James Robinson, curator of the exhibition Medieval Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum: When the English spoke French, will draw from the museum’s significant collection of medieval art to illustrate the historic cultural and artistic links between medieval England and France.
James will be joined after his talk by Dr Susan Jenkins, Curator, Westminster Abbey who will discuss the possible French origins of the Abbey’s great medieval altarpiece, the ‘Westminster Retable’, commissioned in around 1259 by King Henry III.