Iris Shagrir

Iris Shargir is an Israeli historian, professor of the Open University of Israel, with the interests in Middle Ages, specifically, the history of Crusades and pilgrimage, relations between the three Abrahamic religions, as well as the history of personal names in the Middle Ages.

Since 2022 she is member of the Israeli Council for Higher Education. She was head of the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies of the Open University.

She is married to Oron Shagrir.

Books 2022 (The Beginnings of Europe: Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages) 2021 (as an editor) Liturgy and Art as Constructors of Cultural Memory in the Middle Ages 2017: (The Parable of the Three Rings and the Idea of Religious Toleration in Premodern European Culture) (in Hebrew; English translation: 2019) (from publisher's synopsis) "This study of the Parable of the Three Rings is the first full account in Hebrew of the history and the literary and allegorical origins of the parable, as well as of its reception from the early Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. The study provides evidence for the non-Western origins of the parable" 2003: Naming Patterns in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem