Research Fields

• Early Medieval History
• Late Antiquity Barbarian Europe Palaeography
• Christian Liturgy
• Arianism

About

Prof. Yitzhak Hen is an historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Professor Hen’s research focuses on the social, cultural and intellectual history of the post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval West; Western Liturgy; early medieval Latin Palaeography and Codicology.

Selected Publications

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877), Henry Bradshaw Society, subsidia 3 (Boydell & Brewer: London, 2001)

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Palgrave-Macmillan: London and New York, 2007)

Sermo doctorum: Compilers, Preachers and Their Audiences in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Max Diesenberger and Marianne Pollheimer (Brepols: Turnhout, 2014)

Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Tom F.X. Noble (Brepols: Turnhout, 2018)

East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective, co-edited with Stefan Esders, Yaniv Fox and Laury Sarti (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2019)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Introduction to Middle Ages
  • The Vikings in History
  • Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
  • England under William the Conqueror
  • Gregory of Tours and his World
    Master's degree courses
    • Historiography and Memory in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    • The Passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Cultural and Religious Aspects