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Ph. D. Dissertation
The Status of the Papacy and the Image of the Popes in the Early Avignon Period (1305-1334), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1981), Supervisors: Joshua Prawer and Aryeh Grabois.
1980
1. “Les Hébreux du XIVeme siècle: La formation des stéréotypes nationaux en France et en Angleterre,” Ethno-psychologie 35, pp. 55-65.
1982
2. “Contemporary Attitudes Concerning the Templars' Affair: Propaganda Fiasco?” Journal of Medieval History 8, pp. 135-147.
Translated into Russian,
http://www.templarhistory.ru/Menache_propagandas_fiasco/
3. “La naissance d'une nouvelle source d'autorité: L'université de Paris,” Revue historique 268-2, pp. 305-327.
1983
4. “Vers une conscience nationale: Mythe et symbolisme au début de la Guerre de Cent Ans,” Le Moyen Age 89, pp. 85-97.
1984
5. “Isabelle of France, Queen of England: A Reconsideration,” Journal of Medieval History 10, pp. 107-124.
6. “Philippe le Bel: Genèse d'une image,” Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire 62, pp. 689-702.
1985
7. “‘Un peuple qui a sa demeure à part’: Boniface VIII et le sentiment national français,” Francia 12, pp. 193-208.
8. “Faith, Myth and Politics: The Stereotype of the Jews and their Expulsion from England and France,” The Jewish Quarterly Review 75, pp. 351-374.
9. “Una historia que no se repite: El Reino Cruzado y el Estado de Israel,” Majshavot 24-3, pp. 81-86.
1986
10. “Holy Wars and Sainted Men: Christian War Propaganda in the Middle Ages,” Journal of Communication 36-2, pp. 52-62. [with Esther Cohenhttp://www.templarhistory.ru/home.php?e1El8M7j1F4vkE%26696HdljEBfDEIli10">http://www.templarhistory.ru/home.php?e1El8M7j1F4vkE%26696HdljEBfDEIli10
31. “The Humorous Stereotype of Women in Medieval Sermons,” Massachusetts Journal of Communication 11-1, pp. 34-42 [with Jeannine Horowitzhttp://templarhistory.ru/home.php?y62rbe1EkfzrkNjh9zHIFjryvDKcl2Fk">http://templarhistory.ru/home.php?y62rbe1EkfzrkNjh9zHIFjryvDKcl2Fk
46. “The ‘Pre-History’ of Communication,” in Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: The Pre-Modern Period (Brill: Leiden), pp. 1-13.
47. “Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: A Survey,” in Communication in the Jewish Diaspora: The Pre-Modern Period (Brill: Leiden), pp. 15-57.
48. “The Communication Challenge of the Early Crusades, 1099-1187,” in Autour de la première croisade, Actes du Colloque de la Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (Clermont-Ferrand, 22-25 juin 1995), ed. Michel Balard (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne), pp. 293-314.
49. “Matthew Paris and the Jews: A Reconsideration,” in Die Mittelalterliche Chronik, ed. Prof. Dr. Hans van Dijk (Utrecht: Utrecht University Press, 13-16 July 1996), pp. 69-70.
Book Review:
50. Ivan G. Marcus, Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), in Patterns of Prejudice 30, pp. 90-92.
1997
51. “Dogs: God’s Worst Enemies?” Society and Animals 5-1, pp. 23-44.
52. “Matthew Paris’s Attitudes Toward Anglo-Jewry,” Journal of Medieval History 23, pp.139-162.
Book Review:
53. David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), in Patterns of Prejudice 31, pp. 66-69.
1998
54. Clement V (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 351 pp., 4 maps.
55. “The Hospitallers During the Pontificate of Clement V: The Spoiled Sons of the Papacy?” in The Military Orders: Welfare and Warfare, ed. Helen Nicholson (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 153-162.
56. “Dogs: A Story of Friendship,” Society and Animals 6-1, pp. 67-86.
1999
57. “The Military Orders in the Crusader Period,” in Knights of the Holy Land: The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum), pp. 136-141; in Hebrew: pp. 116-121.
Book Reviews:
58. Norman Golb, The Jews in Medieval Normandy: A Social and Intellectual History (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1998), Speculum, pp. 468-470.
59. Charles F. Briggs, Giles of Rome’s De Regimine Principum: Reading and Writing Politics at Court and University, c. 1275-c. – c. 1525 (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1999), Church History 69-4, p. 989.
2000
60. “Hunting and Attachment to Dogs in the Pre-Modern Period,” in Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets, eds. Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth Paul and James A. Serpell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 42-60.
61. “Dogs in the Classical Tradition,” “Couched as a lion…who shall rouse him up,” Depictions of Animals from the Leo Mildenberg Collection (Museum Hecht, Haifa), pp. 53-57, 63-67.
Book Review:
62. Marco Mostert, ed., New Approaches to Medieval Communication (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999), The Medieval Review [online]. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 4 November 2000.
2001
Book Review:
63. Robin R. Mundill, England’s Jewish Solution: Experiment and Expulsion. 1262-1290 (Cambridge: C.U.P., 1998), Speculum 76-3, pp. 765-766.
2002
64. “Just War, Crusade and Jihad: Conflicting Propaganda Strategies During the Gulf Crisis (1990-1991), Revue Belge de Philologie et d’histoire 80, pp. 385-400 [with Daniel Gutwein]
Book Review:
65. Les origines de la féodalité: Hommage à Claudio Sanchez Albornoz, eds. Joseph Pérez et Santiago Aguadé Nieto (Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2000), Mediterranean Historical Review 17-2, pp. 86-88.
2003
66. “Pope Clement V,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 15 vols., ed. Berard L. Marthaler (Detroit, 2003), vol. 3, pp. 778-780.
67. “Pope Honorius IV,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 85-86.
68. “Pope John XXII,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 931-932.
69. “Pope Nicholas III,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 10, pp. 365-366.
70. “Pope Nicholas IV,” The New Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 10, pp. 366-367.
Book Reviews:
71. Helen Nicholson, The Knights Hospitaller (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2001), The Medieval Review [online]. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 22 January.
72. The Second Crusade: Scope and Consequences, eds. Jonathan Phillips and Martin Hoch (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), The Medieval Review [online]. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 12 September.
2005
73. "A Clash of Expectations: Self-Image Versus the Image of the Knights Templar in Medieval Narrative Sources," Analecta Turonensia 13, pp. 47-58.
74. “Animals in the Bible and Qu'ran,” Encyclopedia or Religion and Nature, eds. Bron R. Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan, 2 vols. (Bristol), vol. 1, pp. 76-78.
75. “Dogs in the Abrahamic Traditions,” Encyclopedia or Religion and Nature, vol. 1, pp. 497-498.
76. The Catholic Church in the Middle Ages: Ideology and Politics, 4 vols. (Tel Aviv: Open University) [Hebrew].
77. The Birth of Parliaments in the Middle Ages (Tel Aviv: Open University) [Hebrew].
78. “Chronicles and Historiography: The Interrelationship of Fact and Fiction,” Journal of Medieval History 32-4 (2006): 333-345.*
79. “Philip the Fair,” The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, ed. Alan V. Murray, 4 vols. (Santa Barbara), pp. 952-953.
80. “Matthew Paris,” The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, pp. 807-808.
81. “Communications,” The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, pp. 265-269.
82. “Vienne, Council of” The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, pp. 1230-1231.
83. “Clement V,” The Crusades: An Encyclopedia, pp. 262-263.
Book Review:
84. Piers D. Mitchell, Medicine in the Crusades: Warfare, Wounds, and the Medieval Surgeon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), in The International History Review 28-2, pp. 378-380.
2007
85. Selected Chapters in Medieval Political Philosophy (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence).
86. Human Beings and Other Animals, ed. with Benny Arbel et Iosi Terkel. (Jerusalem: Carmel)
87. "Violence Against Dogs: Religion and Ecology in Medieval Western Christendom," in Human Beings and Other Animals, pp. 193-209.
88. "Jacques de Molay, the Last Master of the Temple," in Knighthood of Christ: Essays on the History of the Crusades and the Knights Templar presented to Malcolm Barber on his 65th Birthday (Aldershot, 2007), pp. 229-240.
Book Review:
89 Karsten Plöger, England and the Avignon Popes: The Practice of Diplomacy in Late Medieval Europe (Oxford: Legenda, 2005), The Medieval Review [online]. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 30 January.
2008
90. "Medieval States and Military Orders: The Order of Calatrava in the Late Middle Ages," in In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar, eds. Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum, and Jonathan Riley-Smith (Adershot, 2008), pp. 457-468.
91. "Elections in the Military Orders in the Late Middle Ages: An Achilles' Heel?" Analecta Turonensia 14 (2007), pp. 1-15.
92. "When Jesus met Mohammed in the Holy Land: Attitudes Toward the "Other" in the Crusader Period," Medieval Encounters 14 (2008), pp. 218-237.
93. "Israeli Historians of the Crusades and Their Main Areas of Research, 1946-2008," Storia della Storiografia, 53 (2008), pp. 3-24.
94. "Communication in the Jewish Diaspora," Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 3 vols., ed. M. Avrum (ABC-CLIO, USA), vol. 1, pp. 38-42.
95. "Iglesia y Monarquía en la Edad Media Tardía: Conflictos y Semejanzas," Acta Mediaevalia Historica et Archaelogica 29 (2008), pp. 497-516.
Book Review:
96. Michel Balard, Les Latins en Orient: XIe-XVe siècle (Paris: Presses universitaires de France – Nouvelle Clio, 2006), in Crusades 7 (2008), pp. 223-225.
2009
97. "Written and Oral Testimonies in Medieval Chronicles: Matthew Paris and Giovanni Villani," The Medieval Chronicle 6 (2009), pp. 1-30.
98. "Ustnaya tradicia v chronikah: texti i istoricheskie contexti," in: Odysseus. Man in history. Script/Oralia: the Written and the Oral in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (Moscow, 2008), pp.. 89-115. [English version in 101]
Book Review:
99. Sebastian Coxon, Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages: German Comic Tales 1350 – 1525 (Oxford: Legenda, 2008), The Medieval Review [online]. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 26 September 2009.
2010
100. "O amor de Deus ou o ódio ao seu inimigo? As vozes emocionais das Cruzadas," Mirabilia 10 (2010), pp. 1- 20 [on line]
101. "Orality in Chronicles: Texts and Historical Contexts," in Homo Legens (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 161-193. [Russian version in 97]
102. “Tartars, Jews, Saracens, and the Jewish-Mongol Plot of 1241,” [no. 43] in Travellers, Intellectuals, and the World Beyond Medieval Europe, in The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500, eds. James Muldoon and Felipe Fernández-Armesto [Ashgate, 2010), pp. 247-270.
2011
103. "When Ideology Met Reality: Clement V and the Crusade," La papauté et les croisades: The Papacy and the Crusades Crusades – Subsidia 3, ed. Michel Balard (Farnham), pp. 105-116.
104. “Obraz sebia i obraz Drugogo v Ierusaimskom korolevstve” [Self-Image and "the Other" in the Second Crusader Kingdom: 1187-1291], in Obrazi proshlogo (Images of the Past) -- Studies in Medieval Culture in Honour of Aaron Gurevitch, eds. Svetlana Luchitskaya, Kirill Levinson, et al. (San Petersburg), pp. 566-580 [Russian].
2012
105. "Papal Attempts at a Commercial Boycott of the Muslims During the Crusader Period," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63-2, pp. 1-24.
106. “Political Propaganda in Papal Documentation: The Gelasian Theory from a Communication Perspective,” Edad Media: Revista de Historia 13, pp. 57-76.
107. “Isabella of France, Queen of England: A Postscript,” Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire 90-2, pp. 1-20.
108. "From Unclean Species to Man's Best Friend -- Dogs in the Biblical, Mishnah, and Talmud Periods," In A Jew's Best Friend?: The Image of the Dog Throughout Jewish History, eds. Rakefet Zalashik and Philip Ackerman Lieberman (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2012), pp. 36-51.
Book Review
109. Jochen Burgtorf, Paul F. Crawford, and Helen J. Nicholson, eds., The Debate on the Trial of the Templars (1307-1314) (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010), H-France Review 12 (2012), no. 78 [on line]
110. Femmes de pouvoir, femmes politiques durant les derniers siècles du Moyen Âge et au cours de la première Renaissance, eds. Eric Bousmar, Jonathan Dumont, Alain Marchandisse and Bertrand Schnerb (Brussels, Éditions De Boeck Université, 2012), Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire 90-4 (2012).
2013
111. Un retazo del olvido: De Damasco a Buenos Aires (CreateSpace), 378 pp., 40 illustrations.
2014
112. "Emotions at the Service of Politics: Another Perspective of the Experience of Crusading (1095-1187)," in Jerusalem the Golden: The Origins and Impact of the First Crusade, ed. Susan B. Edgington and Luis Garcia Guijarro (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 235-254.
113. “Netherworld Envoys or Man's Best Friends? Attitudes to Dogs in the Ancient World,” in Routledge Handbook of Human Animal Studies, eds. Garry Marvin and Susan McHugh (Routledge), pp. 114-123.
2015
114. "Frente a la desaparición: Un testimonio," Diversidad.net (Universidad 3 de Febrero), 8
115. "After twenty-five Years: Joshua Prawer's Contribution to the historiography of the Crusades and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Reconsidered," in The Crusader World, ed. Adrian J. Boas (Abingdon: Routledge), 675-687.
2016
116. “Pursuit of Peace in the Service of War: Papal Policy between 1198 – 1334,” in Religion and Peace: Historical Aspects, ed. Yvonne Friemann (Abingdon: Routledge)
117. “Cultural Hero: From Damascus to Buenos Aires,” Sharsheret Hadorot 3 (July), pp. 26-33 [Hebrew]
118. “Regnum, Sacerdotium and Studium in the Late Middle Ages: The University of Paris,” in Disputatio: Wissenschaft im Kontext Externe Bezüge issenschaftlichen Entscheidens an der mittelalterlichen Universität, Jahrbuch für Universitätsgeschichte 19, pp. 125-143.
2018
119. Crusading and Trading between West and East: Studies in Honour of David Jacoby on his 90th Birthday, ed. with Benjamin Z. Kedar and Michel Balard (Abingdon: Routledge)
2019
Communicating the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Sophia Menache, ed. Iris Shagrir, Benjamin Kedar and Michel Balard (Abingdon: Routledge)
2020
120. “In the Frontiers of the Former Kingdom of Jerusalem: Risk of Misunderstandings – A View from Israel,” in Controversial Histories, Current Views on the Crusades in an International Comparison, vol. 3, ed. Felix Hinz and Johannes Mayer-Hamme (London, Routledge), pp. 72-74
121. From Damascus to Buenos Aires: An Elusive Family Journey [Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Carmel)
122. “From Damascus to Buenos Aires: The Story of an Immigrant,” [Hebrew], Michan umisham 31 (2920): 27-31.
123.“The Challenges of Medieval Communication: The Military Orders,” Analecta Turonensia
124. “Childhood in Damascus: Amal’s story,” [Hebrew] Michan umisham 32 (2020), pp. 10-15.
125. “Understanding the Crusades: The Contribution of Correspondence,” Festschrift in Honor of Adrian Boaz
Book Review
126. Jay Rubenstein, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream: The Crusades, Apolcalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), English Historical Review (October)
Forthcoming
127. "In Pursuit of Peace in a Conflicted Area: The Israeli Contribution to the Study of the Crusades," Proceedings of the Terruel Conference, ed. Luis Garcia Guijarro.
128. “Communications,” European Dictionary of the Military Orders
129. "Clement V," European Dictionary of the Military Orders
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