David Nirenberg è professore di storia medievale e pensiero sociale all’Università di Chicago. Tra le sue opere principali: Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1996); Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism (con Herbert Kessler, 2011); Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today (2014).