Prof. Hillay Zmora

Hillay Zmora is professor of history at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva. His areas of research are late medieval and early modern Germany, state formation in Europe 1300-1800, the European nobility, and the political thought of Machiavelli.

He is the author of four books:
State and Nobility in Early Modern Germany: The Knightly Feud in Franconia, 1440-1567 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Monarchy, Aristocracy, and the State in Europe, 1300-1800 (Routledge, 2001).
The Feud in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
The World of Machiavelli (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2021).

In addition Prof. Zmora has published his work in leading scholarly journals, such as Past and Present, The Historical Journal, History of Political Thought and Evolution and Human Behavior.