“Every People Under Heaven”:
The Global History of a Franciscan Tombstone
Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters
September 15, 4:15 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Room 9206/9207
RSVP to [email protected]
The subject of this presentation will be a seemingly unremarkable tombstone of Andrew of Perugia
(d. 1332), a Franciscan who became the third bishop of Zayton, a maritime entrepôt in southern
China.
Sponsored by the Certificate Programs in Medieval Studies, Global Early Modern Studies, the PhD
Program in Art History, and the Late Antique- Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group (LAMEM)
at Brooklyn College