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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. 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. 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".

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

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and Michael Franklin *''Framing Medieval Bodies'' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994), , ed. with

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*''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 Laura Gowing is professor of early modern history at King's College London.Michael Hunter *''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 Women medievalists Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Living people Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America British women historians 20th-century British historians 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British historians 21st-century British women writers {{UK-historian-stub