Mikhail Mayzuls

Mikhail Romanovich Maisuls is a Russian historian specializing in the Middle Ages.

He graduated from the Russian-French Center for Historical Anthropology named after Marc Bloch at RSUH (2004), the French University College at Moscow State University (2004), and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris (2005; DEA diploma in medieval history), as well as the postgraduate program at RSUH (2008).

From 2007 to 2014, he taught at the Center for Mediaeval Studies of RSUH, where he gave courses entitled “Trends in the Development of the Humanities in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries,” “Source Studies of the History of the Western European Middle Ages,” and “History in the Context of the Humanities.” He is a research fellow at the Educational and Research Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period at RSUH.

Since 2014, he has been a lecturer at the Russian-French Educational and Research Center for Historical Anthropology named after M. Bloch.

Fields of research: Old Russian eschatology; the Bible and biblical imagery in the culture of medieval Rus'; the problem of historical consciousness in Muscovite Rus' of the 15th–17th centuries; the religious and cultural history of the Western European Middle Ages (12th–13th centuries); medieval iconography; visual anthropology; Catholic and Orthodox demonology; visionary texts and practices.