About the event

Speaker: Dr Carly Boxer

Chair: Dr Jess Bailey

Abstract

Medicine in England transformed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, melding centuries-old scholastic traditions  with the realities of religious healing.  This talk explores how images did more than merely show the body. Medical images conditioned reader-viewers in the way images, bodies and images of bodies ought to look; they also helped readers develop the visual skills to learn from the bodies they looked at.

Biography

Carly B. Boxer is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bucknell University. Their work centers on the connections between medieval image-making practices and period ideas about vision, knowledge and the capacity of images to guide thought. Their research has been supported by the Medieval Academy of America, the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Access

Please let us know if you require any support accessing this event by emailing eca.events@ed.ac.uk.

Please see ECA's privacy notice for more information on how your personal details provided will be used and stored.

This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online.

Image credit: Zodiac Man, Kalendarium of John Sommer, Oxford, England, Late 14th century, Bodleian Library Digby MS 5