The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean

Georges de La Tour painting The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs showing four women in renaissance clothing playing cards.
September 9, 2022
4:00PM - 6:00PM
18th Ave. Library

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2022-09-09 16:00:00 2022-09-09 18:00:00 The Impostor Sea: The Making of the Medieval Mediterranean Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History, Yale University, will speak as part of the 2022-23 CMRS lecture series.  The past century of scholarship has offered two competing views of the medieval Mediterranean: a zone of intense conflict or one of intense contact.  Grounded in Latin, Romance, and Arabic sources, this lecture traces the activities of impostors, people who crowded the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Mediterranean and force us to think beyond metaphors of contact and encounter to explain the relationships between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.  Event is free and open to the public.  Image: Georges de La Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, ca. 1630, Musée du Louvre, Paris 18th Ave. Library America/New_York public

Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History, Yale University, will speak as part of the 2022-23 CMRS lecture series. 

The past century of scholarship has offered two competing views of the medieval Mediterranean: a zone of intense conflict or one of intense contact.  Grounded in Latin, Romance, and Arabic sources, this lecture traces the activities of impostors, people who crowded the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Mediterranean and force us to think beyond metaphors of contact and encounter to explain the relationships between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. 

Event is free and open to the public. 

Image: Georges de La Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, ca. 1630, Musée du Louvre, Paris

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