Global Britain? A Medieval Perspective
This spring, the PMC’s Public Lecture Course – a series of free public talks, each given by a different expert – looked at the theme ‘Britain and the World in the Middle Ages’. The series explored how the medieval ‘British Isles’ were places of exchange, where art, ideas and rare materials came together from all over the world. In this feature, Tom Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, shares insights from his lecture, which examined five objects and their biographies to trace Britain’s connections across the medieval globe. Recordings of the full six-part series are now available on the PMC’s YouTube channel.
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