This virtual event celebrating the digitization of the Giant Bible of Mainz will present new research about the context and significance of one of the Library’s greatest treasures.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
New Publication: ‘Fotografare Bisanzio’ by Antonio Iacobini and Livia Bevilacqua
This book addresses a hitherto unexplored topic, namely Italian archives that hold photographic images relating to the art of Byzantium and the Mediterranean East.
CFP: ‘Faites vos jeux: game and space in texts and of texts’, Universities of Udine and Trieste, 22-23 March 2023, deadline: 30 September 2022
The University of Udine and University of Trieste invite proposals for their upcoming conference.
Lecture: ‘“So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty”: on the sculptures of knights and ladies at Santa María la Mayor de Toro (Zamora)’, with Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández, Courtauld Institute of Art, 23rd November, 5pm-6.30pm GMT
In this lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Dr Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández examines the 12th century sculptures of knights and ladies depicted at the Santa María la Mayor de Toro.
CFP: ‘Art Binds Communities in Medieval Europe’, IMC Leeds 2023, deadline 22 September 2022
“L’opera non sta mai da sola, è sempre un rapporto” (The artwork never stays alone, it is always a relationship). This enlightening sentence by the Italian art historian Roberto Longhi (1950) emphasizes how every artwork is embedded in a network of relationships with other artworks and the social context where it is placed. Since JoachimContinue reading “CFP: ‘Art Binds Communities in Medieval Europe’, IMC Leeds 2023, deadline 22 September 2022”
Deadlines Extended! CFP: ‘Premodern Parchment’ and ‘Concertina-Fold Books Across Premodern Cultures’, IMC Leeds 2023, deadline 23 September 2022
The deadlines have been extended for two sessions for the 2023 Leeds IMC.
New Publication: The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture by Brigitte Buettner
In The Mineral and the Visual, art historian Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in secular medieval art.
Lecture series: British Library Panizzi Lectures – Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Thought with Jeffrey Hamburger
The British Library is delighted to announce the 2022 Panizzi Lecture series which will be given by Jeffrey Hamburger on Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in Medieval Art and Thought.
CFP: ‘Centers and Peripheries: The Global Premodern’, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University, deadline September 30 2022
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University invites proposals for papers and sessions for an international conference on “Centers and Peripheries: The Global Premodern.”
Public Lecture Course with the Paul Mellon Centre: Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality
Watch the ‘Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality’ course lectures online now.
Medieval Art Research 