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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”
News: Access to the Index of Medieval Art Database Will Become Free on 1 July 2023
Jongleurs from the Silos Beatus, 1091–1109 (London, British Library, MS Add. 11695), fol. 86r. We’re very pleased to announce that as of July 1, 2023, a paid subscription will no longer be required for access to the Index of Medieval Art database. This transition was made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H.Continue reading “News: Access to the Index of Medieval Art Database Will Become Free on 1 July 2023”
CFP: Early Modern Material Culture of War and Emergency (London/Oxford, 19-20 April 2023), Deadline: 15 January 2023
The Material Culture of War and Emergency in the Early Modern World Conference and Graduate Student Workshop. War was a pervasive part of early modern life. People experienced war as agents of conflict, impotent witnesses of its destructive forces, and as victims of its economic, social, and material consequences. Such events of conflict and emergencyContinue reading “CFP: Early Modern Material Culture of War and Emergency (London/Oxford, 19-20 April 2023), Deadline: 15 January 2023”
Funding Opportunity: VAG Winter Conference Bursaries (Deadline 3 December 2022)
The Vernacular Architecture Group is able to offer two bursaries to assist registered students (or
professionals in the early years of their career) to attend the conference. The Committee is aware that
the cost often makes attendance difficult for students and others who might benefit from the lectures
and discussions, and from the opportunity to meet people active in the field. Both full-time and part-
time students are welcome to apply.
Symposium: ‘The Medieval Treasury in Iberia and Beyond’, CCHS-CSIC Madrid, 28-30 November 2022
This project delves into the medieval objects once gathered in ecclesiastical treasuries in order to highlight long-distance and transcultural networks, shining a light on issues of broad relevance for scholarship and society today.
Medieval Art Research 