College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History
Cambridge
CB3 0BU
Subject groups/Research projects
- Ancient and Medieval History:
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Medieval intellectual history
- Political Thought And Intellectual History:
Research Interests
Twelfth and thirteenth-century intellectual history with particular emphasis on medieval Christian-Jewish relations.
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 have worked/work in similar areas, for example, the political thought of John of Salisbury, Jewish female moneylending in thirteenth-century England,’crusade and reform: the language of Christian martyrdom and medieval Christian-Jewish relations’, perceptions of Jews in twelfth-century Christian glosses on the Psalms.
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 and Specified Paper in Part II on 'The Jewish Presence in Medieval Society'.
Key Publications
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).
- Christian-Jewish relations, 1000-1300. Jews in the service of medieval Christendom (2011).