“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Alanna Skuse, Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England (2021), ch. 4 ‘Acting the Part: Prosthetic Limbs’, 81-108;
David Turner and Alan Withey, ‘Technologies of the Body’, History 99 (2014), 775-96
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Part of: Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Belinda Clark