French Historian Pierre Savy - Seminar Discussion of Jewish History in the Italian Renaissance

Pierre Savy is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée.

Join Pierre Savy (University of Paris) for a seminar discussion of his essay, “Making Jews Useful in the Italian Renaissance: an Alternative Path to Integration?”

Co-sponsored by the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, the EMRG, and French Connexions.

Please RSVP at jimes@wustl.edu to be provided with a copy of the essay a week before the event.

Pierre Savy is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. A graduate from the Ecole normale supérieure and a former member of the Ecole française de Rome, his research focuses on the social and political history of Northern Italy in the late Middle Ages, and on Jewish and Christian identities in the medieval and modern Western world.