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CATEGORIES:Cabinet of Natural History
SUMMARY:'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels\,
  Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieva
 l English lapidary traditions - Eleanor Myerson (P
 arker Library\, Corpus Christi College)
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/182837
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Eleanor Myerson will show how impor
 ted jewels were received in medieval England as ge
 ological witnesses of the Christian nature of the 
 Holy Land\, both inviting and evading possession. 
 The late medieval jewel trade bore the legacies of
  crusading trade: the European fashion for pearls 
 has been linked to cross-cultural contact in the K
 ingdom of Jerusalem\, with Acre being a high-statu
 s pearl market. The geological origins of Syrian j
 ewels implicated claims to their ownership in noti
 ons of the Holy Land as physical\, possessable ter
 ritory. The God-given natural agency of jewels bec
 ame the basis for their widespread use in medicine
  – in combination with translated Arabic science. 
 In medieval lapidaries\, the catalogues of jewels 
 in Exodus 28 and Revelation 21 are intertwined wit
 h economic and medicinal understandings of stones\
 , in complex and contradictory ways.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Silvia M. Marchiori
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