Dr Levi Roach

Levi Roach studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining his PhD from the latter in 2011. For the academic year 2011–12 he was a Research Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and as of October 2012 he is a lecturer at the University of Exeter. His main academic interests lie in the history of Western Europe in the early and high Middle Ages, with a particular focus on England and Germany between the ninth and twelfth centuries. His work to date has focused on such themes as kingship and royal government, feudalism, and the influence of religious and theological thought on political practice.

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Sunday 21 October 2012, 9.30am Garden Room

From open values to burqa bans: have Europeans lost the habit of tolerance?

"There's a real sense of intellectual delight that so much can be discussed in just sixty minutes - and so thoughtfully - both by the speakers and especially by the audience. A rich feast of ideas."
Christopher Kelly, reader in Ancient History and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus Christi College

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