2008-2009: Ruth Mazo Karras, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
'A Scandal to the Whole Clergy': Priests and their Partners
The Henry Charles Lea Lecture Series
This lecture series honors Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), one of America's greatest historians of the Middle Ages.
Lea's Library and papers are housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The lecture has been hosted annually by the Penn Libraries since 2004.
Past Lea Lecturers
2008: Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge
Some Modern Approaches to the History of the Crusades
2007: Pawel Kras, Catholic University of Lublin
John Wyclif's Writings in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia and Poland
2006: Dyan Elliott, Vanderbilt University
Life is Hell: The Twelfth-Century Encounter with Dualism
2005: Peter Biller, University of York
2003: R.I. Moore, University of Newcastle
The War Against Heresy in Medieval Europe