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Latest News
Call for Papers: Reginald Taylor & Lord Fletcher Essay Prize, British Archaeological Association (Deadline 1 December 2021)
The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for the Reginald Taylor & Lord Fletcher Essay Prize, awarded biennially for the best unpublished essay submitted on aspects of the art, architecture or archaeology of Europe or the Mediterranean from the Roman era to the Middle Ages, or their study.
Online Conference: British Archaeological Association Postgraduate Conference, 24–25 November 2021
The British Archaeological Association is excited to announce the programme for this years online Postgraduate Conference. Make sure to book your place now.
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Medieval European History, Union College (Deadline 15 November 2021)
The History Department at Union College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Medieval European History, c. 500-1400, (including Medieval Mediterranean History and/or Islamic World).
Fellowship: 2022-2023 Berenson Fellowship, I Tatti (Deadline 15 November 2021)
The Berenson Fellowship is designed for scholars who explore “Italy in the World”.
Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 20-22 June 2022 (Deadline 31st December 2021)
The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Medieval History of Science and Religion, Purdue University (Deadline 1st November 2021)
The Department of History at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure-track, assistant professorship in Medieval History of Science and Religion.
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Art and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean, Duke University (Deadline 1st November 2021)
The Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Art or Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean at the Assistant Professor level.
Online Lecture: ‘Promoting Conformity, Justifying Persecution: The Revival of Figurative Sculpture at the First Millennium’, by Deborah Kahn, Birkbeck Murray Seminar, 20th October 2021, 16:45 BST
Deborah Kahn wrote her thesis at the Courtauld Institute. She subsequently returned to America where she has taught at Boston University as an Associate Professor for twenty-five years.
Call for Entries: ‘Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography’ (Deadline 31st December 2021)
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography sets out to do the first extensive collection of information on royal iconography covering the whole Middle Ages (476–1492).
Online Lecture Series: Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, Fall 2021
Check out the upcoming fall 2021 lecture series ‘Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art’ at Columbia University. All talks will take place online.
Online Conference: Religion and Enmity: A RaceB4Race Symposium, Arizona State University, 19-22 October 2021
This interdisciplinary symposium, hosted by Rutgers University, focuses on how premodern racial discourses are tied to cartographical markers and ambitions.
Call for Papers: ‘Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1300-1500: Politics, Agency and Production of Historical Knowledge and Space’, Sessions at the Seventh Biennial Conference Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 11-15 July 2022 (Deadline 7 November 2021)
The panel sessions will focus on the period ca. 1300 to ca. 1500 which witnessed both the continuity of the contacts between the aforementioned worlds, as well as important changes, such as the Mamluk and the Ottoman expansion and the Renaissance movement, which caused interruptions and disruptions in cultural encounters in the eastern Mediterranean.
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Seminars and Lectures
Online Lecture: ‘Reflections of Identity on Silk: Towards a Re-Reading of the “Islamic” and the “Secular” in Greek Orthodox Church Fabrics’ Wednesday 13th October 2021, 22:00 BST
This lecture is part of the lecture series “Fabrics of Devotion: Religious Textiles in the Eastern Mediterranean”, convened by Esther Voswinckel Filiz (Orient-Institut Istanbul).
Online Lecture: Face to Face with the Sacred: Icons on the Byzantine Home, Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture, 8th October 2021, 12:00 PM EST
This is the first lecture in the 2021–2022 series of Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture.
Autumn lecture series: IHR Seminar Medieval Europe 1150–1550
This year the IHR seminar series will take place in a hybrid form, with some in-person meetings with a live-stream via the usual Zoom room, and some Zoom-only seminars as well.
Online Lecture: ‘East of Byzantium Lecture: Cosmopolitanism as Hospitality’ with Dr Kate Franklin, East of Byzantium lecture of 2021–2022, 5 October 2021, 12:00 pm (ET)
Join Dr Kate Franklin for the East of Byzantium lecture of 2021–2022.
Online Lecture: ‘Byland Abbey: using the dead to bring a medieval monastery to life’, with Dr Michael Carter, Society for Church Archaeology, 1 October 2021, 19–20:00 (BST)
The Society for Church Archaeology is delighted to welcome Dr Michael Carter who will deliver an online lecture on the topic of ‘Byland Abbey: using the dead to bring a medieval monastery to life’.
Lecture: ‘The City as Signifier: Nuremberg in the Nuremberg Chronicle’ with Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 6:30pm (EDT), 15 October 2021
Join Jeffrey F. Hamburger for a lecture to celebrate the opening of ‘Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500.’
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Call for Papers
Call for Papers: ‘Rethinking Royal Manuscripts in a Global Middle Ages’, Association for Art History 2022 Conference, 6th-8th April 2022 (Deadline 1st November 2021)
This panel sets out to examine and compare the impact of royal patronage on the visual, material, and textual features of manuscripts produced across Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica and Europe during the ‘Global Middle Ages.’
Call for Papers: ‘Instruments of Devotion in Medieval Religious Practice’, Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale, for publication in 2023 (Deadline 1st December 2021)
The lens through which the relation between artworks and users will be explored concerns the concepts of interaction and dynamism referred to objects, spaces and modes of experience of Western Medieval art.
CFP: ‘Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceilings in context’, For Art History 2022 Annual Conference, Deadline 1 November 2021
This session will explore the legacy of Islamic art in Europe through its medieval ceilings, many of which are dispersed as architectural fragments in contemporary museums. It will focus on the case study of the Torrijos ceilings, four monumental wooden ceilings that were commissioned in the 1490s by a couple close to the Catholic Monarchs, for their palace in Torrijos near Toledo (Spain).
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Conferences
Conference: ‘(In)Materiality in Medieval Art’, 14th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 11th and 12th November 2021
The 14th Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval propose to focus on materiality as an essential factor in the artistic production, as well as on the poetics of immateriality and the intangible condition of the aesthetic experience.
Conference: ‘Pre-former/Performer: Sources et categories pour l’etude de la performance et du rituel’, UC Louvain, 6-7 October 2021
A workshop organised by Sergi Sancho Fibla and Ingrid Falque at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and on Zoom on the categories and sources destined to study performance and ritual in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Papers are in French and English.
Conference: ‘Representing and naming Greece & Greek space (14th-16th c.)’, University of Lille, 1 October 2021
This conference will focus on the representations of Greek space, ancient and “modern”, in textual and iconographic works from the 14th to the 16th century.
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New Publications
New Publication: ‘The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books’ by Elina Gertsman
Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.
New Publication: ‘The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century’ by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
This book argues that the images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, that at times were even more forceful than those made by the texts themselves. Paradoxically, it was in the context of commentaries that modern conceptions of independent authorship first were forged.
New Publication: ‘Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500’, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger & Joshua O’Driscoll
‘Imperial Splendor’ accompanies the exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum with the same title. This book presents in beautiful colour the fascinating history of book production and use within the Holy Roman Empire over the course of 700 years.
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Medieval Jobs
Job Opportunity: Assistant or Associate Professor in Medieval Studies, Macalester College (Deadline 5th November 2021)
The Macalester College Department of English invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in Medieval Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, 2022-2023 (Deadline 27 October 2021)
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, made possible by the generous support of the Getty Foundation.
Fellowship: Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fellowship in Medieval Studies 2022-2023, The Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester, deadline 15 January 2022
The Rossell Hope Robbins Library at the University of Rochester is pleased to invite applications for the Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fellowship in Medieval Studies. The fellowship is open to women and gender minorities with dissertation projects in any field of medieval studies.
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Journal Publications
Call for Papers: The Red Sea as a Space In-Between the Wider Afro-Eurasian World (deadline 31 August 2021)
For a special issue of the The Medieval Globe, to be published in December of 2023 in digital and print versions, we invite proposals for articles on topics related to “Trade, Travels and Transformations: The Red Sea as a Space In-Between the Wider Afro-Eurasian World.”
New Journal Issue: ‘The Military Orders’, Medievalista Journal, July-December 2021
The latest issue of Medivalista about Military Orders, coordinated by Luís Filipe Oliveira and Gregory Leighton, has been published and is now available on the journal’s website.
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.
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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: ‘Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500’, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 15 October 2021 – 23 January 2022
The Morgan Library and Museum is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition ‘Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500’ which begins 15 October 2021 to 23 January 2022.
Exhibition: ‘Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval & Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A’, V&A Museum, 8 May 2022
If you are in London, be sure to check out the display at the Victoria & Albert Museum: ‘Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval & Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the V&A’ – open now.
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.
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Resources
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”
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”
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