Richard Landes

Richard Allen Landes (born 1949) ^[1] is an American historian and author who specializes in medieval millennial thinking. Until 2015 he taught at Boston University, and then began working at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Biography

Landes is the son of Harvard Professor of Economics and History David Landes. ^[2] His early publications were concerned with hagiography; his first published monograph was a translation of the vita of Saint Martial; ^[3] his second on the scribe and forger Adémar de Chabannes. ^[4] Until 2015 he was a professor in the Department of History at Boston University, and the director of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies. Since 2015, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel. ^[5]

Landes was formerly married to historian Paula Fredriksen. ^[6] He lives with his wife in Jerusalem. ^[7]

Academic work

Landes specializes in millennial thinking in the Middle Ages, particularly around the year 1000. ^[8] In 2000, Landes published what was said to be the first encyclopedia on the topic of millennial movements in Europe, the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. ^[9] Landes also published "Celebrating Orientalism " wherein he argues that the Palestinian critic Edward Said and Arabs in general do not like to be orientalized because of honour-shame culture. ^{[10] [ better source needed ]}

In " Orientalism , a Thousand and One Times" ^[11] and "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood," ^[12] Landes' discourse is labelled Warientalist, a concept that refers to a discourse defined by power and sentiment rather than knowledge.

Pallywood

Main article: Pallywood

Landes coined the term Pallywood (a portmanteau for "Palestinian Hollywood"), described by Ruthie Blum as referring to alleged "productions staged by the Palestinians, in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news." ^[13]

From a cultural view, Landes said that the persistence of the Arab–Israeli conflict is due not to injustice or partiality, but to an honor-shame culture in both the Arab and Palestinian cultures. ^{[14] [15]}

Books

Monographs

• Landes, Richard A.; Paupert, Catherine (1991). Naissance d'Apôtre: Les origines de la Vita prolixior de Saint Martial de Limoges au XIe siècle. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN   978-2-503-50045-4.
• Landes, Richard A. (1995). Relics, apocalypse, and the deceits of history: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN   0-674-75530-8. ^[4]
• Landes, Richard A. (2011). Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780199753598.
• Landes, Richard A. (2022). Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America). Academic Studies Press. ISBN   978-1644696408.

Edited books, collections

• Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1987). Essays on the Peace of God: The church and the people in eleventh-century France. Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo University. OCLC   18039359.
• Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1992). The Peace of God: Social violence and religious response in France around the year 1000. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN   0-8014-2741-X.
• Landes, Richard A., ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. New York: Routledge. ISBN   0-415-92246-1.
• Landes, Richard A.; Van Meter, David; Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, eds. (2003). The apocalyptic year 1000: Religious expectation and social change, 950-1050. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-511191-5. ^{[16] [17]}
• Landes, Richard A.; Katz, Stephen, eds. (2012). The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York University Press. ISBN   9780814748923.

References

1. Auteur Richard Allen Landes (1949-....). Harvard historical studies (in French). Harvard University Press. 1995. ISBN   978-0-674-75530-7 . Retrieved 17 July 2025.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
2. Martin, Douglas (September 8, 2013). "David S. Landes, Historian and Author, Is Dead at 89". The New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2015.
3. Burke, Tony (2016). Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspective. ISD. p. 327. ISBN   9780227905517.
4. Jones, Anna Trumbone (2008). "Discovering the Aquitanian Church in the Corpus of Adamar of Chabannes". In Morillo, Stephen; Morillo, Stephen R.; North, William (eds.). The Haskins Society Journal 19: 2007. Studies in Medieval History. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 82–96. ISBN   978-1-84383-393-2.
5. "Richard A. Landes, CV". 27 January 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
6. "Paula Fredriksen (name)". John Bulow Campbell Library. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
7. "Richard Landes". Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
8. Cohen, Paul A. (1999). "Time, Culture, and Christian Eschatology: The Year 2000 in the West and the World". The American Historical Review . 104 (5): 1615–1628. doi:10.2307/2649354. JSTOR   2649354.
9. Buss, Carla Wilson (2001). "Reviewed Work(s): Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements; Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society by Richard A. Landes". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 40 (4): 381. JSTOR   41241416.
10. Landes, Richard (Winter 2017). "'Celebrating' Orientalism". Middle East Quarterly.
11. Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (30 September 2020). "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times: A Tale of Two Perspectives". Islamic Studies. 59 (3): 285. doi:10.52541/isiri.v59i3.854. ProQuest   2535247374.
12. Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (1 April 2021). "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood". Arab Studies Quarterly. 43 (2): 121–145. doi: 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.2.0121 . JSTOR   10.13169/arabstudquar.43.2.0121. S2CID   235849344.
13. One on One: Framing the debate, Jerusalem Post
14. Landes, Richard (2007). "Edward Said and the Culture of Honour and Shame: Orientalism and Our Misperceptions of the Arab–Israeli Conflict" . Israel Affairs. 13 (4): 844–858. doi:10.1080/13537120701445315 – via Taylor & Francis.
15. Landes, Richard (2019). "Oslo's Misreading of an Honor-Shame Culture" . Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs. 13 (2): 189–205. doi:10.1080/23739770.2019.1678314 – via Taylor & Francis.
16. Lifshitz, Felice (2004). "Review of The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050". Speculum . 79 (4): 1110–1112. doi:10.1017/S0038713400087133. JSTOR   20463117.
17. Appleby, David (2009). "Review of The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050". The Catholic Historical Review . 95 (1): 120–122. doi:10.1353/cat.0.0320. JSTOR   27745469. S2CID   143497390.