Professor Aryeh Grabois

Contact Details

Department of History
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905
Israel
Tel 972-4-8249481
Fax 972-4-8249195

Email: arag@research.haifa.ac.il

Background

When and where did you initially develop an interest in the history of the crusades and/or the Latin East?

Who or what sparked your enthusiasm for the subject?

I became aware of the topic in the fifties, inspired by my late teacher, Professor Joshua Prawer.

Education

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  • 1955 - 58 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (BA)
  • 1958 - 60 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (MA)
  • 1961 - 63 University of Dijon (France) - PhD Supervisor Professor Robert Folz

Career History

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  • 1963 - 64 Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Lecturer 
  • 1963 - 98 University of Haifa: 1968 - Senior Lecturer (Tenure)
  • 1973 - Professor of Medieval History
  • 1976 - 9 Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
  • 1986 - 91 Dean of the Graduate School
  • Visiting Professor:       
    1979 - 80 University of California, Berkeley
    1991 - 92 University of Mainz (Germany)
    1993 Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton (US) Fellow
    1994 CNRS Paris - Directeur de Recherche Associé
  • 1998 University of Haifa - Professor Emeritus of Medieval History

Influences and Methodologies

What ideas and/or methodologies have informed your approach to your research?

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Research Outlook

What do you consider to be the most important avenues for future research in the field of crusader studies?

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Research Output

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  • "Le privilège de croisade et la régence de Suger", Revue historique du Droit français et étranger, (1964), 458-465.
  • (Hebrew) "Christian Pilgrimage in Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and its Impact on Contemporary Mind", The Mediterranean Sea in Jewish and General History, Jerusalem, 1970, p 68-95.
  • "La citéde Baniyas et le château de Subeibeh pendant les croisades", Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 13 (1970), 43-62.
  • (Hebrew) "Acre as the Gateway of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the Crusader Period", Studies in the History of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, 2 (1972), 93-106.
  • "Le pèlerin occidental en Terre sainte à l'époque des croisades et ses réalités: Jean de Würzburg", Mélanges E-R. Labande, Poitiers, 1974, p 367-376.
  • (Hebrew) "The Relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine during the Crusader Period", Middle Eastern Studies, N° 22 (1976), 28 pp
  • (Hebrew) "The Jewish Settlement of haifa in the Middle Ages", Studies in the History of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, 4 (1978), 147-159.
  • (Hebrew) "The Coastal Area of Northern Palestine in the Crusader Period", Coast and Sea, Tel Aviv, 1978, p 73-85.
  • "Navigation et traffic maritime dans la Méditerranée au VIIIe siècle selon les sources hagiographiques", Orient et Occident à travers les âges, Nice, 1982, p 7-13.
  • "Christian Pilgrims in the Thirteenth Century and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: Burchard of Mount Sion", Outremer: Studies Presented to Joshua Prawer, Jerusalem, 1982, p 285-296.
  • "Les pèlerins occidentaux en Terre sainte et Acre: d'Accon des croisés à Saint-Jean d'Acre", Studi Medievali, III, 24 (1983), 247-264.
  • (Hebrew) "The Galilee during the Crusades", The Lands of Galilee, Tel Aviv, 1983, I, p 283-300.
  • (Hebrew) "On the Image of an Historical Reminiscence: the Street of the Jews in Jerusalem in the Crusader Period", Essays Presented to Zeev Vilnay, Jerusalem, 1984, p 179-182.
  • (Hebrew), "From Holy Geography to Palestinography: Changes in the Descriptions of Thirteenth Century Pilgrims", Jerusalem Cathedra, 31 (1984), 43-66,
  • "Anselme, l'Ancien Testament et l'idée de Croisade", Les mutations socio-culturelles au tournant des XIe-XIIe siècles, Paris, 1984, p 161-173.
  • "The Crusade of Louis VII, King of France: A Reconsideration", Crusade and Settlemnt, Cardiff, 1985, p 95-104.
  • "Anglo-Norman England and the Holy Land", Anglo-Norman Studies, 7 (1985), 132-141.
  • (Hebrew) "Landscape and Agriculture of the Holy Land as Related by Early Medieval Pilgrims", Man and Land in Eretz-Israel in Antiquity, Jerusalem, 1986, p 244-254.
  • (Hebrew) "Travels and Pilgrimages by Jews in Palestine in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries", Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1986, vol II, p 63-70.
  • (Hebrew) "Attachment and Strangeness in the Pilgrims' Attitude to the Holy Land in the Crusader Period", Jerusalem Cathedra, 41 (1986), 38-54.
  • "Islam and Muslims as Seen by Western Pilgrims in the Holy Landin the Thirteenth Century", Asian and African Studies, 20 (1986), 309-327.
  • (Hebrew), "Jews and Israel in the Twelfth-Century Crusading Chronography", Studies in Historiography, Jerusalem, 1987, p 85-100.
  • "Pèlerins d'expression française aux XIIe-XIIIe siècles", Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 35 (1987), 31-41.
  • "Medieval Pilgrims, the Holy Land and its Image in European Civilization", Pillars of Smoke and Fire, Johannesburg, 1988, p 65-79
  • "Louis VII pèlerin", Revue d'Histoire de l'Eglise de France, 74 (1988), 5-22.
  • "Les pèlerins occidentaux en Terre sainte au moyen âge: une minorité étrangère dans sa patrie spirituelle", Studi Medievali, III, 30 (1989), 15-48.
  • (Hebrew) "From Travellers on Boat to Passengers' Ships: Pilgrims Transport in the Middle Ages", Israel - People and Land, 22 (1989), 155-164.
  • "Le conept du Contemptus mundi dans les pratiques des pèlerins occidentaux en Terre sainte à l'époque des croisades", Medievalia Christiana Hommage à Raymonde Foreville, Paris, 1990, p 290-306.
  • "Aspects économiques et logistiques du pèlerinage an M"diterranée du XIIe au XVe siècle", La France et la Méditerranée, Leiden, 1990, p 228-240.
  • "Le monachisme latin dans le royaume de Jérusalem: impact politique et encadrement religieux", Naissance et fonctionnement des réseaux monastiques et canoniaux, Saint-Etienne, 1991, p 425-435.
  • "The Description of Jerusalem by William of Malmesbury.Mirror of the Holy Land's Presence in the Anglo-Norman Mind", Anglo-Norman Studies, 13 (1991), 43-56.
  • "Militia and MalitiaCharacterizing the Bernanrdine Vision of Chivalry"; The Second Crusade and the Cistercians, New York, 1992, p 49-56.
  • "L'autre dans le royaume latin de Jérusalem. Typlogie des rapports interreligieux", Proceeding of the International Congress of Historical Studies, Madrid, 1992, vol II, p 605-616.
  • "La découverte du monde musulman par les pèlerins européens au XIIIe siècle", Al-Masaq, 5 (1992), 29-46.
  • (Hebrew) "Qalath Namrud and the Crusader Fortification System in the Golan Heights", The Golan and the Hermon, Tel Aviv, 1993, p 393-402.
  • (Hebrew) "The Nobility of Acre in the Last Generation of the Crusader Kingdom in the Mirror of the Local Scriptorium", Festschrift Moshé Dothan, Haifa, 1993, p 271-278.
  • "La Terre sainte à la veille de la première croisade", Il concilio di Piacenza e le Crociate, Piacenza, 1996, p 273-283.
  • "La fondation de l'abbaye du Templum Domini et la légende du temple de Jérusalem au XIIe siècle", Autour de la première Croisade, Paris, 1996, p 231-237.
  • "La bibliothèque du noble d'Outremer dans la seconde moitié du XIIIe siècle", Le Moyen Age, 103 (1997), 53-66.
  • "The Cyclical Views of History in the Late Thirteenth-Century Acre", From Clermont to Jerusalem, Turnhout, 1998, p 131-139.
  • Le pèlerin occidental en Terre sainte au moyen âge, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998.
  • "Nobility and Knighthood in the Crusader World", Knights of the Holy Land: the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1999, p 124-131.
  • "Une conséquence du brülement du Talmud à Paris: le développement de l'école talmudique d'Acre", Le brûlement du Talmud à Paris, 1242-1244, Paris, 1999, p 47-56.
  • "La chronographie hébraïque des croisades. Mémoire et rédaction des témoignages", Revue des Etudes Juives, 159 (2000), 79-98.
  • "Terre sainte et Orient latin vus par Willebrand d'Oldenbourg", Dei Gesta per Francos. Mélanges Jean Richard, Aldershot, 2001, p 261-268.
  • "La description de l'Egypte au XIVe siècle par les pèlerins et voyageurs occidentaux", Moyen Age, 109 (2003), 529-543.
  • "The First Crusade and the Jews", The Crusades: Other Experiences, Alternate Perspectives, Binghamton, 2003, p 13-26.
  • "Les pèlerinages du XIe siècle en Terre sainte dans l'historiographie occidentale de l'époque", Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique, 101 (2006), 531-546.

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