Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a historian who resists specialisation. He has taught at Oxford and held Chairs at Queen Mary College, London and Tufts University. He joined the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and his most recent book is 1492: The Year our World Began.
Tales of Mediterranean Coexistence
Al-Andalus in Islamic Spain and the 19th Century Levant are often mentioned as legendary times and places of peaceful co-existence between different peoples and religions. But how much real social, cultural and economic interaction actually existed among Jews, Christians and Muslims? In what way was the Jewish experience distinctive from that of other faiths? In this talk chaired by Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto, two major historians of the region, Professor David Abulafia, autho...