Dr Nora Berend is Reader in European History at the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at St Catherine’s College. Her research interests include medieval social and religious history, including minorities and state building. She recently co-authored Central Europe in the High Middle Ages, c. 900-c.1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), which is an overview of the medieval history of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. Her current work focuses on the formation of identity in medieval and modern times.