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Updated: July 2009
Personal
Education
| 2003 |
PhD (summa cum laude), Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Academic Positions
| 2007 |
Lecturer in Medieval History, The Open University of Israel |
| 2009 |
Senior lecturer in Medieval History, The Open University of Israel |
Research Areas
- Development of naming-systems in the Middle Ages and the anthroponymic systems of migration societies
- Social History of the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Latin responses to the fall of Acre, 1291
- Liturgy and Liturgical Drama in Frankish Jerusalem
- Jerusalem in the 12th century, holy places and pilgrimage
Sponsored Research
| 2009-2012 |
Israel Science Foundation, personal research grant: "Creating a Frankish Capital: Jerusalem in the 12th century" |
Membership in Professional Societies
| Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France (CNRS), Anthroponymie et déplacements : migrations, réseaux, métissage dans la chrétienté médiévale (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP), Université de Paris I) |
| The Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford University |
| Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East |
Courses Taught
| Pilgrimage in Judaism Christianity and Islam (Open University) |
| The Crusading Movement (Ben Gurion University) |
| The Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem (Ben Gurion University) |
| Medieval Monasticism (Hebrew University) |
| The Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Hebrew University) |
| Course coordinator and tutor: The Beginnings of Europe (Open University) |
Publications
PhD Dissertation
| “Personal Names in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: A New Approach to the Study of Frankish Society.” Supervisors: B.Z. Kedar (HU) and M. Bourin (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) |
Books and Monographs
| Naming Patterns in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Oxford, Prosopographica et Genealogica, Publications of the Unit for Prosophographical Research, Oxford University, 2003). |
Edited Books
| In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, Edited by Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2007). |
Textbooks
| The Crusades: History and Historiography (Hebrew, in preparation). |
| “Charlemagne and the Crusaders,” appendix, in Y. Hen, Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne (Tel Aviv, The Open University, 2005, Hebrew). |
| The Beginnings of Europe, Vol. 4: East and West (co-author) (Tel Aviv, The Open University, 2003, Hebrew). |
| The Beginnings of Europe, Vols. 1-3 (writing team) (Tel Aviv, The Open University, 2003, Hebrew). |
Selected Chapters and Articles
| “The Visitatio Sepulchri at the Latin Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem,” Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 22:1 (2010, forthcoming). |
| “Bynames in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem,” in Anthroponymie et déplacements: migrations, réseaux, métissage, ed. M. Bourin (Publications de la Casa de Velazquez, Madrid 2009, in print). |
| “The Feast of the Resurrection at the Crusader Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem,” Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel, 20 (2007), pp.31-56. |
| “The Medieval Evolution of By-Naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem,” in In Laudem Hierosolymitani, pp. 49-59. |
| “The Naming Patterns of the Inhabitants of Frankish Acre,” Crusades 4 (2005), pp. 107-16. |
| “Document: Love is in the Air,” Zemanim: a Historical Quarterly 89 (2005), pp.96-98. |
| “The Parable of the Three Rings: A Revision of Its History,” The Journal of Medieval History, 23(1997), pp.163-177. |
Book Reviews
| Review of: D. Postles and J. Rosenthal, eds., Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2006), in Bulletin of International Medieval Research (forthcoming, 2009). |
| Review of: Marwan Nader, Burgesses and Burgess Law in the Latin Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1099-1325) (Ashgate, 2006), in Speculum. A Journal Medieval Studies, 2008; 83 (1), pp. 222-223. |
| Review of: Amnon Linder, Raising Arms: Liturgy in the Struggle to Liberate Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages (Turnout, 2003), in Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel, 20 (December 2008) (in Hebrew). |
| Review of: M. Bull, N. Housley, P. Edbury and J. Phillips, eds., The Experience of Crusading (2 vols.) (Cambridge, 2003), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 23.1 (2008), pp. 58-64. |
| Review of: Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney, eds., France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades (Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 21:1 (2006). |
| Review of: Alan V. Murray, The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History (Oxford, 1999), in Speculum, 80:4 (October 2005), p. 1139. |
| Review of: Y. Hen, ed., De Sion exhibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem. Essays on Medieval Law, Liturgy and Literature in Honour of Amnon Linder (Tournhout, Brepols, 2001), in Mediterranean Historical Review, 19:2 (December 2004), pp. 81-82. |
Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences
| “Creating a Frankish Capital: Jerusalem in the 12th century,” invited paper presented at the Groupe d’Orient latin, Centre d’Etudes Byzantines et du Proche-Orient, CNRS-Université de Paris I –Panthéon-Sorbonne, May 16, 2009. |
| “The Fall of Acre as a Mental Crisis: Riccoldo of Monte Croce and Thaddeus of Naples” submitted to the 2008 conference of the Society for the Study of Crusades and the Latin East, 27-31.8.2008, Avignon, France. |
| “The perception of war and defeat in Riccoldo’s letters to Heaven, 1291,” Conference on Holy War in the Past and Present: The Crusader Phenomenon and the Conflict Between East and West, Jerusalem, Institute of Advance Studies, 1-6, June, 2008. |
| “The Study of names as a tool for historical research: interim conclusions and implications for the future,” Haifa University seminar for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, May 15, 2008. |
| “Les noms et surnoms dans le Royaume latin de Jérusalem,” Anthroponymie et déplacements : migrations, réseaux, métissage dans la chrétienté médiévale. Casa de Velazquez, Madrid ,Colloque organisé par le LAMOP / Université de Paris1- CNRS, 28-29 May 2007. |
| “The Characteristics of Migrant Naming Systems in the Eastern Mediterranean,” Université de Paris1-CNRS, Paris, December 18-19, 2006 |
| “The Visitatio Sepulchri at the Crusader Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem,” International medieval Conference, Leeds, UK, July 11, 2006 |
| “Looking through liturgy: ritual, audience and space in the Crusader Church of the Holy Sepulcher” Art, Liturgy, and Religious Cult in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation and the Department of the Arts, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, June 13, 2006 |
| “The Easter Celebration at the Crusader Holy Sepulcher Church in Jerusalem,” The Middle Ages - Now!, conference on current research in the Middle Ages, Ben Gurion University, March 31, 2006 |
| “The Evolution of By-naming in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Norman Kingdom in Italy - an interim report,” Université de Paris1-CNRS, Paris, December 16, 2005. |
| “By-names and surnames in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Preliminary Findings,” Systèmes de Dénomination - Anthroponymie et Migrations à L’époque médiévale, Université de Paris1-CNRS, Paris, September, 2004. |
| “Anthroponymie et Migrations à L’époque médiévale,” Université de Paris1-CNRS, Paris, February 2004. |
| “Names and Identities in the Latin Kingdom,” Workshop on Names and Identities in the Medieval Mediterranean World, organized by the Unit for Prosopographical Research, Oxford University, June, 2003, (invited paper). |
| “The anthroponymic patterns of the Frankish settlers in the Mediterranean,” La Puglia tra Gerusalemme e Santiago di Compostella, Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Bari-Brindisi, December 2002. |
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