Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, January 31 – June 27, 2018 Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the survivingContinue reading “Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern (London, 31 Jan-27 Jun 18)”
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Book roundup: New titles in medieval art
JOANNA CANNON, BETH WILLIAMSON (ed.). Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy 1261-1352: Essays by Postgraduate Students at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Routledge, 2017 (reedición), 328 p. ISBN: 978-1138702585 This was first published in 2000: Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores someContinue reading “Book roundup: New titles in medieval art”
New Publication: St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England, Edited by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher
This volume explores the manuscript’s many contexts, reading its texts and images amidst the rising internationalism of the period, marked by the circulation of objects, ideas, and peoples. Some of the leading scholars of twelfth-century manuscript studies here explore the Markyate Psalter, understanding it through new methodologies, pursuing innovative lines of inquiry.
CONF: Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places (Milton Keynes, 23-24 Feb 18)
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, February 23 – 24, 2018 The Open University will be hosting their annual two-day conference on Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places The conference will examine life in buildings, institutions and broader geographical areas from a variety of perspectives and will consider the following questions: How were medieval and early modernContinue reading “CONF: Medieval and Early Modern Spaces and Places (Milton Keynes, 23-24 Feb 18)”
Seminar-Workshop “Medieval Royal Imagery: Politics or Religion ?”
University of Fribourg March 12th 2018 Room MIS04 Jäggi Prof. Michele Bacci (University of Fribourg) Prof. Ludger Körntgen (University of Mainz) Prof. Knut Görich (University of Munich) Dr. Mirko Vagnoni (University of Fribourg)
CFP: Abbes seigneurs, abbes batisseurs (Saint-Maurice, 25-26 Oct 18)
Abbaye de Saint-Maurice (Suisse), October 25 – 26, 2018 Deadline: Mar 1, 2018 Abbés seigneurs, abbés bâtisseurs (XIIIe siècle). Autour de l’abbé Nantelme de Saint-Maurice d’Agaune (1224-1259) Suite à l’adoption en 1128 de la règle de saint Augustin, l’abbaye de Saint-Maurice a vécu une intense période de transformations temporelles et spirituelles dont l’acmé est traditionnellement situé sousContinue reading “CFP: Abbes seigneurs, abbes batisseurs (Saint-Maurice, 25-26 Oct 18)”
New Publications: New titles in English
LYNN F. JACOBS. Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530), Routledge, 2017, 256 p. ISBN: 978-1472457813 lthough liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries — this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period — has beenContinue reading “New Publications: New titles in English”
CFP: Genealogy of Popular Science (Karlsruhe, 15-16 Jun 2018)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, June 15 – 16, 2018 Deadline: Jan 31, 2018 The aim of this conference is to initiate an interdisciplinary, genealogically reflected debate about Popular Science as a recurrent cultural technique. The category Popular Science will be elucidated in an interdisciplinary and diachronic way, focusing on both its socio-anthropological construction and the formal and functional techniques,Continue reading “CFP: Genealogy of Popular Science (Karlsruhe, 15-16 Jun 2018)”
CFP: Step by Step Towards the Sacred (Brno, 16-17 May 18)
Hans Belting Library, Brno, Czech Republic, May 16 – 17, 2018 Deadline: Feb 25, 2018 Step by Step towards the Sacred Ritual, Movement and Images in the Middle Ages Organizers: Veronika Tvrzníková, Masaryk University in Brno Martin Lešák, Masaryk University in Brno and Université de Poitiers The conference aims to reflect on the ways medieval images – ranging fromContinue reading “CFP: Step by Step Towards the Sacred (Brno, 16-17 May 18)”
JOB: Archéologue Responsable d’opération médiéviste / moderniste spécialiste du bâti
Emploi – Catégorie A Référence : S-53513A Date de publication de l’offre : 08 janvier 2018 Lieu de travail : Nantes, 11 rue du château de l’éraudière, 44000 Nantes Rattachement :Direction générale Citoyenneté Direction culture Grand patrimoine de Loire Atlantique Sous l’autorité hiérarchique du responsable du pôle archéologie préventive et programmée
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