Dr Eyal Poleg

Senior Lecturer in Material History
Email: e.poleg@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: 020 7882 8366Room Number: ArtsTwo 3.33Office Hours: (Summer Term): http://doodle.com/poll/ybximg3xgpzd26zg
Profile
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
Research
Research Interests:
- Material Culture and religious history
- The Bible in the Middle Ages and early modernity
- Book history and manuscript studies
- The scientific analysis of historical objects
- Re-assessing technological innovation and scientific teleologies
Publications
Select publications
Books
A Material History of the Bible, England 1200-1553 (link is external) (OUP for the British Academy, 2020)
Approaching the Bible in Medieval England (link is external) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013)
(ed. with Laura Light) Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible (link is external), Library of the Written Word: The Manuscript World, Leiden: Brill, 2013
Articles
“On the Books of Maccabees: An Unpublished Poem by Geoffrey, Prior of the Templum Domini”, Crusades (link is external) 9 (2010), pp. 13-56
“‘A ladder set up on the earth’: The Bible in Medieval Sermons”, The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception, and Performance in Western Christianity (link is external), ed. Susan Boynton and Diane Reilly, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, pp. 205-227
Farkas Gábor Kiss, Eyal Poleg, Lucie Doležalová, Rafał Wójcik, “Old Light on New Media: Medieval Practices in a Digital Ages”, Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (link is external) 2.1 (Spring 2013), 16–34
“Wycliffite Bibles as Orthodoxy”, Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit and Awakening the Passion. Cultures of Religious Reading in the Late Middle Ages (link is external) (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy), ed. Sabrina Corbellini, Turnhout:Brepols, 2013, pp. 71-91
“The Mother and Seven Brothers in Two Very Different Crusading Narratives”, Jewish-non-Jewish Relations: An Online Teaching Resource (link is external) ed. Maria Diemling and Hannah Holtschneider
Paola Ricciardi, Eyal Poleg, 'How Thomas Cromwell used cut and paste to insert himself into Henry VIII’s Great Bible', The Conversation
Reviews
Jeremy Cohen, “Sanctifying the Name of God: Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade”, Jewish Culture and History (link is external) 10:1 (Summer 2008), 115-17
Supervision
- Religion and Material Culture
- English Religious History (1100-1600)
- The Medieval or Early Modern Bible
- Digital Medievalism
Public Engagement
My work has featured prominently in The Times, BBC Radio 4, Church Times, The Telegraph, and CBS.