"The House of Converts in Medieval London" 10/28

10/07/2024
By Andrew Drenas

On Monday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m., Prof. Lauren Fogle of the History Department will be giving a lecture in Dugan 208 related to her research on Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval England. 

The lecture, "The House of Converts in Medieval London," will draw on her book "The King's Converts: Jewish Conversion in Medieval London." The House of Converts in London was a unique institution in medieval Europe: a place where royal funding maintained Jewish converts to Christianity in an attempt to facilitate their new lives as Christians. However, the ideal was quite far from the reality and this talk will discuss how the actual converts lived and how they became converts in the first place. 

This lecture is free and open to the public. It is being co-sponsored by Medieval & Renaissance Studies and the History Department.