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The Institute of Historical Research continues its History of Liturgy seminars for the 2018 and 2019 terms. For more information, please visit their website.
The London Society for Medieval Studies is back for the new academic year!
We are very excited that our autumn programme of seminars will be commencing soon. Please find attached our full programme for the autumn and spring terms 2018-19. Make sure to get those dates into your diary!
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Textiles were used as markers of distinction throughout the Middle Ages and their production was of great economic importance to emerging and established polities. This book explores tapestry in one of the greatest textile producing regions, the Burgundian Dominions, c.1363-1477. It uses documentary evidence to reconstruct and analyse the production, manufacture, and use of tapestry. It begins by identifying the suppliers of tapestry to the dukes of Burgundy and their ability to spin webs between city and court. It proceeds by considering the forms of tapestry and their functions for urban and courtly consumers. It then observes the ways in which tapestry constructed social relations as part of gift-giving strategies. It concludes by exploring what the re-use, repair, and remaking of tapestry reveals about its value to urban and courtly consumers. By taking an object-centred approach through documentary sources, this book emphasises that the particular characteristics of tapestry shaped the strategies of those who supplied it and the ways it performed and constructed social relations. Thus, the book offers a contribution to the historical understanding of textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of social status and the cultural construction of political authority in the Burgundian polity.
Katherine Anne Wilson is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Chester. Her research interests lie in understanding the relationship between social and cultural change, and shifting patterns in the use of material culture in the later Middle Ages. She has worked and published on the circulation of tapestry and luxury goods of the Burgundian Netherlands as well as the biographies of their producers and consumers.
Trinity College Dublin is offering a new online course started 8 October. This course is intended for any and all interested in the history, crafting, and enduring legacy of one of the world’s most famous medieval manuscripts.
The Book of Kells manuscript, housed at Trinity College Dublin is world famous – it attracts almost one million visitors a year. But what can this book tell us about Irish history? And what significance is the manuscript in today’s world?
On this course you will use the Book of Kells as a window through which to explore the landscape, history, faith, theology, and politics of early medieval Ireland. You will also consider how the manuscript was made, its extended biography and how it has affected different areas of the contemporary world.
Please the visit the course’s website for more information.
Deadline: Nov 5, 2018
“Recovering the Ritual Object in Medieval and Early Modern Art”
Session Convenors: Dr Catriona Murray, University of Edinburgh, c.a.murray@ed.ac.uk; Dr Halle O’Neal, University of Edinburgh, halle.o’neal@ed.ac.uk
In the medieval and early modern worlds, ritual served as a legitimising process, a dynamic mechanism for mediating a transference or transformation of status. Objects played an essential part in this performative practice, charged with symbolism and invested with power. Distanced from their original contexts, however, these artefacts have often been studied for their material properties, disconnecting function from form and erasing layers of meaning. The relationships between ritual objects and ritual participants were identity-forming, reflecting and shaping belief structures. Understanding of how these objects were experienced as well as viewed, is key to revealing their significances.
This panel intends to relocate ritual objects at the centre of both religious and secular ceremonies, interrogating how they served as both signifiers and agents of change. The organisers specialise in early modern British art and medieval Japanese art, and so we invite proposals from a range of geographical perspectives, in order to investigate this subject from a cross-cultural perspective. We particularly encourage papers which discuss medieval and early modern ritual objects—broadly defined —as social mediators.
Issues for discussion include but are not limited to:
– Recovery of the everyday in ritual objects
– Embodiment
– Audiences and interactions
– Performativity
– Ritual object as emotional object
– Spatiality and temporality
– Re-use, recycling, removal
– Illusion and imagination
– Memory
– Thing theory
How to apply: Please email your paper proposal direct to the session convenors, details above. Provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 25-minute paper, your name and institutional affiliation (if any).
EN ROUTE POUR COMPOSTELLE : UN MOYEN ÂGE DE PÈLERINAGES
Colloque international
Dans le cadre des manifestations du 20e anniversaire de l’inscription du bien « chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle en France » sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO
Président d’honneur
Xavier BARRAL I ALTET – Universités Rennes 2 et Ca’ Foscari de Venise
PROGRAMME
VENDREDI 28 SEPTEMBRE
Montpellier – Médiathèque Émile Zola
9h – 9h30
Accueil des participants
9h30 – 9h45
Mot d’accueil
Géraldine MALLET – Université Montpellier 3, CEMM EA 4583
Sophie DUCRET – Université Montpellier 3, CEMM EA 4583
Sylvain DEMARTHE – Université de Bourgogne, UMR 6298 ArTeHis
ÉDIFICES & CULTES
Présidence
Xavier BARRAL I ALTET – Universités Rennes 2 et Ca’ Foscari de Venise
9h45 – 10h05
La crypte de Saint-Gilles-du-Gard : archéologie d’un haut lieu de pèlerinage sur la ‘via Ægidiana’ vers Compostelle
Andreas HARTMANN-VIRNICH – Université d’Aix-Marseille
Heike HANSEN – Université d’Aix-Marseille, UMR LA3M
10h05 – 10h25
Culte des reliques, cadre monumental et prétention communautaire : réflexion sur la collégiale Notre-Dame-du-Port à Clermont
Denis HÉNAULT – Université Clermont Auvergne, MSH
10h25 – 10h45
Pause
10h45 – 11h05
Édifier un sanctuaire de pèlerinages : ambitions monumentales, concurrences et stratégies visuelles à Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat
Éric SPARHUBERT – Université de Limoges
11h05 – 11h25
La construcción como metáfora divina: el modelo de los Santos constructores en el Camino de Santiago
Carles SÁNCHEZ MÁRQUEZ – Université Autonome de Barcelone
11h25 – 11h45
Discussions
12h – 14h
Repas
CULTES
Présidence
Manuel CASTIÑEIRAS – Université Autonome de Barcelone
14h – 14h20
Culto dei santi, medicina e pratiche magico-folkloriche nel pellegrinaggio a Santiago
Marco PAPASIDERO – Université de Messine
14h20 – 14h40
‘Là sont ellez près de la mer /Celles que Dieux voult tant amer’ : calamitare i pellegrini a Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Simone SARI – Université de Barcelone, Centre de documentation Ramon Llull
14h40 – 15h
Pause
15h – 15h20
L’image du pèlerin dans l’art gothique polonais
Arkadiusz ADAMCZUK – Université catholique de Lublin, Bibliothèque universitaire
15h20 – 15h40
Les reliques de saint Jacques le Majeur à Toulouse : une série d’énigmes
Michelle FOURNIÉ – Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès
15h40 – 16h
Discussions
17h-18h
Conférence plénière
Saint Jacques et Charlemagne
Adeline RUCQUOI – CNRS, Centre de Recherches Historiques
SAMEDI 29 SEPTEMBRE
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert – Musée de l’abbaye
ÉDIFICES, CHEMINS & TERRITOIRES
Présidence
Géraldine MALLET – Université Montpellier 3
9h – 9h30
Accueil des participants
9h30 – 9h50
Saint-Jacquème, étape lyonnaise du chemin de Compostelle
Nicolas REVEYRON – Université Lyon 2
9h50 – 10h10
Le passage à Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois : le sanctuaire dauphinois et les pèlerins en route vers Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle au XVe siècle
Julie DHONDT – Université Lyon 3, UMR Ciham
10h10 – 10h30
San Antón de Castrojeriz (Burgos, Castille-et-León) : une fondation hospitalière antonine sur le chemin de Saint-Jacques
Sylvain DEMARTHE – Université de Bourgogne, UMR ArTeHis
10h30 – 10h50
Pause
10h50 – 11h10
‘Marmora’ verso Santiago: strategie del decoro musivo tra Francia e Italia
Maddalena VACCARO – Université de Salerne
11h10 – 11h30
The Genesis of a Twin-Tower Façade: the West Towers of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Annette MÜNCHMEYER – Université technique brandebourgeoise de Cottbus
11h30 – 11h50
Plonger le pèlerin dans une expérience sensorielle totale : mise en scène de l’arrivée dans la cathédrale de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle
Manuel CASTIÑEIRAS – Université Autonome de Barcelone
11h50 – 12h10
Discussions
12h15 – 13h30
Repas
CHEMINS & TERRITOIRES
Présidence
Philippe MACHETEL – Maire de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
14h – 14h20
L’historiographie des églises de pèlerinage en Auvergne
Dominique ALLIOS – Université Rennes 2
14h20 – 14h40
Rêver le réseau compostellan : les chemins de Saint-Jacques dans le temps et l’espace
Robert MAXWELL – Université de New-York
14h40 – 15h
Pause
15h – 15h20
Dans la cour des grands : naissances et relances de pèlerinages en pays de Figeac au Moyen Âge
Benjamin PHILIP – Service du patrimoine de Figeac
15h20 – 15h40
La réactivation moderne des ‘Chemins de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle’ : le reflet de leurs origines au Moyen Âge
Manuel SECO LAMAS – Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, étudiant de Master 2
15h40 – 16h
Discussions
16h – 17h30
Visite conférence de l’abbaye de Gellone à Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
Géraldine MALLET – Université Montpellier 3
Sophie DUCRET – Université Montpellier 3, CEMM
17h30 – 17h50
Conclusions
Xavier BARRAL I ALTET – Universités Rennes 2 et Ca’ Foscari de Venise
Concert de clôture (Horaires et lieu à préciser ultérieurement)
« Domine Deu devemps lauder… »
Chansons narratives, épiques et hagiographiques du Xe au XIIe siècle ; extraits de « La Cansò de santa Fides », « La Passion de Clermont », « La vie de saint Léger » et des « Chansons de Croisades »
Brice DUISIT – Voix et vièle à archet
Organisation : Gisèle CLÉMENT – Université Montpellier 3, CEMM EA 4583 & CIMM
How to apply: Ouvert à tous dans la limite des places disponibles. pelerinages.saint-guilhem@gmail.com
IIlluminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message, Philadelphia, PA, November 15–17, 2018Manuscript illumination has often been considered in relation to the texts it accompanies, but rarely in terms of its interplay with other artistic media. Historically, however, the technique was closely associated with other forms of artistic expression and served as a crucial point of contact and transfer for visual motifs across space and time. The goal of this year’s symposium is to examine cases of intermedial exchange through the lenses of technique, style, iconography, social context, and cultural geography, while also posing broader questions about the deep connections between the craft of illumination and other arts more widely. Of special interest will be insights gained from the technical examination of works in different media, new comparisons made possible by digital technology, and the discovery of linkages once obscured by strict historiographical divisions
The program will begin Thursday evening at 5:00 pm on November 15, 2018, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with a keynote lecture by Professor Susie Nash of the Courtauld Institute of Art. The symposium will continue November 16th-17th at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania.
Registration is $35 ($10 for students with valid student ID). Registration is now open: click here.
For more information on the Schoenberg Symposium Series, click here.
Organized by Nicholas Herman (hermanni@upenn.edu), Curator of Manuscripts, with Lynn Ransom, Curator of Programs (lransom@upenn.edu), Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
The symposium organizers wish to acknowledge the generous support of the Williams Fund of the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania, and of the Wolf Humanities Center’s “Humanities at Large” program.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art
with introductions by Will Noel and Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania
The Curious Case of the Collins Hours
(Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945-65-4)
Rare Book Department
Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, 3rd floor
1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA, 19103 (map).
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 6th floor
3420 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 (map).
Constantia Constantinou, H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Herman and Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Presider: David Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Laura Weigert, Rutgers University
Sonja Drimmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Presider: Amey Hutchins, University of Pennsylvania
Frédéric Elsig and Carmen Decu Teodorescu, University of Geneva
Presider: Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania
Alexandra Green, The British Museum
Christine Sciacca, The Walters Art Museum
Presider: Katherine Tycz, University of Pennsylvania
Bryan C. Keene, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Roger S. Wieck, The Morgan Library & Museum
Presider: Sarah Reidell, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Turner, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Nandita Punj, Rutgers University
Presider: Will Noel, University of Pennsylvania
Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi, The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
Presider: Elly Truitt, Bryn Mawr College/University of Pennsylvania
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin C. Tilghman, Washington College
Presider: Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
Shreve Simpson, University of Pennsylvania
Medallions in the Margins: the Free Library’s Lewis Oriental ms 1
Georgi Parpulov, Independent Scholar
From China to Byzantium: The Origins of “Flower-Petal” Ornament
Friday 5 October 2018
Veste Oberhaus, Tagungsraum
12:30 – 13:00 Uhr Get together
13:00 – 13:30 Uhr
Begrüßung durch Oberbürgermeister Jürgen Dupper (Stadt Passau)
Sektion 1: Fürstbischöfliche Herrschaftsinszenierung im Schlossbau
Sektionsleitung: Herbert W. Wurster (Verein für Ostbairische Heimatforschung e.V.)
13:30 – 14:00 Uhr
Verena Friedrich (Universität Würzburg): “…weilen derselbe die neüe haubdtstiegen herauff geführet worden…” – Zum Empfangszeremoniell am fürstbischöflichen Hof zu Würzburg
14:00 – 14:30 Uhr
Sebastian Karnatz (Bayerische Schlösserverwaltung, München): Götterhimmel und Kaiserporträts – das gemalte Regierungsprogramm der Bamberger Fürstbischöfe
14:30 – 15:00 Uhr
Angelika Dreyer (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München): Erratne Erath? Fürstbischof Johann Philipp von Lamberg, Augustin Erath und die Freskomalerei am Passauer Hofe
15:00 – 15:30 Uhr Kaffeepause
Sektion 2: Innenausstattung als Medium der Herrschaftsinszenierung
Sektionsleitung: Jörg Trempler (Universität Passau)
15:30 – 16:00 Uhr
Wolfgang Wüst (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Repräsentation im Inneren – Inventare als Schlüssel zum fürstbischöflichen Lifestyle. Studien zum Hochstift Augsburg
16:00 – 16:30 Uhr
Raphael Beuing (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München): Prunkharnische und ihre Verwendung an fürstbischöflichen Höfen. Das Beispiel der Harnischgarnitur des Salzburger Fürsterzbischofs Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau
16:30 – 17:00 Uhr
Florentina Johanna Woschitz, Vera Ulrike Palm (Salzburg): Macht, Pracht – neu gemacht? Restaurierung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Vermittlung ursprünglicher Intention und Erhaltung eines stark überarbeiteten Zustandes
17:00 – 17:30 Uhr
Heiko Laß (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München): Die Jagdschlösser der Fürstbischöfe im Alten Reich
ABENDVORTRAG
Veranstaltungsort: Heilig Geist Kirche
19:00 – 20:00 Uhr
Malte Rehbein (Universität Passau): Vom Kulturraum zum vernetzten Wissen: Museum und Universität im Projekt ViSIT
Saturday, 6 October 2018
Veranstaltungsort: Veste Oberhaus, Tagungsraum
Sektion 3: Die geistlichen Kurfürsten – Repräsentation und Inszenierung
Sektionsleitung: Ludger Drost (Universität Passau)
9:00 – 9:30 Uhr
Jens Fachbach (Trier/Koblenz): „Schönheit ohne Ziererei“ und „Pracht ohne Prunk“ – Das Koblenzer Schloss als Residenz des aufgeklärten geistlichen Kurfürsten Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen (1739-1812)
9:30 – 10:00 Uhr
Marc Jumpers (Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, München): Die Baupolitik der wittelsbachischen Kurfürsten in Kurköln anhand der Quellen
10:00 – 10:30 Uhr
Georg Peter Karn (Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Landesdenkmalpflege): Martinsburg und Kurfürstliches Schloss – die Mainzer Residenz zwischen Konzept und Kontinuität
10:30 – 11:00 Uhr Kaffeepause
Sektion 4: Das Hochstift Passau – Repräsentation und Inszenierung des Fürstbischofs
Sektionsleitung: Matthias Koopmann (Universität Passau)
11:00 – 11:30 Uhr
Stephan Hoppe (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München): Die europäischen Dimensionen des Schlossbaus als Medium der fürstbischöflichen Selbstdarstellung im 15. Jahrhundert
11:30 – 12:00 Uhr
Marina Beck (Oberhausmuseum Passau / Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Die Bau- und Funktionsgeschichte der Veste Oberhaus. Neue Forschungsergebnisse aus dem EU-Projekt ViSIT
12:00 – 12:30 Uhr
Nicole Riegel (Universität Würzburg): Funktionale Struktur und Raumausstattung der Passauer Veste Oberhaus um 1500. Fragen und Hypothesen
12:30 – 13:00 Uhr
Abschlussdiskussion
13:00 – 14:00 Uhr Mittagessen
14:00 – 15:00 Uhr optional: Führung durch die Veste Oberhaus mit Marina Beck
How to book: Eine verbindliche Anmeldung zur Tagung bzw. zum Abendvortrag wird unter museumskasse@passau.de oder +49 851 396800 erbeten. Die Teilnahme an der Tagung und des Abendvortrags ist kostenfrei.
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Les Enluminures will present a special exhibition and catalogue at Les Enluminures New York from October 17 to 23, 2018. It consists of four books that are remarkable survivals of what people read in the Middle Ages – the finest of medieval Bibles (the greatest text of Western civilization), one of the oldest Books of Hours (the most famous medieval manuscripts of all), biography (the unique legend of an Anglo-Saxon princess), and the history of Troy (the oldest chivalric story in European history).
These are all manuscripts unknown on the market for at least eighty years. One of the four was last described in print in 1588; the others were last catalogued for sale in 1909, 1932 and 1938 respectively. All are richly illustrated, with a total of 133 miniatures between them, as well as hundreds of borders and illuminated animals and grotesques. Some of the finest artists of the period were responsible for the miniatures, and at least two of them likely issue directly from the greatest of European courts.
The exhibition will debut at Les Enluminures New York, from October 17 to 23.
Following this, the display will be the highlight of our booth at TEFAF New York Fall (October 27 – 31) and then travel to Paris for exhibition at Fine Art Paris (November 7 – 11)
A lavishly illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition, with Introduction and Catalogue by prize-winning author Christopher de Hamel, and Preface by Founder and President of Les Enluminures Sandra Hindman.
This one day conference brings together the next generation of art history scholars to present and discuss their ongoing research. Papers will predominately focus on Italian and Northern Renaissance Art (c.1400–1600) and will encompass diverse media including tapestry, painting, engraving and stained glass.
Continue reading “Conference: New Dialogues in Art History, Warburg Institute, 26 September 2018”
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