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
Venue 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
