Licoricia Lecture Series at University of Winchester

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Monday 30th May, 6pm (light refreshments from 5:30pm) : 'The Role of Money in Medieval Christian-Jewish Relations'
Speaker: Anna Abulafia

The Role of Money in medieval Christian-Jewish Relations' examines how Christian anti-Jewish stereotypes 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. Anna Abulafia hopes to show that deeper understanding of these economically, inspired stereotypes can help us recognise some aspects of modern-day anti-Semitism.

Anna Sapir Abulafia was born in New York, moving with her family to The Netherlands in 1967 where she completed her schooling and University studies in History at the University of Amsterdam. After moving to Cambridge, she became a Research Fellow first at Clare Hall (1981-6) and then at Lucy Cavendish College (1987-90) where she went on to be Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in History (1990-2015), serving as Graduate Tutor (1992 -6), Senior Tutor (1996 – 2002) and Vice-President (2002 – 2010). In April 2015, she was appointed to the Chair of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions in the Faculty of Theology and Religion in Oxford and became a Professorial Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. In July 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The main focus of her research is the interaction of medieval Christianity and Judaism within the broad context of twelfth and thirteenth-century theological and ecclesiastical developments. Her books include Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000-1300. Jews in the Service of medieval Christendom (2011).

Location: The Stripe, University of Winchester.
Free parking is available in the Dytche (area 'B').