{"id":529,"date":"2017-10-16T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=529"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:10:10","slug":"the-anselm-lecture-by-prof-william-chester-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2017\/10\/16\/the-anselm-lecture-by-prof-william-chester-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anselm Lecture by Prof. William Chester Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMS is delighted to welcome <strong>Prof. William Chester Jordan<\/strong> to give this year&#8217;s Anselm lecture: <em>&#8216;1096: Killing as Retribution, Defiance and Atonement&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0on <strong>Tuesday 7th November 2017<\/strong> at <strong>6pm<\/strong> in <strong>Grimond Building, Lecture Theatre 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract of the lecture<br \/>\n<\/strong>There are many earlier examples of the elevation of acts of lethal violence to a sanctifying status.\u00a0 As this lecture attempts to demonstrate, however, the year 1096 was remarkable for how many people of widely different backgrounds contributed to and came to accept the appropriateness of this conceptual shift.\u00a0 What were the circumstances of the transformation? What justifications were alleged? What were the long-term consequences. Building on the superb work of many other scholars, this lecture aims to further the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker biography<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>William Chester Jordan<\/strong> is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Princeton University. He is also a former Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton. Prof. Jordan has studied and published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism, and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMS is delighted to welcome Prof. William Chester Jordan to give this year&#8217;s Anselm lecture: &#8216;1096: Killing as Retribution, Defiance and Atonement&#8217;\u00a0on Tuesday 7th November &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2017\/10\/16\/the-anselm-lecture-by-prof-william-chester-jordan\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}