Presenter William Seay
William Seay (MPhil and PhD Study, University of London) teaches history at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College as well as cultural geography at John Tyler Comunity College. He is also a visiting professor on reserve for the summer schools at Concordia University in Montreal, Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and at Oxford and Cambridge universities in Great Britain. Prior to study at London, Professor Seay studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge University and at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The Presentation
Seay's presentation "Crusaders and Mongols On the Move" emphasizes the
Mongol invasions of Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East in the
1200's AD as indeed the first modern Asian invasion of the West. It
further argues that it was foreign intrusion most welcomed by Christian
Europe's leaders as a hopeful alliance to crush the Islamic world and
regain the Holy Land. The lecture further points out that both the
Frankish Knights as well as the Mongols themselves played whatever side
necessary to satisfy their own greed and had no true alliance against
"Islamic barbarism" at all. Finally, it shows how climate spoiled any
successful Mongol invasion and consolidation of both Europe and the
Middle East.
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