April 1 Lecture
Medieval History

April 1 Lecture


Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Henry Charles Lea Lecture

Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge

"Some Modern Approaches to the History of the
Crusades"


5:00PM, Rosenwald Gallery
6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library

Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith is the most distinguished
historian of the Crusades in the Anglophone world. He
has published fifteen books and hundreds of scholarly
articles on all aspects of Crusades history.




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