RHS Lecture: 'A moving house (khāna) whose inhabitants stay put'
A lecture by Professor Elizabeth Lambourn examines texts and objects to show how people lived aboard ships across the medieval Indian Ocean, from the Far East to eastern Africa. AI summary of the listing
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RHS Lecture: ‘A moving house (khāna) whose inhabitants stay put: Texts and objects on the inhabitation of the medieval Indian Ocean’ with Professor Elizabeth Lambourn (DeMontfort University) At the Institute of Historical Research About the lecture: From the early first millennium the Indian Ocean was a world of long-distance seafaring, easily on a par with later Viking feats. The longest open ocean journeys might…
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