Erasmus of Rotterdam came from an obscure background but, through remarkable perseverance, skill, and independent vision, became a powerful and controversial intellectual figure in Europe in the early sixteenth century. He was known for his vigorous opposition to war, intolerance, and hypocrisy, and at the same time for irony and subtlety that could confuse hisContinue reading “Recorded Lecture: ‘Renaissance Lives- Erasmus of Rotterdam: the Spirit of a Scholar,’ William Barker, Micha Lazarus and François Quiviger”
Category Archives: Lecture
Online Lecture: ‘Luxury handguns at the Renaissance courts,’ Catherine Fletcher, The Warburg Institute via Zoom, 24th May 2002, 15:30-17:00 (BST)
Catherine Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Luxury handguns at the Renaissance courts’ By the early sixteenth century, handguns had become an important technology of warfare. European cultural attitudes towards these new objects were ambivalent. In literature firearms were often described as diabolical and unchivalrous. Yet at the same time a gift culture developed around guns. TheyContinue reading “Online Lecture: ‘Luxury handguns at the Renaissance courts,’ Catherine Fletcher, The Warburg Institute via Zoom, 24th May 2002, 15:30-17:00 (BST)”
Recorded Lecture: ‘A Material World – Revealing the Coventry Tapestry through Conservation’, Alison Lister, The Warburg Institute
The process of conserving a historic artefact provides opportunities to gather data on its composition and condition that can inform its future interpretation, presentation, and preservation. In this seminar, Alison Lister (Textile Conservation Limited) will describe and illustrate the initial results of a detailed examination and assessment of the late 15th/early 16th century tapestry fromContinue reading “Recorded Lecture: ‘A Material World – Revealing the Coventry Tapestry through Conservation’, Alison Lister, The Warburg Institute”
Online Lecture: ‘Sumatran Camphor in Medieval Afro-Eurasia,’ Alex West, Silk Roads Programme at King’s College, University of Cambridge, Zoom, 25th February 2022, 14:00 (GMT)
Alex West is a lecturer at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden. Specialising in the Indo-Malaysian archipelago in the fifteenth century before the arrival of the Portuguese and the Islamisation of Sunda, his translations and research have revealed the presence of commodities sourced from places as far apart as the Levant and NewContinue reading “Online Lecture: ‘Sumatran Camphor in Medieval Afro-Eurasia,’ Alex West, Silk Roads Programme at King’s College, University of Cambridge, Zoom, 25th February 2022, 14:00 (GMT)”
Online Lecture: ‘Power and Production in Late Medieval Lucca’, Taylor Zaneri (University of Amsterdam), 24th February 2022, 17:15-19:15 (GMT)
The next IHR Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy seminar will take place on 24th February at 5:15 pm. Taylor Zaneri (University of Amsterdam) will speak on ‘Power and Production in Late Medieval Lucca’. To book for this event, please register for the Zoom link here.
Online Webinar: ‘After the Book of Kells: Insular Art in Scotland and Ireland 900-1900’, 4th – 5th March 2022
Examinations of Insular art typically focus upon the eighth and early ninth centuries; and yet, the Insular artistic tradition in Scotland and Ireland continued to flourish and develop into the early modern era. The reliquaries, monuments, and manuscripts made in the earlier period had long lives, with additions and transformations occurring across many generations andContinue reading “Online Webinar: ‘After the Book of Kells: Insular Art in Scotland and Ireland 900-1900’, 4th – 5th March 2022”
Hybrid Lecture: ‘Astronomy in the Great Mosque of Damascus’, Yusuf Tayara, Durham University and Zoom, 15th March 2022, 17:00 (GMT)
Join us at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Durham University, 7 Owengate, Durham, DH1 3HB, on March 15 at 5:00 p.m. to hear Yusuf Tayara of the Oxford University History Department present his research on ‘Astronomy in the Great Mosque of Damascus: Towards a Social History of Mamluk Astronomy’. Between the lateContinue reading “Hybrid Lecture: ‘Astronomy in the Great Mosque of Damascus’, Yusuf Tayara, Durham University and Zoom, 15th March 2022, 17:00 (GMT)”
Online Lecture: The History and Significance of the Byzantine Prothesis Ritual, Nina Glibetić, Zoom, 17th February 2022, 17:00 (EST)
The Mary Jaharis Center is pleased to announce our next lecture: The History and Significance of the Byzantine Prothesis Ritual. In this lecture, Nina Glibetić, University of Notre Dame, discusses the history and development of Byzantine Prothesis ritual. This talk brings together manuscripts in several languages in order to trace the shifts and expansions of theContinue reading “Online Lecture: The History and Significance of the Byzantine Prothesis Ritual, Nina Glibetić, Zoom, 17th February 2022, 17:00 (EST)”
Online Lecture: ‘The Guest of the Body – Visualising Souls in Medieval Europe, 1100-1200’, Shirin Fozi, 27th April 2022, 17:00-18:30 (BST)
The art of medieval Europe emphasizes the eschatological future in terms that can often surprise contemporary viewers. Christian anxieties about the apocalypse – the longing for resurrection, the fear of eternal damnation, the hopes of attaining a place in paradise – hinged on the desire for a successful reunification of the bodies and souls ofContinue reading “Online Lecture: ‘The Guest of the Body – Visualising Souls in Medieval Europe, 1100-1200’, Shirin Fozi, 27th April 2022, 17:00-18:30 (BST)”
Online Lecture: ‘The Psycho-Architectonics of the Imżā Inscriptions – Denotations and Connotations of Text in the Arts of the Safavids’, Dr Mahroo Moosavi, 3rd March 2022, 18:00-19:30 (GMT)
By working between the two media of art and literature, this paper challenges some manners by which the textually infused arts of the early modern Iran have been conventionally perceived. While through the inherited discourse of Western art history, the inscription or epigraph is an appurtenance of the object’s visual and thematic language or is,Continue reading “Online Lecture: ‘The Psycho-Architectonics of the Imżā Inscriptions – Denotations and Connotations of Text in the Arts of the Safavids’, Dr Mahroo Moosavi, 3rd March 2022, 18:00-19:30 (GMT)”
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