The figure of a knight on horseback is the emblem of medieval chivalry. Much has been written on the ideology and practicalities of knighthood as portrayed in medieval romance, especially Arthurian romance, and it is surprising that so little attention was hitherto granted to the knight’s closest companion, the horse. This study examines the horseContinue reading “New Publication: Practical Horsemanship in Medieval Arthurian Romance, by Anastasija Ropa”
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New Publication: The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c.1300-1540, by Michael Carter
2019, c. 328 pages ISBN: 978-2-503-58193-4 Retail price: EUR 100,00 excl. tax A major reappraisal of the art and architecture of the Cistercians in the late Middle Ages. The Cistercian abbeys of northern England provide some of the finest monastic remains in all of Europe, and much has been written on their twelfth- and thirteenth-centuryContinue reading “New Publication: The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c.1300-1540, by Michael Carter”
New Publication: Illuminated Charters: Essays from Diplomatic, Art History and Digital Humanities, edited by Gabriele Bartz und Markus Gneiß
2018, Ca. 520 S. 116 s/w- und 75 farb. Abb. 23.5 x 15.5 cm Preis: ca. € 70.00 [D] | ca. € 70.00 [A] 978-3-412-51108-1 Illuminierte Urkunden sind lange Zeit als Stiefkinder der Forschung behandelt worden. Nicht zuletzt durch den Einsatz digitaler Hilfsmittel sind sie im vergangenen Jahrzehnt zunehmend in das Licht der Öffentlichkeit getreten. Das neuContinue reading “New Publication: Illuminated Charters: Essays from Diplomatic, Art History and Digital Humanities, edited by Gabriele Bartz und Markus Gneiß”
Seminar and Book Launch: Speaking Sculptures, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art (Vernon Square), Wednesday 23 January 2019, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
Many statues and works of sculpture made in the late Gothic and Renaissance period are represented with mouth open, as if caught in a mid-utterance. These ‘speaking sculptures’ have received remarkably little comment from art historians. What are these speaking statues meant to be saying? And what, as viewers, are we meant to ‘hear’ andContinue reading “Seminar and Book Launch: Speaking Sculptures, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art (Vernon Square), Wednesday 23 January 2019, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm”
New Publication: San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, by Marcello Mignozzi
A new book on the theme of Angevin Art in Southern Italy has just been published. In San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, Marcello Mignozzi reconstructs the history of the rupestrian church of Saint Michael in Monte Laureto in Putignano (Apulia), Italy, investigatingContinue reading “New Publication: San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, by Marcello Mignozzi”
New Publication: Manuscripts in the Making Art and Science, vol. 1, edited by Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi
ISBN 978-1-909400-10-8 More Info: http://bit.ly/2ywI3Si This ground-breaking publication presents the papers delivered at the international Conference held in Cambridge in December 2016 to mark the end of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s acclaimed bicentenary exhibition “Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts”. It is the first of two volumes in which medievalists and scientists share the results ofContinue reading “New Publication: Manuscripts in the Making Art and Science, vol. 1, edited by Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi”
Books roundup: New Books by Brepols Publishers on Medieval Architecture
Decorated Revisited English Architectural Style in Context, 1250-1400 Edited by John Munns ISBN 978-2-503-55434-1 Thirty-Five years after the publication of Jean Bony’s seminal work on the so-called Decorated style of English architecture (The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed, 1979), this volume brings together a selection of groundbreaking essays by the most promising emerging scholarsContinue reading “Books roundup: New Books by Brepols Publishers on Medieval Architecture”
Book round-up: A History of the Gutenberg Bible, by Eric Marshall White
The Gutenberg Bible is widely recognized as Europe’s first printed book, a book that forever changed the world. However, despite its initial impact, fame was fleeting: for the better part of three centuries the Bible was virtually forgotten; only after two centuries of tenacious and contentious scholarship did it attain its iconic status as aContinue reading “Book round-up: A History of the Gutenberg Bible, by Eric Marshall White”
New Publication: St. Albans and the Markyate Psalter: Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England, Edited by Kristen Collins and Matthew Fisher
This volume explores the manuscript’s many contexts, reading its texts and images amidst the rising internationalism of the period, marked by the circulation of objects, ideas, and peoples. Some of the leading scholars of twelfth-century manuscript studies here explore the Markyate Psalter, understanding it through new methodologies, pursuing innovative lines of inquiry.
New Book Series: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
This series is dedicated to the study of monstrosity and alterity in the medieval and early modern world, and to the investigation of cultural constructions of otherness, abnormality and difference from a wide range of perspectives. Submissions are welcome from scholars working within established disciplines, including—but not limited to—philosophy, critical theory, cultural history, history ofContinue reading “New Book Series: Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity”
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