An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history.Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada, belong to the WesternContinue reading “New Publication: Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800, by Jonathan M. Bloom”
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Fellowships: Paris x Rome Fellowship, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte and the German Center for Art History – Institute of the Max Weber Foundation (DFK Paris), deadline 15 July 2020
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte and the German Center for Art History – Institute of the Max Weber Foundation (DFK Paris) annually offer six-month research grants, allowing fellows to spend three months in each of the archives and/or libraries of Rome and Paris, exchange ideas with the institutes’ researchers, and investigate transnational, art-historical perspectives in France and Italy.
CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020
This panel aims to bring together coordinators of digital projects – completed or in progress – around the lexicon and the scientific edition of texts of artistic or technical literature, with researchers who have adopted this terminological approach to analyze in an innovative way well known or unpublished texts, related to the production, the practiceContinue reading “CFP: ‘Lexicographic Studies of Arts’ Session at The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, deadline July 15 2020”
Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020
Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, Online, July 6 – 10, 2020 It was with great disappointment that we had to cancel the first Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities due to the coronavirus emergency. All the more, we are now happy to announce the first Venice Virtual Summer Camp on DigitalContinue reading “Research Workshops: Venice Virtual Summer Camp on Digital and Public Humanities, 6-10 July 2020”
Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome is a leading center for research in the history of art. As part of its recent expansion into digital and computational research in the humanities, it is looking to recruit a: Digital Humanities Scientist The full-time post will be offered for an initialContinue reading “Job: Digital Humanities Scientist, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome”
Call for Submissions: Rutgers Art Review, deadline 15 October 2020
Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all current graduate students, as well as professionals who have completed their doctoral degrees within the past year, to submit papers for its 38th edition. Submissions are due to rutgersartreview@gmail.com by October 15 October 2020. Find out more here.
New Publication: Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr, by D. Fairchild Ruggles
Shajar al-Durr—known as “Tree of Pearls”—began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan’s wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband’s death.Continue reading “New Publication: Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr, by D. Fairchild Ruggles”
New publication: Architecture of Disjuncture: Mediterranean Trade and Cathedral Building in a New Diocese (11th-13th Centuries), by Joseph C. Williams
Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built. The young bishopric of Molfetta, emerging in an economy of long-distance trade, competed with much wealthier institutions in its own diocese. Funding forContinue reading “New publication: Architecture of Disjuncture: Mediterranean Trade and Cathedral Building in a New Diocese (11th-13th Centuries), by Joseph C. Williams”
CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020
La Passio imaginis Salvatoris est la première réitération de l’accusation de déicide imputée aux juifs (787). Repris et répété sans relâche, traversant au fils du temps des registres fort divers de la production littéraire, de la liturgie romaine et byzantine (avant 1000), en passant par les miracles de la Vierge du nord de la France (avant 1200),Continue reading “CFP: Histoire et transmission de la ‘Passio imaginis Salvatoris’, deadline 1 September 2020”
New Publication: Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond, by Bettina Bildhauer
What does medieval literature look like from the point of view not of knights and ladies, but of treasure, and rings, nets and the grail? How does medieval literature imagine the agency of material things, and what exactly distinguishes human subjects from inanimate objects? Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German LiteratureContinue reading “New Publication: Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond, by Bettina Bildhauer”
Medieval Art Research 