This week, the Department of History hosts Prof. John H. Arnold (King's College, University of Cambridge). On Thursday 19 March, he will give an open lecture: 'Firmiter Credimus: the Changing Dynamics of Lay Belief' at 17.15 in Humanistiska Teatern. All are welcome.

Prof. Arnold is widely recognised not only as an international authority on the Middle Ages, but also for his writings on gender and sexuality, historiography, as well as on theory and method.

Arnold's History: A Very Short Introduction has since its release in 1999 become a widely-read introduction to the subject. His 2001 monograph Inquisition and Power: Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc is considered a groundbreaking work in the study of religious dissent and the methods by which the historian approaches subaltern voices in hostile records. His most recent monograph is The Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1300 (Oxford, 2024).

Read more about the lecture on March 19. pdf, 263 kB.