Miri Rubin

Professor Miri Rubin

Miri Rubin (Template:Langx; born 1956) is a historian and professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate and was later awarded a research fellowship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Girton College.<ref name=qmul>Template:Cite web</ref> Between 1989 and 2000 she held a tutorial fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford and a university lectureship, then readership, in the Faculty of History.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rubin studies the social and religious history of Europe between 1100 and 1500, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life.

In 2012 she gave a Turku Agora Lecture.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2017 she gave the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2024, she delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Feminine and the Religious Imagination at the University of Aberdeen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Her books have been well received in newspapers and academic journals. The Guardian calls her Hollow Crown "a magnificent history of the late Middle Ages".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The TLS reviews her Cities of Strangers as a "thoughtful and pioneering book".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Between 2020 - 2025, Rubin served as president of the Jewish Historical Society of England.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bibliography

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• Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), Template:ISBN
• Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), Template:ISBN, ed. with David Abulafia and Michael Franklin
• Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994), Template:ISBN, ed. with Sarah Kay
• The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997), Template:ISBN
• Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), Template:ISBN
• The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (London: Allen Lane, 2005), Template:ISBN
• Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Template:ISBN, ed. with Laura Gowing and Michael Hunter
• The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 4 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Template:ISBN, ed. with Walter Simons
• Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Allen Lane, 2009), Template:ISBN
• The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, (London: Penguin, 2014), Template:ISBN, trans. with an introduction Miri Rubin
• Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), Template:ISBN