Charles Steinman

Charles Steinman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University, where he works on the experience of power and jurisdiction in medieval societies. His dissertation, “Embodiment of Jurisdiction: Petty Officialdom and Enforcement in the Lower Rhône Valley, c. 1200-1350,” supervised by Professor Adam Kosto, explores the changing role of official and quasi/unofficial enforcers in the assertion, maintenance, and disruption of jurisdictional lordship in the shadow of state-building campaigns in the medieval Bas-Languedoc and Provence. Charles is also interested in Jewish communal government in the medieval Midi, and is currently preparing a French-language article on the synagogue of 14th-century Arles as a political space.