ISI Florence, International Studies Institute, Via della Vigna Nuova 18, 50123 Firenze, October 20, 2015 Medieval Charm: Illuminated Manuscripts for Royal, Aristocratic, and Ecclesiastical Patronage // Fascino medievale: manoscritti miniati per i sovrani, l’aristocrazia e il clero International Conference // Convegno Internazionale Organized by Stefano U.Baldassarri, Francesca Marini, Florence Moly Among the main goals ofContinue reading “Medieval Charm: Illuminated Manuscripts for Royal, Aristocratic, and Ecclesiastical Patronage (Florence,”
Yearly Archives: 2015
Pardon our Dust: Reassessing Iconography at the Index of Christian Art (Kalamazoo 2016 sessions)
The International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12 – 15, 2016 Deadline: Sep 15, 2015 Pardon our Dust: Reassessing Iconography at the Index of Christian Art 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 12-15, 2016 Deadline: September 15, 2015 Organizers: Catherine Fernandez and Henry Schilb (Index of Christian Art, PrincetonContinue reading “Pardon our Dust: Reassessing Iconography at the Index of Christian Art (Kalamazoo 2016 sessions)”
Material Processes and Making In Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2016 session)
The International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12 – 15, 2016 Deadline: Sep 15, 2015 Art historians traditionally focus on the finished work, yet attention to the creative process of making allows us to consider how medieval builders and artisans constructed monuments, made objects, and planned workflow for large-scale projects.Continue reading “Material Processes and Making In Medieval Art (Kalamazoo 2016 session)”
“Reassessing Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: Representations of Secular Power in Word and Image” (Kalamazoo 2016)
Since its publication in 1957, Ernst Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies has achieved canonical status in the field of medieval history. This sweeping account of medieval political theology describes how the king came to be perceived as a gemina persona, possessing both a “body natural” (material and mortal) and a “body politic” (immaterial and immortal).Continue reading ““Reassessing Kantorowicz’s The King’s Two Bodies: Representations of Secular Power in Word and Image” (Kalamazoo 2016)”
Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, c. 1200-1500 (Kalamazoo 2016)
The Hanse, also known as the Hanseatic League, was a trade network of merchants and cities across the Northern and Baltic Seas that flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Due to its geographic reach, the Hanse provided a framework to connect distant towns, peoples, cultures, ideas, and materials together. This session aims to exploreContinue reading “Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, c. 1200-1500 (Kalamazoo 2016)”
Picturing the present: Structuring the medieval beholder’s relation towards time (Kalamazoo 2016)
Armin Bergmeier (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich) Andrew Griebeler (University of California, Berkeley) “What then is time?” asks Augustine, the fourth-century bishop of Hippo, “If no one asks me, I know, but if I wish to explain it, I do not know.” Although intimately familiar, time eludes simple description. For Augustine, it is a single, ever-moving point ofContinue reading “Picturing the present: Structuring the medieval beholder’s relation towards time (Kalamazoo 2016)”
New Perspectives on Medieval Rome (2 sessions at Kalamazoo 2016)
Digital, environmental, material, Mediterranean, sensory, spatial: these are among the recent “turns” taken by the medieval humanities, including art history. The new perspectives on the past opened by these approaches, many of which are informed by interdisciplinary research and contemporary cultural interests in the natural and built world, are fundamentally reshaping how we conceive ofContinue reading “New Perspectives on Medieval Rome (2 sessions at Kalamazoo 2016)”
Exploring the Fourteenth Century Across the Eastern and Western Christian World (Leeds 2016 session)
“ […] and that Giotto changed the profession of painting from Greek back into Latin, and brought it up to date.” Cennino Cennini, The Craftsman’s Handbook, Chapter I These words by the Italian artist Cennino Cennini, written just before the end of the fourteenth century, seem to testify to the definitive break between the Byzantine and theContinue reading “Exploring the Fourteenth Century Across the Eastern and Western Christian World (Leeds 2016 session)”
CFP: Reading Architecture Across the Arts and Humanities (University of Stirling, 5 December 2015), deadline 26 September 2015
An AHRC-Funded Interdisciplinary Conference University of Stirling, Saturday 5th December 2015 The organisers of this one-day multidisciplinary conference seek to solicit proposals for 20-minute papers that consider the creation, expression and subject-areas across the Arts and Humanities. Papers should seek to address the creation, understanding, circulation and cultural impact of both real and international contexts. OriginalContinue reading “CFP: Reading Architecture Across the Arts and Humanities (University of Stirling, 5 December 2015), deadline 26 September 2015”
CfP: The Goldene Tafel from Lüneburg in context: Investigations on technology, shape and significance of altarpieces in northern Europe around 1400 (Hanover, 7-9 April 2016)
One of the highlights of Hanover’s Landesgalerie is the so-called Goldene Tafel, which once adorned the high altar of the Benedictine Abbey S. Michaelis in Lüneburg. Four wings house an extensive sculptural programme and valuable paintings which constitute important examples of the International Gothic around 1400. The shrine – unfortunately not preserved – is knownContinue reading “CfP: The Goldene Tafel from Lüneburg in context: Investigations on technology, shape and significance of altarpieces in northern Europe around 1400 (Hanover, 7-9 April 2016)”
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