To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 2022 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 4–7, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
Continue reading “Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at International Medieval Congress 2022”CFP: The Virgin and the City: Urban Marian Spaces in Late Medieval Europe (Kalamazoo 2022, deadline 1 September 2021)
How was the Mother of God accommodated and exhibited in civic space?
Continue reading “CFP: The Virgin and the City: Urban Marian Spaces in Late Medieval Europe (Kalamazoo 2022, deadline 1 September 2021)”CFP: The Multimedia Craft of Wonder: Forming and Performing Marvels in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 1200-1600 (University of Cambridge, deadline 1 August 2021)
This conference, funded by the interdisciplinary Cambridge centre CRASSH and the Faculty of English, will explore the relationship between wonder, translation, and multimodality in medieval and early modern worlds.
Continue reading “CFP: The Multimedia Craft of Wonder: Forming and Performing Marvels in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, 1200-1600 (University of Cambridge, deadline 1 August 2021)”CFP: “L’Architettura normanna e il Mediterraneo. Dinamiche dell’interazione culturale” (Humboldt University, Berlin, due 31 July 2021)
The expansion of the Normans in medieval Europe and beyond is proving to be a wide and very rewarding field for research into the complex phenomenon of transcultural exchange processes.
Continue reading “CFP: “L’Architettura normanna e il Mediterraneo. Dinamiche dell’interazione culturale” (Humboldt University, Berlin, due 31 July 2021)”New Publication: Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening Before Dante by Matthew G. Shoaf
Hearing is a far-reaching concern, to judge by printed and online efforts to improve it in business, law, medicine, higher education, and other areas. American democracy itself has been jeopardized by failures to listen, some have recently argued. Centuries ago, when anxieties ran high about people not hearing what they were ‘supposed’ to hear, remedies took unexpected forms.
Continue reading “New Publication: Monumental Sounds: Art and Listening Before Dante by Matthew G. Shoaf”Job Opportunity: Lecturer in 16th- and 17th-century literature, University of East Anglia
The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia is looking for a full-time Lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.
Continue reading “Job Opportunity: Lecturer in 16th- and 17th-century literature, University of East Anglia”Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Book History Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021-2022, Medici Archive Project, deadline 15 August 2021
The Medici Archive Project invites applications for an eleven-month fellowship (September 2021-July 2022) entirely devoted to research on fifteen- and sixteenth-century book history, with specific focus on Florence. Part of the fellowship tenure will be devoted to the creation of a catalog of incunabula and cinquecentine housed in a private collection, many of which will be featured in an upcoming international exhibition. The ideal candidate should have a PhD or equivalent in early modern Italian history; substantial research experience with original documentary material from Florentine archives and libraries; an ability to work with early modern printed texts; and fluency in English and Italian (a knowledge of other languages is desirable).
The stipend is $45,000 plus a small allowance for travel expenses. This fellowship is offered to scholars of any nationality.
To apply please send the following application materials to education@medici.org, with the heading MEDICI ARCHIVE PROJECT BOOK FELLOWSHIP:
– A full curriculum vitae.
– A concise discussion (3 pages maximum) of the applicant’s ongoing interest in archival research.
– A concise summary (3 pages maximum) of the applicant’s research and publication relevant to Renaissance book history.
– The names and addresses of two senior scholars who can comment on the applicant’s qualifications.
The application deadline is 15 August 2021.
The successful candidate will be informed shortly thereafter.
For further information, contact: assonitis@medici.org
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Exhibition: The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met now open
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared classical taste.
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A series of five films celebrating the Bodleian Libraries’ Persian arts of the book conference (13-14 July). ‘Persian Arts of the Book’ gathers scholars from around the world with expert curators from Oxford and beyond to reflect on the Persian manuscript tradition.
The whole collection can be found here.
The History and Highlights of the Persian Collections
Hidden Treasures of the Persian Collections
Making Manuscripts for a Prince of the Black Sheep
The Painted Page and its Colours
Conserving Akbar’s Luxury Manuscript of the Baharistan
New Publication: The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman
Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same.
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