On display in Rooms 51 and 51B in the Museo del Prado’s Villanueva Building is an exhibition on Master Mateo and his work for the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, co-organised with the Real Academia Gallega de Bellas Artes, and the Fundación Catedral de Santiago. The exhibition brings together an exceptional group of fourteen worksContinue reading “Exhibition: Master Mateo in the Museo del Prado (29.11.16-26.03.17)”
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CFP: Power of the Bishop III: Bishops as Diplomats 1000-1400 (Cardiff University, 1-2 June 2017)
Power of the Bishop III: Bishops as Diplomats 1000-1400 (Cardiff University, 1-2 June 2017) Deadline for Abstracts: 20 February 2017 This two-day conference will explore the importance of diplomacy in a bishop’s career. How bishops responded to situations was often crucial to building or destroying their reputations, and, sometimes, their very lives depended on theirContinue reading “CFP: Power of the Bishop III: Bishops as Diplomats 1000-1400 (Cardiff University, 1-2 June 2017)”
Lecture: ‘Lost in Transformation: Early Medieval Sculpture and National Narratives in Croatia’,Dr Magdalena Skoblar, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 29 November 2016
Dr Magdalena Skoblar (British School at Rome) presenting on: ‘Lost in Transformation: Early Medieval Sculpture and National Narratives in Croatia’ The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday evening, November 29th, at 7.00pm in the Wolfson Room (NB01), IHR Basement, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) All those who are interested in Medieval Studies areContinue reading “Lecture: ‘Lost in Transformation: Early Medieval Sculpture and National Narratives in Croatia’,Dr Magdalena Skoblar, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 29 November 2016”
Seminar: Instituto de Estudos Medievais l’Universidade Nova de Lisbonne 28th November 2016
New Publications: Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards
Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards ISBN 978-2-503-55502-7 BREPOLS PUBLISHERS This volume contributes to current discussions of the place of relics in devotional life, politics, and identity-formation, by illustrating both the power which relics were thought to emanate as well as the historical continuity in the significance assignedContinue reading “New Publications: Relics, Identity, and Memory in Medieval Europe Edited by M. Räsänen, G. Hartmann, E. J. Richards “
CFP: State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.): Spaces, Images, Rituals – Lisbon/Sintra, 16-18 March 2017
State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.): Spaces, Images, Rituals – Lisbon/Sintra, 16-18 March 2017 Deadline: before 15 December 2016 From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, European monarchies saw a gradual centralisation of power. This was accompanied by the dissemination of political ideas that contributed to the making of a newContinue reading “CFP: State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.): Spaces, Images, Rituals – Lisbon/Sintra, 16-18 March 2017”
CFP: Second Fiddles in Medieval Rituals (Trondheim 20-22 September 2017)
Call for Papers Deadline 31 March 2017. International Conference Second Fiddles in Medieval Rituals Department for historical studies NTNU, Trondheim 20-22 September 2017 This conference addresses the role, status and performance of secondary actors in medieval rituals, thus enabling us to diversify and deepen our understanding of rituals in pre-modern societies. Although peripheral to the engineeringContinue reading “CFP: Second Fiddles in Medieval Rituals (Trondheim 20-22 September 2017)”
CFP: CEMS International Graduate Conference (Budapest, 1-3 Jun 17)
Budapest, Central European University, June 1 – 03, 2017 Deadline: Jan 31, 2017 The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at Central European University and its junior members are proud to announce the forthcoming Fifth International Graduate Conference on Building, Bending, and Breaking Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean World. This three-day conference invites graduate students of Late Antique, Islamic,Continue reading “CFP: CEMS International Graduate Conference (Budapest, 1-3 Jun 17)”
CFP: The Origins of the Islamic State: Sovereignty and Power in the Middle Ages (London, Feb 2017)
CfP: The Origins of the Islamic State: Sovereignty and Power in the Middle Ages February 16th-17th 2017, University College London Deadline for abstracts: December 4th 2016. Organiser: Corisande Fenwick (UCL) The medieval roots of the Islamic state have never been more relevant or misunderstood. Early Islamic history is used to bolster Daesh propaganda of establishing aContinue reading “CFP: The Origins of the Islamic State: Sovereignty and Power in the Middle Ages (London, Feb 2017)”
Resource: Academic Illustrating Services
A drawing is more persuasive than a thousand words: even a simple reconstruction will strengthen your ideas and make them tangible. The illustrating service I offer is addressed to academics, researchers, museums, cultural institutions and publishers, mostly in archaeology and art-related subjects, but also in any other field which requires drawings.
Medieval Art Research 