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Rebecca Rist

Professor Rebecca Rist portrait
  • Professor in Medieval History:
  • Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies: /GCMS/
  • Former School Director for Teaching and Learning, School of Humanities, 2012-2016
  • Lecturer and supervisor for the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies

Areas of interest

My research interests include the papacy, the crusades, Jewish-Christian relations, and  heresy and dissent. I am also more generally interested in the medieval Church, religious belief and political ideas in the High and Late Middle Ages (eleventh-fifteenth centuries).

Postgraduate supervision

I am a lecturer for the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies. I was a full-time lecturer for the (now defunct) MRes in Medieval Studies for which I taught Options on The Crusades, The Medieval Papacy, Medieval Heresy, Medieval Christian-Jewish Relations, and Medieval Minorities. I now supervise for the ‘Medieval Pathway’ of the History MA where I contribute to the core modules Becoming a Historian: Theory and Themes in Medieval History and Working with Historical Collections: Sources and Audiences. I also offer Options and Independent Research Study on The Crusades and Medieval Heresy. I am happy to supervise MA dissertations on The Crusades, The Medieval Papacy, Medieval Heresy, Medieval Christian-Jewish Relations and Medieval Minorities.

I am happy to supervise any Ph.D. student with interests in the crusades, the papacy, ecclesiastical history, heresy and dissent, Christian-Jewish relations and medieval minorities. I currently have two Ph.D. students working respectively on the Dominicans in the Holy Land and devotion to St Christopher in England in the later Middle Ages. Four Ph.D. students have completed Ph.D. theses on the Cathar heresy, medieval debates about poverty, the implementation of canon law in medieval Livonia (SWW DTP award), and the reign of Philip I of France (ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Regional Bursary). I also act as a Ph.D. monitor and Internal and External Examiner. I welcome Ph.D. applications within my areas of expertise. I am willing to offer language courses at MA level in Classical and Medieval Latin and Classical Greek.

Teaching

Undergraduate Supervision

At Part One I supervise a module: Antisemitism: Medieval Christian-Jewish Relations and the Concept of 'Antisemitism'. I also lecture and teach for the Part One modules Exploring Evidence, Perspectives in History, and History Now.

At Part Two I teach a Period module The Crusades, 1095-1291.

At Part Three I supervise the Option module: Religion and Politics in the Medieval West and a Special Subject module: Heretics and Popes: Heresy and Persecution in the Medieval World. I also run a third-year Option module The Tudors, 1485-1603. I supervise third-year undergraduate dissertations.

Background

Other Information about me:

I regularly give lectures, seminars and master-classes both in the UK and abroad. As GCMS Director I also organise panels for the Leeds IMC and papers for the GCMS Summer Symposium.

I have served as an external examiner at University College London (2013-2017).

I am the former Editor of the peer-reviewed journal ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Medieval Studies.

I am a member of The Social Church Workshop, The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East , The Ecclesiastical History Society, The London Society for Medieval Studies and The British Association for Jewish Studies.

I am a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and have sat on the Steering Committee of History UK (HE). I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

In 2008 I organised the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Stenton Lecture and Symposium in honour of Emeritus Professor Malcolm Barber (ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø).

In 2018 I organised the ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø Stenton Lecture and Symposium in hon