Seminar series: IHR seminar in European History 1150-1550, 2024-2025

We are pleased to announce this year’s programme for the IHR seminar European History 1150-1550. All seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm.

Online Lecture: ‘Food for Thought: Reconsidering Late Medieval English Cadaver Monuments’ with Morgan Ellis Leah, Tuesday 30 July 2024, 5.30pm-6.30pm (BST)

Join the National Churches Trust for an online lecture that will reconsider the long-standing misconception that transi effigies present the body in a ‘late stage of decay.’

Online Lecture: ‘Designing Chartres Cathedral: A Geometrical Perspective’, with Robert Bork and Ellen Shortell, 14 May 2024, 7.30pm (EST) 

Join The Friends of Chartres for this online lecture in collaboration with the University of Iowa and Villa Albertine, featuring two speakers.

Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: ‘Signatures and Artistic Authorship in Lorenzetti and Attavante’, with Christopher Platts (Tue 21 May 2024, 5pm-6.30pm BST)

In this upcoming research seminar, Dr Christopher Platts will be discussing the artistic authorship in the work of Lorenzetti and Attavante.

Lecture: Murray Seminar at Birkbeck: ‘Not Quite 3D: Representing Architecture in the Early Middle Ages’ with Karl Kinsella (Wed 20 March 2024, 5pm-6.30pm GMT)

Explore the intersection of archaeology and art history with Dr. Karl Kinsella’s lecture. Dr Kinsella will explore the story behind a fifth-century mosaic from Bordeaux, revealing early attempts to depict the Holy Sepulchre’s architecture.

SAHGB Annual Lecture: ‘Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages’ with Professor Paul Binski, Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:30-20:20 (GMT)

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain invites you to their annual lecture, with guest speaker Professor Paul Binski.