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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reception at 7:00pm\, with the lecture to 
 follow at 7:30pm. \n\nLord Sumption began his career as a medieval historia
 n teaching the subject as a Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford\, before leav
 ing academic life to practice at the English bar. He was a leading advocate
  in commercial\, administrative and constitutional law\, and served as a Ju
 stice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2018. In para
 llel with his legal career\, he has pursued his academic interests in medie
 val history\, writing Pilgrimage (1975)\, The Albigensian Crusade (1979) an
 d a five-volume history of the Hundred Years War which appeared between 199
 0 and 2023\, the third volume of which won the prestigious Wolfson History 
 Prize. \n\nThis is a Medieval Matters Lecture\, hosted by Stanford Continui
 ng Studies\, in partnership with: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Stud
 ies\, British History Lecture Series\, The Europe Center\, Neukom Center fo
 r the Rule of Law\, and the Anglo-California/Stansky Fund for British Studi
 es.
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LOCATION:Building 200\, History Corner\, 307
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SUMMARY:Medieval Matters with The Rt. Hon. Lord Sumption OBE\, "How War Cre
 ates Nations: The Example of the Hundred Years War"
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 -sumption-obe-how-war-creates-nations-the-example-of-the-hundred-years-war
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