The Medici Archive Project invites applications for an eleven-month fellowship (September 2021-July 2022) entirely devoted to research on fifteen- and sixteenth-century book history, with specific focus on Florence.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
Videos: ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ at the Bodleian Libraries
A series of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries’ Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July). ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition.
Online Lecture: ‘Sliding Doors: Considering the symbolic significance of decorated thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’, with Dr Meg Boulton, The Society for Church Archaeology, 4 August 2021, 19–20pm (BST)
The Society for Church Archaeology welcomes Dr Meg Boulton for ‘Decorated Thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’
CFP: ‘The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe’, The Medici Archive Project, Florence (21 January 2022), deadline 1 September 2021
Announcing the Call for Papers for the interdisciplinary workshop, organized by The Medici Archive Project, which will take place at Palazzo Alberti in Florence on Friday, 21 January 2022.
Online Lecture: ‘Manuscript journeys: from German lands to digital libraries’, Bodleian Libraries, 7 July 2021, 5.30-6.45pm (BST)
This event marks the completion of a three-year digitization project delivered by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. The ‘Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands’ project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation, has digitized hundreds of medieval manuscripts from collections at The Herzog August Bibliothek and the Bodleian and made these freely available online to scholars and the public.
Online Conference: ‘Le Psautier de Paris (BnF, Grec 139)’, École nationale des chartres, 2–3 July 2021
The Paris Psalter is one of the most famous creations of the Macedonian “Renaissance”. This colloquium is the first research enterprise devoted exclusively to this exceptional manuscript. Its aim is to bring together in an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in codicology and philology, biblical exegesis and theology, and the history of art and aesthetics with the goal of putting the manuscript in context, studying its genesis and sources and its internal organization as well as its influence on Byzantine art.
IMC 2021: Medieval Art related papers & panels, 5 – 9 July 2021
We’ve had a look through the programme and have brought together all the Medieval Art related papers and panels.
Online Conference: ‘Royal Nunneries at the Center of Medieval Europe. Art, Architecture, & Aesthetics’, 1-3 July 2021
This conference is dedicated to the art, architecture and material culture of female monasteries patronized by the ruling dynasties in medieval Europe between the 11th and the 14th centuries.
New Publication: ‘Helgonskåp: Medieval Tabernacle Shrines in Sweden and Europe’ edited by Justin Kroesen and Peter Tångeberg
Find out more about Medieval Tabernacle Shrines (Helgonskåp) in Sweden and Europe in this new publication.
Online Conference: Medieval Travel: Harlaxton Online Medieval Zoomposium, 26–30 July 2021, 14:30–19:00 (BST)
This year’s Harlaxton Medieval Symposium on the theme of Medieval Travel will take place online via Zoom, Monday 26 July – Friday 30 July 2021.
Medieval Art Research 