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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. He has defended the politics of Israel in the light of what he calls media manipulation by Palestinians.

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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 fomerly 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 ("Palestinian Hollywood"), described by Ruthie Blum as referring to "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] Larry Derfner in +972 Magazine has described it as an ethnic slur. "It not only mangles the name of an entire people, it does so in the most contemptuous context – it links the name Palestinian with the telling of lies, and not just any lies, but lies about Palestinian deaths at the hands of their conquerors." [13] Some western media have cited evidence for the term beginning three decades ago. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Martin, Douglas (September 8, 2013). "David S. Landes, Historian and Author, Is Dead at 89". The New York Times . Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  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.
  6. ↑ "Richard Landes". Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Landes, Richard (Winter 2017). "'Celebrating' Orientalism". Middle East Quarterly.
  10. ↑ Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (30 September 2020). "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times: A Tale of Two Perspectives". Islamic Studies. 59 (3): 285. ProQuest   2535247374.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ One on One: Framing the debate, Jerusalem Post
  13. ↑ Larry Derfner. "‘Pallywood’: A particularly ugly ethnic slur." +972 Magazine , November 15, 2014. https://www.972mag.com/a-particularly-ugly-ethnic-slur-pallywood/
  14. ↑ CBS, 60 Minutes. "Pallywood - truth in the middle east hollyland, what goes behind the scenes and for the cameras".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
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