Title: Inventing the Past: Early Modern Antiquarian Worldviews and Networks between Malta and Italy
Date: Monday 7 March
Time: 18:00
Venue: Online
Dr Reuben Grima, from the Department of Conservation and Built Heritage, and currently a Shortland-Jones Fellow at the British School in Rome, will be giving a public lecture on Monday 7 March at 18:00.
This lecture will focus on the networks of knowledge and practices between the epicentre of antiquarian activity in Rome, and the Maltese archipelago, out on the periphery, south of Sicily.
In spite of their remote location, the megalithic monuments of Malta were the subject of scholarly debate from the early seventeenth century onwards. The rich fossil deposits in Malta's sedimentary limestone, as well as the tradition of Saint Paul's shipwreck, also become the subject of scholarly discourse.
This lecture will take place online and you can register through the following .
