The fifth Aberystwyth Medieval Conference will explore strategies for uniting and dividing medieval communities, how those writing about the past helped to construct – or to overcome – borders between communities, and how their visions of communal identities may have shaped, and may in turn have been shaped by, the construction of medieval polities.
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CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022
This conference, organized by IS-LE COST Action (CA18129) Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750), aims to bring together scholars who work on the perception of Islam in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The image of Islam in Europe was usually studied from a Christian-Western point of view, and withoutContinue reading “CFP: ‘Charting Image and Self Image of Islam in Europe’, Collège d’Espagne, Paris, Deadline: 10th March 2022”
CFP: Cuadernos de la Alhambra Issue 51, 2022, Deadline: 30th May 2022
For issue 51, which will be published in December 2022, interested researchers are invited to send their proposals through the journal’s page: https://cuadernosdelaalhambra.alhambra-patronato.es/index.php/cdalhambra Deadline: May 30, 2022 Cuadernos de la Alhambra is a scientific journal in the field of heritage research and diffusion; it was founded in 1965 and is free to access and freeContinue reading “CFP: Cuadernos de la Alhambra Issue 51, 2022, Deadline: 30th May 2022”
CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich fromContinue reading “CFP: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, University of Zurich, Deadline: 15th April 2022”
CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022
Despite military and pandemic crises, ivory carvings as luxury goods experienced a boom in the 13th and especially 14th centuries. This apparent contradiction raises questions about the value and significance of these objects in elite society. A large number of preserved utilitarian items such as boxes, combs, and mirror cases feature profane depictions of courtshipContinue reading “CFP: Gothic Ivories between Luxury and Crisis, University of Bern, 27th-28th October 2022, Deadline 3rd June 2022”
CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022
Paris, Jun 9–10, 2022Deadline: Mar 1, 2022 International Symposium:“Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches” In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon both in contracts between painters and patrons,Continue reading “CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022”
CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022
Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges II, University of Milan, October 10–12, 2022 This workshop continues the project inaugurated in 2017 in Lisbon (link), aiming at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late Antique and early Medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions toContinue reading “CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022”
CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022
The Mapping Eastern Europe website is a platform intended to promote study, teaching, and research about Eastern Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries through historical and thematic overviews, case studies and videos of monuments and objects, ongoing projects, as well as reviews of books and exhibitions. This year, we are expanding our content withContinue reading “CFP: ‘Mapping Eastern Europe’, deadline 15 February 2022”
CFP: Fenestella. Inside Medieval Art, Thematic Issue 3/2022: ‘Configuring Monastic Architectural Settings: Early Medieval Experiments’, deadline: 30 June 2022
Fenestella is a scholarly, multilingual, and peer-reviewed open access journal. Fenestella publishes scholarly papers on medieval art and architecture, between Late Antiquity and c. 1400, covering the Latin West, the Byzantine East and medieval Islam. We are now accepting proposals for the 2022 Thematic Issue: CONFIGURING MONASTIC ARCHITECTURAL SETTINGS: EARLY MEDIEVAL EXPERIMENTS The planimetric andContinue reading “CFP: Fenestella. Inside Medieval Art, Thematic Issue 3/2022: ‘Configuring Monastic Architectural Settings: Early Medieval Experiments’, deadline: 30 June 2022”
CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022
Organised by: Medieval Colors Network. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (CAPIRE Research Group), Freie Universität Berlin, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Università di Bologna, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Helsingin Yliopisto. In recent years, the research of the chromatic reality of the Middle Ages has received increasing attention from specialists in different academic disciplines. Fortunately, the vision of aContinue reading “CFP: ‘The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages’, 2-4 March 2022, Madrid, deadline: 1 February 2022”
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