Richard Landes
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Richard A. Landes is an American historian and author. He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Boston University. Landes is the co-founder and director of the Center for Millennial Studies.
Landes is a medieval historian specializing in Millennialism.
In September 2005, Landes launched the website seconddraft.org in response to a perceived pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli bias in some media reports from the Middle East.
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- Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes (989-1034) (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
- The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France around the Year 1000, ed. Thomas Head and Richard Landes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992)
- Naissance d'Apôtre: Les origines de la Vita prolixior de Saint Martial de Limoges au XIe siècle (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991) with K. Paupert, trans. of the Vita prolixior.