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Audio and pdf files from LSE's spring 2008 programme of public lectures and events.
Spring 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
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17 years ago
A Counter-narrative: Islam and the first Europe
Contributor(s): Professor David Levering Lewis | Professor Lewis will argue that the 732CE Battle of Poitiers and the 778CE debacle at Roncevaux are pivotal moments in the creation of an economically retarded, balkanised, and fratricidal Europe, which, by defining itself in opposition to Islam in al-Andalus, made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, persecutory religious intolerance, cultural particularism, and perpetual war.
Spring 2008 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
Audio and pdf files from LSE's spring 2008 programme of public lectures and events.
