Author Archives: rachelmcarlisle

New Publication: ‘Welsh Saints from Welsh Churches’ by Martin Crampin

A study of the imagery of Welsh saints in medieval and 19th/20th-century stained glass, sculpture and painting. Overview and analysis, followed by sections on about 40 individual saints. An authoritative introduction to the stories of the saints, highly illustrated and full-colour throughout, with about 500 photographs.

Prize: Haboldt-Mutters Prize, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Deadline 31 December 2023

Simiolus is now accepting submissions for the annual Haboldt-Mutters Prize for young art historians. REQUIREMENTS Scholars who wish to compete for this award for the best original contribution on European art prior to 1950 should be younger than 35 at the time of submission and their paper should be limited to a maximum of 20,000Continue reading “Prize: Haboldt-Mutters Prize, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Deadline 31 December 2023”

Colloquium: “Secular Knowledge in Medieval Art,” XIII ARS MEDIAEVALIS COLLOQUIUM, Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), 6-8 October 2023

A substantial part of the scientific knowledge developed in the Middle Ages was inherited from Roman (in Western Europe) and Greek (in the Byzantine and Islamic domains) culture. However, new cognitive procedures were also developed in medieval societies, among them some related to vision, astronomy or zoology. Knowledge of the secular world was translated andContinue reading “Colloquium: “Secular Knowledge in Medieval Art,” XIII ARS MEDIAEVALIS COLLOQUIUM, Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), 6-8 October 2023″

CFP: “Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000-c. 1600,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023

The proposed session(s) focuses on religious communities’ responses to crisis in relation to convent libraries and book collections. We aim to investigate what happened to medieval convent libraries and book collections in times of peril during the Middle Ages, but also the early modern period and up until our time. At certain times, these changesContinue reading “CFP: “Monastic libraries and book collections in times of crisis, c. 1000-c. 1600,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023″

Call for Participants: “Studying East of Byzantium X: Communities” Workshop, Deadline 13 September 2023

Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center are inviting abstracts for Studying East of Byzantium IX: Communities, a three-part workshop for doctoral students studying Christian communities.

CFP: “Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online Session), Deadline 15 September 2023

This special online session wishes to analyze the power of the Virgin Mary’s relics as triggers not only to processions and pilgrimages but also to Marian cults competition. The scientific importance of the session lies in understanding how these devotional objects could be perceived as activators of civic prestige. The possession of these relics encouragedContinue reading “CFP: “Virgin Mary’s relics – Prestige, Rivalry, Forgery and Reproducibility,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Online Session), Deadline 15 September 2023″

CFP: “Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023

They were frightened and they hit in great pain their heads and hearts– How do people react when they encounter the sanctity of saints? How do they feel? Are they in crisis – crisis for whom? Does crisis change individuals? The proposed session focuses on the emotional responses of individuals/communities in relation to sanctity. SuggestedContinue reading “CFP: “Saints in Crisis: Emotional Responses to Sanctity in the Middle Ages,” International Medieval Congress (IMC 2024), University of Leeds, Deadline 12 September 2023″

CFP: New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD), deadline 15 September 2023

This international workshop invites proposals exploring personifications in Roman, Late Antique, and Early Byzantine Art from 200-800 AD.

Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023

Join Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator at the Pulitzer, and Dr. Julia Perratore, Assistant Curator at The Met Cloisters on Thursday, 27 July 2023 for a conversation about ecology-centered museum practices. Smith will describe the process of organizing the Pulitzer’s spring show The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550 and will discuss howContinue reading “Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023”