Online Lecture: Imagining Jerusalem in late Medieval Nuremberg – Adam Kraft & Albrecht Durer, Dr Dilshat Harman, April 1st 2022, 12:00-13:30 CT

“Imagining Jerusalem in Late Medieval Nuremberg: Adam Kraft and Albrecht Durer”Dr. Dilshat Harman, Center for Visual Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow Friday, April 1st, 2022 | 12:00–1:30 PM CT | via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96410986654 The lecture will deal with Jerusalem in late medieval imagination, focusing onContinue reading “Online Lecture: Imagining Jerusalem in late Medieval Nuremberg – Adam Kraft & Albrecht Durer, Dr Dilshat Harman, April 1st 2022, 12:00-13:30 CT”

Online Lecture: ‘Relocating the Holy Places: Jerusalem in Early Medieval Europe’, with Professor Julia Smith, 24 June 2021, 17:30 (BST)

Discover how small portable objects enabled biblical sites to be relocated in Early Medieval Europe. Historian Julia Smith of the University of Oxford will discuss the various uses mobile objects were put to, as well as the significance attributed to them.

New Publication: Christian Maps of the Holy Land: Images and Meanings, by Pnina Arad

This book offers a way of reading maps of the Holy Land as visual imagery with religious connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape and analyses their strategies to manifest the spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory.

New Exhibition: Visions of Jerusalem: Medieval Christendom Imagines the City on a Hill @Les Enluminures, New York, September 16-November 12, 2016

Les Enluminures is pleased to present Visions of Jerusalem: Medieval Christendom Imagines the City on a Hill. The exhibition explores the representation of the Holy City in the images and imaginations of the Latin West and the rich diversity of its representation in both word and picture. It is conceived to coincide with the majorContinue reading “New Exhibition: Visions of Jerusalem: Medieval Christendom Imagines the City on a Hill @Les Enluminures, New York, September 16-November 12, 2016”

CFP: The Politics of Visual Translations of Jerusalem (University of York, 20-21 March 2015)

Call for Papers: The Politics of Visual Translations of Jerusalem University of York, 20-21 March 2015 Deadline: 10 October 2014 An international conference hosted by the Department of History of Art and the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York. Organised by Laura Slater and Hanna Vorholt. Access to and sovereignty over the holy places ofContinue reading “CFP: The Politics of Visual Translations of Jerusalem (University of York, 20-21 March 2015)”