Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Online talk: ‘Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition’, 28 March 2025 12-1.30pm (EDT)

In this online talk, Sarah Griffin, curator of the exhibition, and Megan McNamee, a collaborator, will introduce the concertina corpus and discuss the process of putting these frighteningly fragile, fiendishly complex, and wonderfully dynamic little books on public view.

New Open Access Publication: ‘Art médiéval et médiévalisme’, edited by Philippe Cordez

This new open-access volume, the result of work carried out in 2015/2016 at the German Centre for Art History in Paris, brings together fifteen studies on medieval artefacts and their subsequent history, up to the present day.

Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize & ARTES-CEEH Scholarships, deadline 30 April 2025

ARTES and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica (CEEH) are delighted to invite applications for the 2025 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize and ARTES-CEEH Scholarships.

CFP: ‘Good Governance and the Built Environment of Late Medieval Cities (ca. 1200–1600)’, deadline 7 April 2025

Applications are welcomed for this upcoming conference that explores how—and to what extent—building was integral to governing a late medieval city.

CPF: ‘Communication – Cooperation – Confrontation: Queens, Noblewomen, and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages’, deadline 20 April 2025

Applications for papers are invited for the conference Communication – Cooperation – Confrontation: Queens, Noblewomen, and Burgher Women in the Middle Ages’.

Symposium: ‘From Jean le Bon to Good Duke Humfrey: a new manuscript witness to Anglo-French cultural exchange’, Weston Library, Friday 21 March 2025, 11am–5pm (GMT)

This symposium provides a first opportunity to explore the recently acquired unknown manuscript from the library of Humfrey Duke of Gloucester.

CFP: ‘La sculpture monumentale médiévale à l’épreuve du musée: enjeux, conceptions, réceptions’, deadline 1 March 2025

The Musée du Louvre, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, the Université de Toulouse, and the research group Patrimoines en partage are organising two events focusing on the challenges of presenting sculptures from mostly vanished religious buildings in the permanent collections of museums.