Richard Landes

Richard Allen Landes (born June 26, 1949) is an American historian and author who specializes in medieval millennial thinking. Until 2015 he taught at Boston University, and then began working at Bar-Ilan University, where his current interests include defending the politics of Israel in the light of what he calls media manipulation by Palestinians.

Biography

Landes is the son of the late American-Jewish Harvard Professor of Economics and History David Landes.[1] His early publications were concerned with hagiography; his first published monograph was a translation of the vita of Saint Martial;[2] his second on the scribe and forger Adémar de Chabannes.[3] Until 2015 he was a professor in the Department of History at Boston University, and the director of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies. Since 2015, he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, Israel.[4]

Academic work

Landes specializes in millennial thinking in the Middle Ages, particularly around the year 1000.[5] In 2000, Landes published what was said to be the first encyclopedia on the topic of millennial movements in Europe, the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements.[6] Landes also published "Celebrating Orientalism" wherein he argues that the Palestinian critic Edward Said and Arabs in general do not like to be orientalized because of honour-shame culture.[7]

In "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times"[8] and "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood,"[9] Landes' discourse is labelled Warientalist, a concept that refers to a discourse defined by power and sentiment rather than knowledge.

Israel and "Pallywood"
Main article: Pallywood

Landes coined the term Pallywood ("Palestinian Hollywood"), described by Ruthie Blum as referring to "productions staged by the Palestinians, in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news."[10]

Books

Monographs
  • Landes, Richard A.; Paupert, Catherine (1991). Naissance d'Apôtre: Les origines de la Vita prolixior de Saint Martial de Limoges au XIe siècle. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-50045-4.
  • Landes, Richard A. (1995). Relics, apocalypse, and the deceits of history: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-75530-8.[3]
  • Landes, Richard A. (2011). Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199753598.
  • Landes, Richard A. (2022). Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America). Academic Studies Press. ISBN 978-1644696408.

Edited books, collections
  • Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1987). Essays on the Peace of God:AMEN The church and the people in eleventh-century France. Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo University. OCLC 18039359.
  • Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1992). The Peace of God: Social violence and religious response in France around the year 1000. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-2741-X.
  • Landes, Richard A., ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92246-1.
  • Landes, Richard A.; Van Meter, David; Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, eds. (2003). The apocalyptic year 1000: Religious expectation and social change, 950-1050. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511191-5.[11][12]
  • Landes, Richard A.; Katz, Stephen, eds. (2012). The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814748923.

References
  1. Martin, Douglas (September 8, 2013). "David S. Landes, Historian and Author, Is Dead at 89". The New York Times. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  2. Burke, Tony (2016). Forbidden Texts on the Western Frontier: The Christian Apocrypha in North American Perspective. ISD. p. 327. ISBN 9780227905517.
  3. Jones, Anna Trumbone (2008). "Discovering the Aquitanian Church in the Corpus of Adamar of Chabannes". In Morillo, Stephen; Morillo, Stephen R.; North, William (eds.). The Haskins Society Journal 19: 2007. Studies in Medieval History. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 82–96. ISBN 978-1-84383-393-2.
  4. "Richard A. Landes, CV". 27 January 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  5. Cohen, Paul A. (1999). "Time, Culture, and Christian Eschatology: The Year 2000 in the West and the World". The American Historical Review. 104 (5): 1615–1628. doi:10.2307/2649354. JSTOR 2649354.
  6. Buss, Carla Wilson (2001). "Reviewed Work(s): Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements; Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society by Richard A. Landes". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 40 (4): 381. JSTOR 41241416.
  7. Landes, Richard (Winter 2017). "'Celebrating' Orientalism". Middle East Quarterly.
  8. Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (30 September 2020). "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times: A Tale of Two Perspectives". Islamic Studies. 59 (3): 285. ProQuest 2535247374.
  9. Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (1 April 2021). "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood". Arab Studies Quarterly. 43 (2): 121–145. doi:10.13169/arabstudquar.43.2.0121. JSTOR 10.13169/arabstudquar.43.2.0121. S2CID 235849344.
  10. One on One: Framing the debate, Jerusalem Post
  11. Lifshitz, Felice (2004). "Review of The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050". Speculum. 79 (4): 1110–1112. doi:10.1017/S0038713400087133. JSTOR 20463117.
  12. Appleby, David (2009). "Review of The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050". The Catholic Historical Review. 95 (1): 120–122. doi:10.1353/cat.0.0320. JSTOR 27745469. S2CID 143497390.
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