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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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).
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.
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.