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Date: Tuesday 14 May 2024
Time: 6pm
Venue: Michael Berry Lecture Theatre, Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church University
Cost: FREE
‘Empress Matilda (d. 1167) and Archbishops in Twelfth-Century Germany, France and England’ by Professor Elisabeth van Houts
In her lecture Professor Elisabeth van Houts will explore archiepiscopal behaviour during the career of Matilda from child bride and widow in Germany and uncrowned queen regnant England to her second widowhood and retirement in Normandy when she championed Thomas Becket.
Professor Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Emmanuel College. She is interested in medieval history and Latin, and has published and lectured extensively on Anglo-Norman history, medieval historiography and literature and the history of gender in the Middle Ages.
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