Miri Rubin (born 1956) is a historian and Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cambridge, where she gained her doctorate and was later awarded a research fellowship and a post-doctoral research fellowship at Girton College. Rubin studies the social and religious history of Europe between 1100 and 1500, concentrating on the interactions between public rituals, power, and community life.

In 2012 she gave a Turku Agora Lecture. In 2017 she gave the Wiles Lectures at Queen's University Belfast.

Miri Rubin

Her books have been well received in newspapers and academic journals. The Guardian calls her Hollow Crown "a magnificent history of the late Middle Ages". The TLS reviews her Cities of Strangers as a "thoughtful and pioneering book".

Miri Rubin

Since 2020, Rubin has served as president of the Jewish Historical Society of England.

Miri Rubin

Bibliography

Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), Church and City, 1000-1500: Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), , ed. with David Abulafia and Michael Franklin Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994), , ed. with Sarah Kay The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997), Gentile Tales: The Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (London: Allen Lane, 2005), Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), , ed. with Laura Gowing and Michael Hunter Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary (Allen Lane, 2009), The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, (London: Penguin, 2014), , trans. with an introduction Miri Rubin Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020),

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1956 births

Academics of Queen Mary University of London

Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge

British medievalists

Women medievalists

Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni

Living people

Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

British women historians

20th-century British historians

20th-century British women writers

21st-century British historians

21st-century British women writers

Jewish women writers

British Jewish writers