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.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
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’.
Conference: ‘SUPERFICIES Surfaces, Skins and Textures Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects’, University of Zurich, 18-20 January 2024
This conference aims to take a fresh look at the diversity of surface landscapes in books and other multi-layered objects.
Lecture: ‘Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300’, with Katrin Kogman-Appel, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 17 Jan 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
Katrin Kogman-Appel explores how Hebrew Bibles from Tudela and Perpignan circa 1300 blend Islamicate and Gothic styles, and were influenced by diverse cultural encounters and urban settings.
New Working Group: ‘Medieval Manuscripts Working Group’, Merton College, Oxford University
This is a new seminar series whose goal is to foster a community at Oxford University, and beyond, of those who study medieval manuscripts.
Medieval Art Research 