Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation with Claire Litt, "The Princess and the Pawned Jewels: Financing War and the Marriage of Christine of Lorraine and Ferdinando I," 2/5

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Join us on February 5 for a presentation by Claire Litt, entitled "The Princess and the Pawned Jewels: Financing War and the Marriage of Christine of Lorraine and Ferdinando I." 

Claire Litt is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Tufts, where she is holding a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She will be a scholar at Tufts for the next two years. Her doctoral research investigated the uses of gemstones in women's health and beauty practices at the Medici court in Tuscany during the grand ducal period. Her postdoctoral project at Tufts will focus on women's medicine in early modern Italy. 

All are welcome to attend. You can attend via zoom as well. For questions, contact humanities@tufts.edu.