Online Conference: Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages, Princeton University, 6 March 2021

Princeton University cordially invites you to their Medieval Studies Graduate Conference, 2021:  Reclaiming Losses: Recovery, Reconquest, and Restoration in the Middle Ages. The conference will be held on Zoom on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 10:00am – 4:30pm EST. Registration is open to the public.

The conference will begin with a keynote address given by Professor Hussein Fancy, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, entitled: “The Law is an Imposter: Restoring Imperial Authority around the Medieval Mediterranean.” 

The keynote address will be followed by six graduate student papers reflecting a range of historical contexts and disciplinary entry points. Diverse in their subjects, geographies, chronologies, and approaches, these papers share a common objective—to explore the circumstances under which medieval people made claims to past legacies, how they asserted those claims, and what it meant to express them as calls for restitution. 

To view the conference schedule, paper abstracts, and to register, please visit the conference website here. Graduate student speakers will include:

Javier Albarraìn (RomanIslam: Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg): “Shaping an Islamic ‘Reconquest’: The Loss of Al-Andalus, 11th Century and Beyond” 

Maia Ruth Béar (Department of Medieval Studies, Yale University): “Making Things, Making Up for Things, Making Things Up: Female Creativity in a Middle English Romance” 

Camila Marcone (Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University): “From Battleground to Hunting Ground: Recreational Spaces and ‘Reconquista’ in Alfonso XI’s Libro de la monteriìa” 

Michael J. Sanders (Fordham University): “1492, the End of the ‘Reconquest?’: Ferdinand II, Martín García, and the Iter per Hispaniam to Jerusalem”  

Bailey Sullivan (University of Michigan): “‘The statue I came to see is not here anymore’: The Restoration of Notre-Dame du Pilier at Chartres Cathedral” 

Kevin Vogelaar (Affiliated Scholar, Tufts University): “The Medieval Armenian Foundation Rite and the Construction of Loss” 

This year’s conference is organized by Rachel Gerber and Eric Medawar. The Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University encourages interdisciplinary study of the European Middle Ages: its art, literature (Latin and vernacular), music, religion, science, philosophy, politics and economic and social structures.

Online Conference: ‘Visions of the End: Medieval & Renaissance Apocalyptic Cultures’, Marco Institute’s 17th annual symposium, 5-7 March 2021

The Marco Institute’s 17th annual (virtual) symposium will explore apocalyptic themes. During the course of three days, eleven leading scholars will discuss medieval and Renaissance responses to the Book of Revelation written by John of Patmos and the end-times he predicted. During the virtual sessions, scholars working in the disciplines of art history, history, literary studies, and religious studies will present their current research on the celestial visions and the millennial fears of pre-modern times.

The “Visions of the End” Symposium is hosted by the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Additional support comes from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the UT Office of Research SARIF Scholarly Projects Fund.

Registration Information:

The Symposium is free and open to the public. The 2021 Symposium will be hosted online and will require advance registration. To register click here.

Please email our Program Coordinator, Dr. Katie Hodges-Kluck, at marco@utk.edu, with questions.

Conference Programme

Day 1: Friday, 5 March 2021

12:30-12:35 EST  |  17:30-17:35 GMT – Welcome

Jay Rubenstein, University of Southern California and Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee

12:35-2:15 EST  |  17:35-19:15 GMT – Prophecy & Pilgrimage

Moderator: Tina Shepardson, University of Tennessee

Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon) Constantine and the Birth of Medieval Apocalypticism: Imperial Eschatology in Eusebius, Lactantius, Ephrem, Aphrahat, and the Tiburtine Sybil

Kathryn Beebe (University of North Texas) Gender of the Apocalypse in the Late-Medieval Pilgrimage Works of Felix Fabri

2:15-2:30 EST  |  19:15-19:30 GMT – Break

2:30-4:00 EST  |  19:30-21:00 GMT – Images of the Beginning & The End

Moderator: Katie Hodges-Kluck, University of Tennessee

Jennifer Feltman (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) Ecclesiology and Typology in the Apocalypse Sculptures of Reims Cathedral

Roger Wieck (Morgan Library and Museum) Visions of the Beginning: The Parliament of Heaven

Day 2: Saturday, 6 March 2021

11:00-12:30 EST  | 16:00-17:30 GMT – Navigating the Apocalypse

Moderator: Jay Rubenstein, University of Southern California

Benjamin Saltzman (University of Chicago) Enigmas Near the End

Jennifer Jahner (California Institute of Technology) Apocalypse Unfurled: End-Times Management from Codex to Roll

12:30-12:45  | 17:30-17:45 – Reenvisioning The End

Moderator: Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee

Jason Stubblefield (University of Tennessee) Visions of the End: From Museum to Virtual Exhibition

12:45-1:45 EST  | 17:45-18:45 GMT – Lunch Dinner

1:45-3:30 EST  |  18:45-20:30 GMT – Visions of the End in Augsburg

Moderator: Gina Di Salvo, University of Tennessee

Laura Ackerman Smoller (University of Rochester) Reading the End in Late Medieval Augsburg: Wolfgang Aytinger’s Commentary on the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodius

Robert Bast (University of Tennessee) Prophecy as Policy: Maximilian I as Last World Emperor in Theory and Practice

3:30-4:00 EST  |  20:30-21:00 GMT – Break

4:00-5:15 EST  |  21:00-22:15 GMT – Keynote Lecture

Welcome: Theresa Lee, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tennessee

Introduction: Tom Heffernan, University of Tennessee

Richard Emmerson (Florida State University) The Apocalypse of the Duc de Berry and the Apocalyptic Great Schism

Day 3: Sunday, 7 March 2021

11:00-12:30 EST  |  16:00-17:30 GMT – Cosmos & Communication

Moderator: Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Tennessee

Brett Whalen (University of North Carolina) The End Times and the Medieval Cosmos

Mayte Green-Mercado (Rutgers University, Newark) Prophecy as Diplomacy in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean

12:30-12:45 EST  |  17:30-17:45 GMT – Break

12:45-1:30 EST  |  17:45-18:30 GMT Conclusions & Reflections

Jay Rubenstein – University of Southern California

About the annual Marco Symposium

The Marco Symposium is held every year in March or April. The Symposium brings leading experts in their field to the University of Tennessee for two days of talks on that year’s theme. A round-table discussion by all the participants concludes the weekend.

The Symposium is Marco’s signature event of the year, and typically attracts members of the larger Knoxville community in addition to students and faculty at UT and scholars from across the region. The theme of the Symposium changes each year. Faculty who are interested in submitting a proposal should contact marco@utk.edu

Grant: ICMA Student Travel Grants, deadline 7 March 2021

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) offers grants for graduate students in the early stages of their dissertation research, enabling beginning scholars to carry out foundational investigations at archives and sites. Winners will be granted $3,000, and if needed, officers of the ICMA will contact institutions and individuals who can help the awardees gain access to relevant material. Three grants are awarded per year, and they are designed to cover one month of travel. 

The grants are primarily for students who have finished preliminary exams, and are in the process of refining dissertation topics. Students who have already submitted a proposal, but are still very early on in the process of their research, may also apply.  

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applicants must submit:
1.  Outline of the thesis proposal in 800 words or less.

2.  Detailed outline of exactly which sites and/or archives are to be visited, which works will be consulted, and how this research relates to the proposed thesis topic. If you hope to see extremely rare materials or sites with restricted access, please be as clear as possible about contacts with custodians already made.

3.  Proposed budget (airfare, lodging, other travel, per diem). Please be precise and realistic. The total need not add up to $3,000 precisely. The goal is for reviewers to see how you will handle the expenses.

4.  Letter from the thesis advisor, clarifying the student’s preparedness for the research, the significance of the topic, and the relevance of the trip to the thesis.

5.  A curriculum vitae.                  

Upon return, the student will be required to submit a letter and financial report to the ICMA and a narrative to the student section of the Newsletter.

NOTE: Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and closures, we can delay disbursements until international travel is safe.

Applications are due by 7 March 2021. The ICMA will announce the winners of the three grants at the Spring Board Meeting in May.

Applicants submit materials here.
Thesis advisor submit letter of recommendation here.

Email Ryan Frisinger at awards@medievalart.org with any questions.

The mission of the International Center of Medieval Art is to promote and support the study, understanding, and preservation of visual and material cultures produced primarily between ca. 300 CE and ca. 1500 CE in every corner of the medieval world. To this end the ICMA facilitates scholarship and education and sponsors public lectures, conferences, publications, and exhibitions.

BBC Radio 4: In Our Time – Medieval Pilgrimage

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea and experience of Christian pilgrimage in Europe from the 12th to the 15th centuries, which figured so strongly in the imagination of the age. For those able and willing to travel, there were countless destinations from Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela to the smaller local shrines associated with miracles and relics of the saints. Meanwhile, for those unable or not allowed to travel there were journeys of the mind, inspired by guidebooks that would tell the faithful how many steps they could take around their homes to replicate the walk to the main destinations in Rome and the Holy Land, passing paintings of the places on their route.

With:

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Reading List:

  • Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?: Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Princeton University Press, 2015)
  • Nicole Chareyron (trans. W. Donald Wilson), Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Later Middle Ages (Columbia University Press, 2005)
  • Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1991)
  • Margery Kempe (trans. Anthony Bale), The Book of Margery Kempe (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Ian Reader, Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2015)
  • Kathryn M. Rudy, Virtual Pilgrimages in the Convent: Imagining Jerusalem in the Late Middle Ages (Brepols Publishers, 2011)
  • Jonathan Sumption, Pilgrimage: An Image of Mediaeval Religion (Rowman & Littlefield, 1975)
  • Diana Webb, Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West (Tauris, 2001)
  • Brett Edward Whalen, Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2011)

Listen to the episode here.

CFP: Amassing Perspectives: Current Trends in Syriac Iconography, Princeton University (17–18 September 2021), deadline 15 March 2021

The Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University invites paper proposals on late antique and medieval Syriac iconography and visual culture for a virtual conference to be held on September 17–18, 2021.

Monastery wall paintings in Syria and Egypt, the illuminations of the Rabbula Gospels, and the architecture and decorations of churches in regions as diverse as Turkey and India are just some of the rich visual culture extant from the late antique and medieval Syriac tradition. Though there is a long tradition of studying Syriac visual culture, this is a subject that has not typically been prominent in the broader field of Syriac studies, and there have been few monographs dedicated to the topic in recent decades. The aim of this conference is to gather diverse scholars from across the globe whose research touches on all aspects of Syriac iconography and visual culture in any geographic region from late antiquity throughout the Middle Ages, to roughly 1400 C.E. The conference will sum up the status quaestionis of research into Syriac art and architecture and spell out major desiderata for the field going forward.

We seek representation across academic disciplines—from art historians, archaeologists, historians, philologists, and more—and welcome the latest research being conducted on Syriac visual culture in any form. Papers might analyze the presence of varying artistic traditions in a particular monastic site or manuscript; evaluate unifying, transtemporal thematic imagery within any of the Syriac church traditions; propose a theoretical framework for the study of Syriac art; examine how medieval Syriac authors and theologians engaged with iconoclasm; study the migration and employment of artisans through architectural continuities between multiple sites; or consider the role of portable objects in artistic exchanges. This call is open to and aimed at scholars in all stages of their career, from graduate students to senior scholars. All are invited to submit abstracts related to any topic on Syriac iconography and visual culture from the late antique and medieval periods. Abstracts should be between 300–500 words and should be submitted to acady@princeton.edu by March 15, 2021. Women; Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars; and people traditionally underrepresented in Syriac studies are especially encouraged to apply. Authors will be informed in early April of the results, and accepted papers will be due September 1, 2021.

The conference will be held virtually over Zoom due to the uncertain nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Complete papers will be pre-circulated to registered conference participants in September 2021, and the conference itself will consist of roundtable workshops discussing and developing the material. Given the academic significance of such a conference, it is hoped that the conference proceedings will develop into an edited volume, reflecting state-of-the-art research on Syriac visual culture.

The conference is hosted by the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University with support from the Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity (CSLA) and the Center for Collaborative History (CCH). Interested persons may contact Alyssa Cady (acady@princeton.edu) or Emily Chesley (echesley@princeton.edu) with any questions.

More information can be found here.

Online Lecture: ‘Ritual and Politics in Early Rus’ with Dr. Alexandra Vukovich, 4 March 2021, 3-4pm (EST)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, is pleased to announce its next lecture: “Ritual and Politics in Early Rus.” Dr. Alexandra Vukovich, University of Oxford, will discuss the ceremonies and rituals of Rus in the pre-Mongol period.

March 4, 2021 | Zoom | 3:00–4:00 pm (Eastern time)

This lecture will take place live on Zoom, followed by a question and answer period. Please register to receive the Zoom link. An email with the relevant Zoom information will be sent 1–2 hours ahead of the lecture. Registration closes at 10:00 AM on March 4, 2021.

Register here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/ritual-and-politics-in-early-rus

Mary Jaharis Center lectures are co-sponsored by Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.

Find out more here.

CFP: Justice and Mercy at the Time of Dante: Reflections, Expressions, Representations & Practices (Lyon, 18-19 October 2021), deadline 25 March 2021

This international conference, primarily funded by the National Committee for the Celebrations of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s Death and co-funded by the Université Savoie Mont Blanc (laboratoire LLSETI), the Université de Lyon (ENS, Lyon 3, laboratoire IrPhil et LabEx COMOD), and the Italian Cultural Institute of Lyon, will take place in Lyon on Monday 18th October at Lyon 3 and on Tuesday 19th October at ENS. It consists of four non-parallel sessions: each session will be followed by discussions. 30-minute papers may be presented in French, English or Italian.

The conference will end with a concert held at the Italian Cultural Institute in the evening of Tuesday 19th October: the pianist Alessia Cecchetti will play pieces by Franz Liszt (including Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata and the piano transcription of the first movement of Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia). The proceedings of the conference will be published in spring 2022.

In the Bible, justice and mercy characterize God (especially in the Old Testament) and are described by Christ as beatitudes (in the Sermon on the Mount). These two human virtues (already mentioned by Cicero), as well as divine attributes, are major elements of Christian theology, which are also well attested in the ius commune. Interestingly, they play a key role in the structure of an eschatological poem like the Comedy. This work was indeed the result, at least partly, of Dante’s struggle for justice: we know that in the song Tre donne intorno al cor mi son venute and in some lost letters mentioned by Leonardo Bruni, the Florentine poet and politician had asked in vain his fellow citizens for mercy. In the Comedy, Dante (as author and more or less merciful and compassionate judge) creates in fact and follows (as the main character) a path becoming a paradigm of conversion, testifying to divine justice and mercy.

In the wide interdisciplinary field of studies on Dante and his time, literature, philosophy, theology, history and history of art, and more recently law and legal studies have provided a twofold extremely valuable contribution: on the one hand, they have offered an in-depth knowledge of Dante’s education and of his rich and varied culture, and on the other hand they have allowed for a better understanding of his work, including its contextualization, sources and its extraordinary “intertextual” and “interdiscursive” depth. We would like to explore the notions of justice and mercy within this highly interdisciplinary critical framework: although focused on Dante, our conference aims to open up to studies analyzing these two notions not only in Dante, but also in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century European poets, prose writers, artists, jurists, preachers, philosophers and theologians.

In her introduction to the miscellany Justice et miséricorde : discours et pratiques dans l’Occident médiéval Catherine Vincent invited scholars to “poursuivre sur une voie qui est loin d’avoir été totalement défrichée” . The four areas emphasized by the subtitle of our conference aim to increase the number of scientific fields involved in this research and to explore the topics of justice and mercy from a broader perspective than that of Vincent’s volume. ‘Reflections’ may involve the following disciplines: philosophy, theology, law (civil and canon) and rhetoric, ‘expressions’ the linguistic and stylistic aspects, ‘representations’ the literary and iconographical ones and ‘practices’ the historical, social, ecclesiastical, liturgical and jurisprudential domains etc.

Abstracts (in French or in English or in Italian; min. 250 words, max. 350 words) must be sent to the conference organizers (cecile.le-lay@univ-lyon3.fr and massimo.lucarelli@univ-savoie.fr) by 25th March 2021. Proposals must include a brief biography and bibliographical note (max. 200 words), including the applicant’s current affiliation and academic activity. Proposals will be examined by the scientific committee and successful applicants will be informed by 15th April 2021.

More information can be found here.
Cécile Le Lay (Lyon 3) – Massimo Lucarelli (USMB)

Scientific Committee
President : Paolo Grossi (President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court; Emeritus Professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law, Università di Firenze)

Isabelle Abramé-Battesti (Italian Literature, Université de Poitiers, CERLIM)
Guido Castelnuovo (Medieval History, Université des Pays du Vaucluse, CIHAM)
Michele Corradi (Ancient Philosophy and Philology, Università di Pisa)
Sergio Cristaldi (Italian Literature, Università di Catania)
Manuele Gragnolati (Italian Literature, Université Paris-Sorbonne, ELCI)
Cécile Le Lay (Italian Literature, Université Lyon 3, IRPhil)
Massimo Lucarelli (Italian Literature, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, LLSETI)
Bruno Pinchard (Philosophy, Université Lyon 3, IRPhil ; President of Société Dantesque de France)
Pasquale Porro (Medieval Philosophy, Università di Torino)
Diego Quaglioni (History of Medieval and Modern Law, Università di Trento)
Raffaele Ruggiero (Italian Literature, Université d’Aix-Marseille, CAER)

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 academic world, the British Library, and the commercial world of books. It is linked with the London Palaeography Teachers’ Group and so acts as the meeting place for many of those involved with the teaching of the London International Palaeography Summer School.

Please register for seminars here. Once you have registered you will receive the Zoom meeting link.

Find out more about the Medieval Manuscripts Seminars here.

Meeting on Zoom, 5.30 p.m. London time.

Organisers:

23 February 2021, 5:30pm (GMT): Dr Stewart J Brookes, Lyell Fellow in Latin Palaeography, Bodleian Library, & Dilts Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College

Computer-Assisted Palaeography: What? Why? Whither?

With many of us locked away at home and unable to spend time with our beloved manuscripts, the large-scale digitisation projects of recent years have taken on an unanticipated importance. Arguably, the current situation has sharpened our awareness of the limitations and strengths of encountering medieval manuscripts in the digital arena. With that in mind, this paper will explore a number of questions: what would we like to do beyond browsing with the “Turning the Pages”-style and IIIF viewers provided by repositories? How might letter-forms or iconographic motifs be catalogued, curated and compared to support evidence-based scholarship? How fine-grained should our descriptions be? And do Digital Humanities projects and Machine Learning change the scope or even the nature of our research questions?

2 March 2021, 5:30pm (GMT): Dr Ainoa Castro Correa (University of Salamanca)

The Secret Life of Writing: A Holistic Palaeography Project

Dr Castro has been recently awarded an ERC-funded project entitled ‘The Secret Life of Writing: People, Script and Ideas in the Iberian Peninsula (c. 900-1200)’. In this seminar she will tell us about how this project came up to being, discussing the new and somehow strikingly holistic method upon which it builds, its aims and first results.

30 March 2021, 5:30pm (GMT): Early Career Researcher double bill

Stephanie Azzarello (History of Art, University of Cambridge)

Divine Riddles & Monastic Puzzles: Palaeography and the Dismembered Manuscript

During my PhD, I focused on reconstructing a now-dismembered series of illuminated choir books, produced in Venice in the early fifteenth-century. This series of manuscripts—made for the Camaldolese monastery of San Mattia di Murano—was lavishly illuminated and contained script and music notation. In this talk, I will present some of the intellectual tools that I used to ‘recreate’ the original liturgical order in which the excised images once existed. I will discuss how palaeography played an important role in this process.

Dr Alison Ray, Carnegie Project Archivist (Medieval Manuscripts), Trinity College Dublin Library

The pecia system of the Paris university book trade and its users, 1250-1330

Paris was the leading centre of the university book trade in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and the study of wide-ranging written and visual evidence available in surviving pecia manuscripts demonstrates the major influence of Paris intellectual life on English scholars, preachers and illuminators. The textual content, decoration and user-added marginalia of university-produced manuscripts provides a unique insight into the workings of the English cultural community at Paris during this period.

Online Course: Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology with Aga Khan University, 23-24 April 2021, 11:00 -15:00 (GMT)

This online course (2 days) aims to introduce Arabic manuscripts from a codicological and textual point of view. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and it role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying the key features of the manuscript in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. . Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the Para-textual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.

This introductory course is intended for students, researchers and librarians who are working in the field of manuscript studies. In the two-day course, the lecturers will cover a wide range of aspects for those who are acquiring basic knowledge in this field.

Learning outcomes:

  • Basic understanding of the field of manuscript studies in general.
  • Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas studies in Muslim cultures.

Length of course: 2 days (4 lectures)

Course Convenors:

Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Also, he is a member of the Islamic Manuscript Association, University of Cambridge. Dr Ghali received his PhD from Cairo University, Faculty of Arts in 2012. His current research projects focus on the Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script, and the history of books. Dr Ghali teaches Sufism, Arabic literature and manuscript traditions. Before moving to London, Dr Ghali worked in various librarian roles at the American University in Cairo. He has also held several consultancy roles in and outside Egypt, such as the Ministry of Endowment, Qatar University and the Supreme Council for Culture in Kuwait.

Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of History and Philology dealing with Codicology, Paper Studies, and Papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.

Tickets: £80 for professionals | £50 for students, AKU alumni and staff. Register as soon as possible: https://bit.ly/375xxSY

Time: 23-24 April 2021, 11:00 -15:00 (London Time).

*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

Find out more here.

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 their spaces:  how movement through the world — both experiential and imagined — becomes codified in visual and written maps. His lecture “All the Stage’s a World” will discuss issues of cartography in relation to the 15th-century morality play The Castle of Perseverance.

This lecture is sponsored by the Medieval Studies program at CUNY. The Graduate Center at CUNY is a leader in public graduate education and committed to doctoral and master’s education for the public good. Innovative research, rigorous scholarship, and collaborative and interdisciplinary learning define graduate education at CUNY, where students are prepared with creative, problem-solving expertise to thrive in and beyond the academy.

To register for this online lecture, please visit CUNY’s Medieval Studies website.