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Lecture

Loew Lecture – What a Cross is Worth: Crusaders, Relics, and Status between the Middle Ages and the Modern World

Posted by Kylie Owens for Medieval Institute

Join us for this year's Loew Lecture with Nicholas Paul, Professor of History at Fordham University. The title of his lecture is What a Cross is Worth: Crusaders, Relics, and Status between the Middle Ages and the Modern World

Nicholas Paul is a historian specializing in the central Middle Ages, with a focus on the crusades and political culture. His lecture will consider the role of material objects, especially relics of the cross, as containers and transmitters of social and cultural capital from the world of medieval crusaders into the realm of popular culture and museum collections. The lecture will draw from recent archival discoveries and also from a forthcoming book, How the Holy Cross came from Antioch to Brogne, ed. and trans. with Wolfgang Mueller (Boydell, 2025). Paul is a Professor of History and the former director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham.

This lecture will be held in Dunbar 2101 on Thursday, November 6 at 3:00pm. 

Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025
3 to 4 p.m.
Dunbar Hall 2101