Historian to Give Armstrong Lecture March 25

Historian Dr. Jay Rubenstein will give the Armstrong Lecture at Bradley University on March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Wyckoff Room in Cullom-Davis Library.

The lecture, sponsored by the Department of History, is free and open to the public.

Dr. Rubenstein's topic is "The Apocalyptic First Crusade, Or Why the World Ended in 1099."

Professor Rubenstein is a historian of the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual worlds of Europe in the Middle Ages, with areas of focus in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England, France, and the Crusader settlements. He received an M.Phil. at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley, both in medieval history. His research interests combine intellectual, cultural, religious, and military history, with his earliest publications focusing on the cultural impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon society.

The Armstrong Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History, is named for William M. Armstrong '47, a Peoria native who attended Bradley in the 1930's and 1940's, interrupted by service in France and the Philippines during World War II. Armstrong received a master's degree in history from Louisiana State University and his Ph.D. in history from Stanford University.