Landes is the son of Harvard Professor of Economics and History
David Landes.[1] His early publications were concerned with
hagiography; his first published monograph was a translation of the vita of
Saint Martial;[2] his second on the scribe and forger
Adémar de Chabannes.[3] Until 2015 he was a professor in the Department of History at
Boston University, and the director of Boston University's Center for Millennial Studies. Since 2015, he has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication at
Bar-Ilan University, in
Ramat Gan, Israel.[4]
Landes was formerly married to historian
Paula Fredriksen.[5] He lives with his wife in Jerusalem.[6]
Academic work
Landes specializes in millennial thinking in the Middle Ages, particularly around the year 1000.[7] In 2000, Landes published what was said to be the first encyclopedia on the topic of millennial movements in Europe, the Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements.[8] Landes also published "Celebrating Orientalism" wherein he argues that the Palestinian critic
Edward Said and Arabs in general do not like to be orientalized because of
honour-shame culture.[9][better source needed]
In "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times"[10] and "Warientalism, or the Carrier of Firewood,"[11] Landes' discourse is labelled Warientalist, a concept that refers to a discourse defined by power and sentiment rather than knowledge.
Landes coined the term
Pallywood ("Palestinian Hollywood"), described by
Ruthie Blum as referring to "productions staged by the Palestinians, in front of (and often with cooperation from) Western camera crews, for the purpose of promoting anti-Israel propaganda by disguising it as news."[12] Larry Derfner in +972 Magazine has described it as an
ethnic slur. "It not only mangles the name of an entire people, it does so in the most contemptuous context – it links the name Palestinian with the telling of lies, and not just any lies, but lies about Palestinian deaths at the hands of their conquerors."[13] Some western media have cited evidence for the term beginning three decades ago.[14]
Books
Monographs
Landes, Richard A.; Paupert, Catherine (1991). Naissance d'Apôtre: Les origines de la Vita prolixior de Saint Martial de Limoges au XIe siècle. Turnhout: Brepols.
ISBN978-2-503-50045-4.
Landes, Richard A. (1995). Relics, apocalypse, and the deceits of history: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
ISBN0-674-75530-8.[3]
Landes, Richard A. (2011). Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN9780199753598.
Landes, Richard A. (2022). Can "The Whole World" Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America). Academic Studies Press.
ISBN978-1644696408.
Edited books, collections
Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1987). Essays on the Peace of God: The church and the people in eleventh-century France. Waterloo, Ontario: Waterloo University.
OCLC18039359.
Landes, Richard A.; Head, Thomas J., eds. (1992). The Peace of God: Social violence and religious response in France around the year 1000. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press.
ISBN0-8014-2741-X.
Landes, Richard A., ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. New York: Routledge.
ISBN0-415-92246-1.
Landes, Richard A.; Van Meter, David; Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, eds. (2003). The apocalyptic year 1000: Religious expectation and social change, 950-1050. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-511191-5.[15][16]
Landes, Richard A.; Katz, Stephen, eds. (2012). The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York University Press.
ISBN9780814748923.
^Buss, Carla Wilson (2001). "Reviewed Work(s): Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements; Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society by Richard A. Landes". Reference & User Services Quarterly. 40 (4): 381.
JSTOR41241416.
^Madiou, Mohamed Salah Eddine (30 September 2020). "Orientalism, a Thousand and One Times: A Tale of Two Perspectives". Islamic Studies. 59 (3): 285.
ProQuest2535247374.