The Courtauld’s 26th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium has invited speakers from various academic fields (including, but not limited to, art history, archaeology, material culture and conservation studies) to consider various forms of displacement and their visual and experiential implications for medieval art and architecture.
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CFP: ‘Precarious Lives: Loss, Recovery and/or Survival of MSS & Early Printed Books, 1350-1550’, Early Book Society, Bangor University (12-16 July 2021), deadline 15 March 2021
This conference theme may be as narrowly or broadly interpreted as necessary, though always with reference to the history of MSS and books from 1350 to 1550 and their material culture. Why do some texts survive? Who are their readers or makers?
Online Lecture: ‘The Art Historian and the Chapter Clerk: the joys and sorrows of ecclesiastical documentary evidence’ by Dr Lesley Milner, Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, 10 February 2021, 19:30 (GMT)
In this lecture for the Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology Dr Lesley Milner explores the use of Lincoln cathedral documents in providing new evidence for the cathedral’s treasure house, for the shrine of St Hugh, and for the chapter’s Great Seal matrix.
Online Lecture: ‘Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present’ with Professor Sandron and Professor Cook, ICMA, 3 February 2021, 1pm (EST)
The Friends of ICMA invites you to an online lecture/webinar on Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. (EST) by Dany Sandron and Lindsay Cook, Notre Dame of Paris: Past and Present.
Podcast: The Illuminated World Chronicle with Nina Rowe, Les Enluminurers
In this episode Dr. Nina Rowe discusses her latest book The Illuminated World Chronicle: Tales from the Late Medieval City with our host Sandra Hindman. They discuss some of the thrilling and often titillating stories found in World Chronicle manuscripts including the tale of the Devil on Noah’s Ark.
Book Festival: 1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival, 5-7 February 2021
The Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a way to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture.
Online Lecture: ‘Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’ with Dr Fabio Barry, Cambridge Graduate Seminar Series on Intermediality, 3 February 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 (GMT)
For the first ‘Intermediality’ Graduate Research Seminar, organised by the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, we are joined by Fabio Barry (Stanford University) who will be discussing his recently published book ‘Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment’.
Online Lecture: ‘Between text and image, between writing and orality’ with Maria Chronopoulou, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 4 February 2021, 17:15 – 18:30 (GMT)
In this talk, Maria Chronopoulou (École Pratique des Hautes Études) discusses the ornate letters in the manuscripts of the XVI homilies of saint Gregory of Nazianzus from 11th to 13th century
Online Lecture: ‘What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Colour, Race and Unfreedom in Late Medieval Iberia’ with Dr Pamela Patton, Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars, 1 February 2021, 17:00 (GMT)
Join the upcoming Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar with Dr Pamela Patton (Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University), who will be presenting on: ‘What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Colour, Race and Unfreedom in Late Medieval Iberia’.
The British Archaeological Association Digital Tour Competition
Inspired by the difficulties in visiting churches and other historic sites during the pandemic, The British Archaeological Association is looking at ways of promoting the use of digital technology to allow them to be seen even during a lockdown, or for those far distant. The Association is therefore holding a competition to produce a short video/photographic presentation of a Roman or medieval site (a building, ruin, even a town) using remote mapping and imaging systems such as Google Earth, or Google Earth Studio. The prize is £300.
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