Jay Rubenstein
{{short description|American historian of the Middle Ages (born 1967)}}
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USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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University of California, Berkeley
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Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) is an American historian of the Middle Ages.
Life
Rubenstein grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he graduated with a B.A. in 1989. From 1989 to 1991 he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1991 he completed an M.Phil. from Oxford, writing a thesis on the veneration of saints' relics in England after the Norman Conquest.
In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, working under the supervision of Professor Gerard Caspary.
After leaving Berkeley he taught one year at Dickinson College, one year at Syracuse University, and seven years at the University of New Mexico.{{cite web |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/836/ |title=Jay Rubenstein |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=November 1, 2017}}
He is currently a history professor at the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Director of the USC Center for the Premodern World.{{cite web |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/hist/people/faculty_display.cfm?Person_ID=1091824 |title=USC Dornsife Department of History |website=USC Dornsife}}{{cite web |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-the-premodern-world/ |title=USC Dornsife Center for the Premodern World |website=USC Dornsife}}
His published scholarship has focused on medieval intellectual history, monastic life, and the early crusade movement.
In recognition of his Rhodes Scholarship, his hometown of Cushing named a street after him.{{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=Susan |title=From Cushing Crude to the City of Angels: USC Dornsife's new medieval scholar traces his unusual journey |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/usc-dornsife-medieval-scholars-loves-dr-who-and-the-kinks/ |access-date=January 30, 2024 |website=USC Dornsife |date=December 4, 2020}}
Awards
- 2012 – Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from Phi Beta Kappa for significant contributions to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity
- 2007 – MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2007 – National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 2006 – ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship
- 2004 – William Koren, Jr. Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies for an outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar
- 2002 – ACLS Fellowship{{cite web |url=http://www.acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=f040f06c-f6a4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717 |title=Jay C. Rubenstein F'06, F'02 |website=ACLS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828094851/http://acls.org/research/fellow.aspx?cid=f040f06c-f6a4-db11-8d10-000c2903e717 |archive-date=August 28, 2008}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book | title=Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2019|isbn=978-0-190-27420-7}}
- {{cite book| title=Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse| publisher= Basic Books| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0-465-01929-8 }}
- {{cite book| author=Guibert of Nogent| title= Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from the Time of the Crusades|editor1= Jay Rubenstein |editor2=Joseph McAlhany | publisher= Penguin Classics| year= 2011| isbn=978-0-14-310630-2}}
- {{cite journal |title=Cannibals and Crusaders |journal=French Historical Studies |date=2008 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=525–552 |doi=10.1215/00161071-2008-005 |last1=Rubenstein |first1=Jay }}
- {{cite book| title=Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe, 1000–1200|editor1=Sally N. Vaughn |editor2=Jay Rubenstein| publisher=Brepols| year= 2006| isbn= 978-2-503-51419-2 }}
- [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.RM.2.303576 "What Is the Gesta Francorum, and Who Is Peter Tudebode?"] Revue Mabillon 16 (2005): 179–204.
- "Biography and Autobiography in the Middle Ages," in Writing Medieval History: Theory and Practice for the Post-Traditional Middle Ages, ed. Nancy Partner. Arnold: London, 2005, pp. 53–69.
- "Putting History to Use: Three Crusade Chronicles in Context," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 35 (2004): 131–168.
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLs68e1lSlsC&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA53| chapter=How, or How Much, to Reevaluate Peter the Hermit| title=The Medieval Crusade| editor=Susan Janet Ridyard| publisher=Boydell Press| year= 2004| isbn= 978-1-84383-087-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind| publisher= Routledge| year= 2003| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_L7RgHUYT7IC&q=Jay+Rubenstein| isbn=978-0-415-93970-6 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_x4xbPOvGAC&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA127| chapter=Principled Passion or Ironic Detachment? The Gregorian Reform as Experienced by Guibert of Nogent | title=The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History| editor=Stephen Morillo| publisher=Boydell Press| year=2001| isbn= 978-0-85115-911-9 }}
- "Liturgy Against History: The Competing Visions of Lanfranc and Eadmer of Canterbury." Speculum 74 (1999): 271–301.
- {{cite book| chapter=The Life and Writings of Osbern of Canterbury| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6J-rJUrbaf4C&q=Jay+Rubenstein&pg=PA27| title=Canterbury and the Norman Conquest: Churches, Saints, and Scholars, 1066–1109|editor1=Richard Eales |editor2=Richard Sharpe| publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group| year= 1995| isbn= 978-1-85285-068-5 }}
References
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External links
- {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501082514/http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/jay-rubenstein-2013-08-16 |date=May 1, 2015 |title=Apocalypse Then: The First Crusade – A conversation with Jay Rubenstein}}, Ideas Roadshow, 2013
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