Maya Maskarinec Associate Professor of History University of Southern California Commons username: @mayamaskarinec Following 8 members View ProfileActivitySites 0CORE deposits 18Following 8Followers 13Groups 5DiscussionsDocs Academic Interests Commons GroupsHCByzantine StudiesEarly MedievalHistoryLate AntiquityMedieval Studies Recent Commons Activity deposited Legal Expertise at a Late-Ten… deposited Invoking Gregory on the Caeli… deposited Annulling Inherited Contracts… deposited Citation of Law as a Legal Ar… Work Shared in COREArticlesLegal Expertise at a Late-Tenth-Century Monastery in Central Italy, or Disputing Property Donations and the History of Law in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s ChronicleAnnulling Inherited Contracts: Legal Possibilities and Strategies at Early Medieval Italian MonasteriesCitation of Law as a Legal Argument in an early eleventh-century breve from FarfaA Question of Tradition: Catholic Reformers on Gregory the Great’s BeardNuns as ‘Sponsae Christi’: The Legal Status of the Medieval Oblates of Tor de’ Specchi“Saints for All Christendom: Naturalizing the Alexandrian Saints Cyrus and John in Seventh- to Thirteenth-Century Rome.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017): 337–366“Why Remember Ratchis? Medieval Monastic Memory and the Lombard Past,” Archivio Storico Italiano 177.1 (2019): 3–57“Hagiography as History and the Enigma of the Quattro Coronati,” Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 93 (2017): 345–409“Ferdinand Gregorovius versus Theodor Mommsen on the City of Rome and Its Legends.” History of Humanities 1.1 (2016): 101-128“The Carolingian Afterlife of the Damasan Inscriptions.” Early Medieval Europe 23.2 (2015): 129–160Book chaptersInvoking Gregory on the Caelian in Medieval Rome: A Study of an Inscription at SS. Giovanni e PaoloClinging to Empire in Jordanes’ RomanaMobilizing Sanctity: Pius II and the Head of Andrew in Rome (2017)Foreign Saints at Home in Eighth- and Ninth-century Rome. The Patrocinia of Diaconiae, Xenodochia and Greek Monasteries (2014)Who Were the Romans? Shifting Scripts of Romanness in Early Medieval Italy (2013)EssaysMonastic Archives and the Law: Legal Strategies at Farfa and Monte Amiata at the Turn of the MillenniumBook reviewsReview of Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe: A Ritual Interpretation, by Nathan J. Ristuccia. The Medieval Review (TMR 18.11.01), 2018“Memories and memory practices in late-antique Rome.” Review of Rom in der Spätantike. Historische Erinnerung im städtischen Raum, ed. C. Witschel and R. Behrwald. Journal of Roman Archaeology 27 (2014): 909–913 Other PublicationsCity of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages. Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Blog Posts