Miri Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miri Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miri |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 37 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Authority, Genre and Resistance
Presentism's Useful Anachronisms
Marc Bloch once wrote, ‘The good historian resembles the ogre of legend. Wherever he senses human flesh, he knows that there lies his prey’.1 For nothing animates the historian so much as the sense of human presence. Where ogres of legend smell or hear their prey, historians track their subjects down from a distance, following traces left in documents, objects, on the environment. Historians are always at work in their present, its activities and…
Religious Conversion
Exchange, environments, and resources
‘Exchange, environments, and resources’ considers natural resources and their uses within an economic system of production and exchange. Food and raw materials from arable and pasture sustained the population at most times, but also formed the basis for manufacture and exchange, and was supplemented by trade in luxuries. Natural resources were closely controlled by landlords. After the collapse of demand for food following the catastrophic Black …
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction explores the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity of the period of European history between 500 and 1500 and the impact that this period has had on the modern day world. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became barbarian kingdoms after c.450–650, to the northern and eastern regions, which were increasingly integrated into Europe, this volume describes the emergence of a truly globa…
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages (c.500-1500) includes a thousand years of European history. In this introduction, Miri Rubin tells the story of the times through the people and their lifestyles. Including stories of kingship and Christian salvation, agriculture and trade, Rubin demonstrates the remarkable nature and legacy of the Middle Ages.
Religious Conversion
Cults of Saints
The cult of saints in the Middle Ages is considered here through the operation of gender. Gender is shown to be have determined who was considered a saint, how holiness was pursued by individuals, described in hagiography, remembered, and approached. Early Christian communities admired heroic martyrdom in men and women, but medieval religious institutions offered men many more opportunities to develop saintly reputations: as bishops, hermits, and…
Charisma and religious authority
Emotion and Devotion
This penetrating explanation of medieval European religious experience is a revealing description of how Mary became so embedded in our culture that it is impossible to conceive of Western history without her. Draws on a wide range of sources--including music, poetry, theology, art, scripture, and miracle tales. Of three chapters the first, The Global Middle Ages, considers the current historiographical frame for the study of religious cultures a…
Mary and the Middle Ages
For just over a thousand years the Virgin Mary was central to any attempt to defend or explain Christian Orthodoxy. From the formulations at Ephesos and Chalcedon Mary formed part of the understanding of a God made Flesh and of a picture of redemption which was all-embracing in its promise and tantalizing in its accessibility. This essay shows just how wide and diverse were the medieval ways of thinking about Mary and the ways of exploring the po…
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800
This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the
Mary
Mary – mother of Jesus – is a truly global figure. Following mission and conquest since the Middle Ages the figure of the mother of the Christian God has been received and domesticated in every continent. Around her even today complex worlds of emotion, vision, nurture, cult and politics revolve. Yet in Christian scripture very little is said about Mary. The stories through which Mary was figured and imagined – with tales of her childhood, mother…
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts
What is Cultural History Now
In his book Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account, Adam Kuper advises us to avoid altogether the use of that ‘hyper-referential word’, ‘culture’.1 It has come to denote too much and thus came to mean too little. The same might be said of the use of ‘cultural history’, which may cover quite traditional histories of artistic and intellectual production as well as something different, called by some the ‘new cultural history’.2 For while shame-faced…
Europe Remade
SOME of the most cherished arrangements, the most comforting statements, the most confident claims about the nature of a society living under a divinely sanctioned sacramental–sacerdotal order, were given very different meanings in late medieval Prague, Paris and Pontefract. Such divergence and difference had always been a pattern of European life, as variety applied not only to climate, economic systems, language and political institutions, but …
The Visual and the Visionary
Whose Eucharist? Eucharistic Identity as Historical Subject
Through the experiences of a medieval historian and the experiences which have led to her engagement with the Eucharist in the Middle Ages this paper traces some of the ways in which medieval people assumed or discarded identities through their relationships with the Eucharist. The many ways in which the image encompassing an incarnate God in a wheaten disc allowed individual and groups to assert selfhood, difference and specificity are considere…
"Le pauvre malade" dans le cadre hospitalier medieval
Reviewed by: “Le pauvre malade” dans le cadre hospitalier médiéval: France du nord, vers 1300–1500 Miri Rubin Annie Saunier. “Le pauvre malade” dans le cadre hospitalier médiéval: France du nord, vers 1300–1500. Paris: Editions Arguments, 1993. vi + 278 pp. Ill. $30.00 (paperbound). Whereas many of the studies of hospitals in recent years have taken the form of a local urban study—like Gonthier’s book on Lyon, and Maréchal’s work on Ghent—Annie S…
Church and City, 1000-1500
In and out of the Ghetto
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 982–983, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.982 Published: 01 September 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Pages 442-b–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.442-b Published: 01 April 1995
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.719 Published: 01 July 1995
Presentism's Useful Anachronisms
Marc Bloch once wrote, ‘The good historian resembles the ogre of legend. Wherever he senses human flesh, he knows that there lies his prey’.1 For nothing animates the historian so much as the sense of human presence. Where ogres of legend smell or hear their prey, historians track their subjects down from a distance, following traces left in documents, objects, on the environment. Historians are always at work in their present, its activities and…
Europe Remade
SOME of the most cherished arrangements, the most comforting statements, the most confident claims about the nature of a society living under a divinely sanctioned sacramental–sacerdotal order, were given very different meanings in late medieval Prague, Paris and Pontefract. Such divergence and difference had always been a pattern of European life, as variety applied not only to climate, economic systems, language and political institutions, but …
Choosing Death? Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Europe
Probably one of the most emotive words in our ethical and religious languages, ‘martyrdom’ poses the historian with a complex array of powerful images and awesome actions. Its very naturalness, as a grounding moment through which religions and radical movements are substantiated and made public, raises serious problems of perspective, empathy, judgement: studying martyrdom brings us in touch with some of the most admirable and some of the most re…
Corpus Christi Fraternities and Late Medieval Piety
While most scholars agree that fraternities played a major role in the religious and social experiences of late medieval folk in town and village, little has been said about the characteristics which allowed these voluntary associations to fulfil so major a role. Were religious fraternities cherished as venues for more rigorous personal participation in which lay men and women could shoulder duties and tasks beyond those demanded by the Church, o…
Charity and Community in Medieval Cambridge
The Jews in Christian Europe 1400-1700
The Formation of a Persecuting Society
The Medieval English Universities
Medieval Women
Journal Article MEDIEVAL WOMEN: York, 10–13 September 1990 Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 214–217, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.214 Published: 01 March 1991
Laienfrömmigkeit im späten Mittelalter
Desecration of the Host
A New tale entered the circle of commonplace narratives about Jews which were known to men and women in the thirteenth century: the tale of Host desecration. This new narrative habitually unfolded (i) an attempt by a Jewish man to procure (buy, steal, exchange) a consecrated Host in order to (2) abuse it (in re-enactment of the Passion, in ridicule of bread claimed to be God), (3) only to be found out through a miraculous manifestation of the abu…
The Culture of Europe in the Later Middle Ages
The Culture of Europe in the Later Middle Ages* Miri Rubin Miri Rubin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 33, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 162–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/33.1.162 Published: 01 March 1992
Corpus Christi
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access Terrain: Carnets du Patrimoine éthnologique, 18 (March 1992), Paris, Imprimerie nationale, pp. 164. MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 6, Issue 2, August 1993, Pages 305-b–306, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/6.2.305-b Published: 01 August 1993
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue CCCCXXIX, October 1993, Pages 1002-b–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.CCCCXXIX.1002-b Published: 01 October 1993
Choosing Death? Experiences of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Europe
Probably one of the most emotive words in our ethical and religious languages, ‘martyrdom’ poses the historian with a complex array of powerful images and awesome actions. Its very naturalness, as a grounding moment through which religions and radical movements are substantiated and made public, raises serious problems of perspective, empathy, judgement: studying martyrdom brings us in touch with some of the most admirable and some of the most re…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 431, April 1994, Pages 414–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.431.414 Published: 01 April 1994
Church and City 1000-1500
List of illustrations Preface List of abbreviations 1. Christopher Brooke at Cambridge, Liverpool and London Marjorie Chibnall, Robert Markus and Rosalind Hill Part I. Urban Life and the Language of Religion: 2. Religious culture in town and country: reflections on a great divide Miri Rubin 3. Theology and the Commercial Revolution: Guibert of Nogent, St Anselm and the Jews of northern France Anna Sapir Abulafia 4. City and politics before the co…
Church and City, 1000-1500
In and out of the Ghetto
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 438, September 1995, Pages 982–983, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.438.982 Published: 01 September 1995
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 436, April 1995, Pages 442-b–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.436.442-b Published: 01 April 1995
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access MIRI RUBIN MIRI RUBIN Pembroke CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 719–720, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.719 Published: 01 July 1995
"Le pauvre malade" dans le cadre hospitalier medieval
Reviewed by: “Le pauvre malade” dans le cadre hospitalier médiéval: France du nord, vers 1300–1500 Miri Rubin Annie Saunier. “Le pauvre malade” dans le cadre hospitalier médiéval: France du nord, vers 1300–1500. Paris: Editions Arguments, 1993. vi + 278 pp. Ill. $30.00 (paperbound). Whereas many of the studies of hospitals in recent years have taken the form of a local urban study—like Gonthier’s book on Lyon, and Maréchal’s work on Ghent—Annie S…
Whose Eucharist? Eucharistic Identity as Historical Subject
Through the experiences of a medieval historian and the experiences which have led to her engagement with the Eucharist in the Middle Ages this paper traces some of the ways in which medieval people assumed or discarded identities through their relationships with the Eucharist. The many ways in which the image encompassing an incarnate God in a wheaten disc allowed individual and groups to assert selfhood, difference and specificity are considere…
Europe Remade
SOME of the most cherished arrangements, the most comforting statements, the most confident claims about the nature of a society living under a divinely sanctioned sacramental–sacerdotal order, were given very different meanings in late medieval Prague, Paris and Pontefract. Such divergence and difference had always been a pattern of European life, as variety applied not only to climate, economic systems, language and political institutions, but …
The Visual and the Visionary
What is Cultural History Now
In his book Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account, Adam Kuper advises us to avoid altogether the use of that ‘hyper-referential word’, ‘culture’.1 It has come to denote too much and thus came to mean too little. The same might be said of the use of ‘cultural history’, which may cover quite traditional histories of artistic and intellectual production as well as something different, called by some the ‘new cultural history’.2 For while shame-faced…
History (28 works) · Art (22 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Classics (14 works) · Medieval Literature and History (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Religious studies (10 works)