Author Archives: Roisin Astell

CFP: ‘Carving Collective Practice: Working Against Monolithic Scholarship on Stone’, deadline 5 April 2024

Join ‘Thinking with Stone’ at IONA 2024 by April 5, 2024, for an experimental roundtable on medieval stone study. Share your work in progress and explore collaborative approaches.

New Publication: ‘A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess: The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)’, ed. by Dagmar H. Eichberger

This new book, ‘A Spectacle for a Spanish Princess: The Festive Entry of Joanna of Castile into Brussels (1496)’, ed. by Dagmar H. Eichberger, examines Joanna of Castile’s grand 1496 entry into Brussels through the vibrant, fully illustrated Berlin manuscript 78 D5, capturing a pivotal dynastic event.

Call for Submissions: ‘White and Whiteness in the Medieval Period, 400-1400 AD’, deadline 1 April 2024

The editors for the upcoming book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics (Brill, 2025) are seeking contributions concerning examination of white and whiteness from the period 400-1400 AD.

Journal of Historic Buildings and Places, 2024 Stephen Croad Prize (Deadline 2 August 2024)

Historic Buildings & Places are now inviting submissions for the 2024 Stephen Croad Prize. They are seeking essays on new discoveries on the historic buildings of England and Wales.

CFP: ‘In viaggio verso l’oriente: Marco Polo e i Frati Mendicanti (Travelling to the East: Marco Polo and the Mendicant Friars)’, deadline 7 April 2024

Papers are invited for the upcoming conference on ‘Travelling to the East: Marco Polo and the Mendicant Friars’.

Conference: ‘L’art roman au XXIe siècle: L’avenir d’un passé à réinventer’, Poitiers, 28-31 May 2024

This conference aims to develop an assessment of the historiography of the last twenty years and an epistemological reflection on the study of what is commonly called “Romanesque art”.