This panel intends to explore how different bodies were categorized, described, and represented in Medieval and Early Modern Italy considering questions of gender, race, disability, and class differences. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2024
Seminar: On Display: Disability, (In)visibility, and Public Space in Early Modern Venice
Charitable institutions have long been a focus of civic and scholarly attention in the history of early modern Venice. Indeed, charity is often portrayed as being dependent on a division between benefactor and benefitted, with the latter seen as passive and lower in status. Much less studied are organizations such as the Confraternity of the…
Seminar: Re-thinking the life of court dwarfs in early modern Italy: the case of Pietro Barbino at the Medici court in Florence
Online- via Zoom Speaker: Sarah McBryde (Independent Researcher, London) Event dates: 24 April 2023, 5:30PM – 7:00PM Please note that registration for this seminar will close 24 hours in advance. Details about how to join the seminar will be circulated via email to registered attendees 24 hours in advance. All welcome: This event is free,…
