Dr Tom Nickson
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
7.00 p.m., Khalili Lecture Theatre, Main Building, SOAS
Chaired by Professor Hugh Kennedy
Enquiries: rosalindhaddon@gmail.com
Conference: “Astronomy Across the Medieval World,” St Cross College, University of Oxford, Saturday 18th November 2017
Conference: “Astronomy Across the Medieval World,” St Cross College, University of Oxford – Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics, Saturday 18th November 2017
10.30 am – 5.00 pm
The celestial sky has been a source of fascination since ancient times with astronomy being the oldest of the natural sciences. During the medieval period, astronomy flourished in many cultures across the world, some of which followed on from earlier models created by Ptolemy. The motions of the celestial bodies were investigated, early astronomical observatories were built and some cultures constructed remarkable monuments inspired by astronomical insights. This conference will draw together the different strands of medieval astronomy from across the world and will examine how they interfaced and paved the way for the scientific developments later in the Renaissance.
Registration to attend this conference is free, but must be confirmed using the Conference booking form by midday on Friday 10th November 2017.
Confirmed speakers include:
Dr Giles Gasper (Durham University) – `The Service of Astronomy’ – European Star-Gazing and Its Implications in the Middle Ages
Professor Christopher Cullen (University of Cambridge) – Chinese Astronomy in a World Context
Dr Josep Casulleras (University of Barcelona) – From Ancient to Modern: Astronomy in Medieval Islam
Professor Ivan Šprajc (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) – Mayan and Aztec Astronomy: Skywatching in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
Dr Benno van Dalen (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) – Ptolemaic Astronomy and Its Dissemination in the Islamic World, Europe and Asia
There will be a conference dinner at St Cross in the evening following the end of the conference with an after-dinner talk by Dr Valerie Shrimplin (Gresham College) on the influence of astronomy and the cosmos on medieval art. Although the conference itself is free of charge, the dinner carries a cost of £35 to attend – booking a place for dinner can be done here.
For more information see the website: https://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ/events/astronomy-across-medieval-world-one-day-conference
European History 1150-1550 Seminars @ IHR: 2017-2018 Programme
European History 1150-1550
Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House
Thursdays 17:30
Convenors: David Carpenter (KCL), Matthew Champion (Birkbeck), Johanna Dale (UCL), David d’Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (KCL), Andrew Jotischky (RHUL), Patrick Lantschner (UCL), Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute), Sophie Page (UCL), Eyal Poleg (QMUL), Miri Rubin (QMUL), John Sabapathy (UCL), Alex Sapoznik (KCL), Alice Taylor (KCL), Marie Legendre (SOAS)
| Date | Seminar details |
| 5 October
17:30 |
Pretenders and returners: Dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages
Robert Bartlett (University of St Andrews) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 19 October
17:30 |
Hunting at the court of King John of England
Hugh Thomas (Miami College of Arts and Sciences) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 2 November
17:30 |
European History 1150-1550 2 paper event
Daisy Livingston (School of Oriental and African Studies), Martin Hall (Royal Holloway University of London) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 16 November
17:30 |
Trust and authority: Pragmatic literacy and communication in the royal towns of medieval Hungary
Katalin Szende (Central European University) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 30 November
18:00 |
The Creighton Lecture 2017. Strangers in Medieval Cities
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London) IHR Wolfson Conference Suite, NB01/NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 14 December
17:30 |
The rise of administrative lordship in medieval Flanders: New perspectives
Jean-François Nieus (University of Namur) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| Date | Seminar details |
| 11 January
17:30 |
Trustworthy men: How inequality and faith made the medieval church
Ian Forrest (University of Oxford) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 25 January
17:30 |
Government and inquests from Philip Augustus to the last Capetians
Marie Dejoux (Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris1) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 8 February
17:30 |
European History 1150-1550 2 paper event
Anaïs Waag (King’s College London), Cecil Reid (Queen Mary University of London) Room 243, Second Floor |
| 22 February
17:30 |
Petrifying wealth: The southern European shift to masonry as collective investment in identity, c. 1050-1300
Ana María Rodríguez López (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
| 8 March
17:30 |
Observing Religion: High medieval religious movements and their polemical vocabularies
Sita Steckel (University of Münster) IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR |
History of Liturgy Seminars @ Institute of Historical Research, London: 2017-2018 Programme
History of Liturgy Seminars 2017-2018
Mondays 17.15-19.15
John S Cohen Room N203, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU
2 October 2017 Teresa Webber (University of Cambridge): The Chapter Office and Reading in Chapter: monastic practice c. 1000-1300
13 November 2017 Henry Parkes (Yale University): Matins Responsories and Narratives of Divine Encounter
5 February 2018 Isabelle Cochelin (University of Toronto): Decrypting Monastic Customaries
5 March 2018 Iris Shagrir (Open University of Israel): Liturgical Vision and Liturgical Practice in Crusader Jerusalem
This will be a joint session with the Crusades and the Latin East seminar
21 May 2018 Roundtable discussion: What roles did rubrics play in medieval liturgy?
11 June 2018 Arthur Westwell (University of Cambridge): Conquering by the Book: Did the Carolingians bring a New Liturgy to the Kingdom of Italy?
AND
David Harrap (QMUL): Consecratio Navis: Maritime Liturgies in Medieval and Early Modern England
Convenors: Nicolas Bell, Matthew Champion, Helen Gittos, Sarah Hamilton, Kati Ihnat, Eyal Poleg, Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Elizabeth Solopova, Teresa Webber
Sponsored by: Henry Bradshaw Society, Institute of Historical Research, Birkbeck and Queen Mary, University of London
For any inquiries please contact Helen Gittos or Eyal Poleg (H.B.Gittos@kent.ac.uk or e.poleg@qmul.ac.uk)
Islamic Art Circle @ SOAS: Lecture Programme, 2017/2018
Islamic Art Circle @ SOAS, London: Lecture Programme, 2017/2018
All lectures begin at 7.00 p.m. in the Khalili Lecture Theatre (Main School Lecture Theatre) – unless indicated otherwise – Philips Building, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
- 11 October 2017: The Palace of Pedro I in Seville, ‘very much like the residence of the Muslim kings,’ Dr Tom Nickson, Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
- 15 November 2017: Reviving Islamic Architecture in Khedivial Cairo, and Beyond: a Collector’s Passion, Dr Mercedes Volait, CRNS Research Professor at INHA, Paris
- 6 December 2017: Takht-e Soleyman/Iran – From Sasanian Fire Temple to Ilkhanid Summer Palace. New Evidence from Old Excavations, Dr Ute Franke, Deputy Director, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin
- 10 January 2018: The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture: The Calligrapher, the Painter, and the Patron: A New Perspective on the Freer Khusraw u Shirin, Dr Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- 21 February 2018: In the service of religion? The display of ‘science from the Islamic world’ in the museum, Dr Silke Ackermann, Director, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
- 14 March 2018: The Seventh Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture: Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Geometry in the Architecture of Medieval Persia and Its Influence in the Greater Islamic World, Dr Peter J. Lu, Department of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University, USA
- 25 April 2018: Islamic Textiles from Iberia: Re-evaluating Their Role in the Mediterranean Context, Dr Ana Cabrera-Lafuente, Marie S.-Curie Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- 9 May 2018: Ilse Sturkenboom
- 13 June 2018: Ahmet Ersoy
For further information please contact Rosalind Wade Haddon: 07714087480 or rosalindhaddon@gmail.com
CRSBI lecture at Cardiff Archaeological Society, 19 October 2017 | CRSBI Training Session, Llandlaff Cathedral, 20 October 2017
Lecture: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: Achievements and Aspirations, Dr Ron Baxter FSA and Dr David Robinson FSA, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, Thursday 19 October 2017, 7.15pm
This lecture will review CRSBI’s achievements to date, and outline aspirations for Wales, looking at Romanesque sculpture from across the country.
Training Session: The following Friday, 20 October, Ron Baxter and David Robinson will be running a training session at Llandlaff Cathedral, from 10.00am to 3.00pm. The day is open to all who may be interested in becoming a fieldworker for the Corpus, or in simply finding out more about our work.
Dr Ron Baxter is the Research Director of CRSBI
Dr David Robinson is an independent historian and writer
Conference: Art and Economy in France and Italy in the 14th century: new research, Université de Lausanne, 19-20 October 2017
Conference: Art et économie en France et en Italie au XIVe siècle. Nouvelles enquêtes,Art et économie en France et en Italie au XIVe siècle. Nouvelles enquêtes, Université de Lausanne, 19-20 October 2017
Programme:
Jeudi 19 octobre 2017
Nicolas Bock, Michele Tomasi
Introduction
14h30 L’Italie au Trecento et au Quattrocento : da Giotto alla morte !
Damien Cerutti
Giotto & Cie. Réflexions sur le marché pictural florentin dans le deuxième quart du Trecento
Katalin Prajda
Finanze e attività imprenditoriale nelle industrie pittoriche, orafe e di carpenteria nella Firenze del primo Rinascimento. Come la seta divenne una specialità fiorentina
Fabio Marcelli
Arte, civiltà comunale ed economia nell’Appennino umbro-marchigiano
Giampaolo Ermini
Il cantiere del coro trecentesco del duomo di Orvieto: manovalanza, materiali, costi e finanziamenti
Paola Vitolo
Spese della morte: investimenti per l’aldilà (e per l’al di qua) e pratica artistica (Italia, XIII-XIV secolo)
Vendredi 20 octobre 2017
9h00 Les arts de luxe
Chiara Maggioni
Orfèvreries à Mantoue au XIVe siècle : frais, évaluations, valeurs de marché
Andrea Cravero
Vetri dorati e graffiti del basso medioevo: economia di una bottega assisiate e mercato fiorentino
Giampaolo Distefano
Le occasioni del mercato artistico parigino del Trecento e la carriera dell’orafo Jean le Braelier
11h30 Entre l’Italie et la France
Teodoro De Giorgio
La riorganizzazione del sistema fiscale della corte pontificia avignonese sotto Giovanni XXII (1316-1334) e il nuovo volto del mecenatismo artistico papale
Alain Salamagne
L’usage du bois précieux dans le château en France et en Bourgogne (1350-1450)
14h00 Perspectives méditerranéennes
Doron Bauer
Economic Fluctuations and Artistic Production in The Kingdom of Majorca
Francesco Ruvolo
Prima di Antonello. Nuovi culti, spazio sacro e potere economico, nella Messina tra Due e Trecento
15h00 En ouvrant encore les horizons
Étienne Anheim
L’économie du travail artistique au XIVe siècle en France et en Italie
Wim Blockmans
La spécificité du secteur de l’art dans l’économie du bas Moyen Âge
Conclusions
Conference: Intertwined Worlds: 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age
Conference: Intertwined Worlds: 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Free Library of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania Libraries, November 2-4, 2017
In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute of Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce the 10th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age.
Despite the linguistic and cultural complexity of many regions of the premodern world, religion supplies the basis of a strong material and textual cohesion that both crosses and intertwines boundaries between communities. This symposium will highlight the confluence of expressions of belief, ritual, and social engagement emerging in technologies and traditions of the world’s manuscript cultures, often beyond a single religious context. It will consider common themes and practices of textual, artistic, literary, and iconographic production in religious life across time and geography, from ancient precedents to modern reception and dissemination in the digital age.
The program will begin Thursday evening at 5:00 pm on November 2nd, 2017, at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, with a keynote lecture by Phyllis Granoff, Yale University. The symposium will continue November 3rd-4th at the Kislak Center of Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Speakers include:
- Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University
- Paul Dilley, University of Iowa
- Ellen Gough, Emory University
- Thibaud d’Hubert, University of Chicago
- Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University
- Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Shazia Jagot, University of Surrey
- Samantha Kelly, Rutgers University
- Jinah Kim, Harvard University
- Gila Prebor, Bar-Ilan University
- Michael Pregill, Boston University
- Michael Stanley-Baker, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Columba Stewart, Hill Museum & Monastic Library and Saint John’s University
- Justine Walden, University of Toronto
- Tyler Williams, University of Chicago
- Saymon Zakaria, Bangla Academy, Dhaka
- Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Bar-Ilan University
Click here for program and abstracts.
Registration fee will be $35 ($10 for students with valid student ID). Registration open now until Nov 3, 2017. Click here to register. Walk-in registrations will be accepted for a fee of $45 ($15 for students with valid student ID) to be paid in cash.
The symposium is made possible with the generous support of the Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
For more information on the Schoenberg Symposium Series, click here.
Research Group: Rede de Estudios Medievales Interdisciplinares – Research Network of Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies
The Rede de Estudios Medievales Interdisciplinares is the result of a collaboration between scholars researching Medieval Art at various departments of the University of Compostela, other Galician and Portuguese universities and the Instituto de Estudos Gallegos “Padre Sarmiento” del CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas).
The group welcomes scholars in Spain and abroad, and runs various research activities, for example: cultural and formative site visits, training courses, events leading to multidisciplinary publications, website articles, European research projects.
To learn more and get involved in their research activities, visit their website.
CFP: ‘The Italian South: Transcultural Perspectives 400-1500,’ CONVIVIUM journal
Call for Contributions: ‘The Italian South: Transcultural Perspectives 400-1500,’ CONVIVIUM. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean, special issue edited by Elisabetta Scirocco (Bibliotheca Hertziana – MPI) and Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI), published March 2018
Deadline for proposals: 20 September 2017
Deadline for article submission: 30 November 2017
This thematic issue of the journal Convivium is dedicated to the Italian South from the 5th to the 15th century. It seeks papers that engage with the specific transcultural dynamics of a geographical and historical area containing highly diverse political, social, and religious entities, as well as with the multi-layered connectivities that can be traced in the Italian South, across the Mediterranean, and beyond.
We invite contributions from Art History, Archaeology, History, Anthropology, Paleography, and related disciplines that deal with the cultural diversity of Late Antique and medieval Southern Italy with special attention to sites, monuments, landscapes, images, and objects, as well as to the visual and aesthetic spheres in general. We are primarily interested in exploring horizontal and vertical dynamics, in terms of time (synchronicity/diachronicity) and space (global/Mediterranean/local scales). Papers with a theoretical and historiographical approach are particularly welcome.
Main topics to be addressed might include:
-Artistic contacts and interactions in the Italian South, in a transregional and global perspective
-Centripetal and centrifugal paths of exchange, transmission, and appropriation
-Cross-cultural migration of objects, images, and techniques among spaces, contexts, and media: practices of reuse, appropriation, and interpretation
-Sites, places, and spaces of cultural interactions, such as cities and courts
-Religious interactions in sacred space and rituals
-Local persistence and reinterpretation of the (antique) past in different political and/or cultural scenarios
-The fascination of the (medieval) Italian South, from the 18th century to the present day
-The notion of “Southern Italian”, as it relates to the study of medieval art, and its historiographical consequences
Proposals of max. 1 page should be sent by 20 September 2017 to the editors: escirocco@gmail.com and dirwolf@khi.fi.it. The deadline for the submission of articles is 30 November 2017.
Convivium V/1 will be published in March 2018.
Articles Submission:
Contributions (30,000-40,000 characters including spaces, and up to 15 full-color illustrations) must be sent by 30 November 2017 to Karolina Foletti, executive editor of the journal: karolina.foletti@gmail.com.
Languages accepted: English, French, German, Italian.
Each article will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process.
For the Style Guide, please see: http://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/convivium.html
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