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SUMMARY:'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels\, Arabic science 
 and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions - Eleanor 
 Myerson (Parker Library\, Corpus Christi College)
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CONTACT:Silvia M. Marchiori
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Eleanor Myerson will show how imported jewels w
 ere received in medieval England as geological witnesses of the Christian 
 nature of the Holy Land\, both inviting and evading possession. The late m
 edieval jewel trade bore the legacies of crusading trade: the European fas
 hion for pearls has been linked to cross-cultural contact in the Kingdom o
 f Jerusalem\, with Acre being a high-status pearl market. The geological o
 rigins of Syrian jewels implicated claims to their ownership in notions of
  the Holy Land as physical\, possessable territory. The God-given natural 
 agency of jewels became the basis for their widespread use in medicine –
  in combination with translated Arabic science. In medieval lapidaries\, t
 he catalogues of jewels in Exodus 28 and Revelation 21 are intertwined wit
 h economic and medicinal understandings of stones\, in complex and contrad
 ictory ways.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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