22-23 May 2015 Trinity College Dublin Synge Theatre, Arts Building Cost: €25.00 (€15.00 concessions and/or one-day attendance; TCD staff and students free). Please register by contacting Laura Cleaver (cleaverl@tcd.ie). 22nd May 2015 From 13.00: registration 13.30 welcome and introduction to the History Books in the Anglo-Norman World Project (Laura Cleaver) 14.00-15.30 session 1: Anne Lawrence-MathersContinue reading “Conference: History Books in the Anglo-Norman World (Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015)”
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Reading, Scholarship and the Art of the Book at Reading Abbey (Reading University, 17 April 2015)
Reading University, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Room G10 17 April 2015, from 10am Cost: £15 (including coffee, lunch, tea and wine); £10 for students and unwaged. Please register by contacting GCMS@reading.ac.uk. Programme 10.00 registration and welcome 10.15-11.15 – Session 1: Lindy Grant (Reading); ‘Reading Abbey in a cultural and intellectual, international context’. Tessa WebberContinue reading “Reading, Scholarship and the Art of the Book at Reading Abbey (Reading University, 17 April 2015)”
Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Courtauld Institute, 11 March
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Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2-6.30, Weds 11 March 2015. Attendance is free, but spaces are limited so you must register Four papers offer new ideas on a group of well-known sculptures and manuscripts from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Spain, exploring tensions between local and international…
Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe (Hamburg, 31 October – 1 November 2014)
Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg 31 October -1 November 2014 Outline Scripts and writing systems are more than neutral transmitters of the words that are encoded by them. When words that were previously spoken and transmitted orally are writtenContinue reading “Workshop: The Iconicity of Script in Manuscripts from Asia, Africa, America and Europe (Hamburg, 31 October – 1 November 2014)”
Lecture Series: The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England (London, October – November 2014)
Lecture Series: 2014 Panuzzi Lectures at The British Library The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England London, The British Library, October – November 2014 A series of three lectures by Christopher de Hamel, Donnelley Fellow Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The great Latin Bibles, in huge multiple volumes, are by far the largest and most spectacularContinue reading “Lecture Series: The Giant Bibles of Twelfth-Century England (London, October – November 2014)”
Study Days: “Merveilleux, marges et marginalité dans la littérature et l’enluminure profanes en France et dans les régions septentrionales (XIIe-XVe siècles)” (Lille, October 2014 ; Rennes, November 2014)
Study Days: Merveilleux, marges et marginalité dans la littérature et l’enluminure profanes en France et dans les régions septentrionales (XIIe-XVe siècles) Lille, Université de Lille 3, 16 October 2014 Rennes, Université de Rennes, 27 November 2014 La représentation du merveilleux est peu étudiée car les travaux portant sur ce sujet émanent principalement de chercheurs en littérature. Pourtant, celui-ciContinue reading “Study Days: “Merveilleux, marges et marginalité dans la littérature et l’enluminure profanes en France et dans les régions septentrionales (XIIe-XVe siècles)” (Lille, October 2014 ; Rennes, November 2014)”
Conference: Clothing Sacred Scripture (Zurich, 9-11 October 2014)
International Conference: Clothing Sacred Scripture: Book Art and Book Religions in the Middle Ages 9-11 October 2014 Universitaet Zuerich, Raemistrasse 71, KOL-G-217 In a traditional perspective, book religions are seen as agents of logocentrism, establishing a sharp dichotomy between scripture and aesthetics, religion and art. The conference aims to broaden this perspective by a comparative and transcultural approachContinue reading “Conference: Clothing Sacred Scripture (Zurich, 9-11 October 2014)”
New Publication: Royal Manuscripts Conference Papers Now Online (Electronic British Library Journal 2014)
New Publication: Royal Manuscripts Conference Papers Now Online Electronic British Library Journal 2014 (articles 4–10) The British Library is pleased to announce that selected papers from the two-day international conference associated with the ‘Royal Manuscripts’ exhibition (11 November 2011 – 13 March 2012) are now available on the Electronic British Library Journal 2014 (articles 4–10). Royal Manuscripts: TheContinue reading “New Publication: Royal Manuscripts Conference Papers Now Online (Electronic British Library Journal 2014)”
CFP: Imagery in Medieval Herbals (Kalamazoo 2015)
Call for Papers Imagery in Medieval Herbals International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 Medieval herbals have attracted interesting investigations in the last decades, but are a still scarcely analyzed topic. However, investigations focused on printed herbals produced at the end of the 15th century and onwards (The interesting herbals catalogue by Minta Collins,Continue reading “CFP: Imagery in Medieval Herbals (Kalamazoo 2015)”
CFP: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books (Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015)
Call for Papers: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015 Deadline: 12 September 2014 Amongst the key sources for medieval history are the manuscripts in which medieval writers recorded their views of the past. These documents provide historians with more information than simply their textual content. The layout, decoration, script andContinue reading “CFP: Conference on Anglo-Norman History Books (Trinity College Dublin, 22-23 May 2015)”
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