Iris Shargir () is an Israeli historian, professor of the

Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel (, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance education, distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CHE). Open University ...

, with the interests in

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

, specifically, the history of

Crusades The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and at times directed by the Papacy during the Middle Ages. The most prominent of these were the campaigns to the Holy Land aimed at reclaiming Jerusalem and its surrounding t ...

and pilgrimage, relations between the three

Abrahamic religions The term Abrahamic religions is used to group together monotheistic religions revering the Biblical figure Abraham, namely Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The religions share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrasts them wit ...

, as well as the history of personal names in the Middle Ages.Iris Shagrir profile
at the Open University Since 2022 she is member of the Israeli Council for Higher Education. She was head of the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies of the Open University. Her distinctions include fellowship in the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

and lifetime membership of Clare Hall,

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. She is married to Oron Shagrir.

Books

*2022 (''The Beginnings of Europe: Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages'') *2021 (as an editor) ''Liturgy and Art as Constructors of Cultural Memory in the Middle Ages'' *2017: (''The Parable of the Three Rings and the Idea of Religious Toleration in Premodern European Culture'') (in Hebrew; English translation: 2019) **(from publisher's synopsis) "This study of the Parable of the Three Rings is the first full account in Hebrew of the history and the literary and allegorical origins of the parable, as well as of its reception from the early Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. The study provides evidence for the non-Western origins of the parable" *2003: ''Naming Patterns in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem'' ''Naming Patterns'' book review
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shagrir, Iris 1963 births Living people Israeli women historians Academic staff of the Open University of Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni