Geary's primary area of research has been in the early Middle Ages,from circa AD 500 to circa 1100 His scholarship has made significant contributions to a number of areas of medieval social and cultural history,including the cult of relics,literacy and social memory,conflict and dispute resolution,and the formation of ethnic identity in early Europe. He has also published and spoken frequently on the development of medieval history as an academic discipline in Europe and the United States.[citation needed]
At UCLA from 2005 to 2012,Geary directed a multi-year,international collaborative project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to produce a computerized image and object database of the Plan of Saint Gall,a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from the early ninth century.[5]
At the Institute for Advanced Study,Geary worked with an interdisciplinary team of North American and European researchers to apply advanced DNA analysis to early medieval burial remains from Italy and central Europe to help understand population movement and social structures during the so-called "barbarian migrations".[6]
Manufacturing a Past for the Present:Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe,ed. J.M. Bak and P.J. Geary. Brill,2014.[7]
"Vivre en conflit dans une France sans état:Typologie des mécanismes de règlement des conflits (1050–1200)",Annales,E.S.C. (1985) pp.1107–1133.
Before France and Germany:The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World,Oxford University Press,New York,1988. French translation,Le monde Mérovingien Flammarion,1989. German Translation,Die Merowinger,C. H. Beck,1996 Korean Translation Vistabooks,1999.
Phantoms of Remembrance:Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millennium,Princeton University Press,1994. French translation Aubier 1996
Medieval Germany in America. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture 1995 (German Historical Institute,1996).
The Myth of Nations:The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton:Princeton University Press,2002. German Translation:Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom Werden der Nationen. Frankfurt:Fischer,2002.
Women at the Beginning:Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary. (Princeton:Princeton University Press,2006).
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