Miri Rubin (; born 1956) is a historian and professor of medieval and early modern history at

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. She was educated at the

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and the

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, where she gained her doctorate and was later awarded a research fellowship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at

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. Between 1989 and 2000 she held a tutorial fellowship at

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and a university lectureship, then readership, in the Faculty of History. Rubin studies the social and religious history of

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between 1100 and 1500, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life. In 2012 she gave a Turku Agora Lecture. In 2017 she gave the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast. In 2024, she delivered the

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on ''The Feminine and the Religious Imagination'' at the

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. Her books have been well received in newspapers and academic journals. The ''Guardian'' calls her ''Hollow Crown'' "a magnificent history of the late Middle Ages". The '' TLS'' reviews her ''Cities of Strangers'' as a "thoughtful and pioneering book". Since 2020, Rubin has served as president of the

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Bibliography

* *''Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), *''Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), , ed. with

David Abulafia David Samuel Harvard Abulafia (born 12 December 1949) is an English historian with a particular interest in Italy, Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He spent most of his career at the University of ...

and Michael Franklin *''Framing Medieval Bodies'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994), , ed. with Sarah Kay *''The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History'' (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997), *''Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), *''The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages'' (London: Allen Lane, 2005), *''Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800'' (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), , ed. with Laura Gowing and Michael Hunter *''The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 4'' (Cambridge University Press, 2009) , ed. with Walter Simons *''Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary'' (Allen Lane, 2009), *''The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). *''Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich'', (London: Penguin, 2014), , trans. with an introduction Miri Rubin *''Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020),

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1956 births Academics of Queen Mary University of London Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge British medievalists British women medievalists Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Living people Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America 20th-century British historians 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British historians 21st-century British women writers Jewish women writers Jewish British writers Members of Academia Europaea Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford Historians of the University of Oxford {{UK-historian-stub