Dr Rebecca Rist
Contact Details
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Background
When and where did you initially develop an interest in the history of the crusades and/or the Latin East?
Did Medieval History ‘A’ Level including a course on the crusades. Then gap Year in the Middle East
Who or what sparked your enthusiasm for the subject?
Initially my school teacher at ‘A’ Level and then MPhil and PhD supervisor Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
Education
Please provide details of your Higher Education, including dates, institution(s) and the name(s) of your research supervisors.
2005-2006 St Edmund’s College Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2000-2004 Clare Hall University of Cambridge
PhD Medieval History. Supervisor Professor JSC Riley-Smith
1999-2000 Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
MPhil Medieval History. Supervisor Professor JSC Riley-Smith
1995-1999 Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
BA Literae Humaniores
Career History
Please provide details of your academic career history, including confirmation of your current institutional affiliation and contact details.
- 2005-2006 St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2006 onwards Lectureship in Medieval History at the University of Reading
Influences and Methodologies
What ideas and/or methodologies have informed your approach to your research?
Detailed analysis of language / rhetoric
Research Outlook
What do you consider to be the most important avenues for future research in the field of crusader studies?
Papal policy and crusading –much more detailed analysis of papal letters needed.
Much more detailed study needed of Arabic sources for the crusades.
Research Output
Please provide details of your research output, including publications and other media as appropriate.
‘Papal Policy and the Albigensian Crusades; Continuity or Change?’, Crusades 2 (2003), pp 99-108.
‘Papal Protection and the Jews in the Context of Crusading, 1198-1245’, Medieval Encounters (2007), pp 281-309.
‘The Power of the Purse: Usury, Jews and Crusaders 1198-1245’, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, ed B Bolton and C Meek (Brepols, 2007), pp 197-216.
Forthcoming book : The Papacy and ‘Internal’ Crusades, 1198-1245 (Ashgate, 2008)
Further article currently in the pipeline: ‘From Innocent III to Innocent IV: Papal Crusading Policy and the Jews’.
