Prof. Yehoshua Frenkel
Yehoshua Frenkel taught at the University of Haifa. His research interest includes the social history of the pre-modern MENA. His recent publications include:
“Salve-Girls and Rewarded Teachers: Women in Mamlūk Sources”, in Yuval Ben-Bassat (ed.), Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History: Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 158-176.
“Mamluk Soundscape. A Chapter in Sensory History”, ASK Working Paper 31 (Bonn, July 2018).
“Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo”, in Frédéric Bauden and Makika Dekkiche (eds.), Mamluk Cairo: A Crossroads for Embassies- Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 238-259.
“Fires, Earthquakes, and Floods: The influence of extreme events on Mamluk Cities”, in D. Schneller und G. Lassau (Hrsg.), Erdbeben, Feuer, Wasser und andere Katastrophen Ihr Einfluss auf die Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestalt im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit (Bern 2019),
“The Coming of the Barbarians: Can Climate Explain the Saljūqs’ Advance?”, in Liang Emlyn Yang, Hans-Rudolf Bork, Xiuqi Fang, Steffen Mischke (eds.), Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road (Springer, 2019): 261-274.
Stephen Pow and Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Use of Environmental-Climatic Theories to Explain the Expansion and Contraction of the Saljuq and Mongol Empires: Are We Getting “Warm” or “Cold”?”, Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 25 (2019): 29-52.
“The Mamluk Sultanate and its Neighbours: Economic, Social and Cultural Entanglements”, in S. Conermann (Bonn), The Mamlūk Sultanate and its Neighbours: Economic, Social and Cultural Entanglements (V&R Unipress, 2019), pp. 39-60.
“Villagers, the religious establishment and the Mamlūk military aristocracy: notes on the history of migration and land tenure in Mamlūk Bilād al-Shām”, Cathedra 173 (2019): 37-58. (in Hebrew)
“Slavery in 17th-Century Ottoman Jerusalem in light of Several Sharia Court Records”, in Stephan Conermann & Gül Şen (eds.), Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/Bonn University Press, 2020), pp. 237-282.
“The Contribution of European Travel Literature to the Study of the
Environmental History of the Levant (13th-15th centuries)”, in Bethany J. Walker / Abdelkader Al Ghouz (eds.), Living with Nature and Things Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, Bonn University Press, 2020), pp. 705-724.
ליצירת קשר: frenkely@research.haifa.ac.il
