Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the latest in a series of special online events on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00 pm ET (9:00 am PT; 5:00 pm GMT; and 6:00 pm CET). The hour-long program will preview three medieval exhibitions scheduled to open in 2023, each introduced by its curator in charge.
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Call for Papers: ‘Visualizing Infrastructure in the Middle Ages’, Special Session for the 2023 Midwest Art History Society Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 30 March – 1 April 2023 (Deadline 9 December 2022)
his session aims to explore that inheritance and subsequent developments in medieval infrastructure through the visual,
material, and textual record.
New Publication: ‘Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence’ by Joanne Allen
In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation.
‘An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy’ Wins Bainton Book Prize
Andrew Casper (Miami Univeristy) was awarded the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) for Best Book in Art and Music History.
Fellowship: Tucher Fellowship at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Deadline 1 February 2023)
Every two years the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum award a fellowship to a doctoral candidate for research on a topic in German art and/or cultural history and, if possible, with a connection to the history of the patrician family Tucher. Applications from abroad receive priority.
New Publication: ‘Frankish Manuscripts: The Seventh to the Tenth Century’ by Lawrence Nees
Frankish Manuscripts covers the earliest period in this series devoted to manuscripts illuminated in France.
Lecture: ‘Dynastic Change, Family Networks and Female Genealogies in Medieval Armenia (11th-13th C.), by Zara Pogossian, University of Florence, East of Byzantium Lecture, 15 November 2022, 12:00 EST
This lecture will focus on a period of medieval Armenian history – eleventh to late thirteenth centuries – that was characterized by a gradual deterioration and break-down of its until then traditional social structure based on land-holding military families known as nakharars.
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.
Symposium: ‘The Medieval Treasury in Iberia and Beyond’, CCHS-CSIC Madrid, 28-30 November 2022
This project delves into the medieval objects once gathered in ecclesiastical treasuries in order to highlight long-distance and transcultural networks, shining a light on issues of broad relevance for scholarship and society today.
Seminar Series: The Medieval Black Sea Project, Princeton University, 17 November 2022 – 9 March 2023
This seminar series showcases new research on contact, conflict and exchange in the region of the medieval Black Sea. Our invited speakers will share their expertise on the various aspects of the region’s past, building on analyses of textual, art historical and archaeological material. A wide range of historical sources will be considered, allowing us to explore the agency not only of elite, but also of non-elite individuals and groups.
Medieval Art Research 