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Contributors

Jonathan Adams is docent and research fellow for the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities at the Department of Scandinavian Lan- guages, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has also been a researcher at the Dan- ish Society for Language and Literature, and a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications on medieval interreligious relations include articles in Danske Studier (2010, 2013) and Rambam (2012) as well as the books Lessons in Contempt: Poul Ræff’s Translation and Publication in 1516 of Johannes Pfeffer- korn’s The Confession of the Jews (2013), and The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching (co-editor, 2014). Adams is co-editor of Medieval Sermon Studies and his current research interests include the portrayal and use of Mus- lims and Jews in medieval East Norse literature, medieval preaching, and Bir- gittine literature.

Bjørn Bandlien is associate professor at the Department of History, Sociology and Innovation, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Norway. He has most recently published a study on the Armenian embassy to Norway in the early fourteenth century (Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies), and an article on images of Muslims in Fighting for the Faith and Images of the Other (2015). He has also edited an anthology on Eufemia of Rügen, queen of Norway from 1299 to 1312, with the title Eufemia: Oslos middelalderdronnning (2012). His research interests include Scandinavia and the crusades and the political and cultural relations between Norway and the Eastern Mediterranean. He is currently working on a study of a manuscript of the Old French translation of William of Tyre’s chronicle. This manuscript has been attributed to an Antio- chene scriptorium, but its first known owner was Queen Isabella Bruce of Nor- way.

Sarit Cofman-Simhon is senior theatre lecturer at the School of Performing Arts, Kibbutzim College of Education and Arts, Tel-Aviv, Israel. She is also academic advisor for the Theatre Department of Emunah College of Arts, Jerusalem. Her major publications include “Performing Jewish Prayer on Stage: From Rituality to Theatricality and Back” (2014), “African Tongues on the Israeli Stage: A Re- versed Diaspora” (2013), and “From Alexandria to Berlin: The Hellenistic Play Exagoge Joins the Jewish Canon” (2012). Her research interests include theatre in diverse Jewish communities. She is currently working on a book on artists of Ethiopian origin in Israel. xiv Contributors

Richard Cole is a PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, USA. He has taught Old Norse at Aarhus Uni- versity and University College London, and been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard. He has published articles on the treatment of Jews and Judaism in Old Norse literature in the journals Scandinavian Studies, Medieval Encounters, and Postmedieval. Richard is broadly interested in the literature of medieval Scandinavia, and is currently working on several projects which all intersect with questions concerning the containment and manipulation of desire.

Michalina Duda is a PhD student in the Department of Auxiliary Historical Sci- ences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Among her publications are Lekarze w państwie zakonu krzyżackiego w Prusach w XIV–XV wieku (2013) and Ze świata średniowiecznej symboliki. Gest i forma przysięgi w chrześcijańskiej Europie (X–XV w.) (co-author, 2014). Her current research fo- cuses on the issues of communication and dispute resolution at the frontier of the Kingdom of Poland and the State of the Teutonic Order in the Late Middle Ages.

Christian Etheridge is a PhD student at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include medieval science and scientific manuscripts as well as the transmission of ideas and trade in the Baltic region during the Middle Ages. He is currently working on his PhD project on the centres of scientific learning in medieval Scandinavia and a book on the herring market in the Øresund during the Late Middle Ages.

Yvonne Friedman is professor of medieval history at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat- Gan, Israel, and the Chair of the Board of Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusa- lem. Her early research dealt with Christian-Jewish polemics – Peter the Vener- able’s adversus judeorum inveteratam duritiem (1985) – and comparative studies in Christian and Jewish mores – e.g., “Community Responsibility toward its Members: The Case of Ransom of Captives” (A Holy People: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, eds. J. Schwartz and M. Poorthuis, 2006). Her book Encounter between Enemies: Captivity and Ransom in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (2002) was the beginning of her current research on peace processes between Chris- tians and Muslims in the Latin East to be published as a book named Interludes of Peace in the Latin East: Perceptions and Practices. Another project in work is Guide my Sheep: Catholic Guides of Holy Land Pilgrims – Historical and Ethno- graphic Aspects funded by Israel Scientific Foundation, and the reception of medieval antisemitic images in medieval Norway.

Cordelia Heß is docent and senior lecturer in the Department of Historical Stud- ies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a research fellow for the Royal Contributors xv

Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University and has also been a fellow at Tel Aviv University, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüt- tel, and Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Berlin. Her work centres on questions of religion, language, and culture in the Baltic Sea region. Her publications include Heilige machen im spätmittelalterlichen Ostseeraum (2008) and Social Imagery in Middle Low German (2013). A second focus of her work is modern antisemitism and the extreme right, for example “The Third Reich without the Holocaust” (Zeitgeschichte, 2012), and Rechtspopulismus kann töd- lich sein (2013). She is currently working on a study on the Teutonic Order’s policy for the treatment of Jews in medieval Prussia.

Kay Peter Jankrift studied history, Semitic and Romance philology, and Oriental sciences at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, and the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. His MA dissertation (1993) dealt with the Syriac chronicles of the crusades, his PhD thesis (1995) with the development of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, and he achieved habilitation in 2002. Cur- rently he is researching and teaching medical history and ethics at the Tech- nische Universität München and at the Universität Ulm.

Veronika Klimova is a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poz- nań. Her current research interests include Karaite Catechisms, the self-identi- fication of the East European Karaites, and the Sefer Massah u-Meriva (1838) by Abraham Firkowicz.

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department for the History of Baltic Countries at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Po- land. His publications include Zakon niemiecki jako “corporatio militaris”. 1: Korporacja i krąg przynależących do niej. Kulturowe i społeczne podstawy dzia- łalności zakonu w Prusach (do początku XV wieku) (2012). He is interested in the military activity of the Teutonic Order in medieval Prussia and of the towns and townsmen in the Baltic region, the social and corporative memory of the Teutonic Order in the Baltic region, and the culture of war and war as part of culture in agrarian and traditional communities. His current research projects are the Troops of the Teutonic Order in Prussia (1230‒1525): The Corporation, her Prussian Dominion, Armed Men, Culture of War, and Military Activity, and Townsmen under Arms. The Military Activity of the Towns in the Baltic region (Thirteenth‒Sixteenth Centuries).

Shlomo Lotan is a fellow at the Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar- Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. His major publications include The Teu- tonic Order in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem 1190–1309 – Mutual Relationships xvi Contributors between the Latin East and Europe (2012), and the articles “The Battle of La Forbie (1244) and its Aftermath – Re-examination of the Military Orders In- volvement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the mid-Thirteenth Century” (Ordines Militares 2012), and “Hermann von Salza und sein Beitrag zur Frie- densstiftung im lateinischen Osten” (Sprache, Macht, Frieden, eds. J. Burk- hardt, K. P. Jankrift, and W. E. J. Weber, 2014). His research interests include devotion of the Military Orders and their organization after the fall of Acre and the loss of the Latin Kingdom in 1291. He is currently working on editing a special issue of Revista Internacional d’Humanitats on the occasion of the sev- en-hundred-year anniversary of the dissolution of the Templar Order (1314– 2014).

Madis Maasing is a PhD student of general history at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published on the sixteenth-century ‘Russian threat’ in Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana (2010). His research interests include political relations and rhetoric in Livonia in the sixteenth century, and relations between Livonia and the Holy Roman Empire in the same period. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis that encompasses all the aforementioned research interests.

Elina Räsänen is currently senior lecturer in art history at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She specializes in late medieval art and material culture of Northern Europe, with a special focus on wood sculptures and panel paintings. Her research interests include corporeal and material aspects of art and its experience, as well as iconography. Räsänen is the author of Ruumiillinen esine, materiaalinen suku (2009), co-editor of Methods and the Medievalist (2008) as well as author of a number of articles published in peer-reviewed journals and collections such as Taidehistoriallisia tutkimuksia – Konsthistoriska studier (2007 and 2010), Suomen Museo (2012 and 2014), and Locating the Middle Ages: The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (2012). Her work-in-progress con- cerns the art of Master Francke of Hamburg.

Stefan Schröder is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Fin- land. He has also worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Kassel and Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany. His dissertation on Otherness in late medieval pilgrimage reports and on the writings of the Dominican monk Felix Fabri in particular was published in 2009 (Akademie Verlag). His research interests include images of Islam and Judaism in travel reports, the cultural transfer between the Arabic-Islamic and Latin-Christian World and the cultural memory of the Crusades in the Middle Ages. He is currently working on a monograph on the impact and transformation of Arabic cartographical knowledge in Latin- Christian medieval maps. Contributors xvii

Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė is associate professor in the Faculty of History at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and director of the Centre for Study of Culture and History of East European Jews, Vilnius. In addition to a number of articles, she has published the monograph Žydai Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės vi- suomenėje: sambūvio aspektai (2009) and is a co-editor of Synagogues in Lithu- ania. A Catalogue, vols. 1–2 (2010, 2012) and Lietuvos žydai: istorinė studija (2012). Her current international project is focused on the historical demogra- phy of the Jewish community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late eigh- teenth century and based on the first census of Jews in the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth (1764–1765).