Historian David Nirenberg receives the Leopold Lucas Prize

David Nirenberg The University of Tübingen's Faculty of Protestant Theology has announced that this year's Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize will go to medievalist and intellectual historian David Nirenberg. The Faculty makes the award in recognition of his research into the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages and the present day. This year's Lucas Prize for Junior Researchers will go to Catholic theologian Dr. Jan Niklas Collet. David Nirenberg (born 1964) is the director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, winner of numerous academic awards and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Medieval Academy of America. In his works, Nirenberg deals with the coexistence and opposition of the three religions both in small-scale studies, especially on late medieval Spain and France, and in large-scale overviews spanning epochs. In his publications, he shows that both socially prescribed categories and individual experience contribute to how members of the three religious groups perceive each other. Jan Niklas He pays particular attention to how the individual's own experience and widespread ideas influence and alter one other.