Professional editor, proofreader, researcher, and translator with over 20 years of experience
Services
I specialize in academic editing/proofreading of conference presentations, journal articles, theses, and books/book chapters, especially for writers whose native language is not English. I also specialize in translation of academic writing from French into English.
Outside of the academic world, I am also an experienced proofreader, editor, researcher, and fact-checker. I have worked on popular history books and novels, as well as consulting for history-based TV shows and documentaries.
As
a freelancer I have translated and
proofread over one million words for dozens of clients, especially in
the fields of health care, insurance, and government public service.
Languages
French into English
Latin into English
English into Latin
Credentials
PhD, Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (2011)
MA, Medieval Studies, University of Toronto (2005)
BA, History, University of Western Ontario (2003)Experience
Freelancer: translation (French-English, Latin-English, English-Latin), proofreading, editing, research (2014-present)
Language
Marketplace (Mississauga, Ontario): English-French/French-English translator; translation and proofreading
of documents, supervision of French interns (2012-2014)
Postdoctoral researcher (Nantes, France): European Research Council project “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities in the Euro-Mediterranean World (5th-15th centuries)” (RELMIN), Université de Nantes, France (2011-2012)
Sun Media (London/Toronto, Ontario): news researcher/archivist for London Free Press and Toronto Sun newspapers (2002-2011)
Editing work
Marie Roux, “A Reinterpretation of Martial, Epigram XI.94”, in Scripta Classica Israelica XXXVI (2017)
Liubov Chernin, “The Image of the Jews in the Medieval Conception of the Muslim Conquest of Spain,” thesis (2014)
Linda Press Wulf, Crusade (Bloomsbury, 2011)
French-to-English translation work
Katell Berthelot, “To convert or not to convert: the appropriation of Jewish rituals, customs and beliefs by non-Jews,” in Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World: Approaching Religious Transformations from Archaeology, History and Classics, ed. Valentino Gasparini, Maik Patzelt, Rubina Raja, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Jörg Rüpke, and Emiliano Urciuoli (De Gruyter, 2020)
Katell Berthelot, “Power and piety: Roman and Jewish perspectives,” in Reconsidering Roman Power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Perceptions and Reactions, ed Katell Berthelot (Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2020)
Katell Berthelot, “The Formation of the Hebrew Bible in a Greco-Roman context in light of the evidence from Qumran,” in Stones, Tablets and Scrolls: Periods of the Formation of the Bible, ed. Peter Dubovsky and Federico Giuntoli (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)
Mohammed Hocine Benkheira, “Reevaluating the role of the Epigons (tābiʿūn) in the formation of Islamic ritual and jurisprudence”, in Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, ed. John V. Tolan (Routledge, 2019)
Mathieu Tillier et Naïm Vanthieghem, “Recording debts in Sufyānid Fusṭāṭ: a reexamination of the procedures and calendar in use in the first/seventh century,” in Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, ed. John V. Tolan (Routledge, 2019)
Katell Berthelot, “Rabbinic universalism reconsidered: the Roman context of some rabbinic traditions pertaining to the revelation of the Torah in different languages,” in Jewish Quarterly Review 108 no. 4 (2018)
Katell Berthelot, “The Torah between revelation and concealment in rabbinic traditions pertaining to the conquest of the Land of Canaan,” in Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. Mladen Popović, Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, and Clare Wilde (De Gruyter, 2018)
Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, “The ambiguous notions of Jewish legal ‘statutes’ and ‘status’ in Blumenkranz’s work”, in Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe: The Historiographical Legacy of Bernhard Blumenkranz, ed. John V. Tolan, Philippe Buc, and Martha Kiel (Brepols, 2015)
Dominique Briquel, “Livy and Indo-European comparatism”, in A Companion to Livy, ed. Bernard Mineo (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
J.E. Bernard, “Portraits of peoples”, in A Companion to Livy, ed. Bernard Mineo (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
Introduction to the Encyclopédie de l’Humanisme méditerranéen, ed. Houari Touati (2013, http://www.encyclopedie-humanisme.com)
Translation of files (French to English and English to French) for the RELMIN database
Publications
Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240-1254) (Routledge, Rulers of the Latin East, 2024)
“Prefaces in the legal texts of the crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus”, in Prefaces, Prologues, and Preliminaries: Studies on Framing Devices in Legal Traditions Across World History, ed. Laura Culbertson and Susan Longfield Karr (Routledge, 2024)
Review of Hans Eberhard Mayer, Von der “Cour des Bourgeois” zum öffentlichen Notariat: Die freiwillige Gerichtsbarkeit in den Kreuzfahrerstaaten, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Schriften 70 (Harrassowitz, 2016), in Speculum 95/4 (October 2020)
“#DeusVult”, in Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past, ed. Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul and Nina Rowe (Fordham University Press, 2019)
“The Roman Lex Aquilia in the Burgess Assizes of Jerusalem”, in Crusading in Art, Thought and Will, ed. Matthew E. Parker, Ben Halliburton, and Anne Romine (Brill, 2018)
“Les assises de la cour des bourgeois de Jérusalem: la question de leurs sources”, in Autour des Assises de Jérusalem, ed. Jérôme Devard and Bernard Ribemont (Classiques Garnier, 2018)
Review of Legati, delegati e l’impresa d’Oltremare (secoli XII-XIII) / Papal Legates, Delegates and the Crusades (12th-13th Century), ed. Maria Pia Alberzoni and Pascal Montaubin (Brepols, 2014), in Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 112 (2017)
“The treatment of minorities in the legal system of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, in Religious Minorities in Christian, Jewish and Muslim Law (5th-15th centuries), ed. John V. Tolan, Nora Berend, Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, and Youna Hameau-Masset (Brepols, 2017)
“‘As it is said in scripture and in law’: The Bible in the crusader legal system”, in Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources, ed. Elizabeth Lapina and Nicholas Morton (Brill, 2017)
“Usama ibn Munqidh and the development of crusader law” (Crusades 12, 2013)
Numerous files for the online RELMIN database (2011-2012)
Criminal Law and the Development of the Assizes
of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century, unpublished PhD thesis (2011)
Other writing/research
Names of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Contact
Email: ambishop@gmail.com
