Call for Papers: ‘Geographical Mobility and Cultural Itineraries during the Late Middle Ages’, Universitat de Girona, 20th-22nd April 2022 (Deadline 23 December 2021)

To explore and discuss these questions invited lectures, a round table with specialists from different disciplines, and paper sessions are planned.

Call for submissions: Reginald Taylor & Lord Fletcher Essay Prize, British Archaeological Association (Deadline 1 December 2021)

The British Archaeological Association invites submissions for the Reginald Taylor & Lord Fletcher Essay Prize, awarded biennially for the best unpublished essay submitted on aspects of the art, architecture or archaeology of Europe or the Mediterranean from the Roman era to the Middle Ages, or their study.

Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 20-22 June 2022 (Deadline 31st December 2021)

The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

Call for Papers: ‘Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1300-1500: Politics, Agency and Production of Historical Knowledge and Space’, Sessions at the Seventh Biennial Conference Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 11-15 July 2022 (Deadline 7 November 2021)

The panel sessions will focus on the period ca. 1300 to ca. 1500 which witnessed both the continuity of the contacts between the aforementioned worlds, as well as important changes, such as the Mamluk and the Ottoman expansion and the Renaissance movement, which caused interruptions and disruptions in cultural encounters in the eastern Mediterranean.

Call for Papers: ‘Rethinking Royal Manuscripts in a Global Middle Ages’, Association for Art History 2022 Conference, 6th-8th April 2022 (Deadline 1st November 2021)

This panel sets out to examine and compare the impact of royal patronage on the visual, material, and textual features of manuscripts produced across Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica and Europe during the ‘Global Middle Ages.’

Call for Papers: ‘Instruments of Devotion in Medieval Religious Practice’, Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale, for publication in 2023 (Deadline 1st December 2021)

The lens through which the relation between artworks and users will be explored concerns the concepts of interaction and dynamism referred to objects, spaces and modes of experience of Western Medieval art.

CFP: ‘Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceilings in context’, For Art History 2022 Annual Conference, Deadline 1 November 2021

This session will explore the legacy of Islamic art in Europe through its medieval ceilings, many of which are dispersed as architectural fragments in contemporary museums. It will focus on the case study of the Torrijos ceilings, four monumental wooden ceilings that were commissioned in the 1490s by a couple close to the Catholic Monarchs, for their palace in Torrijos near Toledo (Spain).

CFP: ‘The Medieval Diagram as Subject’, School of Advanced Study, London, deadline 15 October 2021

This conference will examine medieval diagrams as autonomous objects, and the visual and material features that allow them to function as independent entities.

CFP: ‘Rethinking Royal Manuscripts in a Global Middle Ages’, ICMA sponsored session at AAH conference London 2022, deadline 1 November 2021

This panel sets out to examine and compare the impact of royal patronage on the visual, material, and textual features of manuscripts produced across Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica and Europe during the ‘Global Middle Ages.’