Neslihan Şenocak (born in

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, c. 1976) is a Turkish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, and instructor at

Bilkent University Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...

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and at

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in the city of New York.

Career

Her work examines medieval

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s and the daily life in the thirteenth-century Italy, and her most recent project is on the relationship of violent crimes and

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in 13th-century

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. She is the author of several articles, as well as numerous book reviews. These works have been cited about 90 times in the academic literature.

Selected works

Articles

*"Circulation of Books in the Medieval Franciscan Order: Attitude, Methods, and Critics" in the '' Journal of Religious History'', 2004, *"Book Acquisition in the Medieval Franciscan Order", ''Journal of Religious History,'' 2003, *"The Franciscan Order and Natural Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century: A Relationship Redefined" in ''

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'', (Ecotheology 7.2) January 2003, *"Early Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Library Catalogues" in '' Scriptorium'', Vol. 59, Nº. 1, 2005, pags. 29-50,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Senocak, Neslihan 1976 births Living people Academic staff of Bilkent University Turkish women historians Columbia University faculty 21st-century Turkish historians People from İzmir