The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe.
Her books include The Pursuit of Heresy; Divided Souls: Jewish Converts to Christianity; Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe and Confronting Modernity: 1750-1880, ...
He also served as director of the Humanities Council’s Program in European Cultural Studies from 1998 to 2008. He was known for his scholarship and teaching on the social, cultural and intellectual ...