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Big Thought Series: The Shadow of the Crusades in Post-9/11 America

In Person

November 13, 2024
3:30 pm EST - 4:30 pm EST
Location: Gregory J. Grappone Humanities Institute

Professor Alexandra Locking is a member of the History Department whose work focuses on the eleventh and twelfth centuries in medieval Europe. Her research focuses on how religious beliefs and medieval ideas of gender influenced the way people thought about power and rulership in a Christian society. Her current book project focuses on how religious reform challenged and changed the roles of elite laywomen in medieval society. She is also exploring how the early crusading movement grew out of and affected concepts about gender and race in the medieval European worldview.

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