The Courtauld
2023-2024 Medieval Lecture and Seminar Series
Vernon Square Campus, The Courtauld
The Medieval and Renaissance cluster brings together students and researchers interested in art and architecture made between c. 300 and 1500. Although our activities primarily focus on art from Europe (including Byzantium) and the Mediterranean basin, we are committed to expanding the geographic horizons of scholarship in our period, with current projects on art in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caucasus, as well as the interaction between religions and cultures across the medieval world. We seek to share interests and stimulate connections — whether expected or unexpected, whether relating to materials or methods. Our members include faculty, MA students and doctoral students, interested researchers from other UK and overseas institutions, including universities, museums, libraries and heritage sector.
The Medieval Lecture and Seminar series is kindly supported by Sam Fogg.
25 October 2023: Tom Nickson (The Courtauld): Towers, Travel, and Architectural Habits
15 November 2023: Niamh Bhalla (Northeastern University): Birth, Death and Protective Imagery in a Rock-hewn Church from Tenth-Century Cappadocia
6 December 2023: Assaf Pinkus (Tel Aviv University): Experiencing the Gigantic in Late Medieval Art: Schloss Runkelstein
17 January 2024: Katrin Kogman-Appel (Muenster University): Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300
7 February 2024: ICMA lecture: Nina Rowe (Fordham): Dancing in the Streets (and the Courts and the Choirs) of Fifteenth-Century Austria
6 March 2024: Elena Paulino Montero (UNED, Madrid): Architecture in Fourteenth-Century Castile (TBC)
1 May 2024: Margaret Crosland (Washington University & St Louis Art Museum): (TBC)
15 May 2024: Paul Crossley Memorial Lecture: Merlijn Hurx (KU Leuven): Keldermans on Horseback. Five Star Architects in the Medieval Low Countries