On the conference topic “Senses”: The arts and the senses have always been reciprocally related to one another. In the Middle Ages, sensual encounters with art and architecture offered a variety of ways to perceive, comprehend and structure the world.
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New Podcast: Modern Medieval
Hosted by Meaghan Allen and Eleanora Narbone, the podcast explores various connections between the modern world and the medieval, from pop culture references to marginalia details, Modern Medieval strives to bridge the gap of knowledge in a fun, engaging and accessible way.
CFP: ‘Space and the Hospital’ (Lisbon, 26-28 May 2021), deadline: 30 September 2020
The International Network for the History of Hospitals (INHH), the ‘Hospitalis: Hospital Architecture in Portugal at the Dawn of Modernity’, and the ‘Royal Hospital of All Saints: city and public’ health Research Projects are pleased to announce the call for papers for Space and the Hospital. The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-28 May 2021.
New Publication: Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi & Alice Isabella Sullivan
Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, engages with issues of cultural contact and patronage, as well as the transformation and appropriation of Byzantine artistic, theological, and political models, alongside local traditions, across Eastern Europe.
New Publication: The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, Edited by Frank Coulson and Robert Babcock
Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the West. The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography surveys these books, with special emphasis on the variety of scriptsContinue reading “New Publication: The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography, Edited by Frank Coulson and Robert Babcock”
CFP: Marco Manuscript Workshop 2021: ‘Immaterial Culture’ (5-6 February 2021), deadline 9 October 2020
How can our field, which has always emphasized the importance of physical place and tactile artifacts, work successfully in isolation and at a distance? What does it mean for us when our work takes place in an incorporeal world of light and numbers rather than ink and flesh, in matrices of data rather than dusty rooms?
Online Exhibition: Celebrating 800 Years of Spirit & Endeavour at Salisbury Cathedral
On the 800th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stones Salisbury Cathedral is launching a virtual version of Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour, its largest contemporary art exhibition for nearly two decades.
New Publication: Christian Maps of the Holy Land: Images and Meanings, by Pnina Arad
This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory.
CFP: Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase, online conference (26 September 2020), deadline 22 August 2020
Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase A FREE online postgraduate and early-careers research event hosted by the Centre for Islamic Archaeology (CfIA), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter 26 September 2020 ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 22 August 2020 GIAS invites early-careers researchers working within the field of Islamic archaeology and material culture to submit papers to our first virtualContinue reading “CFP: Global Islamic Archaeology Showcase, online conference (26 September 2020), deadline 22 August 2020”
New Journal Issue: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Volume 11 (2020): Issue 2 (Jul 2020)
The Journal of Islamic Manuscripts explores the crucial importance of the handwritten book in the Muslim world. It is concerned with the written transmission of knowledge, the numerous varieties of Islamic book culture and the materials and techniques of bookmaking, namely codicology. It also considers activities related to the care and management of Islamic manuscript collections, includingContinue reading “New Journal Issue: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts Volume 11 (2020): Issue 2 (Jul 2020)”
Medieval Art Research 