La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary, Christians, Muslims, Jews and Indians in the Pre-Modern Spanish World

Posted on 30 October 2011

Professor Amy Remensynder of Brown University will be giving a lecture on representations of the Virgin Mary, and their use in the processes of conquest and conversion in the middle ages. The lecture will take place at 5.30 pm in Room K/133, The King's Manor, and all are welcome to attend.

Professor Remensynder is Associate Professor of History as well as the director of the program in Medieval Studies at Brown, working on medieval religious and cultural history. She is the author of Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France (Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press, 1995), co-editor of Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice (Routledge, 2011) and author of a book about the Virgin Mary, conquest and conversion which will be coming out from Oxford in 2012. All welcome.

Download a poster.