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Category Archives: Early Modern
A ‘Spectacle’ of the Face: Eyewear in the Nineteenth Century
Today’s guest post comes from Gemma Almond, who is a second year AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award student at the Science Museum and Swansea University. Her PhD focuses on vision aids and the correction of vision in the nineteenth century, and … Continue reading
Posted in Early Modern, Festival of Facialities, Modern, Uncategorized
Tagged eyes, face, material culture, nineteenth century, photography, prosthetics, spectacle
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‘A Great Blemish to her Beauty’: Female Facial Disfigurement in Early Modern England
Michelle Webb is completing her PhD in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on facial disfigurement in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ‘A Great Blemish to her Beauty’: Female Facial Disfigurement in Early Modern … Continue reading
Posted in Early Modern, Festival of Facialities, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged Early Modern, medicine, Michelle Webb, portraits, surgery, women
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Dis/enabling Courtesy and Chivalry in the Middle English and Early Modern Gawain Romances and Ballads
Dr Bonnie Millar from the University of Nottingham opens the Approaches to Facial Difference volume. Bonnie is Research Assistant in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham. She specializes in late medieval courtly literature, and has published … Continue reading
Posted in Early Modern, Festival of Facialities, medieval, Publications, Representation, Uncategorized
Tagged Bonnie Millar, chivalry, gender, literature, medieval, women
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Festival of Facialities
Welcome to the 2017 Effaced from History? Summer Festival of Facialities! Effaced from History? aims to expose and examine how facial disfigurement has been conceived, represented, responded to, and affected the lives of people since antiquity. Over the next few … Continue reading
John Gavin’s Ears
Today’s disfigurement news comes courtesy of a quick stop in the Scottish town of Douglas this weekend. On the main street is a monument to the tailor James Gavin, whose ears were cut off with his own scissors. The plaque … Continue reading
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Tagged covenanter, Douglas, Early Modern, ears, Emily Cock, John Gavin, punishment, religion, Scotland
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International Albinism Awareness Day
June 13 marks International Albinism Awareness Day. This is an initiative driven by the United Nations, whose reports into discrimination against people with this genetic condition highlighted “how interrelated factors, including the mythologization of albinism and a related lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Body, Contemporary, Early Modern, events, Media, Public Engagement, Representation, Uncategorized
Tagged albinism, Mary Sabina, skin, United Nations
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‘Corpus Historicus’ Conference
Followers might be interested in a conference taking place at the end of this month in Sosnowiec, Poland. The programme for ‘Corpus Historicus: The Body In/Of History‘ looks like a fascinatingly wide-ranging and interdisciplinary feast of body studies across history, and … Continue reading
Posted in Body, Classical, conferences, Contemporary, Early Modern, events, medieval, Modern, Uncategorized
Tagged art and culture, Body, conference, literature, Poland
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