Associate Professor, Department of History
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Selected Publications:
Mercenary Logic: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2016).
"Monarchs and Minorities: ‘Infidel’ Soldiers in Mediterranean Courts," in The Globalization of Knowledge in the Worlds of Post-Antiquity, ed. Sonja Brentjes (Ashgate: forthcoming 2016)
“Theologies of Violence: The Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers by the Crown of Aragon,” in Past & Present 221:1 (Nov. 2013) *Winner of the Bishko Prize for best article published in the field of medieval Iberian history.*
“The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon,” in Medieval Encounters 19:1-2 (2013). Reprinted in Spanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean, ed. Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux, and Camillo Go´mez-Rivas (Brill, 2013).
“The Intimacy of Exception: The Diagnosis of Samuel Abenmenasse´,” in Center and Periphery: Studies on Power in the Medieval World in Honor of William Chester Jordan, ed. Katherine L. Jansen, G. Geltner, and Anne E. Lester (Brill, 2013).
“Tolerance is Not a Value,” in Building a Shared Future: Islam, Knowledge, and Innovation (Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2012).
Affiliation(s)
- CMENAS, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, ISP
Field(s) of Study
- Medieval Spain and North Africa
- Social, Cultural and Intellectual History of Religious Interaction
- Political Theology and Paleography
