Seminar in collaboration with CIPCS Seminar

Jews and Muslims in the History of Europe: writing the continent against the grain

European history continues to be defined as a field by a notion of Europe - its borders, values and civilization - that is structured by Christianity and its legacies, both religious and secular. In this wide-ranging lecture, Professor Abigail Green asks how we can integrate the marginalised pasts of Europe’s Jews and Muslims into the stories we tell about the history of our continent and what it means to be European.

Speaker details

Prof Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at Brasenose College, Oxford University. She has published widely in the history of Jewish and German history. Her books include the award winning monograph titled Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero (2010) and Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth Century Germany. (2001).