Medieval Art Research

Call for Contributions: Edited Volume ‘After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the Tenth–Eleventh Centuries’

salzburgpericopes001 Call for Contributions: edited volume After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the Tenth–Eleventh Centuries
Deadline: Jun 1, 2016

A great deal of research remains to be done on the substantial and
wide-ranging corpus of illuminated manuscripts produced in continental
Europe between the late ninth and late eleventh centuries. Whether
tucked away in footnotes or relegated to the status of comparanda, the
extant manuscripts from this difficult period of history — particularly
from the regions of modern-day France and Flanders — rarely receive the
focused attention they deserve. Yet many manuscripts from the tenth and
eleventh centuries have the potential to challenge our understanding of
fundamental issues of historical inquiry, including the nature of
artistic originality, various processes of transmission, the working
relationships between artists, patrons and scribes; even the essential
character and functions of illumination.

We seek papers that offer new perspectives on the culture of
illuminated books produced between c. 900 and c. 1050 outside the
established centers of art-historical focus in Anglo-Saxon England and
the Ottonian Empire. Studies of manuscripts originating beyond the
traditional geographic boundaries of the Carolingian Empire are most
welcome, as are studies that coordinate manuscripts with their physical
environment or with works of art in other media, and studies that
reflect upon relationships of “center and periphery” or questions of
regionalism, problematize the issue of artistic quality, or investigate
connections between tenth–eleventh century manuscripts and illumination
of other periods.

Papers will be collected in a volume to be published in the series
“Sense, Matter and Medium: New Approaches to Medieval Culture” (De
Gruyter). We wish also to propose a session on the topic of the volume
at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Toronto,
April 6–8, 2017), which will double as a contributors’ meeting.

Submission: Please send an abstract of your proposed contribution (ca. 300 words) and let
us know whether you would be able to attend the MAA conference.
Deadline: June 1, 2016. Please contact us with any questions.

Beatrice Kitzinger (Princeton University, bkitzinger@princeton.edu)
Joshua O’Driscoll (The Morgan Library and Museum,
jodriscoll@themorgan.org)

CFP: The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland c.900–c.1500 (University of York, 2–3 September 2016), deadline 18 April 2016

The rood – understood as the cross itself, and/or the image of Christ crucified – was central to the visual and devotional culture of medieval Christianity. By the late middle ages, a rood was present in monumental form, either painted or sculpted, at the east end of the nave of every church. Yet roods in numerous other forms could be found in ecclesiastical contexts: as images, in various sizes and media – in manuscript illumination, on textiles, and in stained glass. Images of the rood were also to be found within domestic, civic, and military contexts, from the bedroom to the battlefield.

Following recent scholarship that has focused on early medieval roods (Sancta Crux/Halig Rod series, 2004-2010), and considered monumental roods on the Continent (Jacqueline Jung’s The Gothic Screen, 2013), this conference will bring together established academics, early career and emerging scholars, to share new research and foster debate on the forms and functions of images of the rood in Britain and Ireland c.900-c.1500. To this end, we invite proposals (max. 300 words) for papers of no longer than 30 minutes’ duration from scholars working within the disciplines of medieval Art History, Literature, History, Archaeology and Theology.

In considering the monumental church rood together with its counterparts in other media and contexts, this conference aims to reassess the complexities of the central image within the medieval Christian imagination.

Potential areas for discussion can include, but are not limited to, the rood in relation to materiality; sacred space; the liturgy; emotion/affect; conquest and crusade; the relationship between text and image; patronage, and pageantry/secular display.

Proposals should be emailed to pmt500@york.ac.uk no later than 18 April 2016.

Organisers: Dr Philippa Turner and Dr Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York

Book Roundup: Late Medieval Painting

Here are some great new books on 14th and 15th century painting.

Any suggestions from the other end of the Middle Ages (or anything in-between)? As always do let us know of any recently-published medieval art history books you would like us to include in a book roundup – we would be happy to let people to know about them!

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Zuleika Murat, Guariento. Pittore di corte, maestro del naturale (Silvana Editoriale)

Guariento di Arpo (1310 c.- 1367-1370) was the leading painter of Padua under the Carrara. He worked extensively for the most prestigious patrons of his time, including members of

the Carrara family, two Doges of Venice, the Augustinian friars and the Dominicans, being commissioned both of frescoes and of panel paintings. Despite the great value he was granted during his life-time, and the attention that scholars have paid to his works more recently, the real nature of his production still struggles to emerge. This is due, in part, to the partial destruction of his most important paintings, such as imposing frescoes and huge altarpieces; but also to the nature of his style — in-between Italian naturalism and Gothic elegance — that has sometimes disorientated scholars.

This book aims to reconsider Guariento’s activity and place in the wider context of Trecento Padua. Through a new examination of his paintings, a new interpretation of the requirements of the patrons, as well as of the wider historical background, this book provides a new perspective on Guariento and of the entire context where he lived and worked. Special attention is paid to matters neglected thus far, such as the relationship

between the painter and the scientists who worked on astrology, optics and perspectiva at the University of Padua, the Studium, who might have suggested him how to represent a believable fictive space in painting; the decoration of the golden leaf and of the pastiglia; the typologies and functions of panel paintings. His works are also interpreted as factors of visual propaganda, and their complex iconography is here connected to the specific needs of the patrons. The paintings are presented through a rich photographic documentation and -when totally or partially destroyed- with virtual reconstruction done on a solid philological base.

Matthijs Ilsink and Jos Koldeweij, Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius (Yale University Press)

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscapes and found inspiration in fundamental moral concepts: seduction, sin, and judgment. This beautiful book accompanies a major exhibition on Bosch’s work in his native city, and will feature important new research on his 25 known paintings and 20 drawings. The book, divided into six sections, covers the entirety of the artist’s career. It discusses in detail Bosch’s Pilgrimage of Life, Bosch and the Life of Christ, his role as a draughtsman, his depictions of saints, and his visualization of Judgment Day and the hereafter, among other topics, and is handsomely illustrated by new photography undertaken by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project Team.

Luuk Hoogstede, Ron Spronk, Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap, Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Technical Studies (Yale University Press)

Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch’s works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bosch Research and Conservation Project has been studying these works using modern methods. The team has documented Bosch’s extant paintings with infrared reflectography and ultra high-resolution digital macro photography, both in infrared and visible light. Together with microscopic study of the paintings, this has enabled the team to write extensive and critical research reports describing the techniques and condition of the works, published in this extraordinary volume for the first time.

dis-9781909400092-1 Susan Urbach, Early Netherlandish Painting in Budapest: Volume I and II (Brepols Publishers)

This is the first volume of a series of scholarly catalogues on Flemish paintings from the Szépművészeti Múzeum in Budapest. Written by Dr Susan Urbach – emeritus curator of the museum and renowned scholar of Northern Renaissance Art – with the assistance of curator Ágota Varga and picture-conservator András Fáy, the catalogue includes extensive entries and bibliographical references on 49 works dating from c. 1460 to c. 1540. The volume covers about a third of the entire collection of Flemish Painting from the 15th century through to the 17^th and includes the latest results of scholarly research and technical analysis.

rpouswnq C. C. Wilson, Examining Giovanni Bellini: An Art ‘More Human and More Divine’ (Brepols Publishers)

This book presents a collection of fifteen essays on the Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, one of the most innovative and influential artists of the Italian Renaissance. Long renowned for his embrace of oil technique, astute mastery of perspective, and development of landscape painting, Bellini has been admired across the ages as well for the profoundly human and deeply reverent character of his works. Aspects of Bellini’s world, his oeuvre, and his legacy are examined here through a diversity of approaches, many interdisciplinary and supported by the bibliographies of theoretical writings and of specialized fields rarely or not previously brought to bear on the pictures discussed. Topics represented include the study of medicine and healing plants, plant and animal symbolism, portraiture, liturgy, antique sources, material culture and market practices, textual analysis, and collecting and reception.

Call for Papers: Illuminating Metalwork: Representations of Precious-Metal Objects in Medieval Manuscript Illumination (Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies)

Call for papers: Illuminating Metalwork: Representations of Precious-Metal Objects in
Medieval Manuscript Illumination (Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies), Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO, October 14 – 15, 2016
Deadline: May 1, 2016

The Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies is the longest
running annual conference in North America devoted exclusively to
medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies. Organized by the Vatican
Film Library in conjunction with its journal, Manuscripta, the two-day
program each year offers a variety of sessions addressing the
production, distribution, reception, and transmission of pre-modern
manuscripts, including such topics as paleography, codicology,
illumination, textual transmission, library history, provenance,
cataloguing, and others.
Manuscript illuminations frequently place special emphasis on
precious-metal objects both sacred and secular, such as chalices,
reliquaries, crosses, tableware, and figural sculptures. Artists
typically rendered these objects using gold, silver, and metal alloys,
“medium-specific” materials that contrasted dynamically with the
surrounding color pigments. The visual characteristics of these
depicted metal objects — lustrous yet flat, almost
anti-representational — could dazzle, but perhaps also disorient, the
viewer: they catch the eye while creating a fertile tension between the
representation of an image and the presentation of a precious stuff,
between the pictorial and the material. A gold-leaf chalice signals its
real-world referent both iconically, via its shape, and indexically,
via its metal material, a doubled representation unavailable to the
remainder of the painted miniature. Such images can take on added
complexity if intended to represent known real-world objects.

This panel seeks to take inventory of how these precious-metal objects
were depicted and how they generated meaning. Possible themes include:
chronological/geographical specificities in the representation of
metalwork in manuscript illuminations; depictions of precious-metal
figural sculpture, including idols; technique (e.g. pigment vs. leaf);
the semiotics of metal on parchment; and whether we can speak of
“portraits” of particular objects and/or visual “inventories” of
particular collections. We welcome proposals that consider Western,
Byzantine, and/or Islamic manuscript illumination from the early
through the late Middle Ages.

2016 Guest Speaker: Madeline H. Caviness (Mary Richardson Professor
Emeritus, Tufts University), “Medieval German Law and the Jews: The
Sachsenspiegel Picture-Books”

Submission: Please send (1) an abstract of no more than one page, and (2) a c.v.
with current contact information by Sunday, May 1, 2016 to both panel
organizers: Joseph Salvatore Ackley (ja2998@columbia.edu) and Shannon
L. Wearing (slwearing@gmail.com). Selected papers are to be twenty
minutes in length.

Please note that conference registration fees, and travel and
accommodation expenses, are the responsibility of the panelists and/or
their institutions.
For more information, click here.

Conference: 17th congress on the Dance of Death and macabre art

danse_macabre_-_guyot_marchand9_28abbot_and_bailiff29 Conference: 17e congrès sur l’étude des danses macabres et sur l’art macabre en
général, Troyes (Aube/ France), médiathèque du Grand Troyes, boulevard Gambetta,
May 25 – 28, 2016

Programme :

Mercredi 25 mai 2016

Accueil de 10h à 14h

14h-14h30
Véronique Saublet, Vice –Présidente du Grand Troyes
Accueil des participants

14h30-15h
Novella Lapini (Firenze)
La processione dei vivi e dei morti nella Roma antica : il funerale
della nobilitas

15h-15h30
Gérard Gros (Université de Picardie)
Misère humaine et dubitacio mortis : l’Épître de Gautier

15h30-16h
Marie-Dominique Leclerc (D.M.E. – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
Trois p’tits tours et puis s’en vont, La mort chez les marionnettes :
la Mort, sujet central de la pièce

16h-16h30
Pause

16h30-17h
Antonia Víñez Sánchez (Universidad de Cádiz)
Lo macabro en el Cancionero de Santa María de El Puerto de Alfonso X

17h-17h30
Danielle Quéruel (D.M.E. – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
Le “Mors de la pomme” : entre danse macabre et théâtre médiéval

17h30-18h
Michela Margani (Università di Macerata)
I dadi della Morte : metafore del gioco nella letteratura francese
medievale

18h
Visite de l’exposition d’ouvrages à thématique macabre des fonds de la
Médiathèque

Jeudi 26 mai 2016

9h-9h30
Laura Ramello, Alex Borio, Elisabetta Nicola (Università di Torino)
“Puet nul ocire la mort?” Croyances, mythes, symboles de la mort dans
les traités pseudo-scientifiques médiévaux

9h30-10h
Alina Zvonareva (Università di Padova)
Il Ballo della Morte : un remaniement toscan du XVe-XVIe siècle de la
Danse macabre de Paris

10h-10h30
Ilona Hans-Collas (D.M.E. – GRPM)
IUDICIUM TIME. Justice et avertissement à travers la Mort et son
miroir. À propos du Jugement dernier de Malines (1526)

10h30-11h
Pause

11h-11h30
Cécile Coutin (D.M.E. – BnF)
Un Memento Mori musical de Luigi Rossi (vers 1641-1645)

11h30-12h
Marie-Suzon Druais (Université de Rennes 2)
Les représentations de la personnification de la mort, l’Ankou, en
Basse-Bretagne, aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles

12h-12h30
Raffaele Cioffi (Università di Torino)
Il supplizio dell’impiccagione nell’omiletica anglosassone, fra radici
apocrife e reminiscenze poetiche

14h30-15h
Barbara Foresti (Bologna)
Il Giudizio Universale, l’Inferno e gli Evangelisti di Pietro Pancotto:
dall’ombra di un portico, alla luce di un’interpretazione

15h-15h30
Karin Ueltschi (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
Danses macabres, cortèges de morts et chasses sauvage : variations
mythiques et littéraires

15h30-16h
Omar Khalaf (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Université Paris 4)
“Memorare novissima” : Caxton’s editions of Earl Rivers’s Cordyal and
the meditation on death in late medieval England

16h-16h30
Pause

16h30-17h
Didier Jugan (D.M.E. – GRPM)
Joël Raskin (D.M.E.)
Le navire de l’Eglise face aux hérésies, aux péchés et à la mort
(XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

17h-17h30
Angelika Gross (Paris)
A propos d’un fragment de la fresque de la Danse macabre de 1440 à Bâle

18h
Concert à la chapelle Argence

Vendredi 27 mai 2016

9h-9h30
Monica Engel (Amsterdam)
Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt and his enigmatic drawing of the demolition of
Basel’s Dance of Death

9h30-10h
Giuliana Giai (Torino)
Chronique de l’an Mil : la bonne et la mauvaise mort dans les “exempla”
de Novalesa

10h-10h30
Cristina Bogdan (D.M.E. – Université de Bucarest)
L’Image du jugement individuel de l’âme. Le voyage par les Péages
aériens dans l’iconographie roumaine du XVIIIe siècle

10h30-11h
Pause

11h-11h30
Marco Piccat (D.M.E. – Università di Trieste)
Le Royaume de Sardaigne et la Danse macabre

11h30-12h
Elisa Martini (Università di Firenze)
Il Casentino dei morti dimenticati. Le novelle del Sire di Narbona e di
Messer Cione

12h-12h30
Caterina Angela Agus (Torino)
La “morte doppia” nella devozione popolare tra Savoia e Delfinato

14h30-15h
Silvia Marin Barutcieff (D.M.E. – Université de Bucarest)
“…Même quand je marche dans la sombre vallée de la mort, je ne redoute
aucun mal”. Les supplices et la mort du martyr dans l’iconographie
religieuse de Valachie au XIXe siècle

15h-15h30
Tony Seaton (University of Limerick)
Sophie Oosterwijk
(D.M.E. – University of St Andrews)
The British Dance of Death : A Memento Mori for Jane Austen’s era

15h30-16h
Alberto Milano (Civica Raccolta Bertarelli, Milano)
Reliures italiennes en xylographie avec motifs macabres

16h-16h30
Jean-Louis Haquette (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
Conclusion et clôture du colloque

17h
Visite de la Cité du vitrail

Samedi 28 mai 2016

8h30-19h
Excursion “A la recherche du macabre en Champagne méridionale”.
(Pont-Sainte-Marie, Les-Riceys, Chaource, Ervy-le-Châtel,
Neuvy-Sautour, Lirey)

For more information, click here.

Conference: The Illustrated Broadsheet in the 16th Century. Protestant profiling from examples of the Gothaer Sammlung.

an01216860_001_l Conference: Das illustrierte Flugblatt im 16. Jahrhundert. Protestantische
Profilbildung am Beispiel der Gothaer Sammlung, Orangenhaus in der Orangerie Gotha, Friedrichstraße 6-8, 99867 Gotha, April 4 – 6, 2016
Registration deadline: March 29, 2016
PROGRAMME

Monday, 4/4/2016

14:00 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Martin Eberle (Gotha): Begrüßung

14:10 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Christopher Spehr (Jena): Einführung in das Thema

14:20 Uhr
Bernd Schäfer (Gotha): Die Bestände der illustrierten Flugblattsammlung
in Gotha

I. Kontexte
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Martin Eberle (Gotha)

14:30 Uhr
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Bellingradt (Erlangen): Das illustrierte
Flugblatt im Kontext der Flugpublizistik des 16. Jahrhunderts

15:00 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Andrew Pettegree/Drew Thomas (St. Andrews): The Gotha
collection in the context of German production of single-sheet
broadsheets

15:30 Uhr Diskussion

Kaffeepause

16:15 Uhr
Dr. Kerstin te Heesen (Luxemburg): “Die Bücher der Laien” –
Überlegungen zum Flugblatt als Sammlungsobjekt

16:45 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Konrad Amann (Jena): Auf Spurensuche. Flugblätter,
Flugschriften und Graphiken in der Electoralis?

17:15 Uhr
Diskussion

Pause

18:15 Uhr
Öffentlicher Abendvortrag

Grußwort: Dr. Babette Winter, Staatssekretärin für Kultur und Europa
des Freistaats Thüringen
Grußwort: Prof. Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, Präsident der Universität
Erfurt
Grußwort: Prof. Dr. Walter Rosenthal, Präsident der
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal (Osnabrück): Die Ernestiner als Sachwalter
des „wahren“ Luthertums

20.00 Uhr
Empfang

Tuesday, 5/4/2016
II. Thematisierung
Moderation: Dr. Kathrin Paasch (Gotha/Erfurt)

9:00 Uhr
Prof. em. Dr. Christoph Burger (Amsterdam): Gottlose Christen, Juden
und Jüngster Tag auf zwei illustrierten Flugblättern des 16.
Jahrhunderts

9:30 Uhr
PD Dr. Susanne Wegmann (Halle-Wittenberg/Freiburg): ‘so gilt die Kunst
nit vil’. Die Klage der Künste auf den Flugblättern des 16. Jahrhunderts

10:00 Uhr Diskussion

Kaffeepause

10:45 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Christiane Andersson (Lewisburg, PA): Polemische
Einblattdrucke der Reformationszeit in Gotha und ihre Zensur

11:15 Uhr
Dr. Hans-Jörg Künast (Augsburg): Flugblätter ohne Impressum.
Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Druckerbestimmung von Einblattdrucken

11:45 Uhr
Diskussion

Mittagspause

13:30 Uhr
Bernd Schäfer (Gotha)/Ulrike Eydinger (Jena/Gotha): Führung durch die
Ausstellung Satiren, Nachrichten und Wunderzeichen. Fliegende Blätter
aus dem Jahrhundert der Reformation im Herzoglichen Museum

Moderation: Dr. Roland Lehmann (Jena)

15:00 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller (Mainz): Der Fürst als Sammelbild. Zur
Konzeption und Funktion druckgraphischer Fürstenbildnisse im Zeitalter
der Mediendiversität

15:30 Uhr
Dr. Martin Wernisch (Prag): Jan Hus. Der Reformator in deutsch- und
tschechischsprachigen Einblattdrucken

16:00 Uhr
Diskussion

Kaffeepause

16:45 Uhr
Matthias Rekow (Erfurt): Bekenntnis statt Glaubensstreit? Zur
Konfessionspolemik in den Einblattdrucken der Gothaer Sammlung

17:15 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Erik de Boer (Kampen, NL): Aktion und Reaktion im Medium des
Flugblattes. Ein unbekannter Druck von Jean Calvin?

17:45 Uhr
Diskussion

19:00 Uhr
Abendessen

Wednesday 6/4/2016

III. Profilierung
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Christopher Spehr (Jena)

9:00 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Dr. Johannes Schilling (Kiel): Das spezifisch Protestantische
der Gothaer Sammlung

9:30 Uhr
Prof. em. Dr. Michael Schilling (Magdeburg): Zwischen Einblattdruck und
Buch. Serielle Flugblätter in der Frühen Neuzeit

10:00 Uhr
Diskussion

Kaffeepause

10:45 Uhr
Armin Kunz (New York): Verkäufe der Gothaer Sammlung in den
Zwischenkriegsjahren

11:15 Uhr
Jeroen Luyckx (Leuven/Amsterdam): From Gotha to Amsterdam. The Dutch
and Flemish hand-coloured woodcuts formerly in the Schloss Friedenstein

11:45 Uhr
Ulrike Eydinger (Jena/Gotha): Die Gothaer Flugblätter als Quelle
sozialistischer Geschichtsdarstellung im Bauernkriegsdenkmal von Werner
Tübke

12:15 Uhr
Diskussion

12:40 Uhr
Schlussdiskussion

13:00 Uhr
Ende der Tagung

Organised by:
Projektgruppe Reformationsgeschichte
Prof. Dr. Martin Eberle, Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha
Dr. Kathrin Paasch, Universitäts- und Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha
Prof. Dr. Christopher Spehr, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jen

Lecture series: Visibility and presence of the Image in Ecclesiastical Space

Lecture series: Visibilité et présence de l’image dans l’espace ecclésial, INHA Paris, March 24 – June 16, 2016.

The analysis of medieval Church space requires wide-ranging consideration of mounmental and ritual context. Current research focuses on the reception of images, and on the visibility and legibility of images. Both in the Latin West and in Byzantium, consideration is given to the mise en scène of the sacred through the interaction of monument, rite, objects, decoration and perception. This lecture series features experts of both the Byzantine Orient and the Latin West, focusing on questions raised during an introductory session on 25 Septembre 2015. A large space will be left for discussion with the aim of obtaining a multi-disciplinary perspective on the medieval image.
Programme

Jeudi 24 Mars 2016, 14h30–17h30, Salle Vasari
Thème : Lumière et éclairage de l’espace cultuel : perception et
réception des images
– Lioba Theis (Universität Wien) The Orchestration of Enlightenment:
Light in Sacred Space – Nicolas Reveyron (université Lumière Lyon II)
Image et lumière : performance et polychronie
– Répondant: Andréas Nicolaïdès (université Aix-Marseille)

Jeudi 19 Mai 2016, 14h30–17h30, Salle Vasari
Thème : Images monumentales et jeux d’échelle : les dynamiques
spatiales du lieu de culte
– Isabelle Marchesin (INHA) La mise en réseau des hommes et des
artefacts dans l’église Saint-Michel d’Hildesheim
– Annemarie Weyl Carr (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) Across a
Crowded Room: Paths of Perception in Cyprus’ Painted Churches
– Répondant: Daniel Russo (université de Bourgogne)

Jeudi 16 Juin 2016, 14h30–17h30, Salle Jullian
Thème : Visibilité et lisibilité du dialogue entre images et
inscriptions dans l’espace cultuel
– Vincent Debiais (CNRS – CESCM Poitiers) Absence /silence des
inscriptions en contexte liturgique : quelques exemples hispaniques
– Catherine Jolivet-Lévy (EPHE) Inscriptions et images dans quelques
églises byzantines de Cappadoce : visibilité / lisibilité, interactions
et fonctions
– Répondant: François Bougard (IRHT) Conclusion du cycle : Sulamith
Brodbeck et Anne-Orange Poilpré (université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

Conference: Pilgrimage: Location and Imagination in Medieval England, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 16 April 2016

The Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust in association with Cambridge University announce the programme of their 2016 conference:

09.30am     Registration
10.00am     Welcome and Introduction
10.05am     Indulgences, Images and Pilgrimage, with Dr Jessica Berenbeim (Magdalen College, Oxford)

11.00am Coffee

11.25am Over The Edge: Medieval travel and the experience of elsewhere, with Miguel Ayres de Campos (Courtauld Institute of Art)

12.20pm Sandwich Lunch (for those who have pre-booked it)

1.10pm The Work of the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust, with The Rt Revd David Thomson, Trust Chairman
1.35pm The Digital Pilgrim Project at the British Museum, with Amy Jeffs (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), and Robert Kaleta (University College, London)

2.20pm Short Break

2.30pm Scholarly Peregrinations among the Parish Churches of Norfolk, with Bryan Ayres, Clare Haynes, Prof. Sandy Heslop, and Dr Helen Lunnon (University of East Anglia)

3.25pm Tea

3.50pm Crossing the Threshold: the layperson’s experience in the Parish Church Chancel with Dr James Cameron (Alumnus of the Courtauld Institute of Art)

4.45pm Closing Remarks

Directions to the Conference location can be found here.

A booking form can be found here.

Ticket prices are: £15 (CHCT members & guests); £20 (non-members) £10 (undergraduates). Sandwich lunches can be booked for £9.50.

Conference: Forms of the house, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between the Loire and the Meuse

440px-maison-bois-medievale-dreux-5 Conference: Formes de la maison, au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance entre Loire et Meuse, Amiens, Logis du Roy, May 26-27 2016.

This conference interrogates the “forms of the house” in a material and symbolic sense, with a multi-disciplinary perspective. The event will showcase recent discoveries in the domestic architecture of Northern France from the 12th to the 17th century.

Click here for the programme and more information.

Conference: Anglo-Saxons 2016 – Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials

Conference: Anglo-Saxons 2016 – Exchange: Cultures, Ideas, and Materials, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, June 9-10, 2016

Anglo-Saxons 2016 is a two-day conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh. It will bring postgraduate and early career researchers from eight countries and an equally large range of disciplines together to present their diverse research and approaches to the Anglo-Saxons.

The programme and more information are available at www.anglosaxons2016.net.

The programme includes a keynote lecture by Alan Thacker (IHR), who will talk on ‘Kings and Cults in Late Anglo-Saxon England’. Dr Thacker’s paper will focus on the making of saints and the promotion of existing cults from the reigns of Alfred and his children through to Cnut and Edward the Confessor. The lecture is open to all, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

The conference fee is £18 (£10 for students), which includes conference packs, coffee/tea breaks, a wine reception on 9 June and lunch on 10 June. There is also the opportunity to join our speakers for the conference dinner on the evening of 10 June. Visit the registration page here: http://edin.ac/1XchrZM.