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Latest News
News: Access to the Index of Medieval Art Database Will Become Free on 1 July 2023
Jongleurs from the Silos Beatus, 1091–1109 (London, British Library, MS Add. 11695), fol. 86r. We’re very pleased to announce that as of July 1, 2023, a paid subscription will no longer be required for access to the Index of Medieval Art database. This transition was made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H.…
CFP: Early Modern Material Culture of War and Emergency (London/Oxford, 19-20 April 2023), Deadline: 15 January 2023
The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World Conference and Graduate Student Workshop. War was a pervasive part of early modern life. People experienced war as agents of conflict, impotent witnesses of its destructive forces, and as victims of its economic, social, and material consequences. Such events of conflict and emergency…
Funding Opportunity: VAG Winter Conference Bursaries (Deadline 3 December 2022)
The Vernacular Architecture Group is able to offer two bursaries to assist registered students (or professionals in the early years of their career) to attend the conference. The Committee is aware that the cost often makes attendance difficult for students and others who might benefit from the lectures and discussions, and from the opportunity to…
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Seminars and Lectures
Online Lecture: ‘Chôra and the Creation of Sacred Space in Byzantine Architecture’ with Jelena Bogdanović, Thursday 30 March 2023, 12pm (EDT)
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.
Online Lecture: ‘Divine King or Sacrilegious Upstart? The Portrait of Emperor Yǝkunno Amlak in Gännätä Maryam’ with Jacopo Gnisci, Tuesday 21 March 2023,12:00pm (EDT)
East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.
Lecture: ‘Medieval Stained Glass in the Churches of the Golden Valley’, with Robert Walker in Church of St Michael & All Angels, 11 March 2023, 7pm (GMT)
Join Robert Walker for a discussion of his new book The Medieval Stained Glass of Herefordshire and Shropshire in the Church of St Michael & All Angels in Eaton Bishop.
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Call for Papers
Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, deadline 3 April 2023
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference
CFP: ‘Visualizing Drugs & Dyes: Art & Pharmacology in (Early) Medieval Worlds (600–1400)’ conference at Basel University, deadline 2 April 2023
Visualizing Drugs & Dyes seeks a dialogue among scholars engaged in the history of science, literary studies, history of medicine, art history, and the burgeoning field of plant studies and related disciplines.
CFP: ‘En femenino: Art and Women in the Middle Ages’, XVI Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval, deadline 30 April 2023
The VI Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval in Madrid welcomes submissions for their conference.
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Conferences
Symposium: ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’, Rehm Library College of the Holy Cross, Saturday 25 March 2023
In conjunction with the Cantor Art Gallery exhibition, Bringing the Holy Land Home, this daylong symposium explores the impact that the Crusades had on medieval western Europe.
Hybrid workshop: Realism in Hagiography, online / University of Cologne, 12-13 January 2023
Saints lives, martyrdoms, and miracle stories comprise a large and challenging body of primary source material for historians of the First Millennium and Middle Ages. Elements of these texts resemble historiography, but these are blended with subjective experience, mystical truth, and theology. Modern scholars interested in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and particularly scholars…
Conference: ‘New Translations and Indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images 1300-1560), 19-20 January 2023, Lille, France
The ERC AGRELITA team is delighted to present the programme of the workshops “New Translations and indirect Reception of Ancient Greece (Texts and Images, 1300-1560)” Organization : Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (University of Lille, ALITHILA, ERC AGRELITA) Location: Sciences Po Lille, France : Amphithéâtre La Boétie, niveau 0 PROGRAMME Jeudi 19 janvier -10h Accueil -10h15 Introduction, Catherine…
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New Publications
New Publication: Natural Light in Medieval Churches, edited by Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan, published by Brill
Inside Christian churches, natural light has long been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. In this volume, twenty-four international scholars with various specialties explore how the study of sunlight can reveal essential aspects of the design, decoration, and function of medieval sacred spaces. Themes covered include the interaction between patrons, advisors, architects, and…
New publication: ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece’ edited by Amanda Luyster
This volume, published by Brepols, reveals the impact that art objects manufactured in the Islamic and Byzantine Mediterranean had on the medieval visual culture of England. It also addresses the complex phenomenon of the Crusades, in which both violence and dynamic cultural interaction coexisted. A carefully integrated group of studies begins with the so-called “Chertsey”…
New Publication: ‘Il Breviario-Messale Di Salerno Del Museo Leone Di Vercelli. Una Nuova Fonte Per La Storia Dell’Arte, Della Cultura E Della Liturgia’, edited by Maddalena Vaccaro and Gionata Brusa
The extraordinary discovery of a Breviary-Missal at the Leone Museum in Vercelli has brought tolight the oldest known evidence of Salerno’s liturgy, which dates back to the years of ArchbishopRomualdo II Guarna (1153-1181). The manuscript joins a group of codices kept at the “SanMatteo” Diocesan Museum in Salerno, and provides many hitherto unpublished codicological,musicological, and…
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Medieval Jobs
Job: Lecturer in Art History, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design, Georgia State University, Deadline: 9 January 2023
The Welch School of Art & Design seeks a full-time, benefits-eligible, non-tenure-track Lecturer in the art of the ancient and/or medieval world. Appointment date: August 2023. This position entails teaching surveys of Western art and upper-level courses that incorporate at least two of the following: ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the European Middle Ages. The successful candidate must value…
Funding: Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Deadline for applications 5 January 2023
The Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in Jerusalem will award up to seven Fellowships in the humanities or social sciences for up to four years (with a possible fifth year in exceptional circumstances), beginning October 1, 2023. The fellowship offers an annual stipend of $40,000 and $2,000 for research and related expenses.…
Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medieval Studies, ANR CiSaMe Project (Deadline 15 December 2022)
The person recruited will join the ANR CiSaMe project (Circulation of Medieval Knowledge in the 12th Century) for an initial period of 12 months, renewable once, and will contribute to the creation and exploitation of a database constituted from an essentially manuscript corpus of works from the legal, philosophical and theological traditions of the 12th…
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Journal Publications
Call for Journal submissions: ‘De coloribus: Material, Symbolic and Social Crossroads of Medieval and Renaissance Painting’, Dossier CAIANA #23, deadline 29 May 2023
This dossier aims to open a new field of debate on the ways in which colour appears and acts on pictorial surfaces of different images, objects, devices and spaces produced between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.
Call for submissions: ‘The frontiers of art history and visual studies: Thoughts on their object of study’ (Eikón Imago Vol. 13, 2024), deadline for submissions 30 June 2023
Submissions are welcome for a new volume of Eikon/Imago.
Call for Articles: Fenestella 4/2023 (Deadline: June 30, 2023)
A Call for Articles for the Issue 4/2023 of Fenestella is now open. Fenestella is a scholarly and peer-reviewed open access journal. It is published by Milano University Press on OJS.Fenestella publishes scholarly papers on medieval art and architecture, between Late Antiquity and c. 1400, covering the Latin West, the Byzantine East and medieval Islam.…
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Funding & Scholarships
Funding Opportunity: VAG Winter Conference Bursaries (Deadline 24 February 2023)
The 2023 Spring Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Group will be held in Stockport,Greater Manchester, from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 April 2023. During the day memberswill tour the locality, visiting and interpreting lesser traditional buildings. Lectures anddiscussions will be held in the evenings. The visits will cover Stockport’s medieval centre andthe village of Warburton…
Funding Opportunity: The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Grant Fund of the American Friends of Chartres (Deadline: 31 March 2023)
The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students andemerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres. The American Friendsof Chartres will provide a stipend of $2,000.00 and will facilitate lodging, as well as access to thecathedral, the Centre International du Vitrail, the municipal library, archival collections andrelated…
PhD Position: Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th-15th centuries). University of Fribourg. (Deadline: February 20th, 2023)
Description: The SNSF PRIMA Project Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries) (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208477), hosted at the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg, offers a four-year doctoral position focused on female representations and patronage in Southern Italy under Latin rule (12th–15th century). Her/his dissertation will be…
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Exhibitions & Art Fairs
Exhibition: ‘Gold’, British Library, London, 20 May – 2 October 2022, tickets available in February 2022
The British Library has announced a new exhibition, Gold, which will run from 20 May to 2 October 2022. Gold has long held the power to dazzle and ignite feelings of wonder. This new exhibition will take visitors on a journey to over 20 countries to discover how gold has been used to embellish and…
Exhibition: North Sea Crossings: Anglo-Dutch Books and the Adventures of Reynard the Fox, The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, 3 December 2021–18 April 2022
About the exhibition North Sea Crossings tells the story of Anglo-Dutch exchanges through beautiful medieval manuscripts, early prints, maps, animal stories and other treasures from the Bodleian’s collections. For centuries the North Sea has been a highway connecting Britain with its Dutch neighbours, a mere 33 kilometres away at its closest point. Focusing on the…
Exhibition: ‘The Illuminated Bibliotheca: Production and Circulation of the Bible in Portugal’, National Library of Portugal, 28th October 2021 – 22nd January 2022
The exhibition focusses on the Romanesque Bible manuscripts that have been preserved in Portuguese collections.
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Resources
Call for Applications: Seminar ‘The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age’, 26 June-7 July 2023, Florence. Deadline 2 January 2023
The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI), June 26–July 7, 2023 The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age is a two-week summer seminar that will explore ways that digital materials have transformed research practices in the field in both conceptual and practical ways. What constitutes image…
Study Days: ‘Conques en Rouergue: constructions mémorielles’, 18 and 21 November 2022
These study days are part of the Conques project in the global world supported by the European Research Council.
Summer School: Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE), 1-15 June 2023 (Deadline 1 December 2022)
The Summer Institute for the Study of East Central and Southeastern Europe (SISECSE) is a two-week residential fellowship, that provides scholars of Eastern Europe time and space to dedicate to their own research and writing in a collaborative and interdisciplinary setting.
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