Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia

Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College;
College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History

Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge CB3 0BU Tel: (+44) (0)1223 (3)32193 asa1001@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

Twelfth and thirteenth-century intellectual history with particular emphasis on the medieval Christian-Jewish debate.

Undergraduate Teaching

The main undergraduate papers taught are: Paper 14, European History c. 900 - c. 1215; Paper 19 (Part I) / Paper 3 (Part II), The History of Political Thought before 1700.

Areas of Research Supervision

Teaches Chronology to students taking the MPhil in Medieval History, supervises students taking option 2 of that course ('The Normans in European History') on a variety of intellectual, theological and cultural topics. Also supervises students taking the MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History on medieval topics. PhD students work in similar areas, for example, 'Exempla and the dissemination of ideas about Jews and Muslims in twelfth- and thirteenth century Christian Europe', ‘Roman philosophy in the political thought of John of Salisbury’. 'Female moneylending and wetnursing in Jewish-Christian relations in thirteenth-century England and Normandy'

Books include:

• Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995).
• Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000-1150) (1998).
• Editor of Religious Violence between Christians and Jews: medieval roots, modern perspectives (2002).