Medieval Touch [Archived]
Medieval Touch promoted the study of a diverse range of medieval objects from museum collections, ranging from the fourth century to the sixteenth. It took 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 was convened by Tom Nickson. The group met once a term to examine and discuss a selection of works around a given theme. These handling sessions were typically led by a scholar with expertise in the given theme, and were often preceded by an informal reading group in which a small selection of pertinent texts were read and discussed. Sessions typically took place at the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, and elsewhere, and were made possible by the generosity of curators in those collections.
Previous Handling Sessions (On the Medieval Art Research blog)
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. Details of some of these can be found below:
Master W and Key and late-gothic architectural prints
The Iconography of the Agnus Dei
Objects with apotropaic inscriptions