“Barbarians in Greece: Slavs or Avars?” paper presented at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 6-9, 2004

“Barbarians in Dark-Age Greece: Slavs or Avars?” In Civitas Divino-Humana. In honorem annorum LX Georgii Bakalov. Edited by Tsvetelin Stepanov and Veselina Vachkova, pp. 513-550. Sofia: Centăr za izsledvaniia na bălgarite Tangra TanNakRa IK, 2004.

“Colour perception, dyestuffs, and colour terms in twelfth-century French literature.” Medium Aevum 73 (2004): 43-65

“Introduction”: for the research dossier “East European Dark Ages: Archaeology, Linguistics, and the History of the Early Slavs.” East Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre-Est 31 (2004), no. 1: 43-47.

“L’administration byzantine dans les Balkans pendant la ‘grande brèche’: le témoignage des sceaux.” Bizantinistica 6 (2004): 155-190.

“Merovingian and Carolingian gift-giving practices,” paper presented in the Mellon colloquium in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, May 1, 2004

“Merovingian gift-giving,” lecture at the invitation of the Medieval Institute and the Department of History, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 17, 2004)

“Qagan, khan, or king? Power in early medieval Bulgaria (eighth to ninth centuries),” paper presented at the 2004 National Conference of the Historical Society, (Boothbay Harbor, June 3-6, 2004

Review of Rex Germanorum populus Sclavorum: An Inquiry into the Origin and Early History of the Serbs/Slavs of Sarmatia, Germania, and Illyria, by Ivo Vukcevich (Santa Barbara, 2001). In Canadian American Slavic Studies 38 (2004), no. 3: 334-336.

Review of The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, ed. by D. H. Green and F. Siegmund (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 6)(Woodbridge, 2003). In The Medieval Review 04.06.13.

Review of The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer, by Paul Stephenson (Cambridge, 2004). In The Medieval Review 04.10.13.

“The making of the Slavs in Greece: the Setton-Charanis controversy revisited,” guest lecture in the 2004-2005 Byzantino-Slavic lecture series “Archaeology and the Medieval Balkans” at the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, November 8, 2004)

“The Slavic lingua franca (Linguistic notes of an archaeologist turned historian).” East Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre-Est 31 (2004), no. 1: 125-148.

“Werner’s class I H of ‘Slavic’ bow fibulae revisited.” Archaeologia Bulgarica 8 (2004), no. 1: 59-78.