Joshua C. Birk

Associate Professor of History; Chair Classical Languages & Literatures

Smith College

Affiliations

Smith College

Department Of Art

Department Of Biological Sciences

Department Of Chemistry

Department Of History

Department Of Mathematical Sciences

Department Of Physics

Department Of Psychology

Department Of Statistical And Data Sciences

Department of Film and Media Studies

Department of Landscape Studies

Studies Of French

Studies Of Italian

Study Of Education And Child

Department of Classical Studies

Department of Exercise & Sport Studies

Joshua C. Birk is currently serving as an Art Associate Professor of History; Chair Classical Languages & Literatures at Smith College.

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Joshua C. Birk

Smith College

Associate Professor of History; Chair Classical Languages & Literatures

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Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130–1266, by Paul Oldfield. The English Historical Review (2025)

Dynasties Intertwined: The Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily. Mediterranean Studies (2023)

Niall Christie, Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity’s Wars in the Middle East, 1095–1382, From the Islamic Sources, 2Nd Ed. (Seminar Studies.) London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. LXII, 241; Black-And-White Figures. $135. Isbn: 978-1-1385-4310-2. Georgios Theotokis, Ed., Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean. (Warfare in History.) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2020. Pp. XVII, 252; Black-And-White Figures. $99. Isbn: 978-1-7832-7521-2. Table of Contents Available Online at Https://Boydellandbrewer.Com/9781783275212/Warfare-In-The-Norman-Mediterranean/.. Speculum (2022)

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Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique: Baptized Sultans. (2017)

A “Semi-Pagan Tyrant?”. (2016)

Community as Collateral. (2016)

Epilogue. (2016)

Introduction. (2016)

Liminality as Centrality: The Sicilian Eunuch Tradition. (2016)

Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic Critique. (2016)

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