OMS Trinity Term Lecture by Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum)
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 5-6pm BST, 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’.
Everybody welcome to join on youtube!
Image: Travelling Games Board, Venice, 15th century; WA1964.14; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.