In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 15th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
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Colloquium: ‘Medieval Trade’, London Medieval Society in Collaboration with KCL CLAMS, 12 November 2022
Join the London Medieval Society in collaboration with KCL CLAMS as we explore trade in the Middle Ages.
Lecture: ‘The Dynastic in the Monastic: King Robert of Anjou and the Pierpont Morgan Library MS.M.626’, Denva Gallant, Murray Seminar at Birkbeck, 16 November 2022 17:30 GMT
It is well known that Robert endeavoured to present himself as a pious ruler throughout his reign. The Morgan manuscript sheds light on one such way the sovereign endeavoured to do so—by embodying and performing a sacred rulership through his readings of the Lives of the Desert Fathers.
Job Opportunity: Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, J. Paul Getty Museum (Rolling Deadline)
The J. Paul Getty Museum invites applications for a full-time Assistant Curator position in the Department of Manuscripts. The deadline for this position is rolling.
New Publication: ‘Écrire l’art en France au temps de Charles V et Charles VI (1360-1420) Le témoignage des chroniqueurs’ by Michele Tomasi
A detailed analysis of the chroniclers’ texts and their words provides access to the representations and reveals the practices, expectations and hierarchies of the French elites in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Call for Papers: ‘Burgundian Sculpture of the 15th Century’, 11-13 December 2023 (Deadline 1 February 2023)
This symposium is directly linked to the project of a major exhibition to be held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Dijon in 2026 and which will be devoted to Burgundian sculpture from the 15th century. As such, it will also be an opportunity to organize a collective brainstorming on the synopsis of this upcoming exhibition and the issues it could raise (a workshop will thus be devoted to this reflection at the end of these three days of the colloquium).
Call for Participants: ‘Revoicing Medieval Poetry’, Online, May-June 2022
Revoicing Medieval Poetry will offer a workshop-conversation space for researchers, artists and practitioners who are engaged in exploring how, why, and to what effects medieval poetry is translated, reused, and resourced in twentieth- and twenty-first-century creative practices.
Call for Papers: ‘Women, Agency, and Architecture in the Premodern World’, 78th Annual Meeting of SECAC, 26th-29th October 2022 (Deadline 19th May 2022)
The Maryland Institute College of Art is excited to act as the institutional host for the 78th annual meeting of SECAC in Baltimore, MD, from October 26-29, 2022.
Lecture: ‘Orality – Literacy – Digitality: Medieval Perspectives on the Digital Age’, IHR Europe 1150-1550 Seminar, 5th May 2022, 17:30 GMT
The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to invite you for the final seminar of this academic year.
Conference: ‘Death and Dying’, Harlaxton Medieval Symposium 2022, 15th-18th August 2022
The Harlaxton Symposium is an interdisciplinary gathering of academics, students and enthusiasts which meets annually to celebrate medieval history, art, literature and architecture through a programme of papers selected around a chosen theme. This year’s symposium will be convened by Dr Christian Steer and Dr Jenny Stratford.
Medieval Art Research 