Cities were conspicuous in the Medieval landscape not only for being great concentrations of humanity, but also for their built-up areas. Buildings served various functions: military, religious, political-administrative, economic, and residential. Further, not all cities had the same buildings whilst, from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and from street to street, building characteristics could differ according toContinue reading “CFP: ‘Construction and Reconstruction in Medieval Urban Europe’, VII International Conference of the Middle Ages, Deadline: April 30th 2022”
Category Archives: Call for Papers
CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich fromContinue reading “CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022”
CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022
Despite military and pandemic crises, ivory carvings as luxury goods experienced a boom in the 13th and especially 14th centuries. This apparent contradiction raises questions about the value and significance of these objects in elite society. A large number of preserved utilitarian items such as boxes, combs, and mirror cases feature profane depictions of courtshipContinue reading “CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022”
CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022
Paris, Jun 9–10, 2022Deadline: Mar 1, 2022 International Symposium:“Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches” In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon both in contracts between painters and patrons,Continue reading “CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022”
CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022
Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges II, University of Milan, October 10–12, 2022 This workshop continues the project inaugurated in 2017 in Lisbon (link), aiming at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late Antique and early Medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions toContinue reading “CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022”
CFP: CRUX TRIUMPHALIS – Calvaries and Rood Beams between the Middle Ages and the Council of Trent, Deadline 31st March 2022
The 1st Colloquium on Art and Liturgy: CRUX TRIUMPHALIS. Calvaries and Rood Beams between the Middle Ages and the Council of Trent will take place in Cádiz during 13-15 October 2022. We invite the academic community to submit abstracts in Spanish, English, Italian and French consisting of a 500-700 words summary highlighting the innovative natureContinue reading “CFP: CRUX TRIUMPHALIS – Calvaries and Rood Beams between the Middle Ages and the Council of Trent, Deadline 31st March 2022”
CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022
The Mapping Eastern Europe website is a platform intended to promote study, teaching, and research about Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries through historical and thematic overviews, case studies and videos of monuments and objects, ongoing projects, as well as reviews of books and exhibitions. This year, we are expanding our content withContinue reading “CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022”
CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022
Organised by: Medieval Colors Network. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CAPIRE Research Group), Freie Universität Berlin, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Università di Bologna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Helsingin Yliopisto. In recent years, the research of the chromatic reality of the Middle Ages has received increasing attention from specialists in different academic disciplines. Fortunately, the vision of aContinue reading “CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022”
CFP: ‘Fragmented Illuminations’ online symposium, The V&A, early July 2022, deadline: 6 March 2022
With over 2,000 manuscript cuttings, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds one of the largest collections of this kind in the world. Cut out of Italian, Germanic, Netherlandish, French, Spanish, and English manuscripts, they range from the 12th to the 18th century, with a wealth of 15th- and 16th-century examples. They vary inContinue reading “CFP: ‘Fragmented Illuminations’ online symposium, The V&A, early July 2022, deadline: 6 March 2022”
CFP: ‘Passions and the Mystical: between Affecting and Being Affected’, International Conference, Nijmegen, Titus Brandsma Institute, 1-2 December 2022, deadline: 18 March 2022
It is a pleasure to invite you to Passions and the Mystical: between Affecting and Being Affected. Theconference is jointly organized by the Mystical Theology Network (MTN) and the Titus BrandsmaInstitute of the Radboud University (TBI) and will take place in Nijmegen on 1-2 December, 2022.The aim of this conference is to bring together theologians,Continue reading “CFP: ‘Passions and the Mystical: between Affecting and Being Affected’, International Conference, Nijmegen, Titus Brandsma Institute, 1-2 December 2022, deadline: 18 March 2022”
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