Call for Journal Submissions Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies (Spring Issue 2015) Deadline: 13 February 2015 Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies is a refereed, peer-reviewed, and born-digital journal devoted to the culture, literature, history, and society of the medieval past. Published semi-annually, the journal collects exceptional examples of work byContinue reading “Call for Journal Submissions: Hortulus (Spring Issue 2015)”
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Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria (Venice, 27-29 November 2014)
Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria Venice, 27 – 29 November 2014 Curated by Bernard Aikema, Massimo Mancini, Paola Modesti The Studium Generale Marcianum is proud to present the symposium dedicated to the Church and Monastery of San Zaccaria in Venice. This is the fourth of a series of conferencesContinue reading “Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria (Venice, 27-29 November 2014)”
Call for Book Manuscripts: Maps, Spaces, Cultures (Brill)
Call for Book Manuscripts: Maps, Spaces, Cultures (Brill) Edited by Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Asa Simon Mittman (California State University, Chico). Editorial board: Michiel van Groesen (University of Amsterdam), Ricardo Padrón (University of Virginia), Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University) and Dan Terkla (Illinois Wesleyan University). This innovative series seeks monographs and essay collections that investigate how notionsContinue reading “Call for Book Manuscripts: Maps, Spaces, Cultures (Brill)”
CFP: Monastic Europe, Landscape and Settlement (Ennis, 22-25 August 2015)
Call for Papers: Monastic Europe: Landscape and Settlement. International Conference Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland, 22-25 August 2015 Deadline: 28 November 2014 The Irish Research Council-funded Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement project is a research partnership between the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin, the Discovery Programme and the Department ofContinue reading “CFP: Monastic Europe, Landscape and Settlement (Ennis, 22-25 August 2015)”
Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe (Hamburg, 31 October – 1 November 2014)
Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg 31 October -1 November 2014 Outline Scripts and writing systems are more than neutral transmitters of the words that are encoded by them. When words that were previously spoken and transmitted orally are writtenContinue reading “Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe (Hamburg, 31 October – 1 November 2014)”
Twelfth-century Belgian church consumed by serious fire
A fire in the church of Sint-Jan de Doper in Anzegem, Belgian has caused serious damage to the building, some of which is around 800 years old. The cause of the blaze, which broke out on the 16th October was apparently a faulty heating system. The fire started in the nave (this video captures theContinue reading “Twelfth-century Belgian church consumed by serious fire”
Conference: VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200 (Madrid, November 2014)
VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200. Department of History of Art I (Medieval) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid 12-14 November 2014 Salón de Actos. Facultad de Geografía e Historia The Department of History of Art I (Medieval) of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid organises theContinue reading “Conference: VIII Jornadas Complutenses de Arte Medieval. Alfonso VIII and Eleanor of England, Artistic Confluences Around 1200 (Madrid, November 2014)”
Conference: Sevilla, 1514. Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada (Seville, November 2014)
International Conference. Sevilla 1514: Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la en la encrucijada Seville, Salón de Actos de la Casa de la Provincia 12-15 November 2014 After the I International Conference Arquitectura tardogótica en la Corona de Castilla held in Santander in 2010, the II International Conference Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada, aims to serveContinue reading “Conference: Sevilla, 1514. Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada (Seville, November 2014)”
CFP: 5e Festival d’histoire de l’art (Fontainebleau, 29-31 May 2015)
Call for Papers: 5e Festival d’histoire de l’art (Fontainebleau, 29-31 May 2015) Deadline: 16 November 2014 Le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art et le château de Fontainebleau s’associent, avec le concours du ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, pour proposer la 5e édition du Festival deContinue reading “CFP: 5e Festival d’histoire de l’art (Fontainebleau, 29-31 May 2015)”
Lecture Series: The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England (London, October – November 2014)
Lecture Series: 2014 Panuzzi Lectures at The British Library The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England London, The British Library, October – November 2014 A series of three lectures by Christopher de Hamel, Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The great Latin Bibles, in huge multiple volumes, are by far the largest and most spectacularContinue reading “Lecture Series: The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England (London, October – November 2014)”