Restoration Clerics and the Religious Diversity of the Ottoman World: The Life and Times of Dr John Covel, 1670-77
Suggested preparatory reading:
Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660 (2008), ch. 7; Simon Mills, ‘The Chaplains to the English Levant Company: Exploration and Biblical Scholarship in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England’, in Die Begegnung Mit Fremden Und Das Geschichtsbewusstsein, ed. Judith Becker (2012), 243-66; James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014), Introduction.
Date: 20 February 2020, 17:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2020)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: The Breakfast Room
Speaker: Charles Beirouti (New College)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence