The Medieval & Renaissance Research Centre at the University of Winchester are delighted to welcome Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia to share her understanding of the economically inspired stereotypes that evolved in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries through the combination of Christian theological ideas about Judaism with the demands of a developing profit economy from the 1150s. Can this help us to recognise some aspects of modern-day anti-Semitism?

Anna Sapir Abulafia took up the Chair of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford in April 2015. Previously she taught in Cambridge where she was Senior Tutor (1996-2002) and Vice-President (2002-2010) of Lucy Cavendish College. The main focus of her research is on interactions between Christians and Jews within the broad context of twelfth and thirteenth-century theological and ecclesiastical developments in medieval Latin Christendom.

This lecture will be available to watch online via a Teams Live link (circulated to all registrants 24 hours before the event), but will not be recorded to view at a later date.

Parking is available on campus, and light refreshments will be served from 5.30pm.