Lucy Pick - Blanche of Castile: An Iberian Queen in France

Lucy Pick is a Research Associate of the University of Chicago, where she taught history of Christianity in the Divinity School for over twenty years, and is currently Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Her research interests include the relationships between gender, power, and religion, and the translation of science and philosophy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and its impact on relations between religious groups. She is the author of the books Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Thirteenth-Century Spain (2004) and Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms (2017).

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