Professor of History
Indiana University, Bloomington
ddeliyan@indiana.edu
Omnia disce, videbis postea nichil esse superfluum
"Learn everything, for you will see that it is all useful later on."
-Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalion, vi, 3, 12th century
Teacher: "I ask you why you are so eager to learn?"
Pupil: "Because we do not wish to be like stupid animals that
know
nothing but grass and water."
- Ælfric of Eynsham
(955-1020), Colloquy
Course webpages, Spring 2024
H206:
Medieval Civilization
J425:
History Capstone Seminar
Old course
webpages:
B348:
Byzantine History (fall 2023)
J300:
Medieval Queens and Empresses (fall 2023)
B351:
Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages (fall 2022)
J300:
Early Medieval England (fall 2022)
C390:
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (fall 2021)
J300:
Pagans and Christians in the Middle Ages (spring 2021)
H610/710:
Medieval Historiography (fall 2020)
B208:
Pagans and Christians in the Middle Ages: (spring 2018)
H610/710:
Ethnicity and Identity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: (fall 2017)
J400:
Capital Cities (fall 2016)
H610/710: Essential Readings in Late Antiquity (fall 2014)
H610/710:
The Fall of Rome (fall 2013)
H206:
Medieval Civilization (honors section) (spring, 2012)
H610/710:
The Anglo-Saxon World (fall, 2011)
H610/710:
Barbarians (spring, 2011)
J400:
Pagans and Christians in the Early Middle Ages (spring, 2010)
H610:
Essential Readings in Early Medieval History (spring, 2010)
E104:
Pagans and Christians in the Middle Ages (fall, 2009)
H610:
Medieval Rome (spring, 2007)
J400:
Anglo-Saxon England (fall, 2006)
B204:
Medieval Heroes (spring, 2006)
A214:
Art and Life in Ancient Rome (fall, 2005)
A329:
Art of the Anglo-Saxon World (summer, 2005)
E103: Sacred
Places (spring, 2005)
B352:
Later Medieval History (spring, 2005)
A101:
Ancient and Medieval Art
(spring, 2004)
Other
material
Curriculum vitae
Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (with Hendrik Dey and Paolo Squatriti, Cornell University Press, 2019)
Ravenna
in Late Antiquity
(Cambridge
University
Press, 2010)
Maps of
Ravenna
The
Medieval Review
(TMR)