About this Event
The School of History at Queen Mary University of London warmly invites you to this seminar with Professor Paul Freedman (Yale) to mark the publication of his recently published book,
The seminar will take place in the History Senior Common Room, Arts Two Building, Queen Mary University of London from 3-5pm on Friday 7 June.
Paul Freedman is the Chester D. Professor of History at Yale University where he has taught since 1997. Before that he was at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has been on two themes, the Middle Ages, especially in Catalonia, and the history of food and cuisine, mostly dealing with the United States. In the cuisine area he has written Ten Restaurants that Changed America (2016); American Cuisine and How it Got That Way (2018) and recently a children's book Bite by Bite: American History through Feasts, Food and Side Dishes.
His work as a medievalist includes books about the church and the peasantry of Catalonia and a comparative work entitled Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999) that won the Haskins Medal from the Medieval Academy of America. His Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (2008) is a bridge between his interests. Today he is presenting his latest book on Catalonia,The Splendor and Opulence of the Past: Studying the Middle Ages during the Catalan Enlightenment. This is a work of historiography, dealing with a circle of clerical intellectuals who in the eighteenth century devoted their attention to archives and to reconstructing the history of Catalonia's medieval past. That research and the recollection of the Mediterranean power of the medieval Crown of Aragon would later inspire the revival of the Catalan language in the nineteenth century and movements of national political self-consciousness thereafter.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arts Two , History Senior Common Room, 335 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00