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Professor Andrew Jotischky
Professor of Medieval History
Degree: MA, MPhil, PhD
Associated research centres and groups: Dynamics of Memories
Current Teaching
HIST292, 293, 313 HIST401
Research Interests
- Monasticism and medieval Religious Orders.
- Hermits and eremitical spirituality.
- The Carmelite Order.
- The Crusades and the Crusader States, especially cultural interaction between Franks and indigenous peoples.
Current research
The Norman Edge: Identity and State-Building on the Fronteris of Europe: AHRC funded project in partnership with Prof Keith Stringer, Dr Alex Metcalfe, Dr Ewan Johnson. See www.lancs.ac.uk/normanedge
Monasticism in the Crusader States: a joint project with Professor Bernard Hamilton (University of Nottingham). A comprehensive survey of Latin and Greek Orthodox monastic and religious houses in the Near East from the 11th to 14th centuries.
Crusaders and Native Peoples: a study of cultural attitudes of Frankish settlers to subject peoples of the Crusader States.
With Dr Sarah Barber and collaborators from Germany, France, USA, Sweden, Finland: Ethnicity and the Construction of Prejudice in Pre-Modern Europe, 1200-1700 (A British-Academy funded international network project).
Publications
Books
A Hermit's Cookbook. Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages (London: Continuum Books, 2011)
The Crusades (ed, with introdcuction) 4 vols. Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (London: Routledge, 2008)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World [with Caroline Hull] ( Harmondsworth: Penguin 2005)
Crusading and the Crusader States (Harlow: Longmans, 2004)
The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and their Pasts in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
The Perfection of Solitude. Monks and Hermits in the Crusader States (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995).
Recent Articles
'The Fortunes of War: An Eleventh-Century Greek Liturgical Manuscript (Sinai gr 512) and its History', Crusades 9 (2010)
'The Christians of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre and the Origins of the First Crusade' Crusades 7 (2008), 35-57
'Geography and Travel in the Middle Ages', in Medieval Travel Writing. A Digital Resource (Adam Matthew Digital, 2007)
'Mendicants as Missionaries and Travellers in the Near East in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries', in Rosamund Allen (ed.), Eastward Bound. Travel and Travellers in the Medieval Mediterranean 1050-1500 (Manchester: MUP, 2004).
'Penace and Reconciliation in the Crusader States: Matthew Paris, Jacques de Vitry and the Eastern Christians', in K. Cooper and J. Gregory (eds.), Retribution and Reconciliation, Studies in Church History 40 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), 74-83.
'Ethnographic Attitudes in the Crusader States: The Franks and the Indigenous Orthodox People', in Krijnie Ciggaar and Herman Teule (eds.), East and West in the Crusader States. Context, Contacts, Confrontations III, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 125 (Leuven: Peeters, 2003), 1-20.
'Greek Orthodox and Latin Monasticism around Mar Saba under Crusader Rule', in J. Patrich (ed), The Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present (Leuven: Peeters, 2001), 85-96.
'The Frankish Encounter with the Greek Orthodox in the Crusader States: the Case of Gerard of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene', in Michael Gervers and James M. Powell (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance. Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), 100-16.
'History and Memory as Factors in Greek Orthodox Pilgrimage to the Holy Land under Crusader Rule', in R. N. Swanson (ed), Holy Lands, the Holy Land and Christian History, Studies in Church History 36 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), 110-22.
5 short articles in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on Carmelite and Franciscan friars
5entries in Alan Murray (ed) Encyclopedia of the Crusades (ABC-CLIO, 2006) on aspects relating to the Crusader Church
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Medieval religious history
Monasticism and religious orders
Crusades and Crusader States
Religious/cultural interactions in medieval Mediterranean
Associated Keywords: Crusades, History, Middle Ages, Monasticism, Religion
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Contact Details
Tel: (5)94979
Room: Bowland, B02