Book tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/movement-britain-and-the-world-in-the-middle-ages-image-and-reality-tickets-287813807847 The movement of art objects both into and out of medieval Britain was significant not only in itself, but because of the impact that those imported objects had. In my lecture I hone in on a remarkable group of English tiles, called the Chertsey tiles, and their extraordinary textual inscriptions, asContinue reading “Lecture: ‘Movement – Britain and the World in the Middle Ages: Image and Reality’, Paul Mellon Centre, Online, 5 May 2022, 6:00 BST”
Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures
Lecture: ‘Orality – Literacy – Digitality: Medieval Perspectives on the Digital Age’, IHR Europe 1150-1550 Seminar, 5th May 2022, 17:30 GMT
The Institute of Historical Research is delighted to invite you for the final seminar of this academic year.
Lecture: ‘Image, Pattern, Repetition: The Craft of Romanesque Sculpture in Southwest England’, by Dr Alex Woodcock, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 21st April 2022, 18:00 GMT
Dr Alex Woodcock is a writer, tutor and former cathedral stonemason.
Online Lecture: ‘Lacunae of Art History and Kyiv’s Visual Culture’, by Olenka Z. Pevny, 22nd April 2022, 17:00 GMT
Dr. Olenka Z. Pevny is Associate Professor of Slavic and Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Seminar: ‘Configuring the Monastic Space: Early Medieval Experiments’, University of Milan and Online, 21st April – 3rd May 2022
The workshop will explore this architectural experimentation, seeking to identify, and to contextualize, similarities, differences, and trends.
Seminar: ‘Medievalists Beyond the Academy’, Medieval Academy of American Graduate Student Webinar, 30th March 2022 19:00 EST
In this conversation moderated by leading independent scholar Laura Morreale, panelists will share their pathways from their PhD to their current position, followed by a live Q and A with questions submitted by our audience.
Lecture: ‘The Black Death and the Justinianic Plague – Useful Frameworks for Historical Comparison? Insights from Big Data Paleoecology’, with Dr. Adam Izdebski and Dr. Kevin Bloomfield, 29th March 2022, 12:00 EST
The lecture will take place on Zoom on 29th March at 12:00 EST.
Seminar: Round Table, ‘Political Culture in the Latin West, Byzantium and the Islamic World’, IHR Seminar Europe 1150-1550, 24th March 2022, 17:30 GMT
The IHR Europe 1150-1550 seminar returns this Thursday 24th March 5.30 pm.
Online Lecture: ‘The Gold of Banjska’, by Dr. Ivan Drpić, Dumbarton Oaks, 24th March 2022 16:00 EST
Ivan Drpić is associate professor of history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the art, architecture, and material culture of Byzantium and its Slavic neighbors in Southeastern Europe.
Lecture: ‘Entrepots, Networks and Kinetic Empire in Byzantium and Neighbouring worlds, 950-1100’, by Catherine Holmes, GCMS Seminar, University of Reading, 17 March 2022, 16:30 GMT
The final University of Reading GCMS seminar will be this Thursday 17th March at 4:30 pm BST, when Professor Catherine Holmes (University of Oxford) will be delivering a lecture entitled ‘Entrepots, Networks and Kinetic Empire in Byzantium and neighbouring worlds, 950-1100’.