About

Judith Bronstein is a senior lecturer at the Department of Israel Studies and at the School of History, University of Haifa. Her research focusses on the history of the Military Orders in the Middle Ages, the Crusade movement and the Latin East. Among her publications: The Hospitallers and the Holy Land; Financing the Latin East, 1187-1274 and Settlement and Crusade in the 13th Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East (forthcoming) (co-edited with Gil Fishhof Gil and Vardit Shotten- Hallel), as well as numerous articles in academic collections and journals. She is currently working on the relation between food and culture in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Her research interests also extend to the study of modern perceptions of the crusades. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge.

Education

B.A. - Department of General History, University of Haifa, Israel.
M.A. - Department of General History, University of Haifa, Israel.
Ph.D. - Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK.

Teaching

The Crusade movement and the ideology of Holy War
The Kingdom of Jerusalem and Frankish Levant
The Military Orders in the Middle Ages: Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights
Medieval monastic movements
Archaeology and Nationalism
Food and Culture in History