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Latest News
Symposium: “Intersections: Encounters with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550”, The 28th Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Monday 22nd May 2023, 9am-6:30pm (BST)
The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, overlap or intersect in different ways.
New publication: ‘Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books’ by Kathryn M. Rudy
Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books. A new open-access book by Professor Kathryn M. Rudy. In her latest work, published in April 2023 by Open Book, Kathryn M. Rudy, professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, considers how signs of wear…
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.…
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Seminars and Lectures
Seminar: “‘Look er thin herte be set’: Courtship, Emotion and Gender in Late Medieval England” by Bronach Kane, 25th May 2023 17:30 GMT
This seminar is part of the ongoing IHR European History 1150-1550 seminar series.
Hybrid Lecture: Images of the Gospels through Ethiopian and European Eyes, Dr Dorothea McEwan, 23 May 2023, 5:30 – 7:30PM BST
Images of the Gospels, through Ethiopian and European Eyes – the Evangelium arabicumas vorlage for an Ethiopian tetraevangelium. An example of the new Gondärine style of painting in Ethiopia in the 17th century Dr Dorothea McEwan (Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute, and Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences) A John Coffin Memorial Lecture Illuminated gospel books such…
Hybrid Lecture: Gilded Suns and Peacock Angels: Theatrical Materiality and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Laura Stefanescu, Wednesday 14th June, 5pm BST
In fifteenth-century Florence, the phenomenon of religious theatre and ritual performance, promoted by adult and youth confraternities throughout the city, reached an unparalleled popularity, transitioning from the realm of devotion to that of the spectacular. The highlight of these performances was the materialisation of a multi-sensory heaven on stage and the appearance of its living…
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Call for Papers
CFP: British Archaeological Association post-grad conference 2023, deadline 31 July 2023
The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology.
Call for Papers: Late Medieval Stencil Painting, Saxon State Office for the Protection of Monuments, Dresden, 26th-28th October 2023 (Deadline 30th June 2023)
The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to bring together the results of current and past research, to place them in an international context and, if necessary, to re-evaluate them.
CFP: 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame, March 14–16, 2024, Deadline: 15th June 2023
The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana). The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend. The conference will be entirely in person, though the plenary lectures and some…
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Conferences
Conference: “Ethiopians Abroad in the Middle Ages”, Ecole francaise de Rome, 23rd-26th May 2023
The international conference of the ERC project HornEast (Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages). The project offers the first comprehensive study of medieval connections between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in both Christian and Islamic contexts.
Conference: Encountering Other People: Material Religion and Cultural Exchanges in Medieval Accounts of Asia, University of Fribourg, 3rd May 2023
This conference contextualizes the experiences of travellers within the religious landscape of Medieval Asia.
Symposium: ‘Medieval Matters: A Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin’, 29-30 June 2023, QMUL School of History, London
Join this two day Symposium in honour of Professor Miri Rubin.
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New Publications
New Book Publication: Tudor Liveliness – Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England by Christina J Faraday
A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor artIn Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word was used to describe the full range of visual and material culture—from portraits to funeral monuments, book illustrations to tapestry. To a modern viewer, this claim seems perplexing: what could “liveliness” have…
New Publication: ‘L’art medieval est-il contemporain? (Is Medieval Art Contemporary)’, ed. by Charlotte Denoel, Larisa Dryansky, Erik Verhagen, and Isabelle Marchesin
This publication brings together essays by scholars of both medieval and contemporary art, offering a cross-disciplinary approach of both periods.
New Books Series: ‘The Senses and Material Culture in a Global Perspective’
The series aims to investigate paradigms of sensation in a global perspective, incorporating methods and tools derived from different disciplines including Sensory Studies, Material Culture Studies, and Disability Studies. It aims to bring together scholars to develop the notion of sensory agency of material objects and art through an interdisciplinary, combined examination of material and…
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Medieval Jobs
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor in Spatial Approaches to Digital Humanities, Vrije Universiteit (Deadline 9th June 2023)
The successful candidate will contribute to the broadening and strengthening of the department’s profile in digital humanities by develop their own line of teaching and research in the spatial approaches to the past.
Job Opportunity: Tutor, History of Art, University of Edinburgh (Deadline 2nd June 2023)
The successful candidate may be enrolled on a PhD, within their maximum period of study, or may have completed their PhD studies, and/or have a proven record of teaching undergraduate students in the context of a University degree course.
Job: Special Projects Assistant, Medieval Academy of America, deadline 15 May 2023
Job alert! The Medieval Academy of America are looking for a Special Projects Assistant.
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Journal Publications
Call for Submissions: Fenestella – Inside Medieval Art, Deadline: 30th June 2023
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. The journal aims to consider medieval artefacts from within, as if seen through a fenestella…
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.
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Funding & Scholarships
Funding: Klesch Collection (c.1400-1700), Deadline: 20th June 2023
The Klesch Collection offers grants towards the yearly cost of university fees to graduate students who have been accepted into a full-time Art History MA or PhD course of study worldwide, beginning the next academic year. PhD students are welcome to apply for any year in their programme. Applications will be considered from students who…
Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest from Postdoctoral Scholars, British School at Athens (Deadline 9th June 2023)
The British School at Athens invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes.
PhD Funding: “Dynamics of Conventionality (400-1550)”, University of Cologne (Deadline 3rd July 2023)
The research training group conducts research from an interdisciplinary perspective into the dynamics of conventionality from late antiquity to the early modern era. Under the overarching motto of convention, phenomena such as custom, regularity, tradition, and habitualisation are examined in order to understand their inner dynamics.
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Exhibitions & Art Fairs
Tours and Talks: Rituals of Power Through the Centuries at the Society of Antiquaries, 5th May 2023, 5-8pm (BST)
To coincide with the Coronation of Charles III on Saturday 6 May, we will be welcoming visitors to a rolling programme of show and tell sessions, tours, workshops, performances and demonstrations all exploring rituals of power through the ages. Come and see some of our portraits of Kings and Queens and learn more about what…
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…
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Resources
Workshop: “Materializing Transparency”, eikones Forum, University of Basel, 26th May 2023
Scheduled to coincide with the release of two important new books on transparency, this workshop engages with current scholarship in the history of art, science, architecture, religion, museology, and conservation.
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.
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