Jessica Barker - Anachronic Empire: The Fifteenth-Century Heraldic Columns of Diogo Cão and their Colonial Legacies

Jessica Barker is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research ranges across northern Europe and the Iberian peninsular, addressing questions of the macabre, gender, concealment and the body. Her publications include the monograph Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture (2020). Jessica is currently working on the lives and afterlives of the padrões, pillars erected on the coast of West Africa by Portuguese navigators during the fifteenth century.