Monday, May 15, 2006
Hart House Library (7 Hart House Circle), 7:30pm

In a night that is certain to be an incredible voyage through history, widely published journalist, translator, and author of the highly acclaimed Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I, and best-selling Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of Cathars, Stephen O’Shea brings us his magnificent work of the 1,000-year struggle which stretches from Syria and Israel to France and Morocco, a popular history and timely reminder of our shared past, Sea of Faith: Christianity and Islam in the Medieval World.

Also joining us is the author of several books, including The Return of Martin Guerre and Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. Natalie Zemon Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of History and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Natalie brings us an engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers, in her new book Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds.