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Latest News
News: Paul Mellon Centre Public Study Room is open
The Public Study Room at the Paul Mellon Centre in Bedford Square is delighted to announce it is open again. The study room will be open by appointment only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, between 10.30-12.45 and 13.15-15.30. The rest of the Centre (PMC) will be open by invitation only on these same days ofContinue reading “News: Paul Mellon Centre Public Study Room is open”
Call for Journal Submissions: Fenestella, Open Access Journal, Issue 2/2021
The journal FENESTELLA: Inside Medieval Art is accepting scientific contributions in view of the publication of the second issue in 2021.
Online Conference: Amassing Perspectives: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography (Princeton University, 17-18 September 2021)
Registration is open for Amassing Perspectives: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography, a virtual conference on medieval Syriac iconography and visual culture.
CFP: Identity Abroad in Central and Late Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean (deadline 12 September 2021)
Life in the central and late Middle Ages was characterised by high levels of mobility and migration. Shifts in political, economic, cultural and religious life encouraged and sometimes forced individuals and groups to move ‘abroad’ permanently or temporarily, to places nearby or further afield.
CFP: ICMA Sponsored Sessions for Kalamazoo 2022 (deadline 15 September 2021)
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) will sponsor two sessions at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (9-14 May, 2022).
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at International Medieval Congress 2022
To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 2022 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4–7, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant toContinue reading “Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at International Medieval Congress 2022”
CFP: The Virgin and the City: Urban Marian Spaces in Late Medieval Europe (Kalamazoo 2022, deadline 1 September 2021)
How was the Mother of God accommodated and exhibited in civic space?
CFP: The Multimedia Craft of Wonder: Forming and Performing Marvels in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 1200-1600 (University of Cambridge, deadline 1 August 2021)
This conference, funded by the interdisciplinary Cambridge centre CRASSH and the Faculty of English, will explore the relationship between wonder, translation, and multimodality in medieval and early modern worlds.
CFP: “L’Architettura normanna e il Mediterraneo. Dinamiche dell’interazione culturale” (Humboldt University, Berlin, due 31 July 2021)
The expansion of the Normans in medieval Europe and beyond is proving to be a wide and very rewarding field for research into the complex phenomenon of transcultural exchange processes.
New Publication: Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening Before Dante by Matthew G. Shoaf
Hearing is a far-reaching concern, to judge by printed and online efforts to improve it in business, law, medicine, higher education, and other areas. American democracy itself has been jeopardized by failures to listen, some have recently argued. Centuries ago, when anxieties ran high about people not hearing what they were ‘supposed’ to hear, remediesContinue reading “New Publication: Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening Before Dante by Matthew G. Shoaf”
Job Opportunity: Lecturer in 16th- and 17th-century literature, University of East Anglia
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia is looking for a full-time Lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Book History Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021-2022, Medici Archive Project, deadline 15 August 2021
The Medici Archive Project invites applications for an eleven-month fellowship (September 2021-July 2022) entirely devoted to research on fifteen- and sixteenth-century book history, with specific focus on Florence.
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Seminars and Lectures
Online Lecture: ‘Sliding Doors: Considering the symbolic significance of decorated thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’, with Dr Meg Boulton, The Society for Church Archaeology, 4 August 2021, 19–20pm (BST)
The Society for Church Archaeology welcomes Dr Meg Boulton for ‘Decorated Thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’
Online Lecture: ‘Manuscript journeys: from German lands to digital libraries’, Bodleian Libraries, 7 July 2021, 5.30-6.45pm (BST)
This event marks the completion of a three-year digitization project delivered by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. The ‘Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands’ project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation, has digitized hundreds of medieval manuscripts from collections at The Herzog August Bibliothek and the Bodleian and made these freely available online to scholars and the public.
Online Event: The Guelph Treasure, Historic Significance & Legal Implications, International Center of Medieval Art, 28 June 2021, 12pm (EST)
A Special Online Event Presented by Friends of the International Center of Medieval Art.
Online Lecture: ‘Relocating the Holy Places: Jerusalem in Early Medieval Europe’, with Professor Julia Smith, 24 June 2021, 17:30 (BST)
Discover how small portable objects enabled biblical sites to be relocated in Early Medieval Europe. Historian Julia Smith of the University of Oxford will discuss the various uses mobile objects were put to, as well as the significance attributed to them.
Online Lecture: ‘Vault Design at Ely Cathedral, Ely’ with Alex Buchanan and Nick Webb, 29 June 2021, 14–15pm (BST)
The Tracing the Past project at the University of Liverpool, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, has spent the past seven years recording and analysing vaults in England. This lecture will introduce the project and share some of its key findings in relation to Ely Cathedral.
Online Lecture: ‘Becket: charismatic cathedral & sacred storytelling’ with Professors Paul Binski & Alixe Bovey, British Museum, 30 Jun 2021, 17.30–18.30 (BST)
This conversation, between art historians Paul Binski and Alixe Bovey, will explore the way Becket’s universality as a martyr was embodied in the architecture of Canterbury Cathedral, evoking the heroic age of early Christian martyrdom.
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Call for Papers
CFP: ‘The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe’, The Medici Archive Project, Florence (21 January 2022), deadline 1 September 2021
Announcing the Call for Papers for the interdisciplinary workshop, organized by The Medici Archive Project, which will take place at Palazzo Alberti in Florence on Friday, 21 January 2022.
CFP: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of the Image (Universitat de València, 27-29 October 2021), deadline 15 June 2021
This symposium aims to promote interrelationships between disciplines for the study of the image. Concretely, we propose an approach that addresses both the meaning of the image and its cultural function in different contexts, from innovative perspectives.
CFP: ‘Bibles, Gospels, Breviaries and Books of Hours’, Research Centre for European Philological Tradition (online, 11 Nov 2021 – 26 May 2022), deadline 15 July 2021
The Research Centre for European Philological Tradition invites proposals their upcoming seminar series: ‘Bibles, Gospels, Breviaries and Books of Hours’.
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Conferences
Online Conference: ‘Le Psautier de Paris (BnF, Grec 139)’, École nationale des chartres, 2–3 July 2021
The Paris Psalter is one of the most famous creations of the Macedonian “Renaissance”. This colloquium is the first research enterprise devoted exclusively to this exceptional manuscript. Its aim is to bring together in an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in codicology and philology, biblical exegesis and theology, and the history of art and aesthetics with the goal of putting the manuscript in context, studying its genesis and sources and its internal organization as well as its influence on Byzantine art.
IMC 2021: Medieval Art related papers & panels, 5 – 9 July 2021
We’ve had a look through the programme and have brought together all the Medieval Art related papers and panels.
Online Conference: ‘Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe. Art, Architecture, & Aesthetics’, 1-3 July 2021
This conference is dedicated to the art, architecture and material culture of female monasteries patronized by the ruling dynasties in medieval Europe between the 11th and the 14th centuries.
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New Publications
New Publication: ‘Helgonskåp: Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and Europe’ edited by Justin Kroesen and Peter Tångeberg
Find out more about Medieval Tabernacle Shrines (Helgonskåp) in Sweden and Europe in this new publication.
New Publication: ‘The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary’ by Liz Herbert McAvoy
During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden – especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus – was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities.
New Publication: ‘Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200’ by Shirin Fozi
Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultuous historical events, and the ambiguities of Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were the first large-scale figural monuments for the departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi explores these provocative markers of life and death, establishing early tomb figures as a coherent genre that hinged upon histories of failure and frustrated ambition.
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Medieval Jobs
Post-Doctoral Position: ERC Project ‘SenSArt: The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century)’, Deadline 8 July 2021, University of Padua
The ERC Starting Grant project SenSArt “The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century)”, led by Prof. Zuleika Murat (Principal Investigator) is accepting applications by highly motivated candidates to cover four post-doctoral positions, starting on 1st September 2021.
Job: Visiting Assistant Professor (History of Art and Architecture Department), University of Pittsburgh, deadline 7 June 2021
The History of Art and Architecture (HAA) Department at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for academic year 2021–22 (September 1, 2021–April 30, 2022). This position, which is outside the tenure stream, may be renewable based on need, funding, and performance. Salary and benefits are competitive. Candidates must haveContinue reading “Job: Visiting Assistant Professor (History of Art and Architecture Department), University of Pittsburgh, deadline 7 June 2021”
PhD Funding: PhD Candidate (in the Field of Medieval Art), ZRC SAZU Ljubljana, Slovenia, deadline 29 June 2021
The France Stele Institute of Art History is a part of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) based in Ljubljana. They are seeking a junior researcher who wishes to write a PhD thesis in the field of medieval art.
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Journal Publications
New Journal Issue: Religion and the Arts, Volume 25-1-2 (2021)
Launched by Boston College in late 1996, Religion and the Arts has rapidly developed into a major international journal in this important interdisciplinary field. Religion and the Arts promotes the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts. The journal has attracted international acclaim for its approach and its excellent quality andContinue reading “New Journal Issue: Religion and the Arts, Volume 25-1-2 (2021)”
New Journal Article: ‘A portrait of central Italy’s geology through Giotto’s paintings and its possible cultural implications’, Ann Pizzorusso, Geoscience Communication, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2020
Central Italy has some of the most complex geology in the world. In the midst of this inscrutable territory, two people emerged – St. Francis and Giotto – and they would ultimately change the history of ecology, religion and art by extolling the landscapes and geology of this region. From antiquity to the Middle Ages,Continue reading “New Journal Article: ‘A portrait of central Italy’s geology through Giotto’s paintings and its possible cultural implications’, Ann Pizzorusso, Geoscience Communication, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2020”
New Journal Issue: IKON – Afterlife of Antiquity, Volume 30, 2020
The 2020 issue of IKON journal is available online via Brepols. Click here to read. Table of Contents: Foreword Claudia Cieri ViaAby Warburg and the Afterlife of AntiquityMorphology and History Han LamersAfterlife of Antiquity: Historical Maenderings Katia MazzuccoNachlebende, NachlebenVehicles of Afterlife in (Some) Images and Words of the Warburg Library Rebeka VidrihTriple Martyrdom at NotreContinue reading “New Journal Issue: IKON – Afterlife of Antiquity, Volume 30, 2020”
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Funding & Scholarships
Scholarships: Visualizations and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Deadline 31st May 2021)
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Department III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge, directed by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schäfer, offers several Visiting Scholarships (residential, 3–12 months) to take place in the period September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023.
PhD Funding: JB Trapp Scholarship and Rubinstein Scholarship, The Warburg Institute – Deadline 1st May 2021
The Warburg Institute offers two scholarships for MPhil and PhD students. Applications close on the 1st May 2021. The Institute has an excellent record in securing external funding, and is happy to work with prospective students on their funding applications. JB Trapp Scholarship The JB Trapp Scholarship is open to international students who have been offeredContinue reading “PhD Funding: JB Trapp Scholarship and Rubinstein Scholarship, The Warburg Institute – Deadline 1st May 2021”
PhD Funding: MPhil or PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry and PhD Scholarships for Religious Mobilities, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Deadline: 26th April 2021
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Program of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at ACU in Melbourne invites applications for six competitive PhD scholarships in connection with its new research project ‘Religious Mobilities: Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the World.’ A major new international research collaboration with partners in Leuven, London, Princeton, Stanford,Continue reading “PhD Funding: MPhil or PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry and PhD Scholarships for Religious Mobilities, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Deadline: 26th April 2021”
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Exhibitions & Art Fairs
Exhibition: The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met now open
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared classical taste.
Exhibition: ‘Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages’, Sam Fogg, London, 24 June–30 July 2021
Sam Fogg’s Treasury Objects of the Middle Ages, will open next Thursday 24 June 2021. You can preview the exhibition by exploring some of its highlights and by watching a trailer on the exhibition page. Sam Fogg is delighted to welcome you to the gallery when the exhibition opens.
Exhibition: ‘The Great Wonder: Violet Oakley and the Gothic Revival at Vassar’ (27th February – 13th June 2021)
Oakley’s talent for creating a total artistic environment is evident not only in this undertaking – her only surviving interior-design project – but also in the elaborate medieval pageant she orchestrated for the dedication of Alumnae House in June 1924.
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Resources
Videos: ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ at the Bodleian Libraries
A series of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries’ Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July). ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition.
Podcast Episode: Les Enluminures, Christine de Pizan’s Workshop with Inès Villela-Petit
Les Enluminures have released the 14th episode of their podcast, available online via this link. Who is Christine de Pizan? Most know of her as a prolific medieval author, or at least know that she found a seat at Judy Chicago’s table. But how did she work and procure materials? Who worked for her and withContinue reading “Podcast Episode: Les Enluminures, Christine de Pizan’s Workshop with Inès Villela-Petit”
British Archaeological Association’s Digital Tour Competition 2021 Winner & Highly Commended Tours
Inspired by the difficulties in visiting churches and other historic sites during the Coronavirus pandemic, The British Archaeological Association is looking at ways of promoting the use of digital technology to allow them to be seen even during a lockdown, or for those far distant.
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