Maandag 16 maart 2026 om 16.00 uur
Prof. Dr. Miri Rubin
Queen Mary University of London
Lezing in het Engels, georganiseerd in samenwerking met het departement Geschiedenis en met het Center for Urban History (UAntwerpen).
Miri Rubin bekleedt in 2026 de Raymond van Uytven Chair for Urban History.
Lezing in lokaal C.102, Prinsstraat 13,
2000 Antwerpen.
De lezing zal gevolgd worden door een receptie.
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This visit to the University of Antwerp, a centre of excellence in urban history situated within a medieval city, is a fitting occasion to revisit the questions we are currently asking about cities. Medieval cities are emerging increasingly as diverse, in the composition of their populations, in the religious services they supported, in the materials they used for work and for pleasure, in the many social bodies that sought to make them safe. If all this is true, what kind of chronology – what narrative can we produce – to capture both continuity and change. Miri Rubin shall attempt some suggestions.
Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. Her broad research interests treat the religious cultures of later medieval Europe, with a particular focus on urban life. Among her books are Charity and Community (1987), Corpus Christi (1991), Gentile Tales (1999), Mother of God (2009), and Cities of Strangers (2020). Miri has held leadership roles in research at Queen Mary, acted as President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, has been elected as Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and in 2026 will become the President of the Ecclesiastical History Society.