Humanities in the Village: Anne Lester with Virginia Jewiss, A CRUSADER’S DEATH AND LIFE IN ACRE

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Welcoming Anne Lester in celebration of her new book A Crusader’s Death and Life in Acre: The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers! Presenting the September edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. We’re thrilled to welcome Anne Lester in celebration of her new book A Crusader’s Death and Life in Acre: The 1266 Account-Inventory of Eudes of Nevers. With co-author Laura K. Morreale, in this book Lester uses five parchment rolls that inventoried the possessions of Eudes of Nevers, son of the duke of Burgundy, at his death in Acre in 1266 to open out a panorama of Christian crusader life. The contents of the rolls, or rouleaux, span from the pay rendered to knights and servants to the numerous possessions of a crusading nobleman. The inventory provides insight into the medieval Outremer even as it provokes questions about trade, diplomacy, remembrance, and the methodological challenges of evoking material objects in texts. Virginia Jewiss, Director of Public Engagement at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, will join Anne Lester in conversation. Whether it’s your first time at the series or you’ve been attending for years, we hope you’ll join us to usher this exciting new book into the world!

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