Islam at the Foundations of Western Society: How Medieval Islam Shaped the Modern World, March 20

[Sherilee Diebold-Cooze]

2013 Studies in Islam Speaker Series

Islam at the Foundations of Western Society: How Medieval Islam Shaped the Modern World

Professor Steven Bednarski,

St. Jerome's University

A social historian of medieval crime and gender, Bednarski works on criminal records from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to see how ordinary people lived, laughed, loved, and loathed. His first book, entitled Curia: A Social History of a Provencal Criminal Court in the Fourteenth Century tells tales of naughty townsmen and nasty knights.

Wednesday, March 20, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.



Renison University College, Dunker Family Lounge, 240 Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo



Free parking, light refreshments



For more information or to register:

uwaterloo.ca/renison/si-speaker-series, ipandit at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:ipandit at uwaterloo.ca> or 519-884-4404 ext. 28668

Poster:  http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/sites/ca.arts/files/eventposters/2013-03-20-SIlecture-final%20(2).pdf

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