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Richard Allen Landes (born 1949)[ citation needed ] 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.

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Biography

Landes is the son of Harvard Professor of Economics and History David Landes. [1] His early publications were concerned with hagiography; his first published monograph was a translation of the vita of Saint Martial; [2] his second on the scribe and forger Adémar de Chabannes. [3] 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. [4]

Landes was formerly married to historian Paula Fredriksen. [5] He lives with his wife in Jerusalem. [6]

Academic work

Landes specializes in millennial thinking in the Middle Ages, particularly around the year 1000. [7] 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. [8] 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. [9] [ better source needed ]

In " Orientalism , a Thousand and One Times" [10] and "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood," [11] Landes' discourse is labelled Warientalist, a concept that refers to a discourse defined by power and sentiment rather than knowledge.

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." [12]

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. [13] [14]

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Monographs

Edited books, collections

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References

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  2. Burke, Tony (2016). Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspective. ISD. p. 327. ISBN   9780227905517.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. "Richard A. Landes, CV". 27 January 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  5. "Paula Fredriksen (name)". John Bulow Campbell Library. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
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  9. Landes, Richard (Winter 2017). "'Celebrating' Orientalism". Middle East Quarterly.
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