DrLouise Marshall

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Office of the Provost & DVC

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • Italian Renaissance plague images, with a particular focus on the process of intercession and the protective role of images in coping with the experience of bubonic plague.
  • The imagery and cult of the plague saints Sebastian and Roch, and the Virgin Mary as plague protector.
  • St. Nicholas of Tolentino as a 'failed' plague saint.
  • Disaster and the emotions.
  • Death and the afterlife.
  • Image and devotion in late medieval/early modern culture.

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Emotions and the Visual in Early Modern Europe, in Crisis and in Health
    ARC Centre for the History of Emotions1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    Trouble in Heaven: Emotions and the Plague in Renaissance Italy
    ARC Centre for the History of Emotions1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    Healing Narratives: Renaissance cycles of Sebastian and Roch
    Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    Tintoretto and the Cult of Saint Roch: The Narratives of the Chiesa di San Rocco
    Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation1 Jan 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    A new plague saint for Renaissance Italy: Narrative and miracle in early cycles of St. Roch
    Renaissance Society of America1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    Saving Body and Soul in Renaissance Italy: Avoiding the Plague and Getting Out of Purgatory
    Research Institute for the Humanities, University of Sydney1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    The Imagery and Cult of St. Roch as Plague Saint in Renaissance Italy
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L
  • GRANT
    The imagery and cult of Nicholas of Tolentino as a Plague Saint
    DVC Research1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Marshall L