Lincoln Cathedral has for forty years had a full team of craftsmen, and has contributed to the training of workers at other cathedrals around the country. The ongoing programme of ‘making and remaking’ at Lincoln serves to inform our understanding not only of this particular building but also medieval architecture more widely.
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CFP: Voices from the grave – the political function of church monuments from the 13th to 16th century (Leeds 2015)
Call for Papers: Voices from the grave – the political function of church monuments from the 13th to 16th century International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Sponsors: University of Nottingham and University of Amsterdam Notwithstanding their religious significance, in recent years scholarly attention has increasingly been drawn to theContinue reading “CFP: Voices from the grave – the political function of church monuments from the 13th to 16th century (Leeds 2015)”
Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects (University, of Warwick, 12 September 2014)
Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects Friday 12 September 2014, 10.30 – 16.45 University of Warwick IAS Seminar Room, The Institute of Advanced Study, Millburn House, Millburn Hill Road, University of Warwick Science Park, Coventry CV4 7HS Conference Programme 10.30-10.50 Introduction – Zuleika Murat (University of Warwick) 10.50-11.20 Nigel Ramsay (UCL): Introduction: What’sContinue reading “Conference: English Alabaster Carvings: Current Research and Future Prospects (University, of Warwick, 12 September 2014)”
Call for Contributions: Critically Mediterranean: Aesthetics, Theory, Hermeneutics, Culture (Edited Volume)
Call for Contributions: Critically Mediterranean: Aesthetics, Theory, Hermeneutics, Culture ed. by Yasser Elhariry (Dartmouth College) & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Tulane University) Deadline: 15 December 2014 This is a call for contributors for Critically Mediterranean: Aesthetics, Theory, Hermeneutics, Culture, a peer-reviewed edited volume co-edited by Yasser Elhariry (Dartmouth College) & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (Tulane University). Pointing to theContinue reading “Call for Contributions: Critically Mediterranean: Aesthetics, Theory, Hermeneutics, Culture (Edited Volume)”
CFP: Medieval Narratives (Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015)
Call for Papers: Medieval Narratives 32nd Annual Illinois Medieval Association Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015 Deadline: 21 November 2014 We are pleased to announce the 2015 annual conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. The conference will take place on Saint Louis University’s campus FebruaryContinue reading “CFP: Medieval Narratives (Saint Louis University, 20-21 February 2015)”
CFP: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World (Philadelphia, 20-22 March 2015)
Call for Papers: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 20-22 March 2015 Deadline: 15 November 2014 Following on the success of “Masons at Work” (held in spring 2012, and published as http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/publications.html), the symposium aims to assemble specialists to examine building practices in the pre-industrial world, with an emphasis on Greek, Roman,Continue reading “CFP: Against Gravity: Building Practices in the Pre-Industrial World (Philadelphia, 20-22 March 2015)”
CFP: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art (Tel Aviv, 22-23 March 2015)
Call for Papers: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art Tel Aviv University, Israel, 22 – 23 March 2015 Deadline: 10 November 2014 IMAGO– The Israeli Association for Visual Culture of the Middle Ages, and the Art History Department, Tel Aviv University Art history, as we knew it, had changed in the year 1989 with the publication of twoContinue reading “CFP: Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation in Art (Tel Aviv, 22-23 March 2015)”
Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections (Florence, 3 October 14)
Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici – San Jacopo in Campo Corbolini Via Faenza 43, Florence 3 October 2014 For the second event of our Forum on Museums and Religion, we propose a study day that addresses the particular issues associated with the conservation and display of collections of objects historically belonging to religious institutions—aContinue reading “Conference: Sacred Art in Sacred Collections (Florence, 3 October 14)”
CFP: Imagery in Medieval Herbals (Kalamazoo 2015)
Call for Papers Imagery in Medieval Herbals International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Medieval herbals have attracted interesting investigations in the last decades, but are a still scarcely analyzed topic. However, investigations focused on printed herbals produced at the end of the 15th century and onwards (The interesting herbals catalogue by Minta Collins,Continue reading “CFP: Imagery in Medieval Herbals (Kalamazoo 2015)”
CFP: Gaming the Medieval: Medievalism in Modern Board Game Culture, IMC Leeds 2015, deadline 15 September 2014
Since the early 1980s, the medieval has proven to be a fertile source of narrative concept, artwork and play structure in popular board and card game culture. In recent years, games with medieval subject matter such as Carcassonne, Dominion and Shadows Over Camelot have increasingly graced the top of European and American board game award tables.
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