Medieval Touch

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Medieval Touch promotes the study of a diverse range of medieval objects from museum collections, ranging from the fourth century to the sixteenth. It takes the form of handling sessions, designed to encourage an informal exchange of information and ideas among Courtauld staff, research students and other London-based scholars, students and curators. The group meets once a term to examine and discuss a selection of works around a given theme. These handling sessions are typically led by a scholar with expertise in the given theme, and are often preceded by an informal reading group in which a small selection of pertinent texts are read and discussed. Sessions typically take place at the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and elsewhere, and are made possible by the generosity of curators in those collections.

Previous handling sessions have included: objects with apotropaic inscriptions, rock crystal objects, Gothic ivories, Byzantine and early medieval ivories, enamels, alabasters, Byzantine apotropaic objects, micro-architecture, the Agnus Dei, Becket and pilgrimage, late medieval architectural prints, the Bestiary tradition, and sixteenth-century scientific instruments.

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Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 0RN