Luchitskaya, Svetlana Igorevna

Born on May 12, 1960 in the family of geologist Igor Luchitsky , great-granddaughter of medievalist I. V. Luchitsky . In 1982 she received a diploma from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University . Since 1982 she has been working at the Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and since 1998 she has also held the position of leading researcher at the Institute of World Culture, Moscow State University ^[1] . In 1989 she became a candidate of historical sciences, thesis: "The ruling class of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: structure, evolution, features." In 2002 she received her doctoral degree, the thesis topic: "The Image of Islam in the Chronicles of the Crusades." Deputy Glavred editor, compiler and regular author of the publication “Odyssey. The man in history. In the course of work on this periodical, she organized a number of conferences ^[2] . She was a member of the editorial board and wrote several articles for the encyclopedia "Dictionary of medieval culture." Now she is engaged in the theme of the history of Christian ideas about believers of other faiths and medieval iconography .

Took part in international conferences and round tables: Clermont-Ferrand (1995), Toulouse (1995), Göttingen (1997), Leeds (1998), Jerusalem (1999), Paderborn (2003). In 1995, as a fellow of the DAAD ( German Academic Exchange Service ), she lectured at the universities of Würzburg and Munich . In 1996–1997, she was a scholar of the House of Human Sciences ( Paris , D. Diderot scholarship); in 2003, she received an invitation to give a course of lectures at the Graduate School of Social Sciences (Paris).

She has published about 100 scientific papers (including in foreign languages).

Monographs

• Crusades. The idea and reality. St. Petersburg., 2019.
• The culture and society of the Western European Middle Ages. M., 1994.
• Image of the Other: Muslims in the chronicles of the Crusades. M., 2001.
• Homo legens: styles et pratiques de lecture; analyzes comparées des traditions orales et écrites au Moyen Âge (coéd. M.-C. Varol-Bornes). Turnhout, 2010.

Collections

• Images of the past. Collection of the memory of A.Ya.Gurevich (with I. G. Galkova, A. V. Tolstikov and others). SPb .: Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2011.
• Travel in Russian Research (coed. G. Jaritz). Krems an der Donau: ÖAW, 2011.
• Feudalism: the concept and realities (together with A. Ya. Gurevich and P. Yu. Uvarov). M., 2008.
• Images in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Approaches in Russian Historical Research) (coed. G. Jaritz). Krems an der Donau: ÖAW, 2003.
• Comparative history: methods, problems, research (together with M. Yu. Paramonova). M.IWI RAS, 2003.
• Annals at the turn of the century: an anthology (with A. Ya. Gurevich): Consent - XXI century. M., 2002.

Main publications

• The Muslim Political World as the Mirrored in the First Crusade Chronicles // The Crusader World / Ed. Adrian J. Boas. Routledge, 2016. p. 346-362.
• Mahomet, Satan, and the Saracen Heresy: a View from Cluny // Sub specie historiae culturalis. Collection of memory A. L. Yastrebitskaya. M., 2014. P. 143-169.
• Vita Mahumeti Embriko of Mainz: Legend and History // From Text to Reality: (In) the Possibilities of Historical Reconstructions / Ed. O. I. Togoeva and I. N. Danilevsky. Moscow, 2012. pp. 25-71.
• Treason and treason in chansons de geste XII — XIII centuries // Odyssey. The man in the story. M., 2012. Vol. 23. pp. 19-44.
• Ad succurrendum: Wie starben die Jerusalemer Könige // Mediävistik. Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelaltersforschung. Frankfurt am Main, 2009. Bd. 22. S. 49-83; 2010. Bd. 23. S. 105-114.
• Traveling to the Holy Land in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Medieval Travel in Russian Research. Krems an der Donau, 2011. pp. 22-48.
• Chess as a Metaphor for Medieval Society // Saluting Aron Gurevich. Essays in history, literature and other related subjects. Ed. by A. Korros et al. Leiden, 2010. P. 277-299.
• "Sins and Virtues", "Jews", "Earthly Paradise", "Other Lands", "Crusades", "Mission", "Pilgrimage", "Holiday", "Journey", "Knighthood", "Miracle" (together with Yu. E. Arnautova), “Monsters”, // Dictionary of Medieval Culture / Ed. A. Ya. Gurevich. M., 2007. p. 125-128, 164-170, 175-178, 195-199, 234-139, 290-295, 337-334, 386-1393, 431-437, 574-577, 577-582 .
• The Fourth Crusade through the Eyes of a Russian Contemporary // Byzantine Temporary. M., 20056. T. 66 (90). Pp. 107-126.
• L'espace sacré en terre saint au cours des croisades: les controverses islamo-chrétiennes relatives aux images // Espaces d'échanges en Mediterranee. Antiquité et Moyen Âge / Éd. John Tolan, F. Clement et J. Wilgaux. Rennes, 2006. pp. 219-243.
• Muslim-Christian Polemics concerning images. Visual Language: The Language of Religion. Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam / Ed. E. Bremer & S. Röhl. München, 2006. S. 89-103.
• Chivalry - a unique phenomenon of the Western European Middle Ages // Odyssey. The man in the story. M., 2004.C.7-35.
• L'idée de conversion dans les chroniques de la première croisade // Cahiers de civilization médiévale. 2002. Vol. 45. No. 177, pp. 39–53.
• The image of Muhammad in the Latin chronography // Journal of Medieval History. 2000. Vol. 25. No. 2. P. 115-126.
• Muslims in Christian Imagery of the 13th century // Al-Masaq. Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean. 2000. Vol. 12. P. 37-67.
• L'image des musulmans dans les chroniques des croisades // Le Moyen âge: revue d'histoire et de philologie. 1999. Vol. 105. No. 3-4. P. 717-735.

• Profile on the website of the Institute of General History, RAS