reliquaries – Medieval Art Research

CFP: ‘Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory’, deadline 18 March 2024

Call for papers are invited for the upcoming workshop in Rome on ‘Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory’.

Conference: ‘Reliquary busts between Italy and Europe (XII-XVIth centuries’, 22-24 Sep 2023

This conference follows the exhibition ‘Gold and Silver Portraits exhibition. Medieval reliquaries in Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Switzerland and Savoy’.

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.