Medieval Art Research

Programme: IHR European history 1150-1550 Seminar, 2016–2017

Programme: IHR European history 1150-1550 Seminar, 2016–2017
Fortnightly Thursdays 17:30, IHR Wolfson II unless noted; free, all welcome

Winter Term
29^thSeptember ** Senate House South Block Room 349 (3^rdFloor)**
Chris Wickham (Oxford): Jiangnan style: Doing global economic history in the medieval period

13^thOctober
Giorgio Lizzul (KCL): The republic, commerce, and public debt in the forged orations of Doge Tommaso Mocenigo

Kenneth Duggan (KCL): The limits of strong government: Attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England

27^thOctober (jointly with History of Liturgy seminar)
Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth & UCL): Liturgy and devotion in the aftermath of the FourthCrusade: Nivelon of Soissons, the relics of 1204, and the cathedral of Soissons

10^thNovember
Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway): The image of the Greek: Western views of orthodox monks and monasteries, c.1000-1500

24^thNovember
Nikolas Jaspert (Heidelberg): Military expatriation to Muslim lands: Aragonese Christian mercenaries as trans-imperial subjects in the Late Middle Ages

8^thDecember (** Senate House Room 246 **)
Justine Firnhaber-Baker (St Andrews): Who were the Jacques and what did they want? Social networks and community mobilization in the Jacquerie of 1358

Spring Term 2017

18^thJanuary (jointly with Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, **time & venue to be confirmed**)
Roundtable discussion of Cathars in Question ed. Antonio Sennis (Boydell & Brewer, 2016)

19^thJanuary (** Senate House, The Court Room**)
Sylvain Piron (EHESS): An individual institutionalization: Opicino de Canestris (1296– c.1354)

2^ndFebruary
Nicholas Vincent (UEA): Henry II’s Irish colony: Truth and fiction

16^thFebruary
Dominique Iogna-Prat (CNRS/EHESS): A stone church? Visibility, monumentality and spatiality of the Medieval Church (500-1500)

2^ndMarch
Ella Kilgallon (QMUL): Visualising castitas in the Franciscan tradition: An analysis of three frescoes from central Italy

Ella Williams (UCL): History and prophecy in Naples: The Faits des Romains at the court of KingRobert ‘the Wise’

16^thMarch
Jonathan Lyon (Chicago): Offices, officials and bureaucracy in late medieval Europe: The view from Germany

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); IHR page http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/114.

Contact: John Sabapathy & Alice Taylor (j.sabapathy@ucl.ac.uk & alice.taylor@kcl.ac.uk).

Call for Submissions: Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval

Call for Submissions: Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval

The open-access peer-reviewed Revista Digital de Iconografía Medieval seeks articles for publication in one of the journal’s two sections:

Monographic studies of iconography: from a general point of view, it will be analyzed a topic or symbol of medieval repertory, either of biblical precedence or apocryphal, mythological, scientific, etc.
Transversal studies of iconography: from a specific point of view, it will be analyzed one or several works of art with an iconographical relationship.

Articles for should be sent by email to irgonzal@ghis.ucm.es. The text must be written in Spanish, English or French, in a Word file.
Images, only accepted in JPG, GIF, TIFF, of BMP file, should be attached together with a list of contents including all the information concerning the work of art depicted and the origin of the reproduction.
The work must be original and conform to the rules of publication of the journal, both in extent and in the organization of the content and formal requirements.

For more information and for the journal’s editorial guidelines, click here.

CFPs: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017

tumblr_nid8xdrz0n1soj7s4o4_500 Call for Papers: Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference, Philadelphia, October 12-15, 2017
Deadline: October 25, 2016

For more information on panels, round-tables, short presentations and working groups, and for submission guidelines, see: http://rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017/

Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference to be held in Philadelphia from 12 to 15 October 2017, will bring together scholarly professionals poised to address current problems pertaining to the study of textual artifacts that cross scholarly, pedagogical, professional, and curatorial domains. The conference will explore theories and methods common to the object-oriented disciplines, such as anthropology and archaeology, but new to bibliography. The Bibliography Among the Disciplines program, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to promote focused cross-disciplinary exchange and future scholarly collaborations. The conference sessions will include both traditional and innovative formats: plenary addresses, short presentations, roundtables, workshops, working groups, and site visits. Calls for Proposals and Participants (CFPs) are listed below. The project will culminate in 2019 with a volume of essays contributed by conference participants. The conference and subsequent volume will seek to build on the ongoing series of symposia conducted by Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography, established in 2012 through funding from the Foundation.

Call for Papers- Panels:

Graphic Representation: Illustration & Diagrams
Session Organizers: Claire Eager (University of Virginia), Jeannie Kenmotsu (University of Pennsylvania)

Textual Instruments
Session Organizer: Nick Wilding (Georgia State University)

Questions of Scale, Production & Labor
Session Organizer: Juliet Sperling (University of Pennsylvania)

Transmission & Transfer of Images
Session Organizer: Aaron Hyman (University of California, Berkeley

Degradation, Loss, Recovery & Fragmentation
Session Organizer: Jane Raisch (University of California, Berkeley)

Materiality of Digital Objects
Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)

The Social Life of Books: Uses of Text & Image Beyond Reading & Viewing
Session Organizers: Aaron Hyman (University of California, Berkeley), Hannah Marcus (Harvard University), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College)

Books as Agents of Contact
Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College)

Manuscript in the Age of Print
Session Organizers: Rachael King (University of California, Santa Barbara), Marissa Nicosia (Penn State University, Abington College)

Reading the Whole Book: Object Interpretation
Session Organizer: Lauren Jennings (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Comparative Histories of the Book
Session Organizers: Megan McNamee (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)

Reappraising the Redundant: The Value of Copies in the Study of Textual Artifacts
Session Organizer: Kappy Mintie (University of California, Berkeley)n and

Call for Papers – Roundtables:

Performance, Textuality & Orality
Session Organizer: Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania)

Authorship
Session Organizers: András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Caroline Wigginton (University of Mississippi)

Digitization, Representation & Access
Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University)

Materiality as a Sustainable Humanistic Discourse
Session Organizers: Meghan Doherty (Berea College), Dahlia Porter (University of North Texas), Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)

Ethics & Responsibility in the Bibliosphere
Session Organizer: Claire Eager (University of Virginia)

Call for papers – Short Presentations:

Tools for Data Analysis & Visualization
Session Organizer: Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University)

Innovative Pedagogy with Material Objects
Session Organizer: Elizabeth Yale (University of Iowa)

Teaching Global Book History
Session Organizers: Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University) & Ben Nourse (University of Denver)

Dynamics of Digital Collections
Session Organizer: Paul Fyfe (North Carolina State University)

The Book and Its Time: Developing a ‘Period Eye’
Session Organizer: Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Winterthur Museum)

Call for Papers: Working Groups:

Globalizing Book History & Bibliography
Working Group Organizers: Hwisang Cho (Xavier University), Ben Nourse (University of Denver), Rachel Stein (Columbia University in the City of New York)

Resembling Science: The Unruly Object Across the Disciplines
Working Group Organizers: Meghan Doherty (Berea College), Dahlia Porter (University of North Texas), Courtney Roby (Cornell University)

Workshop: Playing with Medieval Visions, Sounds, Sensations, Kings College London, 13 and 17 October 2016

Workshop: Playing with Medieval Visions, Sounds, Sensations, KCL, October 13 and 17, 2016

Discover the complex and beautiful physical and aural properties of two medieval poems – The House of Fame and Dream of the Rood – in this series of events produced by current King’s PhD researchers.

Two workshops will explore Chaucer’s The House of Fame; a fourteenth century poem composed in Middle English, which follows a dreaming narrator as they encounter Lady Fame’s mystical palace, located somewhere between heaven and earth, where reputations are made and broken. We will find inspiration in its shifting sonic architecture and strange signs.

Two workshops will focus on the Old English Dream of the Rood. Preserved as a complete poem only in the 10th century Vercelli Book, lines of the poem are also found carved onto the 8th century Ruthwell Cross, a huge stone sculpture still standing in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The mysterious voice of the Rood and the runic writing of the Ruthwell Cross reveal the various ways early Christians imagined their God.

This is an opportunity to make creative work across 2D, 3D and audio and video media, completely open to all creative and technical abilities. Learn how to speak Old and Middle English aloud, and create written, visual, and spoken responses to these medieval poems. You’ll be guided through text translations, collage and drawing techniques, 3D-making, and video and audio recording.

The workshops are open to all, and the organisers are especially interested to have a range of ‘medieval experience’ in the room: from scholars to members of the public who have never thought twice about medieval poetry.

An exhibition will bring together the work created in these workshops. Examples of contemporary creative works that reinvent the middle ages will also be on display, along with a temporary library for you to explore at your leisure. Artists, writers, and translator-poets will be on display, as well as new discoveries from the King’s archive, on show for the first.

A symposium on the range of medieval and creative work that inspired ‘Playing with Medieval dreams’, will be led by King’s researchers. This symposium (open to members of the public and workshop participants) will include readings of new compositions made during the workshops, along with readings in Old and Middle English.

Events are free to attend but booking is required.

Workshops:
14.30-17.00 & 18.00-19.30 Thursday 13 October 2016
Anatomy Museum, King’s Building, Strand Campus

14.30-17.00 & 18.00-19.30 Monday 17 October 2016
River Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Exhibition
12.00-21.00 Friday 21 October 2016

Symposium
17.30-18.30 Friday 21 October 2016
River Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Organisers: Charlotte Rudman, Fran Allfrey, Francesca Brooks, Charlotte Knight, Carl Kears, Beth Whalley.

CFP: Medieval Materialities: Encountering the Material Medieval, St Andrews, School of Art History/St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, January 19 – 20, 2017

cskf7tovyaa3ku6-jpg_large Call for Papers: Medieval Materialities: Encountering the Material Medieval, St Andrews, School of Art History/St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, January 19 – 20, 2017
Deadline: November 15, 2016

The University of St Andrews School of Art History in collaboration
with the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies (SAIMS) present
Encountering the Material Medieval, the second edition of an
interdisciplinary conference on materiality and material engagements
with the medieval, taking place on 19-20 January 2017 in Scotland.

The academic year 2016-2017 looks like it is going to be the year of
modern medievalisms, with three conferences addressing how the medieval
fits into our modern world in the UK, France and the USA. While the
idea of medievalism directly impacts modern scholarship and culture at
large, it encourages an engagement with a theoretical abstraction of
the medieval culture. This way, the materiality of the sources, and the
intrinsic materiality of our embodied engagement with the medieval, is
neglected.

Beyond the digital humanities, we are interested in material
engagements with the medieval. This takes place in the library, where
we encounter manuscripts in an intimate, skin-to-skin contact; during
fieldwork, when we need to crouch in order to enter a medieval altar;
in one’s own kitchen, when we try to reproduce a recipe freshly
transcribed from a manuscript; or on the fairground, where we can hold
in our own hand a replica of medieval pottery.

We are dedicated to encouraging multi-mediality and non-traditional
presentation methods during the conference. Therefore, we invite
interactive presentations, installations and posters, workshop and
hands-on activities proposals (45-50 minutes), as well as papers (not
longer than 20 minutes) on the following range of topics and their
relationship to the study of materiality, physicality and embodiment
in/with the Middle Ages:
– The concept of materiality and physicality as research and teaching
methodology;
– Bringing the materiality of the medieval to the institution or the
wider public;
– Semiotics and anthropology of the material Middle Ages in modern or
medieval thought and practice;
– The human and non-human, material and embodied, materiality and
boundaries;
– Medieval to modern (dis)continuities in genealogy of material.
Papers and workshops on other issues related to the study of
materiality and physicality in the Middle Ages are also welcome.

How to submit: Please send your submissions (250 word abstract) along with a short
biography (max. 100 words) to medmat@st-andrews.ac.uk no later than
15th of November 2016.

For more info, visit our website Medievalmaterialities.wordpress.com
Find us on Twitter: @medievalmateriality and tweeting with #medmat17

CFP: Worship in Regensburg’s Institutions: On the Diversity of Liturgical Traditions in the Pre-Modern Period, Regensburg, 6-8 July 2017

Call for Papers: Worship in Regensburg’s Institutions: On the Diversity of Liturgical Traditions in the Pre-Modern Period (Gottesdienst in Regensburger Institutionen. Zur Vielfalt liturgischer Traditionen in der Vormoderne) Regensburg, 6-8 July 2017
Deadline: October 31, 2016

In der Vormoderne war Regensburg als weit überregional bedeutendes politisches Zentrum und international vernetzte Handelsstadt auch kirchlich durch eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Institutionen geprägt: Neben dem von Bonifatius gegründeten Bistum, das manche seiner liturgischen Traditionen bis lange nach dem Konzil von Trient hochhielt, gingen auch die selbstbewußte Benediktinerabtei St. Emmeram und das Kollegiatsstift der Alten Kapelle genauso wie die Kanonissenstifte Niedermünster und Obermünster auf das Frühmittelalter zurück; insbesondere St. Emmeram betrieb neben seiner reichen Bibliothek ein auch künstlerisch herausragendes Skriptorium. Im Hochmittelalter ergänzten das Benediktinerinnenkloster Mittelmünster auf weiblicher und das Kollegiatsstift von St. Johann auf männlicher Seite die kirchliche Landschaft, wenn auch nicht die erhaltene liturgische Handschriften-überlieferung. Das Schottenkloster St. Jakob strahlte im Rahmen der zweiten iroschottischen Bewegung durch Neugründungen aus, die Abtei Prüfening vor den Toren der Stadt gehörte zur Hirsauer Reform; das Doppelkloster Prüll wurde später zur Kartause.
Mit dem Spätmittelalter erweiterten Klöster männlicher und weiblicher Bettelorden die kirchliche Vielfalt, die in der Neuzeit zusätzliche Komplexität gewann, als sich die Stadt mehrheitlich der lutherischen Reformation anschloß, was zur Übernahme neuer Bräuche, aber auch zu bemerkenswerten Kompromissen führte. Als Tradentinnen und
Produzentinnen von Handschriften, aber auch als Bauherrinnen liturgischer Räume und Auftraggeberinnen von Kunstwerken, nicht zuletzt in ihrem Zusammenspiel im städtischen Raum und in ihrer Prägung durch überregionale Einflüsse sind Regensburger Institutionen ein Prisma, durch das die bunte Vielfalt vormoderner Liturgie und ihrer kulturellen Ausdrucksformen sichtbar wird.
Angesichts großer Unterschiede in Quellenbestand und Forschungslage lohnt sich ein neuer Blick auf die wichtigsten kirchlichen Institutionen, historischen Phasen und überregionalen Bezugssysteme der Liturgiegeschichte Regensburgs in der Vormoderne. Beiträge aus Liturgiewissenschaft, Musikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte und verwandten Disziplinen sollen exemplarisch die verschiedenen Dimensionen liturgischen Lebens und ihre künstlerischen, musikalischen und architektonischen Ausdrucksformen erhellen, die bisherige Forschung kritisch sichten, auf bestehende Lücken hinweisen und neue Perspektiven künftiger Erschließung eröffnen. Äußerer Anlaß für die Tagung ist die Wiederbelebung des Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense des Bistums Regensburg, welches sich seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts der Liturgiegeschichte im Spiegel ihrer handschriftlichen Quellen sowie der Erforschung lokaler Eigentraditionen widmet.
Die vom Lehrstuhl für Liturgiewissenschaft der Universität Regensburg mit Mitteln des Institutum Liturgicum Ratisbonense und in Zusammenarbeit einerseits mit dem Akademischen Forum Albertus Magnus des Bistums Regensburg, andererseits mit dem Forum Mittelalter der Universität Regensburg und dem Themenverbund “Metropolität in der Vormoderne” organisierte Tagung findet von Donners-tag 6. bis Samstag
8. Juli 2017 voraussichtlich in den Räumen der Bischöflichen
Zentralbibliothek statt und wird von einer kleinen Ausstellung
begleitet.

How to Submit: Bewerbungen für Vorträge (25 Minuten) und Kurzbeiträge (15 Minuten) auf Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch oder Italienisch werden bis 31. Oktober
2016 mit einem Abstract von maximal 250 Worten an
harald.buchinger@theologie.uni-regensburg.de erbeten; ein
interdisziplinär besetzter Beirat wird bis 30. November 2016 darüber
entscheiden. Es ist geplant, den akzeptierten Beitragenden die Spesen
für Aufenthalt und Verpflegung sowie – im vertretbaren und möglichen
Rahmen – die Reise zu vergüten; die Tagung ist zur Publikation
vorgesehen. Neben etablierten Kolleginnen und Kollegen sind auch
Jungwissenschaftlerinnen und Jungwissenschaftler besonders herzlich
eingeladen.

CFP: 1st Annual Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies (CBMS), Nicosia, Cyprus, January 13-14

Call for Papers: 1st Annual Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies (CBMS), Nicosia, Cyprus, January 13-14
Deadline for abstracts: October 1, 2016
The Byzantinist Society of Cyprus (ΒΕΚ: Βυζαντινολογική Εταιρεία Κύπρου) invites papers to be presented at the First Conference of Byzantine and Medieval Studies, to be held in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Friday, 13 and Saturday, 14 of January 2017.
Honorary President: Athanasios Papageorghiou, Director Emeritus, Dept. of Antiquities.
Keynote Speaker: Ioli Kalavrezou, Professor, Harvard University.
Scholars, researchers and students are encouraged to present their ongoing research, work-in-progress or fieldwork report on any aspect of the history, archaeology, art, architecture, literature, philosophy and religion of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Byzantine, Medieval and Ottoman periods.
The languages of the conference will be Greek, English, French and German.
Programme Committee: Nikolas Bakirtzis (Chair), Stavros Georgiou, Maria Parani, Ourania Perdiki, Andreas Foulias.
Organizing Committee: Doria Nicolaou, Christina Kakkoura, Andriani Georgiou, Despoina Papacharalampous.
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How to Submit:
1. A cover sheet detailing the paper’s title, author’s details and session information (if applicable; see below)
2. An abstract between 300 and 500 words in English and/or Greek summarizing the presented research, report or work-in-progress and indicating its original contribution.
3. A second copy of the paper abstract in a separate page without the author’s details.
Submit your proposal as an email attachment to the address: abstractCBMS@ byzantinistsociety.org.cy
Sessions of up to five papers can be submitted together as separate attachments by the session organizer.
Paper proposals will be reviewed based on their abstract and accepted on merit by the conference’s Programme Committee. This review will be anonymous.
Notification of paper review will be send by email or fax by the end of October, 2016. Papers will be grouped in sessions according to their topic and theme.
Each participant may deliver only one paper limited to 20 minutes. Accepted paper abstracts will be published in the conference’s ‘Book of Abstracts’.

Graduate Paper Award: The best graduate student paper will be selected by the Programme Committee and awarded upon the conclusion of the conference.

Student bursaries: A small number of bursaries will be available, upon application, to assist graduate students’ travel and participation.

The conference is organized in conjunction with the annual meeting of the members of the Byzantinist Society of Cyprus. For membership information please visit the society’s website: http://www.byzantinistsociety.org.cy
For inquiries send email to: secretary@byzantinistsociety.org.cy
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Paper proposal preparation instructions

Prepare the 3-page paper proposal as a single Microsoft WORD document. Font: Times New Roman, 12 point. Line spacing: single.
Cover Sheet
Include the following information in the listed order. Please align text left and allow a blank line between each information detail:
Name, position or graduate status and academic affiliation (i.e. PhD Candidate, University of…), address, phone, email address, title of paper, indication of proposed session (if any). Graduate students must also indicate their interest to be considered for the Graduate Prize Competition and/or travel bursary (see above).
Abstract
Title line: Title in capitals. No more than two lines. Boldface and centered. Skip one line.
Author line: Author’s name followed by institutional affiliation in parentheses or, for independent scholars their city. No titles or degrees (i.e. Prof., Dr, PhD). Boldface and centered. Lower case, capitalize first letters of words. Skip two lines.
Abstract text: Justify text. No intend in the first line of paragraphs. Skip one line between paragraphs. Foreign language words transliterated and italicized. No footnotes or images.

CFP: ‘Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Traveling Culture, 1400-1700,’ Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Brill)

Call for Papers: ‘Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Traveling Culture, 1400-1700,’ Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Brill)
Deadline: November 30, 2016

Issue 2018: ‘Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Traveling Culture,
1400-1700’

In his letter to Philippe de Lannoy, from 1578 (De ratione cum fructu
perigrinandi et preaesertim in Italia), Justus Lipsius summarized the
aims of traveling as: ‘utilitas’ and ‘voluptas’. Traveling, according
to Lipsius, would lead to spiritual enrichment, as it would bring one
into contact with different people, different lifestyles, and different
customs and morals. At the same time, it would increase knowledge about
other countries and places, and about history. More or less at the same
time appeared a growing number of guides and treatises on traveling
(artes apodemicae), meant to prepare travelers for their trip, giving
advice on how to deal with the various mores in different countries and
supplying ‘cultural’ information on topography, history, important
monuments and other attractions.

In this volume, we want to study the production of knowledge shaped by
the traveling guides and artes apodemicae, especially in their
interaction with the actual practices of traveling and acquiring
knowledge. What was the formative importance of (printed) guides and
travel literature for the practice of traveling? How decisive was the
information they supplied in directing the travelers’ interest and
attention, and in shaping their views and knowledge? Or, the other way
round, was the information offered in guides and art literature
specified and/or expanded, or did it acquire a different scope as a
result of increasing knowledge or ‘new’ fields of interest developed by
travelers? And in which ways did the literature on traveling affect
other areas of knowledge production, either established academic
disciplines or new fields of knowledge?

Topics to be addressed may include:
– The use of travel literature and (national or local) guides. As books
were often too heavy or expensive to carry around during a visit ‘on
the spot’, to what extent and in which way were they consulted
beforehand or afterwards? How did this use beforehand or afterwards
affect the visitors’ experience?
Travel literature and (national or local) guides in relation to travel
accounts. As travel reports were often written after the voyage had
been made, much of the information in them was based on consultation of
guides afterwards. What does that mean for the reliability of travel
accounts?
– What was the impact of the target audience of (national or local)
guides? What differences can be discerned between guides written in
Latin (obviously for a learned public) and vernacular ones (or
vernacular versions)? To what extent was the kind of information
adapted (expanded, or cut down) to target a wider audience?
– What was the nature and scope of travel reports? Were they in the
first place a listing of things done and visited or do they reflect
the ‘spiritual enrichment’ that travel theorists such as Lipsius were
writing about? What kind of travel accounts were published and what
kind remained in manuscript, and what does that say about their aim,
function and intended audience?
– How much of the information offered in (national or local) guides was
actually ‘new’? To a large extent, the various guides of a specific
city or region repeated each other. Were they regularly updated with
the inclusion of new monuments (recently finished buildings, modern
works of art, etc.) or with newly acquired information (dates and names
etc.)?
– To what extent have their listings of monuments shaped our present
canon of important art works and ‘not to be missed’ attractions? Are
monuments that were not included (e.g. because they were not (easily)
accessible) still being disregarded, even though they were/are of high
cultural or historical importance?
– The importance of other sources of information besides guides and
travel literature, such as (historical) writings by antique, medieval
and (near) contemporary authors, collections of inscriptions, prints
and book illustrations.

How to submit: Please submit a one-page abstract (ca. 300 words) and a short
curriculum vitae (max. two pages) to both editors, before December 1,
2016:

– Karl Enenkel, Medieval and Early Modern Latin Philology, Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität, Münster: kenen_01@uni-muenster.de
and
– Jan L. de Jong, History of Early Modern Art, Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen: j.l.de.jong@rug.nl

Applicants will be notified before January 1, 2017. Depending funding,
a conference with all authors is planned to take place in Münster, in
November 2017. Final chapters are due by February 1, 2018.

Intensive course: ‘Rome as a Palimpsest,’ Rome, April 3-9, 2017

Intensive course: Rome as a Palimpsest, Rome, April 3-9, 2017.
Collaborative course organised by the Bibliotheca Hertziana –
Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, des Deutschen Archäologischen
Instituts und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom.
Deadline for Applications: October 15, 2016

Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut, Abteilung Rom, die Bibliotheca
Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, und das Deutsche
Historische Institut in Rom bieten vom 3. bis zum 9. April 2017 einen
Studienkurs an. Der Intensivkurs unter der Leitung von
WissenschaftlerInnen der beteiligten Institute richtet sich
insbesondere an fortgeschrittene Studierende der Klassischen
Archäologie, der Christlichen Archäologie, der historischen
Bauforschung, der Kunstgeschichte sowie der Geschichtswissenschaften
vom Mittelalter bis zur Zeitgeschichte.
Ausgangspunkt des Kurses ist das Bild von Rom als “Palimpsest”, d.h.
Rom als exemplarischer Ort des Umgangs mit Vergangenheit, des
Auslöschens und Vergessens, der Neuentdeckung, Wiederbelebung und
vielfachen Aneignung von Geschichte, der Überlagerung und des
Ineinandergreifens historischer Epochen. Diese Prozesse des Um- und
Überschreibens, der Inszenierung und Zitierung sollen mit
unterschiedlichen fachlichen Zugangsweisen an ausgewählten Orten und
baulichen Ensembles, vom Kapitol über das Forum Romanum bis hin zum
EUR-Viertel und dem Tiberufer mit dem in diesem Jahr angebrachten Fries
von William Kentridge von der römischen Kaiserzeit bis heute untersucht
werden.
Von den KursteilnehmerInnen wird eine intensive Einarbeitung sowie
aktive Mitarbeit – unter anderem die Übernahme eines Referates inkl.
der fristgerechten Vorbereitung von Themenpapieren und Unterlagen –
erwartet.
Die Zahl der Teilnehmenden ist auf fünfzehn Personen beschränkt. Für
die Gruppe der AltertumswissenschaftlerInnen (Archäologen und
historische Bauforscher) stehen ebenso wie für KunsthistorikerInnen und
HistorikerInnen jeweils 5 Plätze zur Verfügung. Die Kosten für die
Reise bis zu einem Betrag von 150 Euro und Übernachtung werden ebenso
wie Eintritte von den veranstaltenden Instituten übernommen. Die An-
und Abreise ist von den Kursteilnehmern selbst zu organisieren.

Requirements: Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme: abgeschlossener M.A. in einem der für
den Kurs relevanten Fächer bzw. M.A.-Studium in der Endphase.

How to apply: Bewerbungen mit kurzem Motivationsschreiben (max. eine Seite),
Lebenslauf, ggf. Kopie des letzten Studienabschlusses und Skizze eines
laufenden Forschungsvorhabens (bitte nur in elektronischer Form) an:
Rossi@biblhertz.it

CFP: ‘The Emperor and the City: Art in Nuremberg in the 14th century,’ Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurenberg, January 19-22, 2017

karl-iv-d-06-ka Call for Papers: The Emperor and the City: Art in Nuremberg in the 14th century, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurenberg, January 19-22, 2017
Deadline: October 15, 2016

Aus Anlass der ersten Bayerisch-Tschechischen Landesausstellung “Kaiser
Karl IV. (1316–1378)”, die in Prag (Nationalgalerie,
Wallenstein-Reitschule, 15. 5.-25. 9.2016) und Nürnberg (Germanisches
Nationalmuseum 20.10.2016 – 5. 3.2017) stattfindet, wird unter
Federführung des Kuratorenteams vom GWZO Leipzig, der Nationalgalerie
Prag, des Germanischen Nationalmuseums und des Lehrstuhls für
Mittelalterliche Kunstgeschichte der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
eine Tagung in Nürnberg veranstaltet werden. Aktuelle Forschungsfragen
rund um die Themen der Ausstellung mit dem Fokus auf Nürnberg und den
benachbarten Herrschaftsschwerpunkten sollen vor Ort diskutiert werden.
Die Ausstellung legt einen Schwerpunkt auf die verschiedenen Formen
herrschaftlicher Repräsentation, wie sie Kaiser Karl IV. in großem
Umfang und auf hohem künstlerischen Niveau einsetzte. Pflegte man die
Epoche früher durch den Namen der Baumeisterfamilie Parler zu
charakterisieren, hat sich das Bild inzwischen dahingehend gewandelt,
dass man deren zweifellos bedeutende Aktivitäten als Teil einer viel
größer angelegten “Performance” des Kaisers und seiner Parteigänger zu
verstehen hat. Auch die dominierende Rolle der böhmischen Hauptstadt
Prag ist zwar nicht in Frage zu stellen, aber doch zu ergänzen durch
das politisch, offenkundig auch künstlerisch sehr eigenständige
Nürnberg, das Karl IV. im Zusammenspiel mit den örtlichen Eliten zu
einer zweiten Residenz ausgestaltete.

Die Tagung möchte neue methodische und thematische Perspektiven unter
besonderer Berücksichtigung Nürnbergs einschließlich der größeren
Region (z. B. den fränkischen Bistümern, Reichsstädten, der
Burggrafschaft und dem sog. “Neuböhmen” Karls IV.) diskutieren. Der
methodische Schwerpunkt wird auf bildkünstlerischen,
architekturhistorischen und historischen Fragen liegen; bevorzugt
werden Beiträge, die hier Verbindungen respektive Überschneidungen
aufweisen. Es wäre wünschenswert, wenn das Spannungsfeld Herrscher –
Stadt, bzw. im Falle Nürnbergs auch das Dreiecksverhältnis Kaiser –
Stadt – Burggraf (als Landesherr eines im Wachsen begriffenen
Territoriums) zur Sprache käme. Die Rolle einzelner Persönlichkeiten,
Institutionen oder Örtlichkeiten kann exemplarisch vorgestellt werden,
ebenso können Beispiele vergleichend auch aus den Regierungszeiten der
übrigen luxemburgischen Herrscher (Heinrich VII., Johann von Böhmen,
Wenzel IV.) wie auch Kaiser Ludwigs IV. des Bayern vorgeschlagen werden.

Eingeladen sind alle, die sich vertieft und innovativ mit Fragen
architektonischer und künstlerischer Repräsentation befassen, wobei
auch Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen die Möglichkeit geboten werden
soll, ihre Thesen zur Diskussion zu stellen. Für jeden Beitrag sind 20
Min. Redezeit und daran anschließend 20 Min. Diskussion geplant.
Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch und Englisch.

Eine Publikation der Beiträge ist vorgesehen.

How to Submit: Bitte senden Sie ein kurzes Exposé von höchstens einer Normseite nebst
einem kurzen CV von ähnlicher Länge per E-Mail bis 15. Oktober 2016 an
folgenden Kontakt:
GWZO, Dr. Markus Hörsch (m.hoersch@web.de)

Organised by:

Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur
Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig e. V., PD Dr. Jiří Fajt

Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Generaldirektor Prof. Dr. G.
Ulrich Großmann

Lehrstuhl für Kunstgeschichte, insbesondere Mittelalterliche
Kunstgeschichte, der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Prof. Dr.
Stephan Albrecht

Národní galerie v Praze, Generaldirektor PD Dr. Jiří Fajt

Prof. Dr. Eva Schlotheuber, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf