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Adam Knobler

www.tcnj.edu/~knobler

 

Professor Knobler teaches classes on the Early Modern World and Contemporary Popular Culture.

Publications

  • "Soothing the Savage('s) B(r)east(s): Women's Clothing and Covering in the Discourse of Colonialism.” in Crossing Boundaries in Gender, Faith and Culture in the pre-Modern World, eds. Brian Britt and Alexandra Cuffel.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 
  • “Holy Wars, Empires, and the Portability of the Past: the Modern Uses of Medieval Crusades,” Comparative Studies in Society & History 48/02 (2006), 293-325.
  • “Exploration and Travel” in Medieval science, technology, and medicine: an encyclopedia, eds. Thomas Glick and Steven Livesey, New York: Routledge, 2005.
  • "Timur the (Terrible/Tartar) Trope: A Case of Repositioning in Popular Literature and History,” Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures in confluence and dialogue 7/1 (May 2001), 101-112.
  • "Exploration and Expansion," and “Tamerlane” in Medieval Trade, Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia, general editor John B. Friedman.  New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.
  • "Crusading for the Messiah:  Jews as Instruments of  Christian anti-Islamic Holy War,” in Tolerance and Intolerance: Social Conflict in the Age of the Crusades, eds. Michael Gervers and James M. Powell.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 2000.
  • "The Image of Saint Louis in 19th Century French Political Culture," Studies in Medievalism 6 (1997).
  • "The Rise of Timur and European Diplomatic Response, 1390-1405," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , 3d series, 5 (1995).
  • "Pseudo-Conversions and Patchwork Pedigrees: The Christianization of Muslim Princes and the Diplomacy of Holy War," Journal of World History 7 (1996).

 

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