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 species; as well as the ...

, and instructor at

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and at

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in the city of New York.

Career

Her work examines medieval

religious order A religious order is a subgroup within a larger confessional community with a distinctive high-religiosity lifestyle and clear membership. Religious orders often trace their lineage from revered teachers, venerate their Organizational founder, ...

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

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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 A scriptorium () was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the copying and illuminating of manuscripts by scribes. The term has perhaps been over-used—only some monasteries had special rooms set aside for scribes. Often they ...

'', 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