Different Visions, Issue 4: Active Objects Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art is pleased to announce the publication of its 2014 issue, entitled “Active Objects.” Arising out sessions at the 2012 International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, these five essays and one review examine the complex and responsive materialityContinue reading “New Publications”
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Upcoming Event: Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (NYU), Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory *TOMORROW*
Special Guest Lecture being held in the Senate House *tomorrow* (in collaboration with UCL and KCL Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (New York University) Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory When: Wednesday 19th March 2014, 17:15 – 18:45 Where: Senate House (WC1E 7HU ), South Block, Room G22/26 The Parthenon’s sculptural programContinue reading “Upcoming Event: Prof. Joan Breton Connelly (NYU), Acropolis and Parthenon: Genealogical Myth, Boundary Catastrophes and Local Memory *TOMORROW*”
Programme: Study Day on Pseudo-Dionysius, Florence
Programma ps.-Dionigi / Programme ps.-DionysiusSOCIETÀ INTERNAZIONALE PER LO STUDIO DEL MEDIOEVO LATINO – SISMEL Via Montebello 7, Firenze 9 aprile 2014 Seminario LA CONOSCENZA DELLO PS. DIONIGI IN OCCIDENTE FINO ALL’ETÀ CAROLINGIA/THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PS.-DIONYSIUS IN THE WEST UNTIL THE CAROLINGIAN TRANSLATIONS 10.30 – 10.45 Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Introduzione 10.45Continue reading “Programme: Study Day on Pseudo-Dionysius, Florence”
Medieval Art and Architecture on TV
Currently, there are a number of shows airing on television and available online that feature medieval art and architecture: How to Get Ahead: At Medieval Court: ‘Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II, who presided over the first truly sophisticated and artistic court inContinue reading “Medieval Art and Architecture on TV”
Call for Papers: Medieval Manuscripts in Motion (Lisbon, March 2015)
The 2nd edition of the International Conference “Medieval Europe in Motion” will take place in Lisbon, 4-6th March 2015. The conference’s main scientific goal is to analyse the phenomenon of circulation, motion and mobility of people, forms and ideas during the Middle Ages. This time the focus will be on the illuminated manuscripts. This three-dayContinue reading “Call for Papers: Medieval Manuscripts in Motion (Lisbon, March 2015)”
Lecture: ‘Script Imitation: The Shock of the Old’, Julia Crick, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 18 March 2014
The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday evening, March 18th, at 7.00 in the Torrington Room (104), First Floor, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) by: Professor Julia Crick (King’s College London) who will be speaking on ‘Script Imitation: the Shock of the Old’. All those whoContinue reading “Lecture: ‘Script Imitation: The Shock of the Old’, Julia Crick, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 18 March 2014”
Wiley Companion to the Mediterranean – Electronic Access
Wiley-Blackwell is offering unlimited concurrent electronic access to Peregrine Horden and Sharon Kinoshita’s A Companion to Mediterranean History for those institutions that purchase a hard copy for their library collection. For product details, see http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470659017.html
Call for Papers: The Art of Ritual
The Art of Ritual: Object, Image and Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Saturday 17 May 2014, Senate House, London, UK This conference is organized by three Junior Fellows of the Institute of Historical Research from diverse scholarly backgrounds: Dhwani Patel (KCL), Wendy Sepponen (University of Michigan) and Jo Edge (RHUL). It will bringContinue reading “Call for Papers: The Art of Ritual”
‘Goitein in Perspective’ (31 March, Brandeis University)
The Tauber Institute presents: “Goitein in Perspective,” an International Symposium, March 31, 2014 – April 1, 2014 at Brandeis University in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 303. This symposium seeks to understand the life and work of the towering figure S.D. Goitein—scholar of Islamic Studies, Jewish Social History, the Cairo Geniza, and the medieval Mediterranean—fromContinue reading “‘Goitein in Perspective’ (31 March, Brandeis University)”
Call for Papers: Artists’ homes in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era (11-14 June 15)
“Visual artists must live like kings or gods” – artists’ homes in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era International Conference, Nuremberg 11-14 June 2015 Conference languages: German, English Organisers: Dr. Thomas Schauerte, Dr. Andreas Tacke, University Professor Contact / applications: Danica Brenner M.A., University of Trier, TAK –artifex, Im Treff 23, D-54286 Trier; email: brenner@uni-trier.deContinue reading “Call for Papers: Artists’ homes in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era (11-14 June 15)”
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