TALK Holy People, Places and Things in the Hospitallers’ Rhodes Missal

The 2024 Jonathan Riley-Smith Memorial Lecture, an in-person evening talk in partnership with the St John Historical Society.

Through close analysis of some of the stunning illuminations within the Museum’s treasured missal, Professor William Purkis will explore how depictions of holy people, places and things might have served as a stimulus for crusading and pilgrimage, both real and imagined.

There will be an opportunity to view the Rhodes Missal, not usually on display.

Image: The Annunciation, Rhodes Missal, 16th century

© Museum of the Order of St John, London/Matt Spour 2024

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