Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Online Lecture: ‘Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics’, with Brad Hostetler, 5 December 2024, 12:00 PM (EST)

This online lecture brings together literary and material sources that speak to the act of reading and writing inscriptions in situ, focusing on those that were attached to relics and reliquaries.

Online Conference: ‘Refinement and/or Reduction Revisited: Gothic Art, Architecture and Culture, c. 1250 to 1350’, 6 December 2024, 10am-5pm (GMT)

This one-day conference organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Centre aims at an interdisciplinary reassessment of Gothic art and architecture between c. 1250 and 1350 in a broad European perspective.

CFP: ‘Medieval Communities’, International Medieval Society Annual Conference, deadline 1 December 2024

The International Medieval Society invites paper proposals for their upcoming 18th annual conference (July 3-5, 2025). This year’s theme is “Medieval Communities.”

Murray Seminar: ‘The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences’, with Dr Laura Cleaver, Birkbeck, 4 December 2024 (5-6.30pm GMT)

The next Murray Seminar at Birkbeck University is given by Dr Laura Cleaver, focusing on the The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts.

CFP: ‘Medieval Art on the Move’, PhD colloquium on medieval art, Courtauld Institute of Art, deadline 20 January 2025

This year’s PhD colloquium on medieval art at the Courtauld Institute of Art centres on the theme ‘Medieval Art on the Move’. Submissions for papers are now invited.

Symposium: ‘Records of Care: informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings’, Courtauld Institute of Art, 31 January 2025 (9.30-18.30 GMT)

Hosted in partnership with colleagues at The Church of England, Icon, and English Heritage, this symposium marks the culmination of the first major phase of a grant-funded digitisation project to make the National Wall Paintings Survey publicly accessible through a dynamic new online database.

CFP: ‘Who Ruled the World? Queen Urraca and Her Contemporaries in the Early Twelfth Century’, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid,  3–5 March 2026 (deadline 1 April 2025)

Organizer: Therese Martin, Instituto de Historia, CSIC, Madrid Research Grant: Intersections of Gender, Transculturalism, and Identity in Medieval Iberia: The Recycling and Long Life of Objects and Textiles (Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, PID2023-151143NA-I00, 2024-2027), PI: Verónica Carla Abenza Soria, Universidad Complutense, MadridPlace: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid This conference marks the 900th anniversaryContinue reading “CFP: ‘Who Ruled the World? Queen Urraca and Her Contemporaries in the Early Twelfth Century’, Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid,  3–5 March 2026 (deadline 1 April 2025)”

Lecture: ‘Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture’ with Matthew Reeve, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 4 December 2024 (5pm–7pm GMT)

Join the Paul Mellon Centre for a lecture that focuses on Marian devotion during the Middle Ages with Matthew Reeve.

Conference: The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique/Early Medieval Objects and Texts: From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries), 11–12 November 2024

Explore the interplay of material, visual, and literary cultures from the 4th to the 9th century at this conference on November 11–12, 2024, focusing on the jeweled aesthetics of late antiquity.