Lunch & Learn: "The Politics of Anti-Semitism in Medieval Spain"

Dr. Maya Soifer Irish's research focuses on religious violence and toleration, and investigates the legal, social, and economic situation of religious minorities in Iberian Christian societies. Her first book, Jews and Christians in Medieval Castile: Tradition, Coexistence, and Change, was published in 2016 by The Catholic University of America Press. It explores the changes in Jewish-Christian relations in the Iberian kingdom of Castile during the pivotal period of the "reconquest" and the hundred years that followed the end of its most active phase (eleventh to mid-fourteenth century). Focusing especially on the Christian heartland north of the Duero River, known as Old Castile, the book offers a detailed investigation of the Jews' changing relations with the monarchy, the church, and the towns.

Join us for lunch, and learn something too!  Dr. Irish will be speaking on March 20th as well, as part of the "Dialogue: An Early Modern Series" program.