Ilana Krug, Ph.D.
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Associate Professor of History
Meet Ilana Krug
Ilana Krug specializes in early fourteenth-century English military, social, economic, and political history, and broadly investigates the impact of war, natural disasters, plague, taxation, and corruption on the peasantry. Her publications have dealt with the social and economic effects of war logistics in the fourteenth century, the problems of military supply during the Great Famine, as well as the use of honey in military medicine. Presently she is working on an interdisciplinary book dealing with the role of honey in medieval England.
- Medieval Studies, Ph.D.
University of Toronto - Medieval Studies, M.A.
University of Toronto - Art History, M.A.
Rutgers University - Classical Archaeology, English Medieval Studies & History, B.A.
Brandeis University
- HIS101: The Foundation of the West
- HIS402: The Black Death
- HIS472: Gender in History
- HIS478: Society, Politics, and Technology in History, Special Topics
- Medieval English Military Logistics
- Complaint & "Evils of the Times" Literature
- Medieval Uses for Honey in Military Medicine
- Fourteenth-Century English Military, Social, & Economic History
- Impact of War, War Financing, Corruption, & Natural Disasters on the Peasantry
- "Food, Famine, and Edward II's Military Failures", Journal of Medieval Military History 16 (2018): 63-77.
- "Feeding Mars: Military Purveyance in the Long Fourteenth Century" in Fourteenth Century England vol. 10, ed. Gwilym Dodd (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2018), 67-88.
- "The Wounded Soldier: Honey and Late Medieval Military Medicine" in Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, eds. Kelly DeVries and Larissa Tracy (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 194-214.
- "The Fisher Antiphonary: A Gilded Window onto the Strozzi and Late Fifteenth-Century Florentine Politics", Digital Philology 2:1 (May 2013): 113-35.
- "Complaint Literature: The Voice of the People of Literary Formulae?" Medieval Perspectives 27: 125-35.
- “The Success (and Failure) of Logistics in Early-14th-Century England”. Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK. July 1-4, 2024.
- “Warfare and Political Poetry in the 14th Century: To Exalt or Decry?”. Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK. July 3-6, 2023.
- “The Economic Impact of Border Warfare on the Scottish Marches under Edward II”. Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, UK. July 4-7, 2022.
- “Tally Sticks and the Nature of Purveyance”. Paper presented at the Fifty-Seventh Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-14, 2022.
- “Sotelties and Politics: The Message Behind the Food in Late Medieval Feasts". Paper presented at the Fifty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. May 10-13, 2018.