Thursday, October 6, 2022
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William Chester Jordan
Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University
Talk title: "Now Avenge Us: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade"
Abstract: "In 1095 Pope Urban II initiated what in hindsight scholars sometimes call the Age of the Crusades, a centuries-long period of religious warfare. It is the first of these expeditions (1096-1099) that has received the most attention, but one aspect of it continues to evoke deeper and deeper research and analysis, namely the place of Jewish martyrdom in the tapestry of events and emotions in this extraordinary movement. The lecture brings together the fruits of this research and analysis."
Thursday, October 6, 2022
4:30pm
Haldeman 41
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