Richard Landes

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Richard A. Landes is an American historian and author, specializing in Millennialism. 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 and wrote several history books.

Landes maintains two web sites:

• Second Draft depicts the perceived pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli bias in some media reports from the Middle East.
• Augean Stables includes more in-depth articles about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and related issues.

[edit] Books

• 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.

[edit] See also

• Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Pallywood

[edit] External links

• Boston Herald article on seconddraft.org
• honestreporting.com article on Landes
• Landes CV