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Lecture Series: Medieval Visual Culture Seminar, University of Oxford, Trinity Term 2024
Join the University of Oxford for their in-person Medieval Visual Culture Seminar Series this Trinity Term.
Call for Submissions: ‘Making for an uncertain future: material ecocritical approaches around the year 1000’ (special issue of Medieval Ecocriticisms), deadline 10 June 2024
The editors of the special issue of Medieval Ecocriticisms invite submissions on the topic: ‘Making for an uncertain future: material ecocritical approaches around the year 1000’.
Conference: ‘Nicola and Giovanni Pisano in Colour: Art Conservation and History’, 1-2 December 2023, Università di Pisa
Across two days, this conference focuses on the conservation and history of the use of colour by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
Lecture: ‘Seeing and being seen in an illuminated Tractatus Moralis de Oculo (c. 1274-1289)’, with Roisin Astell, British Archaeological Association, Wednesday 1 November 2023, 5pm (GMT)
Join Dr Roisin Astell for this month’s British Archaeological Association Lecture.
Lecture series: Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars at The Courtauld 2023-2024
Medieval Work-in-Progress Seminars at The Courtauld, London, 2023/4. All seminars are held on Wednesdays at The Courtauld’s Vernon Square campus, and begin at 5.30pm. Talks usually last approx. 45-60 minutes, followed by questions and drinks. Events are free and open to all, and you can book your place via https://myaccount.courtauld.ac.uk/overview/11300
New Publication: ‘Welsh Saints from Welsh Churches’ by Martin Crampin
A study of the imagery of Welsh saints in medieval and 19th/20th-century stained glass, sculpture and painting. Overview and analysis, followed by sections on about 40 individual saints. An authoritative introduction to the stories of the saints, highly illustrated and full-colour throughout, with about 500 photographs.
Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal, Deadline 15 September 2023
The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in the collection as the point of departure. Articles contribute extensive and thoroughly argued scholarship, whereas research notes areContinue reading “Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal, Deadline 15 September 2023”
Symposium: “Intersections: Encounters with Medieval and Renaissance Textiles, 1100-1550”, The 28th Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Monday 22nd May 2023, 9am-6:30pm (BST)
The theme of this symposium centres on how Medieval and Renaissance textiles, real and depicted, combine, overlap or intersect in different ways.
New publication: ‘Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books’ by Kathryn M. Rudy
Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books. A new open-access book by Professor Kathryn M. Rudy. In her latest work, published in April 2023 by Open Book, Kathryn M. Rudy, professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, considers how signs of wearContinue reading “New publication: ‘Touching Parchment: how medieval users rubbed, handled, and kissed their manuscripts. Volume 1: officials and their books’ by Kathryn M. Rudy”
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