Katrin Kogman-Appel explores how Hebrew Bibles from Tudela and Perpignan circa 1300 blend Islamicate and Gothic styles, and were influenced by diverse cultural encounters and urban settings.
Category Archives: Lecture
Lecture: ‘The Power of Blue: Didactic models in text and image in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea’, Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, University of York, Wednesday 6 December 2023, 6-7pm (GMT)
Discover the empowering blue-hued imagery of female figures in Christine de Pizan’s ‘Epistre Othea’, in this lecture with Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis.
Lecture: ‘Foreignness and Architecture in late fifteenth-century Castile’ with Dr Costanza Beltrami, The Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5 December 2023, 5pm (GMT)
Join Dr Costanza Beltrami who will be presenting on fifteenth-century Castilian architecture and its evolution through migration and artistic exchange.
Lecture: ‘Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia’, with Dr Niamh Bhalla, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Wed 15 November 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (GMT)
Discover how medieval Byzantium navigated life’s uncertainties through divine imagery, as Dr. Niamh Bhalla explores Eğri Taş’s Nativity in this lecture.
Online Lecture: ‘The Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral’ with Professor Paul Binski, Dr Emily Guerry, and Dr Lucy Wrapson, Monday 27 November 2023 5-7pm (GMT)
Professor Binski, Dr Guerry, and Dr Wrapson will discuss their work on Gothic Wall Paintings in Angers Cathedral in this online lecture.
Online Lecture: ‘Chess and Skin Colour in the Global Middle Ages’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, Wednesday 8 November 2023, 9am-10.30am (GMT)
In this online lecture, Dr. Ilko discusses chess’s role in mediating cross-cultural interaction in medieval times.
Lecture:’Towers, travel, and architectural habits’ with Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 25th October 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)
Dr. Tom Nickson discusses the historical importance of tower climbing as an architectural experience in global contexts.
Online Lecture: ‘Zero Hour for Illuminated Manuscripts? The Acquisition and Alienation of Medieval Art in Post-World-War II Nuremberg’, London Society for Medieval Studies,14 November 2023, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
Prof William Diebold, historian of early medieval art at Reed College, will share his latest work at the London Society for Medieval Studies.
Lecture: ‘Byzantine Tradition in Africa: Art and Culture in Northern and Eastern Africa’ with Dr Andrea Achi, Friday 13 October 2023, 6:30–7:30pm, The Met Fifth Avenue, New York City
Join Dr Andrea Achi to learn about the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world.
Online Lecture: ‘Emblems of the Past: saints, stained glass and early medieval antiquities’, Dr Martin Crampin, 12 October 2023, 5.00pm (BST)
Sign up for this upcoming online lecture with Dr Crampin on medieval Welsh Saints in stained glass.
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