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April 2, 2002 UNM PROFESSOR RUBENSTEIN RECEIVES ACLS-MELLON GRANT TO STUDY IN PARIS
Rubenstein will conduct research at the Bibliothèque Nationale
and other research institutes in Paris from July 2002 through August 2003.
His work will focus on original manuscript copies of 12th century historical
chronicles, sermon manuals and theological texts. Rubenstein expects to be able to demonstrate the profound effects which
the First Crusade, 1095-1099, had on European culture — artistic,
military, religious and literary. “The First Crusade is comparable only to World War I, in terms of
the way it forced Europeans to reevaluate themselves and their world,”
Rubenstein said. “The topic is especially timely in light of current
world politics.” Rubenstein has been at UNM since 1999. He did graduate work at Oxford
and Berkeley. His earlier research centered around England at the time
of the Norman Conquest. He has since gravitated towards intellectual history
and, in particular, French intellectual history. Rubenstein teaches courses
on Medieval and Renaissance history and participates in the Western Civilization
program. He is also a member of the faculty at the UNM Institute for Medieval
Studies. He recently completed a biography of the French monk, historian and theologian
Guibert of Nogent (c. 1060 - 1125), titled “Guibert of Nogent: Portrait
of an Medevial Mind,” and to be published by Routledge this fall.
He is the author of several articles, including a forthcoming piece on
the infamous Crusade preacher Peter the Hermit. The ACLS is a private, non-profit federation of 64 national scholarly organizations. Its mission is to support original research and the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning in the humanities and social sciences. ### |
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University
of New Mexico History Assistant Professor Jay Rubenstein has received
an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)-Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
for $30,000 to begin research on a new project, titled, “The First
Crusade in Medieval Memory.”