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This event is a RESCHEDULE date, originally scheduled for November 7, 2012. All tickets purchased for the original date will be honored on this rescheduled date of Wednesday, January 16.

January 16
Wednesday, 6:00 pm
"Great Battles" Evening Lecture
The First Crusade: Three Battles for Latin Christendom
From 1096 to 1101, over 100,000 people from all over Western Europe set off towards Jerusalem. These men and women, these warriors and pilgrims, priests and nuns, lords and laborers, didn't have a name for what they were doing—no one would use the word Crusade to describe an armed pilgrimage, or holy military expedition, until more than another century had passed. Yet the battle that preceded their march, a battle along the way to Jerusalem, and still another after that city was conquered by a tiny remnant of the original force, combined to permanently reshape the nature (both spiritual and physical) of Catholic Europe. Dr. Jessica Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Medieval History, University of Pennsylvania, speaks at this "Great Battles: Moments in Time that Changed History" series lecture program. Admission with advance registration: $5, general public; $2, Penn Museum members; $10 at the door based on availability.