Yaniv Fox was born in 1975 in Haifa, Israel. He completed his PhD in Ben-Gurion University, Israel, specialising in early medieval history. In 2012-2013 he spent a year at the Faculty of History in Cambridge University as a Rothschild postdoctoral fellow. He is currently a lecturer of medieval history at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a member of the Centre for the Study of Inter-religious Conversion. His main field of interest is early medieval history, and particularly the monastic history of the Merovingian kingdoms.