Join the CRSBI for their Annual Lecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi who will be speaking about ‘Romanesque Sculpture and Water: the Art of Carved Vessels’.
Category Archives: Lecture
ICMA Annual Lecture: ‘Word/Play: Interiority, Performance, and Reading in Late Medieval Flanders’, with Alexa Sand, 14 May 2025, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)
Join the ICMA for their annual lecture with guest speaker Dr Alexa Sand, who will be talking about the relationship between performance marginalia and the reader experience.
Online talk: ‘Unfolding Concertina-Fold Almanacs: The Making of an Exhibition’, 28 March 2025 12-1.30pm (EDT)
In this online talk, Sarah Griffin, curator of the exhibition, and Megan McNamee, a collaborator, will introduce the concertina corpus and discuss the process of putting these frighteningly fragile, fiendishly complex, and wonderfully dynamic little books on public view.
Online Lecture: ‘Luxury for All? Jewelry and People in the East Roman Empire’, with Georgios Makris, 11 March 2025, 4pm (GMT)
Join this online lecture with Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, where Dr Georgios Makris (University of British Columbia) explores issues of taste in the East Roman Empire.
Online Lecture: Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar, ‘Playing with Fools?’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, 17 February 2025 (5-6:30pm, GMT)
Join the second Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar of 2025, Krisztina Ilko (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge) will speak on her new research project on medieval chess pieces.
Online lecture: ‘Golden Wreaths for Hippocrates: Art, Learning, and Lineage on a Medieval Cup’ with Dr Mary Franklin-Brown, 4 February 2025 (5:30 – 7pm GMT)
Join this lecture on a medieval cup made for Humfrey & Eleanor, Duke & Duchess of Gloucester, and owned by Lady Margaret Beaufort.
Murray Seminar: ‘Charles of Luxembourg as a visitor at the papal court in Avignon’, Dr Alexandra Gajewski, 21 January 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)
The next Murray Seminar at Birkbeck University is given by Dr Alexandra Gajewski, focusing on the Charles of Luxembourg at the papal court in Avignon.
Online Lecture: ‘Inscribing Sacred Matter: Reading and Writing Inscriptions on Byzantine Relics’, with Brad Hostetler, 5 December 2024, 12:00 PM (EST)
This online lecture brings together literary and material sources that speak to the act of reading and writing inscriptions in situ, focusing on those that were attached to relics and reliquaries.
Murray Seminar: ‘The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences’, with Dr Laura Cleaver, Birkbeck, 4 December 2024 (5-6.30pm GMT)
The next Murray Seminar at Birkbeck University is given by Dr Laura Cleaver, focusing on the The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts.
Lecture: ‘Hands That Heal, Looks That Kill: Towards a Fabulous History of Marian Architecture’ with Matthew Reeve, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 4 December 2024 (5pm–7pm GMT)
Join the Paul Mellon Centre for a lecture that focuses on Marian devotion during the Middle Ages with Matthew Reeve.
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