Henry Charles Lea Lectures

Henry Charles Lea Lectures

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This lecture series honors Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), one of America's greatest historians of the Middle Ages. Lea's Library and papers are housed in the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The Lea Lecture was hosted annually by the Penn Libraries from 2003 to 2008. Cu…

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    • Sep 23, 2012 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 12m AVG DURATION
    • 3 EPISODES


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    Ruth Mazo Karras, ‘A Scandal to the Whole Clergy’: Priests and their Partners (2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2012 77:37


    A lecture presented on 21 November 2008 in the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania. Introduction, by Edward M. Peters, University of Pennsylvania; lecture, by Ruth Mazo Karras; question and answer session. Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, is the author of Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (2005) and From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (2003).

    Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith, Some Modern Approaches to the History of the Crusades (2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2012 73:42


    A lecture presented on 1 April 2008 in the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. Introduction, by Edward M. Peters, University of Pennsylvania; lecture, by Jonathan S.C. Riley-Smith; question and answer session. Jonathan S. C. Riley-Smith has published fifteen books and hundreds of scholarly articles on all aspects of Crusades history. Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge.

    Pawel Kras, John Wyclif's Writings in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia and Poland (2007)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2012 66:51


    A lecture presented on 27 February 2007 in the Rosenwald Gallery of the Van-Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. Introduction, by Edward M. Peters, University of Pennsylvania; lecture by Pawel Kras; question and answer session. Pawel Kras is Associate Professor of History in the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.

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