OMS Trinity Term Lecture by Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum)

Oxford Medieval Studies Programme

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 5-6pm
Online - Live on Youtube
3 wooden panels with a dragon on the left, and white and black triangles on the middle and right

Travelling Games Board, Venice, 15th century; WA1964.14; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

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Live streamed from the Ashmolean

The medieval collections of the Ashmolean Museum are rich in diversity and dazzling in quality, and using them in the service of the university curriculum has made it possible to explore the wide range of what we consider ‘medieval’ actually is. In this lecture, Teaching Curator Dr Jim Harris will discuss teaching with the Ashmolean’s medieval collections, asking questions not only about the objects themselves but about the extent to which they reveal the Museum itself to be as much a medieval construct as it is a so-called ‘product of the Enlightenment’.

 

For more medieval matters from Oxford, have a look at the website of the Oxford Medieval Studies TORCH Programme, the TORCH OMS blog and the Medieval Studies website!

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