The paper re-examines some of the complex and enigmatic imagery in search of the sources, meanings and functions of the frescoes in their key position above the high altar and the tomb of St Francis.
Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures
Online Lecture Series: Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Spring 2021 (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
The seminar covers current research into the intellectual history of book production in the Middle Ages, into the history of medieval texts and script and into manuscript culture more generally. The great value of the seminar, which was founded in the 1970s, is that it draws on a wide pool of expertise from the academicContinue reading “Online Lecture Series: Medieval Manuscripts Seminar Spring 2021 (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)”
Online Lecture: ‘All the Stage’s a World: Vernacular Cartography and the Castle of Perseverance’ with Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, 10 March 2021 at 5:00pm (EST)
The Medieval Studies program at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) invites you to an online lecture by Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee on 10 March 2021 at 5:00pm EST. Dr. Greenlee is a medieval cartographic historian. His research is primarily driven by questions of how people perceive and reproduce theirContinue reading “Online Lecture: ‘All the Stage’s a World: Vernacular Cartography and the Castle of Perseverance’ with Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, 10 March 2021 at 5:00pm (EST)”
Online Lecture: ‘Christ, Fire, Gospels: Images of Theophany in the Chapel of Galla Placidia in Ravenna’ with Dr Maria Lidova, Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars, 1 March 2021, 17:00 (GMT)
Join the upcoming Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar with Dr Maria Lidova (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence), who will be presenting on: ‘Christ, Fire, Gospels: Images of Theophany in the Chapel of Galla Placidia in Ravenna’.
Online Lecture: ‘Cities and Surveillance in Spain and Beyond, 1200-1500’ with Dr Tom Nickson (Courtauld Institute), 24 February 2021, 18-19pm (GMT)
Join Zurbarán Centre with ARTES Iberian & Visual Culture Group, at Durham University for Dr Tom Nickson’s upcoming talk.
Online Lecture: ‘The ‘Tara’ brooch: the making of a medieval masterpiece’ by Dr Niamh Whitfield, 17 February 2021, 7.30pm (GMT)
Join the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society on Wednesday 17 February for Dr Niamh Whitfield’s presentation on: ‘The ‘Tara’ brooch: the making of a medieval masterpiece’.
Online Lecture: ‘Wound Man: Three Early Modern Afterlives of a Medieval Surgical Image’ with Jack Hartnell, Early Science and Medicine Seminar, University of Cambridge, 23 February 2021 17:00 – 18:30 (GMT)
Join Dr Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia) for ‘Wound Man: Three Early Modern Afterlives of a Medieval Surgical Image’.
Online Lecture: ‘Intermedial Collaboration: Making the Double-Winged Altarpiece in the Late-Medieval Workshop’ with Dr Laura Tillery, Cambridge Graduate Seminar Series on Intermediality, 17 February 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 (GMT)
For the third ‘Intermediality’ Graduate Research Seminar, organised by the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge, we are joined by art historian Dr Laura Tillery (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) who will be discussing intermedial collaboration in the medieval workshop, focusing on fifteenth-century multimedia winged altarpieces in Lübeck, Germany and Scandinavia.
Online Lecture: ‘From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria’ with Dr Sean Leatherbury, 12 February 2021, 12pm (EST)
Join Yale for their up-coming Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture series.
Online Lecture: ‘The Art Historian and the Chapter Clerk: the joys and sorrows of ecclesiastical documentary evidence’ by Dr Lesley Milner, Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, 10 February 2021, 19:30 (GMT)
In this lecture for the Society For Lincolnshire History & Archaeology Dr Lesley Milner explores the use of Lincoln cathedral documents in providing new evidence for the cathedral’s treasure house, for the shrine of St Hugh, and for the chapter’s Great Seal matrix.
Medieval Art Research 