Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage

From the Alfred Jewel and Thomas Becket’s casket to an eighteenth-century carriage clock and the travel guidebook, Raphaela and Jasmine explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling to centres of culture and spiritual salvation.

Date: 16 May 2019, 12:30
Venue:
Ashmolean Museum
Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
See location on maps.ox

Details: Meet in Gallery 41 (Floor 2)
Speakers: Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford), Jasmine Proteau (Oxford)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: Hugo Shakeshaft (University of Oxford), Helena Guzik (University of Oxford)
Part of: Talking Sense Gallery Talks
Topics:
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Helena Guzik