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Presented By: University of Michigan Law School

The Magna Carta's 800th anniversary- Special lecture by Professor Robert Bartlett

Please join us as we celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta with a special lecture by the world-renowned historian Professor Robert Bartlett. His talk will offer insights into the social and political world in which Magna Carta was produced.

The lecture will be immediately followed by a reception. This event is free and open to the public.

Robert Bartlett is Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and former professor at the University of Chicago. He is one of the most prominent medieval historians in the world. He is best known for his transformative and award-winning 1993 book The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350, and most recently Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (2013). He also has written and presented three documentary series, airing on BBC to much critical acclaim: Inside the Medieval Mind (2008), The Normans (2010), and The Plantagenets (2014).

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