Conference: Medieval Medicine, London Medieval Society Colloquium Date & Location: Saturday 5th May 2018, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1 3RA Join us to explore medieval medicine at this one day colloquium with papers ranging from medical expertise and remedies in England and Normandy and the dissemination of Arabic and Persian medical works in Byzantium to the mapping theContinue reading “Conference: Medieval Medicine, London Medieval Society Colloquium, Saturday 5th May 2018”
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Exhibition: The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best: Meaningful Jewels, Les Enluminures New York, April 5 to 20, 2018
Exhibition: The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best: Meaningful Jewels, Les Enluminures New York, April 5 to 20, 2018 The engaging title “The thing of mine I have loved the best” comes from the medieval will of a English duchess who bequeaths a reliquary jewel to her son. It expresses the sentiment thatContinue reading “Exhibition: The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best: Meaningful Jewels, Les Enluminures New York, April 5 to 20, 2018”
New Books: ‘Il Maestro di Nola’ and ‘Medieval manuscripts: Ghent University Library’
Il Maestro di Nola. Un vertice impareggiabile del tardogotico a Napoli e in Campania, by EMANUELE ZAPPASOD ISBN: 978-8874613465 Description: En los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto, cada vez con más claridad, que el patrimonio artístico del sur de Italia puede compararse, por la calidad, importancia y carga poética, de igual a igual conContinue reading “New Books: ‘Il Maestro di Nola’ and ‘Medieval manuscripts: Ghent University Library’”
Conference programme: VIII colloquium Ars Mediaevalis: Memory: Monument and Image in the Middle Ages (Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) May 4th-6th 2018)
Conference programme: VIII colloquium Ars Mediaevalis: Memory: Monument and Image in the Middle Ages Date and Location: Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), May 4th-6th 2018 Memory is a psychological faculty and an intellectual power that found its expression in the foundational and oft-repeated phrase of the Eucharistic celebration heard by all believers: “do this in remembrance of me”. MemoryContinue reading “Conference programme: VIII colloquium Ars Mediaevalis: Memory: Monument and Image in the Middle Ages (Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) May 4th-6th 2018)”
Lecture: ‘English Romanesque Sculpture in its Architectural Context’ by Professor Malcolm Thurlby, Annual Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art, 24 April 2018, 17:30pm
This year’s CRSBI annual public lecture, delivered by Professor Malcolm Thurlby of York University, Toronto, Canada, will consider English Romanesque sculpture in the context of its architectural matrix, focusing on specific carved elements such as portals, tympana, capitals, and figural reliefs.
Concference: L’espace sacre au sein de l’eglise medievale (Paris, 5-6 Jun 18)
Conference: L’espace sacre au sein de l’eglise medievale Maison Archéologie Ethnologie René Ginouvès – Université Paris Nanterre, June 5 – 06, 2018 « L’espace sacré au sein de l’Eglise médiévale » Colloque du 5 et 6 juin 2018 – Université Paris Nanterre – Maison Archéologie Ethonologie René Ginouvès Postulat : Les rites liturgiques articulent la structure matérielle d’unContinue reading “Concference: L’espace sacre au sein de l’eglise medievale (Paris, 5-6 Jun 18)”