pp. 189-234).
2005
Art of the 'Dark Ages': Showing Merovingian artefacts in North American public and private collections
Effros, B. (2005). Art of the 'Dark Ages': Showing Merovingian artefacts in North American public and private collections. Journal of the History of Collections, 17(1), 85-113. doi:10.1093/jhc/fhi002
2004
Dressing Conservatively: Women’s Brooches as Markers of Ethnic Identity?
Effros, B. (2004). Dressing Conservatively: Women’s Brooches as Markers of Ethnic Identity?. In L. Brubaker, & J. M. H. Smith (Eds.), Gender and the Transformation of the Roman World: Women, Men and Eunuchs in Late Antiquity and After, 300-900 CE (pp. 165-184). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2003
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages
Effros, B. (2003). Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages. Univ of California Press.
A Century of Remembrance and Amnesia in the Excavation, Display, and Interpretation of Early Medieval Burial Artifacts
Effros, B. (2003). A Century of Remembrance and Amnesia in the Excavation, Display, and Interpretation of Early Medieval Burial Artifacts. In J. Jarnut (Ed.), Erinnerungskultur im Bestattungsritual. Archäologisch-Historisches Forum (pp. 75-96). Paderborn: Institut zur Interdisziplinären Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens.
Editorial
Timmis, K., & Stahl, D. (2003). Editorial. Environmental Microbiology, 5(1), 1. doi:10.1111/1468-0254.00001
Memories of the Early Medieval Past: Grave Artifacts in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Effros, B. (2003). Memories of the Early Medieval Past: Grave Artifacts in Nineteenth-Century France and America. In H. Williams (Ed.), Archaeologies of Remembrance: Death and Memory in Past Societies (pp. 255-280). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
The Ritual Significance of Vessels in the Formation of Merovingian Christian Communities
Effros, B. (2003). The Ritual Significance of Vessels in the Formation of Merovingian Christian Communities. In R. Corradini, M. Diesenberger, & H. Reimitz (Eds.), The Construction of Communities in the Early Middle Ages: Texts, Resources and Artifacts (pp. 213-227). Leiden: E. J. Brill.
2002
Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul
Effros, B. (2002). Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul. In J. Snyder, & D. Koslin (Eds.), Encountering Medieval Dress and Textiles: Objects, Texts and Images (pp. 7-24). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Creating Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul
Effros, B. (2002). Creating Community With Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul. Macmillan.
2001
Monuments and Memory: The Repossession of Ancient Remains in Early Medieval Gaul
Effros, B. (2001). Monuments and Memory: The Repossession of Ancient Remains in Early Medieval Gaul. In M. de Jong, F. Theuws, & C. van Rhijn (Eds.), Topographies of Power in the Early Medieval West (pp. 93-118). Leiden: E. J. Brill.
2000
Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology
Effros, B. (2000). Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology. Antiquity, 74(285), 632-639. doi:10.1017/s0003598x00059998
1997
De partibus Saxoniae and the Regulation of Mortuary Custom: A Carolingian Campaign of Christianization or the Suppression of Saxon Identity?
Effros, B. (1997). De partibus Saxoniae and the Regulation of Mortuary Custom : A Carolingian Campaign of Christianization or the Suppression of Saxon Identity?. Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 75(2), 267-286. doi:10.3406/rbph.1997.4171
1996
Symbolic Expressions of Sanctity: Gertrude of Nivelles in the Context of Merovingian Mortuary Custom
Effros, B. (1996). Symbolic Expressions of Sanctity: Gertrude of Nivelles in the Context of Merovingian Mortuary Custom. Viator, 27, 1-10. doi:10.1484/j.viator.2.301119