Hearing is a far-reaching concern, to judge by printed and online efforts to improve it in business, law, medicine, higher education, and other areas. American democracy itself has been jeopardized by failures to listen, some have recently argued. Centuries ago, when anxieties ran high about people not hearing what they were ‘supposed’ to hear, remedies took unexpected forms.
Continue reading “New Publication: Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening Before Dante by Matthew G. Shoaf”Job Opportunity: Lecturer in 16th- and 17th-century literature, University of East Anglia
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia is looking for a full-time Lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.
Continue reading “Job Opportunity: Lecturer in 16th- and 17th-century literature, University of East Anglia”Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Book History Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021-2022, Medici Archive Project, deadline 15 August 2021
The Medici Archive Project invites applications for an eleven-month fellowship (September 2021-July 2022) entirely devoted to research on fifteen- and sixteenth-century book history, with specific focus on Florence. Part of the fellowship tenure will be devoted to the creation of a catalog of incunabula and cinquecentine housed in a private collection, many of which will be featured in an upcoming international exhibition. The ideal candidate should have a PhD or equivalent in early modern Italian history; substantial research experience with original documentary material from Florentine archives and libraries; an ability to work with early modern printed texts; and fluency in English and Italian (a knowledge of other languages is desirable).
The stipend is $45,000 plus a small allowance for travel expenses. This fellowship is offered to scholars of any nationality.
To apply please send the following application materials to education@medici.org, with the heading MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT BOOK FELLOWSHIP:
– A full curriculum vitae.
– A concise discussion (3 pages maximum) of the applicant’s ongoing interest in archival research.
– A concise summary (3 pages maximum) of the applicant’s research and publication relevant to Renaissance book history.
– The names and addresses of two senior scholars who can comment on the applicant’s qualifications.
The application deadline is 15 August 2021.
The successful candidate will be informed shortly thereafter.
For further information, contact: assonitis@medici.org
Find out more here.
Exhibition: The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met now open
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared classical taste.
Continue reading “Exhibition: The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met now open”Videos: ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ at the Bodleian Libraries
A series of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries’ Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July). ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition.
The whole collection can be found here.
The History and Highlights of the Persian Collections
Hidden Treasures of the Persian Collections
Making Manuscripts for a Prince of the Black Sheep
The Painted Page and its Colours
Conserving Akbar’s Luxury Manuscript of the Baharistan
New Publication: The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman
Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same.
Continue reading “New Publication: The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman”Online Lecture: ‘Sliding Doors: Considering the symbolic significance of decorated thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’, with Dr Meg Boulton, The Society for Church Archaeology, 4 August 2021, 19–20pm (BST)
The Society for Church Archaeology is delighted to welcome Dr Meg Boulton who will deliver an online lecture on the topic of ‘Sliding Doors: Considering the symbolic significance of decorated thresholds in Early Medieval Churches’.
Dr Meg Boulton studied Fine Art as an Undergraduate, and completed her doctorate in Art History in 2013. Since then she has taught at various Institutions, including the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford, the University of Leeds and the V & A. Research interests include: Sculpture, space, theories of viewing and reader reception/s. She has special interests in theory and in a transhistorical practice of the History of Art.
The lecture will be hosted through Zoom and will take place on Wednesday 4th August 2021 from 19:00 to 20:00.
Please note: When you register for this talk you will receive an email (with reminders leading up to the event) with a link to a unique Online Event Page. This is where you will be able to access the talk at the scheduled time and date as listed.
CFP: ‘The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe’, The Medici Archive Project, Florence (21 January 2022), deadline 1 September 2021
Announcing the Call for Papers for the interdisciplinary workshop, organized by The Medici Archive Project, which will take place at Palazzo Alberti in Florence on Friday, 21 January 2022:
In recent years, attention has been directed towards copies, with a particular emphasis on their meaning, function, provenance, production, patronage, collecting and dating. The aesthetic and conceptual tenets underlying this corpus of scholarly research focused primarily on works of art. However, this impulse to recreate images has also been transferred to other artistic and intellectual media. As such, the copy carries within itself a great number of intrinsic nuances, depending on the cultural context and the historical moment. The organizers of this workshop (Maddalena Bellavitis and Alessio Assonitis) invite papers that address issues that can shed new light and provide new interdisciplinary research trajectories on the mechanisms that regulate the practice and reception of copies. For this reason, we encourage submission for presentation proposals from disciplines such as book history, media history, history of science, history of medicine, history of food and history of diplomacy.
To be considered for participation, please provide a single document in Microsoft Word, consisting of a one-page proposal for a 20-minute presentation of unpublished work, followed by a short curriculum vitae. Presentations can be in Italian or English. Applications may be sent to education@medici.org by 1 September 2021 (participants will be notified by the end of September).
Online Lecture: ‘Manuscript journeys: from German lands to digital libraries’, Bodleian Libraries, 7 July 2021, 5.30-6.45pm (BST)
This event marks the completion of a three-year digitization project delivered by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford and the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. The ‘Manuscripts from German-Speaking Lands’ project, funded by The Polonsky Foundation, has digitized hundreds of medieval manuscripts from collections at The Herzog August Bibliothek and the Bodleian and made these freely available online to scholars and the public.
The panel discussion will explore the journey of these manuscript collections from their origins in the religious houses of medieval Germany, their acquisition by the libraries in Wolfenbüttel and Oxford and their digitization and publication online.
Registration closes at 5pm on 5 July 2021
Find out more and book your place here.
Speakers
- Richard Ovenden OBE, Bodley’s Librarian
- Julia Gross, Chargé d’ Affaires a.i. of the German Embassy London
- Marc Polonsky, The Polonsky Foundation
- Peter Burschel, Herzog August Bibliothek
- Henrike Lähnemann, University of Oxford
- Joanna Story, University of Leicester
Booking information
When you have booked your place, the ticketing system will send you an automated confirmation.
A link to access the online event will be sent by the morning of the event to the email address associated with your booking.
See our project website for more information about the project and to see the digitized collections.
Online Conference: ‘Le Psautier de Paris (BnF, Grec 139)’, École nationale des chartres, 2–3 July 2021
The École nationale des chartres will host the colloquium ‘Le Psautier de Paris (BnF, Grec 139, 10th century)’ on Friday, July 2 and Saturday July 3, 2021. The colloquium is organized by Christian Förstel, Vasileios Koukousas, Delphine and Frederick Lauritzen. Its organization was made possible, in particular, by Sorbonne University.
The Paris Psalter is one of the most famous creations of the Macedonian “Renaissance”. This colloquium is the first research enterprise devoted exclusively to this exceptional manuscript. Its aim is to bring together in an interdisciplinary group of scholars specializing in codicology and philology, biblical exegesis and theology, and the history of art and aesthetics with the goal of putting the manuscript in context, studying its genesis and sources and its internal organization as well as its influence on Byzantine art.
Advance registration required. Registration closes June 30, 2021.
Conference Programme
Friday 2 July 2021
9h15 : salutations
- Michelle BUBENICEK, directrice de l’École nationale des chartes
- Isabelle LE MASNE DE CHERMONT, directrice des manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Vincent DEROCHE, Sorbonne, directeur de l’équipe « Monde byzantin », UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée
9h30 : introduction
- Konstantinos VLASIS, secrétaire d’État aux Affaires étrangères de la République hellénique en charge de la Diaspora grecque
- Christian FÖRSTEL, Delphine LAURITZEN et Frederick LAURITZEN, organisateurs
Session I — Perspectives d’ensemble
Président : Jean-Claude CHEYNET (Sorbonne Université)
- 10h : « Le Psautier de Paris, un chef d’œuvre de l’art byzantin », par Jannic DURAND, directeur du département des Objets d’art, Musée du Louvre
- 10h30 : « Books and Prayer in the Long 10th Century: People, Manuscripts, Contexts », par Claudia RAPP, Universität Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
- 11h : pause
- 11h30 : « Le Psautier de Paris et la minuscule bouletée 40 ans après (vidéo) », par Maria-Luisa AGATI, Università di Roma II Tor Vergata
- 12h : « De Constantinople à Paris : le manuscrit BnF, Grec 139, entre le xvie et le xxe siècle », par Christian FÖRSTEL, département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 12h30 : discussion
Session II — Iconographie et esthétique
Présidente : Raphaëlle ZIADE (Petit Palais, Ville de Paris)
- 14h30 : « Adjusting Antiquity: On the Principles of Design in the Paris Psalter and their Application in Practice », par Anthony CUTLER, Pennsylvania State University
- 15h : « Les personnifications comme marqueur d’une esthétique tardo-antique ? », par Delphine LAURITZEN, Sorbonne Université, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée
- 15h30 : pause
- 16h : « La diffusion et l’impact des modèles iconographiques du Psautier de Paris », par Elisabeth YOTA, Sorbonne Université, Centre André Chastel
- 16h30 : « Narration et speculum principis », par Ioanna RAPTI, École Pratique des Hautes Études et Anne-Orange POILPRE, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
- 17h15 : discussion
- 18h15 : présentation du Psautier de Paris (BnF Grec 139) dans la grande salle de lecture des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu
Saturday 3 July 2021
Session III — Le texte : les psaumes et les chaînes exégétiques
Président : François PLOTON-NICOLLET, École nationale des chartes
- 9h : « An unconventional Catena on the Psalms: the composition and textual structure of the type III catena », par Leontien VANDERSCHELDEN, Université catholique de Louvain
- 9h30 : « Catenae sur les psaumes et théologie. Les tendances révisionnistes du xie siècle et la chaîne de Nikitas de Serres », par Christos ARABATZIS, Université Aristote de Thessalonique et Vasileios KOUKOUSAS président de l’Institut hellénique des études byzantines et post-byzantines de Venise
- 10h : pause
- 10h30 : « Codex Parisinus gr. 139 (Rahlfs 1133) as a Witness to the Hexapla of Psalms », par Felix ALBRECHT, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
- 11h : « Apollinaris of Laodicea and the Paris Psalter », par Frederick LAURITZEN, Institut hellénique et Scuola Grande di San Marco, Venise
- 11h30 : discussion
- 12h : conclusions, par Peter SCHREINER, Universität zu Köln
