Mansur Boase delivers seminar on Anselm Turmeda at the Centre for Catalan Studies
Mansur Boase (Queens’ College, Cambridge) delivered a seminar at QMUL titled “The Early Story of Fra Anselm Turmeda: A 14th-century Franciscan from Mallorca who converted to Islam and wrote in three languages.”
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This seminar, organised by the Centre for Catalan Studies, was based on the work of his late father, Roger Boase, an honorary senior fellow at Queen Mary. After providing historical and biographical context on Turmeda’s life and origins, Mansur Boase offered a more detailed analysis of the Franciscan’s literary contributions in Catalan, Arabic, and Latin. A speaker of Hebrew as well, Turmeda referred to himself with the epithet O de les tres lletres mestre or “master of the three written languages”. The seminar concluded with a lively Q&A session.