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Adam J. Kosto
Associate Professor
Columbia University
History
URL:
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Biography
Education
Ph.D. – Harvard University, 1996
M.Phil. – Cambridge University, 1990
B.A. - Yale University, 1989
Current Departmental Service
Curriculum Coordinator, Space Committee
Interests and Research
Adam Kosto, associate professor, specializes in the institutional history of medieval
Europe
, with a focus on
Catalonia
and the
Mediterranean
. He received his B.A. from Yale (1989), an M.Phil. from
Cambridge
(1990), and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1996). He is the author of Making Agreements in Medieval
Catalonia
: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000-1200 (2001), and co-editor of The Experience of Power in Medieval
Europe
, 950–1350 (2005) and Charters, Cartularies, and Archives: The Preservation and Transmission of Documents in the Medieval West (2002). He is currently working on a book on hostages as a mode of surety in medieval
Europe
and a project on the legal and documentary practices of laypeople in the Early Middle Ages.
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