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Michael Goodich (1944-2006) was an exceptionally productive and personable medieval historian. Although American-born and educated (BA, City College of New York; MA, University of Pennsylvania; PhD, Columbia University), Goodich spent almost his entire academic career at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he rose through the ranks as professor, departmental chair, and dean. Geography, however, by no means circumscribed his horizons, for Michael Goodich belonged to the world of medieval scholarship. He loved to travel and frequently attended international conferences abroad, where he invariably presented a paper that subsequently would be published. He also held visiting professorships at several well-known American, British, and Canadian universities. His resident scholarship at St....