Jehangir Malegam, Associate Professor

I am a historian of religion and culture in Medieval Europe.  I have previously written on Christian understandings of violence and approaches to peacemaking in Medieval western Europe.  I have also written on the history of emotions, the history of papal reform and more recently, on the history of cities in northwest Europe

Contact Info:

Office Location:	302 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• HISTORY 254.01, EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Synopsis

  Class Bldg 101, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as MEDREN 254.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Stanford University	2006
M.A.	Emory University	1998
B.A.	Emory University	1998

Specialties:

Medieval and Early Modern History
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Intellectual History
European and Russia

Research Interests: Central and High Middle Ages, Peacemaking, Representations of Conflict and Community

Current projects: I am completing a programmatic journal article that proposes a new approach to the history of emotions in the Middle Ages., A chapter on the papal reform will appear in the Handbook of Medieval Papalism (Brill, 2015), I am contributing an article on violence and the state to an edited collection of essay on violence, I am contributing an entry on "public emotions" to an edited collection (part of a series) on medieval emotions

My first book focused on clerical self-fashioning and lay-clerical relationships between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries as seen through the discourse around peace-making and conflict. My new research concerns the history of personhood, con-sociation and alienation during a period of nascent state formation and evangelical outreach in England, France and the Empire (1000-1250). It is informed by the anthropology John and Jean Comaroff, the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

Areas of Interest:

History of Emotions
Urban Communes
Overlaps of Lay and Clerical communitarian ideas
Sacraments, Pacts and Friendship in the Middle Ages
Conflict Resolution
Monarchism in England and France
Law in England and France

Keywords:

Anthropology • Community • Emotions • Outlawry • Peace • Personhood • Violence

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Malegam, JY, Definitions of Peace, in A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age (January, Accepted, 2022), pp. 13-32, ISBN 9781474238472
2. Malegam, J, Against the Silence: Twelfth-Century Augustinian Reformers Confront Apocalypse, in Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, edited by Gabriele, M; Palmer, J (September, Accepted, 2018), pp. 205-220, ISBN 9781138684027
3. Malegam, JY, Pro-Papacy polemic and the purity of the church: The gregorian reform, in A Companion to the Medieval Papacy, edited by Sisson, K; Larson, A, vol. 70 (January, Accepted, 2016), pp. 37-65, Brill, ISBN 9789004299856 [doi]
4. Malegam, J, Review: Doležalová, Lucie, Jeff Rider, and Alessandro Zironi, eds. Obscurity in Medieval Texts. Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 30. Krems, Austria: Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der materiallen Kultur des Mittelalters, 2013, edited by Delyannis, D, The Medieval Review (May, 2015)
5. DiBattista, M; Beyer, J; Girke, F; Malegam, JY; Hall, E; Rival, L; Platt, KMF, Peace by other means: Symposium on the role of ethnography and the humanities in the understanding, prevention, and resolution of enmity Part 3, Common Knowledge, vol. 21 no. 2 (April, 2015), pp. 190-195, Duke University Press [doi]