I am an historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. My research focuses on the social, cultural and intellectual history of the post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval West; Western Liturgy; early medieval Latin Palaeography and Codicology. I have published numerous articles and several books, among them Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, 481-751 (1995); The Sacramentary of Echternach (1997); The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (2001); Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (2007).

I am currently teaching in the Department of History (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and I am the Director of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies.

 

Fields of Interest and Research

  • Social, cultural and religious history of the late-antique and the early medieval World
  • The post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of Western Europe and North Africa
  • The early medieval Mediterranean
  • Early Christian liturgy
  • Latin palaeography and codicology
  • The Middle Ages in film and TV adaptations

 

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