Dominic Janes (Keele), Queering the Middle Ages and Student Life in 19th to 20th Century Oxford

In Victorian Oxford the fashion for medieval art, culture and religion was satirised by students as queerly perverse in a series of prints that have been preserved in the Bodleian. Looking at these today opens up debate on the ways in which diverse forms of queerness were perceived in the Middle Ages, the nineteenth century and today.

1pm at the Rees Davies Room of the History Faculty

All welcome!