Author Archives: Roisin Astell

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?

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)”

New Publication: Die Hildesheimer Emailarbeiten des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts, by Dorothee Kemper

This volume for the first time systematically catalogs medieval Hildesheim champlevé scattered in collections around the world. The products from these local workshops differ from those in large centers for enamel production on the Rhine and Meuse in that they reflect the upholding of local historical tradition by religious elites in the 12th century, as well as the beginnings of mass production for export.

New Publication: Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such knowledge in the first place. In Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F. Hamburger examines two monumental works that are diagrammatic to their core: aContinue reading “New Publication: Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger”