In the twelfth century, a Jewish merchant made a list of his possessions – both those he had brought from Cairo and those he had acquired over years as a trader in India. The story of this remarkable document and its contents is told in a new book from Cambridge University Press. Come hear its author, Dr. Elizabeth Lambourn, discuss how she discovered Abraham’s list and what it reveals about the dynamic commercial and social activities, cross-cultural contacts, domestic habits, and shared foodways that joined the medieval Mediterranean to South Asia in an age of encounter.
