This panel challenges Eurocentric progress models of stylistic change that presuppose a nascent, fully- realized, and late style in architecture. The panel aims to (re)situate the eclectic visual vocabularies of secular and religious buildings from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs within the larger and more established narratives of art and architectural history.
Author Archives: Roisin Astell
Fellowship: I Tatti/DHI Rom Joint Fellowship for African Studies (2021-2022), deadline 16 November 2020
I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the German Historical Institute in Rome (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year. The fellowship offers post-doctoral scholars working on African studies (or topics that closely consider Africa) a ten-month position to conduct historical research in Italy supported by two institutes with dynamic academic communities. Fellows will spend five months (September 1, 2021 – January 30, 2022) in Rome at the DHI and five months (February 1 – June 30, 2022) in Florence at I Tatti.
CFP: Weather Saints (International Medieval Congress 2021), deadline 10 September 2020
This session seeks to explore the interaction between human beings and the meteorological manifestations of the weather. It focuses on the intervention of saints who either function as divine intercessors or whose meteorological powers control and influence the weather in order to reassure and reestablish the prosperity/security/protection of a given community.
New Resource: Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts
Please note the existence of a new resource, which has just gone live: The online Census of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts. The Census team have traced, studied and catalogued all single-leaf woodcuts and woodblocks made in Italy from the earliest known use of this medium to about 1550.
Essay Prize: XXI Medievalism Prize, Sociedad Española Estudios Medievales, deadline 31 December 2020
The XXI Medievalism Prize welcomes applications according to the following bases: Participants may not be older than 30 years and must be members of the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies in active service, that is, up to date with their annual quota. The work presented will deal with topics related to any manifestation of the Middle Ages,Continue reading “Essay Prize: XXI Medievalism Prize, Sociedad Española Estudios Medievales, deadline 31 December 2020”
New Journal Issue: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, July 2020
The latest issue of Speculum is now available on the University of Chicago Press Journals website: Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Volume 95, Number 3, July 2020.
New Journal Issue: Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean
Volume 32, Number 2, 3 May 2020. ISSN 0950-3110 (Print); ISSN 1473-348X (Online) Philippa Byrne, “Reddimus urbem”: Civic Order and Public Politics at the End of Norman Sicily, pp. 125-139 Hana Taragan, Textiles in Cross-Cultural Encounters: The Case of the Umayyad Palace at Khirbat al-Mafjar, pp. 140-155 Antonios Vratimos, Joseph Tarchaneiotes and the Battle of Mantzikert (AD 1071), pp. 156-168Continue reading “New Journal Issue: Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean”
New Resource: Islamic Manuscript Basics
This site holds basic information and resources relating to the study of Islamic manuscripts. If you are new to thinking about the material aspects of Islamic manuscripts or are simply curious and want to know more, then this site is for you!
New Publications: The Religious Figural Imagery of Byzantine Lead Seals I and II, by John A. Cotsonis
These two volumes are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century.
Fellowships: Harvard University Society of Fellows Junior Fellowships 2021, deadline 7 August 2020
The purpose of the Harvard University Society of Fellows is to give men and women at an early stage of their scholarly careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must be persons of exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness, and should be of the highestContinue reading “Fellowships: Harvard University Society of Fellows Junior Fellowships 2021, deadline 7 August 2020”
Medieval Art Research 