This session invites papers that pursue these kinds of questions as they pertain to the diverse building cultures of the Middle Ages, West and East, between c.300 to c.1500. Highly encouraged are contributions that investigate the stimuli for citation, the media that make it possible, and the agents that make it productive.
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CFP: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
Call for Papers: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organizers: Andrew Sears, University of California, Berkeley; Laura Tillery, University of Pennsylvania As Christopher Berry has shown in The Idea of Luxury, the concept of luxury is determined by countless factors: it is situatedContinue reading “CFP: The Idea of Luxury and the Role of the Object, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
CFP: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
Call for Papers: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organizers: Amy Gillette (Temple University) and Kaelin Jewell (Temple University) Sponsored by the Italian Art Society Historians of medieval architecture have productively used digital technologies to reimagine lost monuments or furnishings, reveal aspects of correspondence in pictorialContinue reading “CFP: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
CFP: Global Byzantium: 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (University of Birmingham, 25–27 March 2017)
Call for Communications: Global Byzantium: 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies University of Birmingham 25-27 March 2017 For its 50th anniversary, the Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies returns to the University of Birmingham, where it began in 1967. On this anniversary of the discipline we ask what theContinue reading “CFP: Global Byzantium: 50th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (University of Birmingham, 25–27 March 2017)”
CFP: Image & Meaning in Medieval Manuscripts: Sessions in Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens (Two Sessions, International Congress on Medieval Studies)
Call for Papers: Image & Meaning in Medieval Manuscripts: Sessions in Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens Session I: Text-Image Dynamics in Medieval Manuscripts Session II: Signs of Patronage in Medieval Manuscripts International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organized by Judith Golden and Jessica Savage, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University Session I: Text-ImageContinue reading “CFP: Image & Meaning in Medieval Manuscripts: Sessions in Honor of Adelaide Bennett Hagens (Two Sessions, International Congress on Medieval Studies)”
CFP: Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
Call for Papers: Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean: “Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean I: Books” and “Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean II: Readers” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organized by Núria Silleras-Fernandez (Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder) andContinue reading “CFP: Networks of Books and Readers in the Medieval Mediterranean, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
CFP: Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Western Mediterranean (NYC, 14 October 2016)
Call for Papers: Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Western Mediterranean A Symposium at Bard Graduate Center, New York City, 14 October 2016 Supported by the Trehan Fund for Islamic Art and Material Culture co-sponsored by the Spain-North Africa Project In the twelfth century, new powers emerged throughout the Western Mediterranean, from the Almohads of NorthContinue reading “CFP: Art and Ideology in the Twelfth-Century Western Mediterranean (NYC, 14 October 2016)”
CFP: The Virgin as Bridge: Cultural Exchange and Connection through Images of the Virgin Mary, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017
CFP: The Virgin as Bridge: Cultural Exchange and Connection through Images of the Virgin Mary International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017 Organizers: Diliana Angelova (University of California, Berkeley) and Amanda Luyster (College of the Holy Cross) Across the medieval Mediterranean and beyond, people of many faiths and backgrounds sought the succor of the miraculousContinue reading “CFP: The Virgin as Bridge: Cultural Exchange and Connection through Images of the Virgin Mary, ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017”
CFP: Monumental Failures (Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies)
Call for Papers: Monumental Failures International Congress on Medieval Studies May 11-14, 2017 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan International Center for Medieval Art, Student Committee In 1284, part of the choir of Beauvais cathedral dramatically collapsed during construction. This event would go on to alter the plan of one of the most ambitious building projects of theContinue reading “CFP: Monumental Failures (Session, International Congress on Medieval Studies)”
CFP: Ritual, Performance, and the Senses (AVISTA Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, March 23-24, 2017)
Call for Papers: Ritual, Performance, and the Senses AVISTA Medieval Graduate Student Symposium University of North Texas March 23-24, 2017 Deadline: 1 February 2017 The proliferation of images painted onto monumental structures, the illuminations of manuscripts, the intricacies of ivory carvings and the construction of architectural sculpture in the Medieval Period evince a highly visual culture.Continue reading “CFP: Ritual, Performance, and the Senses (AVISTA Medieval Graduate Student Symposium, March 23-24, 2017)”
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