Lecture: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: Achievements and Aspirations, Dr Ron Baxter FSA and Dr David Robinson FSA, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, Thursday 19 October 2017, 7.15pm This lecture will review CRSBI’s achievements to date, and outline aspirations for Wales, looking at Romanesque sculpture from across the country. TrainingContinue reading “CRSBI lecture at Cardiff Archaeological Society, 19 October 2017 | CRSBI Training Session, Llandlaff Cathedral, 20 October 2017”
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Research Group: Rede de Estudios Medievales Interdisciplinares – Research Network of Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies
The Rede de Estudios Medievales Interdisciplinares is the result of a collaboration between scholars researching Medieval Art at various departments of the University of Compostela, other Galician and Portuguese universities and the Instituto de Estudos Gallegos “Padre Sarmiento” del CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).
Call for Applications: French Summer School Of Byzantine Studies, 30 August-5 September 2017, Bucharest – DEADLINE TODAY
Call for Applications: FRENCH SUMMER SCHOOL OF BYZANTINE STUDIES. STUDYING THE BYZANTINE WORLD. METHODOLOGIES AND INTERPRETATIONS, 30 August-5 September 2017, Bucharest Deadline: 9 August The Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest, the Centre Régional Francophone de Recherches Avancées en Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Bucarest (CEREFREA–Villa Noël), and the Research Institute of theContinue reading “Call for Applications: French Summer School Of Byzantine Studies, 30 August-5 September 2017, Bucharest – DEADLINE TODAY”
New Illuminated Manuscript Digitisation Project with British Library & BnF: Polonsky Foundation
The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200 A new project is underway to open up further the unparalleled collections of illuminated manuscripts held by the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. In a ground-breaking new collaborative project the national libraries ofContinue reading “New Illuminated Manuscript Digitisation Project with British Library & BnF: Polonsky Foundation”
CFP: Louvre Study Day: Collecting Medieval Sculpture (23-24 November 2017), deadline 15 August 2017
Musée du Louvre, Paris, November 23 – 24, 2017 Deadline: Aug 15, 2017 Ards Study Day 2017 Collecting Medieval Sculpture Ards, M-Museum Leuven (B) is launching a Call for papers for the 4th annual colloquium ‘Current research in medieval and renaissance sculpture’, which will be held in the Musée du Louvre in Paris (FR) on November 24th Continue reading “CFP: Louvre Study Day: Collecting Medieval Sculpture (23-24 November 2017), deadline 15 August 2017”
CfP: New Directions in the Study of Medieval Sculpture, Leeds, 16-17 Mar 2018
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, March 16 – 17, 2018 Deadline: Sep 30, 2017 New Directions in the Study of Medieval Sculpture Focusing on the materiality of medieval sculpture has proven crucial to its study and has expanded our historical understanding of sculpture itself. Whether monumental relief sculpture in stone, wooden sculptures in the round, sculpted altarpieces, ivoryContinue reading “CfP: New Directions in the Study of Medieval Sculpture, Leeds, 16-17 Mar 2018”
Examining Becket: Reflections on the Thomas Becket Study Day, Canterbury Cathedral, 7th June 2017
There could scarcely be a more appropriate setting for a study day on the theme of Thomas Becket than Canterbury Cathedral, the location of the archbishop’s martyrdom nearly 850 years ago on the 29th December 1170. In the Cathedral Library and Archives, just metres from the site of Becket’s murder in the North West Transept, experts from universities, museums and Canterbury heritage organisations gathered to discuss the saint’s life and cult.
ANN: Knotenpunkte und Netzwerke Neapels (Rom, 16-22 Oct 17)
Rom, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 16. – 22.10.2017 Deadline: May 31, 2017 Knotenpunkte und Netzwerke Neapels.Tiefenbohrungen in einer porösen Stadt Studienkurs der Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Leitung: Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky, Dr. Elisabetta Scirocco Walter Benjamin schrieb am 19.8.1925 in der Frankfurter Zeitung zu Neapel: »Niemand orientiert sich an Hausnummern. Läden, Brunnen und Kirchen geben die Anhaltspunkte. Und nicht immerContinue reading “ANN: Knotenpunkte und Netzwerke Neapels (Rom, 16-22 Oct 17)”
Excursion: Walking tour of the Medieval Book Trade of Paris, led by Christopher de Hamel and Sandra Hindman, 8 April 2017
The group will meet outside the west front of Notre-Dame, where the outlines of the former medieval street of the rue Neuve-Notre-Dame are marked on the paving. Right here was the absolute dawn of the book trade in Europe. Here the earliest professional booksellers had their shops from around 1200, together with parchment-sellers, illuminators, scribes and book-binders.
Summer School: University and Diversity (Bologna, 6-14 Oct 17)
Summer School: University and Diversity, Bologna, October 6 – 14, 2017 Deadline: May 1, 2017 University and Diversity: The Bolognese Experience (1088-2017) Studienkurs of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz –Max-Planck-Institut In 2013, the Municipality of Bologna set up a competition to find a logo that represents ‘at a local, national and international level’ all the ‘features andContinue reading “Summer School: University and Diversity (Bologna, 6-14 Oct 17)”
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