Discover the dual nature of dance in late medieval Germany through art, revealing celebration & caution in Bavaria and Austria circa 1450-1500 with Professor Nina Rowe.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
Research Grants: Grants for Research on Chartres Cathedral, deadline 29 March 2024
The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students and emerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres.
Lecture: Murray Seminar at Birkbeck: ‘Faith, Race and the ‘Other’ in North Italian Sculpture, c.1480-1700’ with Andrew Horn (6 February 2024, 5pm)
In this lecture, Andrew Horn explores how early modern Northwest Italian religious sculptures, featuring ‘othered’ characters, reflect premodern European faith and society.
Lecture: ‘Chivalry, justice and love: Royal architecture in fourteenth-century Castile’, with Elena Paulino-Montero, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
In this upcoming lecture, Dr Elena Paulino-Montero explores 14th-century Castilian architecture’s evolution, the influential roles of queens and Islamic models in shaping royal spaces and power images.
Scholarship: British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship, deadline 1 February, 2024
Applications are invited for the British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship.
Lecture: ‘The House of Mirth: the ethics of laughter and ridiculous Gothic art’ with Alixe Bovey, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 26 March 2024, 6-8pm (GMT)
Discover the role of laughter in medieval art in this upcoming lecture, which explores how witty and crude imagery reflects contemporary ethics.
British Archaeological Association Study Day at Hexham Abbey (Saturday 9 March 2024), deadline 22 January 2024
Join the British Archaeological Association for their upcoming study day at Hexham Abbey.
Call for Submissions: Special Issue Miradas Journal: ‘Experience and Reception of Images, Objects, and Spaces in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas’, deadline 26 January 2024
he next Special Issue of the journal Miradas, will focus on the analysis of the experience and reception of images, objects, and spaces in the territories of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas.
New Publication: ‘The Baptismal Font Canopy of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich’, edited by Amy Gillette and Zachary Stewart
The focus of this new book, is a 16-century baptismal font canopy of the church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, is one of only three such structures to survive anywhere in the British Isles.
CFP: ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’, The Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium, deadline 31 January 2024
Paper submissions are invited for the 2024 Courtauld Postgraduate Medieval Colloquium which focuses on the theme ‘Authority and Identity in the Middle Ages’.
Medieval Art Research 