Yitzhak Hen

Professor at the Department of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Yitzhak Hen is a historian of the early medieval West.
His particular interest is in the intellectual and religious culture of the post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of Western Europe. Part of his research is dedicated to the examination of early medieval manuscripts, and the study of early medieval liturgy in its cultural, social, and religious context.

Fields of Interest and Research

• The social, cultural, and religious history of the late-antique and the early medieval World
• The post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of Western Europe and North Africa
• The early medieval Mediterranean
• Early Christian liturgy
• Latin palaeography and codicology
• The Middle Ages in film and TV adaptations

PhD. in Medieval History, University of Cambridge, Prof. Hen was a visiting fellow at numerous institutions, including the Following:
Fellow in Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences [NIAS] (2000-2001)
Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2007-2008)
Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (since 2008)
Senior Fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010-2012)
Member of the School of Historical Studies, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012-2013)
Member of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2015-2016)
Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (elected in 2020)
Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht (Spring 2008)
Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague (October 2009)
Elected senior Fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel (2016)
Mellon Foundation Global Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar, Claremont McKenna College, California (February 2017)
Visiting Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (September 2019)
Prof. Hen is also Member of the Council of the Henry Bradshaw Society for the editing of rare liturgical texts (1996-2000), Member of the Council of the Historical Society of Israel (2003-2011), Member of the governing board of Chaim Herzog Centre, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2005-2008), Member of the Council of the Israeli Association of Byzantine Studies (since 2008), Member of the steering committee of the International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds) (2010-2018), Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS1015 – Medioevo Europeo (2012-2015) and Member of the council of Yad Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of the Holy Land (since August 2019).

Prof. Hen Handle the following Editorial Positions:
Founding Editor and General Editor of the series Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium) (since 2000)
Member of the editorial board of Historia: The Journal of the Historical Society of Israel (in Hebrew) (2006-2014)
Member of the editorial board of the series Cursor Mundi: Viator Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern World (UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) (2006-2020)
Member of the editorial board of the online-journal History Compass (Blackwell Publishers) (since 2007)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Networks and Neighbours (since 2012)
Member of the editorial board of the journal Studies in Late Antiquity (since 2016)
Member of the editorial board of the Israel Historical Society monograph series In Past Tense (since 2016)
Member of the editorial board of the series Christianity and Conversion in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region, c. 800-1600 (Peter Lang) (since 2020)