Conference: England and France before 1500, The 2023 Harlaxton Medieval Symposiumin honour of Dr Jenny Stratford, Harlaxton Manor (England), 14-17 August 2023

Conference

England and France before 1500

The 2023 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium
in honour of Dr Jenny Stratford

Harlaxton Manor, Lincolnshire, England

Monday 14 August – Thursday 17 August 2023

We are delighted to announce that this year’s symposium will be held in honour of Dr Jenny Stratford. The theme will be ‘England and France before 1500’, and the symposium will be held Monday 14 August to Thursday 17 August 2023. Further details, including the programme and booking form, are available here.

Dates and deadlines

The 2023 symposium will be held from Monday 14th to Thursday 17th August at Harlaxton Manor and will be convened by Caroline M. Barron and M. A. Michael. The deadline for residential bookings is Sunday 16th July and for non-residential bookings is Sunday 30th July.

PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to post your booking form, please do so by Monday 17th July for second class post and Monday 24th for first class post to ensure that it is received on time.

For more information, go to https://harlaxton.org.uk/, or contact harlaxtonsymposium@gmail.com

Programme

MONDAY 14TH AUGUST

12.00 Registration opens

12.00 – 1.30 Lunch
1.45 Welcome

2.15 – 3.45 Session 1

Sandy Heslop: A Gift from Charles the Bald and the Formation of the Winchester School of Illumination

Amy Livingstone: Grandmothers and Granddaughters in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Realm

3.45 – 4.15 Tea / coffee

4.15 – 6.15 Session 2

David Green: The ‘communities’ of the Plantagenet Empire

Michael Jones: The adventures of a recently re-discovered Breton heraldic tabard

Martha Carlin: How to Shop, Haggle, Work, and Curse in French: Vignettes of Daily Life in the Manières de langage (1396, 1399, and 1415)

6.30 – 7.30 Dinner

7.45 Poster presentations and drinks reception

TUESDAY 15TH AUGUST

7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast

8.45 – 10.15 Session 3

Ann Hedeman: Representing King Richard II in early Fifteenth-century France

Nicholas Rogers: An Image of Henry VI as King of France

10.15 – 10.30 Tea / coffee

10.30 – 12.00 Session 4

Catherine Reynolds: The limits of the archaeology of the book: dating the Bedford Hours

Lucy Freeman Sandler: Speaking Lines: Speech Scrolls in the Bedford Hours

12.30 – 7.30 Visit to the gardens and collections of Winwick Manor, the birthplace of Sir Thomas Malory (packed lunch and on-site dinner provided)

8.30 – Bar open

WEDNESDAY 16TH AUGUST

7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast

9.00 – 10.30 Session 5

Alison Stones: Some French Gothic Manuscripts Made for English Patrons

Scot McKendrick: Psalter of Louis, Duke of Guyenne/Dauphin later of Henry VI (BL, Cotton MS Domitian A.XVII)

10.30 – 11.00 Tea / coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Session 6

Anne Curry: Preparing for Regency: John, duke of Bedford, Henry V and the war in France
Ann Adams: Paris and London: two memorials to Anne of Burgundy, Duchess of Bedford (1404–1432)

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

2.00 – 3.15 Session 7: The Pamela Tudor-Craig Memorial Lecture

Nigel Morgan and Lynda Dennison: The Queen Mary Psalter: Iconography, Style, Dating and Patronage

3.15 – 4.15 Tea / coffee

4.15 – 5.45 Session 8

Christopher Wilson: Rien de plus joli et de plus surprenant: The tomb of Pope John XXII in Avignon Cathedral

Jeremy Ashbee: Richard II and Portchester Castle 6.45 Reception and book launch

7.30 Conference dinner and poster prize presentation (black tie optional)

8.30 Bar open

THURSDAY 17TH AUGUST

7.30 – 8.30 Breakfast

8.30 – 9.15 Check out of rooms

9.15 – 10.45 Session 9

David Rundle: The library of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and his reading habits

James Clark: French Humanism and Reform in Fifteenth-century England

10.45 –11.00 Tea / coffee

11.00 – 12.30 Session 10

Marc Smith: English knights mangled by French hearsay: Edward IV's army of 1475 in Jean de Haynin and Jean Molinet

Nick Vincent: Generational Disjunction at the English and French Royal Courts, 1066-1485

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch and depart

This programme is provisional and may be subject to change.

Conference: HUGO VAN DER GOES: INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, Berlin, 14-15 July 2023

Conference

HUGO VAN DER GOES: INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

14-15 July 2023

Vortragssaal (Auditorium), Kunstgewerbemuseum, Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz 10785 Berlin

Hugo van der Goes, Monforte Altarpiece, detail, c. 1470/75 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Dietmar Gunne

Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482/83) was one of the most important European painters of the early modern period. His monumental, emotionally expressive, yet also intimate depictions are among the highlights of their respective collections. Yet unlike most other great artists of his era, no monographic exhibition has ever been dedicated to this Flemish master. The Berlin Gemäldegalerie has now brought together the majority of his surviving works for the first time. To mark the end of the special exhibition “Hugo van der Goes. Between Pain and Bliss” (31 March – 16 July 2023), the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museumsverein are organizing an international scholarly colloquium on 14 and 15 July 2023.

Organized by the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein

Tickets & registration in advance can be done here.

Ticket for both days: 25 €

The colloquium will be held in English.

More information about the event is available here.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMM

FRIDAY, 14 JULY 2023

10:30 – 11:00 Registration and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Dagmar Hirschfelder, Welcome

Stephan Kemperdick, Introduction to the exhibition Hugo van der Goes. Between Pain and Bliss

11:30 – 13:00

Jan Dumolyn, Did Hugo van der Goes Come from Holland? Sources and Arguments

Leen Bervoets, Patronage of Hugo van der Goes in Perspective: Exceptional or Congruent?

Erik Eising, Hugo van Der Goes: New Suggestions on His Artistic Sources, Based on the Vienna Diptych

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Bernhard Ridderbos, The Dating of the Portinari Altarpiece

Noël Geirnaert, The Death of the Virgin by Hugo van Der Goes: Who Commissioned It and What Was Its Function?

Lorne Campbell, The Trinity Panels and the Ghent Altarpiece

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00

Catherine Reynolds, The Trinity, the Virgin, St Ninian and All Saints: Evidence for Reconstructing the Centre Panel of van der Goes’s Trinity Altarpiece

Sven Van Dorst & Niels Schalley, Scanning The Descent from the Cross, a Tüchlein Masterpiece from the Collection of The Phoebus Foundation. New Scientific Insights on Hugo van der Goes’ Distemper Painting Technique

Griet Steyaert, The Restoration of the Death of the Virgin by Hugo van der Goes, Retrieved Traces of Original Elements and the Reconstruction of the Losses

18:15 – 19:30 Exclusive visit to the exhibition Hugo van der Goes. Between Pain and Bliss

SATURDAY, 15 JULY 2023

10:00 – 10:30 Registration and Coffee

10:30 – 12:00

Stephan Kemperdick, The Monforte Altarpiece, Its Possible Patron and the Habsburgs

Melis Avkiran, „maior in persona, et ethiops niger“: Encountering the Black King in Hugo van der Goes’ Monforte Altarpiece

Suzanne Laemers, In the Privacy of Friedländer’s Pocketbook

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 14:30

Johanna Bork, Curtain, Requisite and Audience. Hugo van der Goes’ Adoration of the Shepherds and further Stage Metaphors

Elliot Adam & Sophie Caron, Reconsidering the Reception of Hugo van Der Goes in France: Jean and Pierre Changenet

Till-Holger Borchert, Simon Marmion and Hugo van der Goes – Any Connection?

Exhibition Closing: Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss, STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ, Closes 16 July 2023

Hugo van der Goes: Between Pain and Bliss

31.03.2023 to 16.07.2023
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Hugo van der Goes, Monforte Altarpiece, detail, c. 1470/75 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Dietmar Gunne

Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482/83) was the most important Netherlandish artist of the second half of the 15th century. His works impress with their monumentality and intense colours as well as with their astonishing closeness to life and emotional expressivity. 540 years after the artist’s death, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie will celebrate a premiere: for the first time, almost all of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings will be presented in one exhibition.

Although Hugo van der Goes must be mentioned in the same breath as pioneering masters such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, no monographic exhibition has ever been dedicated to his oeuvre. This is likely due to both the rarity of his works and their often large format. Two of his monumental paintings, the Monforte Altarpiece (c. 1470/75) and Nativity (c. 1480), are in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. For this reason, the collection lends itself to a special exhibition like no other. Both Berlin panels have been painstakingly restored in the past twelve years and show themselves in a freshness previously unimagined. Van der Goes’ late masterpiece, the Death of the Virgin from the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, which has never left Flanders before, has also been extensively restored recently and will form a highlight of the Berlin show.

Prototype of the “Mad Genius”?

Hugo van der Goes’ biography fascinates today to the same degree as his paintings. The artist, who worked as an independent master in Ghent from 1467 onwards, abandoned his successful worldly career in the mid-1470s for unknown reasons and entered a monastery near Brussels as a lay brother. It was there that most of his preserved works were created. After a few years in the monastery, however, Hugo was suddenly struck by a mysterious mental illness, which a fellow brother later reported: the painter believed himself to be damned and tried to take his own life. In the late 19th century, van der Goes was therefore regarded as the prototype of the “mad genius”, with whom even Vincent van Gogh identified.

Hugos Œuvre Almost in Its Entirety

With around 60 outstanding exhibits, including loans from 38 international collections, the Berlin exhibition will bring the art of Hugo van der Goes to life in a way that has never been seen before. The focus will be on twelve of the fourteen paintings now attributed to van der Goes as well as the two drawings considered to be by his own hand. In addition, compositions by the master that were once well known but lost in the original will be presented through contemporary painted and drawn copies. Lastly, the exhibition will also focus on the painter’s immediate followers with a selection of outstanding works clearly influenced by Hugo van der Goes’ style, such as the spectacular Triptych of Saint Hippolytus from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the famous Nativity by French painter Jean Hey from the Musée Rolin in Autun.

In the Gemäldegalerie, the œuvre of one of the most important European artists at the turn of the early modern period is brought together almost in its entirety for the first time. Van der Goes knew how to portray the emotions of his figures with the greatest empathy – both heavenly bliss and earthly pain. These contradictory states were apparently also closely intertwined in his own life. Thus the late-medieval painter still appears surprisingly modern today.

Curators

The exhibition Hugo van der Goes. Between Pain and Bliss is curated by Stephan Kemperdick, curator of Early Netherlandish and Early German Painting at the Gemäldegalerie, and Erik Eising, assistant curator at the Gemäldegalerie.


The exhibition is supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as well as the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein. Media partners are: Der Tagesspiegel, Klassik Radio, tipBerlin, and WELTKUNST.

For more information, https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/hugo-van-der-goes/

New Working Group Seeking Members: 'Medieval Wall Paintings' Group

New Working Group

'Medieval Wall Painting' Group

14th-century Wall Painting at Longthorpe Tower, Peterborough, https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-areas/wall-painting-conservation/

Two PhD students, Florence Eccleston (Courtauld Institute of Art) and Katharine Waldron (University of Oxford and Hamilton Kerr Institute), are setting up a working group entitled the 'Medieval Wall Painting' Group to facilitate discussion, networking, and learning about wall paintings, and to promote their research. They hope to be able to bring together both conservation and art historical approaches to encourage cross-disciplinary conversation and understanding.

They are in the midst of organising future events on a biannual/ triannual basis with dates to follow soon, including a yearly workshop following on from Florence’s workshop ‘Researching Medieval Wall Paintings’ held at The Courtauld Institute of Art in May. 

Please let them know if you would like to be on the mailing list, and do also let others who might be interested know about this working group. In the meantime, please let them know if you have any ideas for future events or would like to be involved in planning in any way. They would love your help! 



Call for Applications: Sponsorship of Panels at the 2024 Meeting of the AAS, Early Medieval China Group, Inc., Due by 25 July 2023

Call for Applications

Early Medieval China Group, Inc.

Sponsorship of Panels at the 2024 Meeting of the AAS

Due By 25 July 2023

The Early Medieval China Group (EMCG) is happy to announce that it will sponsor up to two panels on topics related to the study of early medieval China that are to be proposed to the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conterence, either for the virtual conterence on March 1, 2024, or for the in-person conference in Seattle on March 14-17, 2024.

The subventions of up to $1,200 for the virtual panel and up to $1,700 for the in-person panel are intended to defray some of the costs of presenting research at the AAS Annual Meeting, including travel and registration expenses. Funding is contingent on the panel's acceptance for presentation at AAS. Funding levels are determined during the review process.

Proposed panels may extend beyond early medieval China (ca. 2nd-6th c. CE) to include the Han and/or Tang dynasties. All participants in the panel should be or become members of the Early Medieval China Group. Membership also includes a subscription to our annual journal Early Medieval China. If you would like to become a member, please go to our website at https://www.earlymedievalchinagroup.org/ and follow the link to the membership page.

Scholars and graduate students at any stage of their careers are eligible. Members of the board of the Early Medieval China Group are eligible to participate in applications for panel sponsorships but are recused from the selection process and not eligible for subventions.

Your application should include the following information: title of your panel; names of all panelists; panel abstract and individual abstracts; brief CVs (1-2 pp.) of participants; statement

describing what funding support the applicants expect to receive from other sources, including from their institutions: name and mailing address of the panelist who will receive and distribute the funds. Please send your application as a single PDF file to antie.richter@colorado.edu by July 25, 2023. Submissions will be reviewed by the Group's board. We will notify successful applicants by July 31, 2023.

For more information on the Early Medieval China Group, https://www.earlymedievalchinagroup.org/

Rare Book School Lecture: Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares as Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne, Joshua O'Driscoll, New York City, 19 July 2023

Rare Book School Lecture

Nuns at Work: The Poor Clares as Makers of Books in Gothic Cologne

Joshua O'Driscoll, Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, The Morgan Library and Museum

19 July 2023, 6:30 PM

The Grolier Club, New York City

Free, Open to the Public

A newly emerged fragment from an otherwise lost deluxe choir book serves as the point of departure for this talk, which examines the manuscripts of the Poor Clares of Cologne. Between approximately 1320 and 1360, these nuns—who were by no means poor—operated a prolific workshop that produced sumptuous illuminated books primarily for local monastic use but also for wealthy civic patrons. Inscriptions and marginal portraits in several of the surviving manuscripts indicate that the Poor Clares were active not only as scribes but also as painters. Women like Petronilla von Scherve, Gertrude van dem Vorst, and Loppa vom Spiegel documented their activities as both patrons and producers of manuscripts, which in turn formed part of a larger practice of memorialization and devotion. Scholars have even suggested that the nuns used a system of crypto-signatures (small red discs with distinctive patterns of white lines and dots) to distinguish one painter’s work from another. If true, these signatures may have served a logistical role in the production process, as the manuscripts were often illuminated collaboratively. Because of their well-documented historical context, along with the potentially innovative use of artistic crypto-signatures, the manuscripts produced by the Poor Clares of Cologne vividly testify to the central role of female patronage and production in the history of medieval art—particularly that of the early fourteenth century, a period characterized by rapid urbanization and immense social upheavals.

For more information, https://rarebookschool.org/all-programs/lectures/nuns-at-work/

Call for Papers: Representing Medieval Pasts: Publication, Pedagogy, and Other Paths Forward, IMC LEEDS PANEL (1-4 July 2024), Due By 28 August 2023

Call for Papers in IMC LEEDS PANEL

Representing Medieval Pasts: Publication, Pedagogy, and Other Paths Forward

IMC Leeds - July 1-4, 2024

Due By Monday, August 28th, 2023

This panel will present in concrete, replicable terms the emergent forms and methods participants have used to study, teach, and represent the medieval past, as a first step towards developing conceptual and institutional frameworks that might promote and authorize medieval studies research in the future.

Over the last decades digital media has transformed what published research looks like, as academic forms like podcasts, blogs, and digital tools have become well-established among researchers and wider publics. At the same time, developments in education research have challenged inherited notions about the efficacy of some pedagogical methods in both the short and long term. Finally, in the last year, it has become clear that AI technologies like ChatGPT have made the traditional essay virtually unworkable as a means of student assessment, especially when issues of accessibility are taken into account.

These circumstances leave us with urgent questions: what are the alternative media that we should train our students to use as undergraduates, which will then prepare them for the media of research dissemination and pedagogy in the future? What lessons have our experiments offered, and what will we try next?

Papers/presentations may focus on:

• New/alternative pedagogical strategies / methodologies / student assessments and evaluations

• Innovative ways of expressing learning / research

• Public outreach / wider readership / accessibility

Please send paper/presentation proposals (250 words max) along with a short personal biography that includes your name, pronouns, area of study, institutional affiliation (if any), and contact information to Ghislaine Comeau (ghislaine.comeau@concordia.ca) and Stephen Yeager (stephen.yeager@concordia.ca) by Monday, August 28th, 2023.

Alternative methods and forms of presentation are encouraged. This panel will be in person.

An image of the CFP is available.

Call for Papers for Edited Volume: Human and Non-Human Relations and Imaginaries in the Middle Ages, Edited by Polina Ignatova and Emelie Fälton, Abstracts & Bios Due By 1 September 2023

Call for Papers

Human and Non-Human Relations and Imaginaries in the Middle Ages

Edited by Polina Ignatova and Emelie Fälton

Due By 1 September 2023

As climate change and biodiversity loss become two major environmental concerns of the twenty-first century, it is high time we address medieval perceptions of the natural environment and how they can inform our own relationships with the world we are occupying and inevitably changing. This first volume of the Environmental History series titled Human and Nonhuman Relations and Imaginaries in the Middle Ages seeks to explore the many ways in which humans perceived, studied, imagined, interacted with, used, and transformed their natural environment in the medieval period. We invite chapter contributions addressing (but not limited to) suggested topics:

• Various aspects of human-animal relationships, wild and domesticated animals, fishing and hunting, pets, working animals, vermin and parasites, animals as food, veterinary, medieval taxonomies, animalistic humans and humanised animals, ‘wild men’, animal trials.

• Human-made environments and the constructions of ‘wilderness’, anthropogenic ecosystems, agriculture and farming, pastures, water and land management, forest clearings, waterways, canals, wetlands, urban ecologies, waste management, food production.

• Inorganic environment, inorganic resources, mining, metallurgy, and other manufactures.

• Various aspects of predicting and controlling disasters, weather and climate, forecasting, storms, flood management and coastal defence, earthquakes and volcano eruptions, human-caused pollution, anomalies, disease.

• Various aspects of the construct of ‘nature’, nature as a sign, beauty and aesthetics, fantastic animals, nature in art and literature.


SUBMISSIONS AND DEADLINES

We welcome proposals from PGRs and ECRs. Please send your abstract of approximately 300 words along with a short bio to Polina Ignatova (polina.ignatova@liu.se) and Emelie Fälton (emelie.falton@liu.se) by 1 September 2023.


PUBLICATION

The volume will be published in the Environmental History series of the imprint Trivent Medieval.

Download the Call for Papers in PDF format HERE.

Call for Applications: SAHGB MA Scholarship: The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) Scholarship 2023/24, Due 5 July 2023

Call for Applications

SAHGB MA Scholarship

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain (SAHGB) Scholarship 2023/24

Due 5 July 2023

The Master's Bursary scheme, supported by the generous bequest of the Arnold Hayward Stevenson Educational Trust Fund, is now open for applications.

There are significant, often structural, barriers to postgraduate study, in particular in disciplines like architectural history. We are working to diversify our discipline and those who practise it. As part of the Society’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we very strongly encourage underrepresented communities to imagine their futures in architectural history and to apply for this bursary. Recognising that partial support often excludes those from non-traditional backgrounds for postgraduate study in the humanities, we are offering a £20,000 bursary to one candidate. 

Our intention is that this bursary will be transformational for the successful candidate, opening up the possibility of further study and career development in architectural history in higher education, heritage practice and/or museums and collections.

Further Particulars:

  • The bursary is for a sum of £20,000, to include fees and maintenance (1 year full-time or 2 years’ part-time study)

  • Candidates, who have already been accepted to a post-graduate taught or 1 year post-graduate research Master's in Architectural History or related disciplines which will commence in Autumn 2023 are eligible to apply.

  • Candidates should be intending to study a course at a U.K. university.

  • The Society will not support candidates on MArch courses

  • Funds will be issued to the candidate directly, not via their university

  • Funds will be paid in two instalments over the academic year, subject to successful progress through the course

  • The recipient of the award will work closely with our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Early Career Research networks, and take part in organising the SAHGB’s PhD / ECR Symposium.

  • All applications are welcome, though priority will be given to applicants who have SAHGB membership, as well as demonstrating eligibility through their responses to the areas we ask about.

  • The recipient will receive a year’s free membership of the SAHGB

  • Eligible candidates may self-nominate for this Scholarship by filling in the fields at the base of this page. Please complete all fields at the same time - we recommend that you plan your application offline and paste into the text boxes before making a submission.

  • Please send evidence of your place offer as directed, to arrive by the deadline below.

We are grateful to the trustees of the Arnold Stevenson estate for the generous bequest which has made this award possible.

The deadline for applications, including receipt of a copy of the offer letter to complete an entry, will be 5th July 2023. Please note the word count guidelines on each section of the online form.

For more information and to apply, https://www.sahgb.org.uk/funding/sahgb-ma-scholarship.

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE/Study Day: “L’INVENTION D’ORIGINES GRECQUES DANS LES CULTURES TEXTUELLES ET VISUELLES DE L’EUROPE PRÉ-MODERNE (1100-1600)”/TROISIÈME JOURNÉE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE, 30 JUIN/JUNE 2023

JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE/ Study Day

“L’INVENTION D’ORIGINES GRECQUES DANS LES CULTURES TEXTUELLES ET VISUELLES DE L’EUROPE PRÉ-MODERNE (1100-1600)”/TROISIÈME JOURNÉE

Vendredi, 30 juin 2023

Université de Lille, Campus Pont-de-Bois : Maison de la Recherche

Organisée par/Organised By Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas

PROGRAMME

-10h30 Accueil/Welcome

-10h40 Introduction, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA)

-10h50-11h15 Elena Koroleva (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), « Les héros grecs à l’origine de l’humanité : Prométhée et Deucalion (re)peuplant la terre »

-11h15-11h40 Iolanda Ventura (Université de Bologne), « L’‛histoire de la pharmacologie et ses origines gréco-arabes dans les préfaces des imprimés du XVIe siècle »

-11h40-12h05 Discussion

Conférence plénière:

-13h45-14h25  Lorena Lopes da Costa (Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro, chercheuse invitée en résidence ERC AGRELITA), « Chanter un Ulysse portugais : l’héroïsme maritime pour présenter le nouveau monde »

-14h25-14h40 Discussion
-14h40-14h55 Pause

-14h55-15h20 Soizic Escurignan (Université de Poitiers), « Les origines grecques de l’Espagne dans la Estoria de España, un étrange paradoxe »

-15h20-15h45 Clarisse Evrard (Université de Lille, ERC AGRELITA), « La Grèce aux origines de la figure de l’artiste »

-15h45-16h15 Discussion et clôture/closure

A PDF of the program is available, and more information is available here.

Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts, Kate Fulcher, Weston Library, Oxford, 26 June 2023

Lecture

Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts

Kate Fulcher, Heritage Scientist at the Bodleian Libraries

Monday 26 June 2023, 1-2 PM

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

MS Laud Gr. 30a: The prophet Jonah and hand of God

Free event, booking required.

This lecture is an introduction to the analysis of painted Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts by the Bodleian Libraries' new Heritage Scientist.

The post of Heritage Scientist at the Bodleian Libraries was re-instated at the beginning of 2023, enabling the analysis of manuscripts in the library’s collection. The focus so far has been on Byzantine manuscripts from the 10th to 13th centuries, and Japanese scrolls from the 17th century which contain painted pictures.

Contact: kate.fulcher@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

For mor information, https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun23/analysis-of-pigments-on-painted-manuscripts

Call for Applications: 2023-24 ACLS Fellowship, Grant, and Book Competitions, Various Deadlines from 1 September 2023 to May 2024

Call for Applications

2023-24 ACLS Fellowship, Grant, and Book Competitions

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the 2023-24 ACLS fellowship and grant competitions are now open for select programs. ACLS offers programs that promote research across the full spectrum of humanities and interpretive social science fields. 

Our application, peer review, and award processes aim to advance inclusive excellence, and we welcome applicants from groups that are underrepresented in the academic humanities and from across the diverse landscape of higher education.

More information is available here.

For all questions, please contact fellowships@acls.org.

Application deadlines vary by program. ACLS is now accepting applications for fellowship and grant programs with September and October deadlines.

July, 5, 2023 - September 1, 2023

September 28, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

  • ACLS Fellowships (for untenured scholars who earned the PhD within eight years of the application deadline)

October 25, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

November 2, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT

November 16, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

November 30, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

December 15, 2023, 9:00 PM EST

January 18, 2024, 9:00 PM EST

March 2024 TBD

May 2024 TBD

Call for Papers: British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Conference (29-30 November 2023), Due By 31 July 2023

Call for Papers

British Archaeological Association Post-Graduate Conference

Due By 31 July 2023

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Bodl. 264, f. 21v

The BAA invites proposals by postgraduates and early career researchers in the field of medieval history of art, architecture, and archaeology. Papers can be on any aspect of the medieval period, from antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, across all geographical regions.

Proposals of around 250 words for a 20-minute paper, along with a CV, should be sent by 31st July 2023 to postgradconf@thebaa.org

The conference will take place online 29-30th November 2023.

Festivals of War and Peace: The Evolution of Jousts and Tournaments, Tobias Capwell, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 25 June 2023 11 AM PDT/2 PM EST (Zoom)

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Festivals of War and Peace: The Evolution of Jousts and Tournaments

Tobias Capwell

Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 11 am PDT (2 PM EST)

Free | Advance sign-up required | Zoom with Live Stream At Lecture Hall

A Tournament Contest (detail), about 1560–1570, Unknown maker. Tempera colors and gold and silver paint. Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 14 (83.MR.184), fol. 35v

The Age of Chivalry in Europe (c. 1100–1600) was a time of almost constant warfare, but also of fabulous celebrations and courtly festivals. In tournaments, the grandest of all spectacles, the most powerful noblemen of the time displayed their personal fighting and riding skills whilst clad in the richest armor ever created. Exploring the Getty manuscript known as the "Augsburg Tournament Armor Album," historian Tobias Capwell discusses its text and images as a gateway into the extraordinary history of these fascinating events.

Following the program, on-site attendees can experience the demonstration Artist-at-Work: Medieval Sword Play at the Getty Center from 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Tobias Capwell, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA), is a historian, author and curator. He is a leading expert on medieval and Renaissance arms and armor and also a founding member of the modern competitive jousting community. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Arms and Armor of the Renaissance Joust (2021) and the three-volume Armour of the English Knight (2015, 2021, 2022).

This event is held via Zoom, but will also be live-streamed in the Getty Center's Museum Lecture Hall for those who will be on-site that day. Seating is first come, first served.

For more information on the Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages exhibition and the lecture, https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/play/index.html

Exhibition Closing: Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Until 6 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

Play and Pastimes in the Middle Ages

May 16–August 6, 2023

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Initial C: Gillion’s Sons Kneeling before the King of Cyprus (detail), from Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies, 1464, Lieven van Lathem. Tempera colors, gold, and ink, on parchment. Getty Museum, Ms. 111 (2013.46), fol. 105

Discover the lighter side of life in the Middle Ages through the surprising and engaging world of medieval games and leisure. The exhibition features dynamic images of play and explores the role of entertainment in the Middle Ages. Manuscript images capture the complex contests and pastimes that medieval people enjoyed, ranging from a light-hearted game of chess to the dangerous sport of jousting. Then as now, play was thoroughly woven into the fabric of society at every level.

Family-friendly activities in the gallery abound in this exhibition.

For more information, https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/play/index.html

Exhibition Closing: The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550, The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, Until 6 August 2023

Exhibition Closing

The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO

Mar 10–Aug 6, 2023

Installation view of The Nature of Things: Medieval Arts and Ecology, 1100-1550 at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, March 10-August 6, 2023. Photography by Alise O’Brien Photography, © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

What does it take to make a work of art? What are its environmental impacts? How does the natural world shape artistic practices? And what did this mean in the Middle Ages?

With nearly fifty sculptures, textiles, and books made between 1100 and 1550 CE, The Nature of Things highlights the links between artmaking and the environment in the later medieval era. Featuring a range of materials including wood, stone, cloth, and metal, this exhibition considers the vast array of natural resources needed to produce the artworks that decorated churches and households across Europe during the Middle Ages. The Nature of Things prompts us to recognize how the industries that artists relied on—forestry, quarrying, mining, and farming—temporarily and permanently affected landscapes throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Decorative and functional, sacred and secular, these artworks also shed light on medieval people’s nuanced engagements with the natural world. Some represent responses to moments of scarcity, abundance, or ecological change. Others demonstrate the rich inspiration that artists and patrons drew from plants and animals. Still others reveal attitudes of care and reverence. The Nature of Things is the first museum exhibition to examine medieval objects through this lens, offering new ways of thinking about the relationships between people, art, and environments.

For more information, https://pulitzerarts.org/art/medieval-art-and-ecology/

The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography, Anthony Hamber, The Courtauld, 6 July 2023 17:30-18:30 BST

The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography

Anthony Hamber

Thursday 6th July, 17:30 - 18:30 BST

Vernon Square Campus, The Courtauld, London

The Conway Library contains contains almost one million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts.  It has been constructed over a period of almost a century, though some of the photographs held are considerably older. This paper provides a focused evaluation of the historiography of the library’s origins, and how and why it was built upon Conway’s original donation.  A wide spectrum of issues and considerations are examined ; the scale and scope of the market for, and availability of, architectural photographs from the time of Conway’s undergraduate career; Conway’s philosophy and approach; channels of distribution and acquisition; the physical constraints of the solander boxes and the range of photographic formats available; of colour photography; of image classification systems; and photographic print processes. There are also cultural and anti-semitic dimensions linked to the Warburg Institute and the role of pre-WW2 German emigrees to London. Cross-references between photographers and their photographs represented in the Conway help link this matrix together and provide further insights into the library’s significance and influence.

Anthony Hamber is an independent photographic historian, specialising in the 19th century.  He was the photographer and head of visual resources at the History of Art Department, Birkbeck College.  His PhD was published as A Higher Branch of the Art / Photographing the Fine Arts in England 1839-1880 (1996) and most his recent book is Photography and the 1851 Great Exhibition (2018). He has published and lectured widely. His current research projects include an annotated bibliography of photographically illustrated publications 1839-1880. Anthony researches the historiography of art and architecture photographic collections, photographic print processes, and colour reprographics process.

Organised by Dr Tom Nickson (The Courtauld) 

To book tickets, https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/the-conway-library-historiography-colour-and-bibliography/

This is an in-person, free event at our Vernon Square campus. Booking is essential and will close 30 minutes before the event begins.

Society of Church Archaeology Conference 2023: The Church in North West Britain and its Connections, Liverpool, 16-17 September 2023

Society of Church Archaeology Conference 2023

The Church in North West Britain and its Connections

16-17 September 2023

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, UK

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

The Society for Church Archaeology is pleased to announce its annual conference for 2023, on the theme of 'The Church in North West Britain and its Connections’. Covering the north-western seaboard of England, Scotland, and Wales, this region has a long and complex history of church and ecclesiastical sites which do not always or easily mirror the changes and continuities noted in other, arguably more well-researched and well-excavated areas, of Britain and Ireland. Reflecting centuries of cultural exchange around the Irish Sea, not least with western Ireland, the North West has its own rich heritage, combining influences from the south-west of Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia. From its earliest medieval origins to its most recent church heritage, this conference aims to include the widest range of periods and places, connections or isolations, from this complex and vibrant region.

Our keynote will be presented by Professor Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool) with a wine reception sponsored by LCMRS on Saturday 16th September at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (please note the date and venue change).

Our fieldtrip will be a coach trip to Norton Priory on Sunday 17th September. Price includes entry fee, a seat on the coach, and catered lunch.

Professor Mytum, who has led excavations at the priory for several seasons, will also give a private guided tour of the site and Professor Jill Rudd (English, University of Liverpool) will host an optional special interactive reading and discussion on the Old English poem The Ruin in the priory grounds.

For enquiries about the conference and bookings: scaconference2023@outlook.com

To register for the conference, click here and see the conference website (link below).

For more information, www.churcharchaeology.org/current-conference


Programme

Saturday 16th September 2023: SCA Annual Conference and AGM

The Gibberd Room, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (UK)

9:30-10:00 AM - Registration

10:00-10:15 AM - Welcome

10:15-10:30 AM - Ken Murphy (Dyfed Archaeology), “St Patrick's Chapel at St David’s, Wales”

10:30-10:45 AM - Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (University of Liverpool) and Tom Livingstone (Chester Cathedral), “The Repurposing of Werburgh's Remains and Shrine, Chester Cathedral”

10:45-11:00 AM - Kevin Cootes (Liverpool John Moores University), “The Archaeology of Grief. Deviations in Burial Practice in a Later Medieval Graveyard in Poulton, Cheshire.”

11:00-11:15 AM - 15 min Q&A with Speakers

11:15 AM-12:00 PM - Refreshments Break

12:00-12:15 PM - Stephen Henders (Independent Researcher), “Hagioscopes and their significance for medieval worship, with reference to examples in NW England”

12:15-12:30 PM - Joanne Machin (UHI Archaeology Institute, Orkney), “Medieval maritime pilgrimage - myth or maxim? Building the evidence”

12:30-12:45 PM - Ian Faulds (University of Huddersfield), “Ancient parish church in the Isle of Man (Kirk Maughold): A forgotten pilgrimage centre”

12:45-1:00 PM - 15 min Q&A with the speakers

1:00-2:00 PM - LUNCH

2:00-2:45 PM - AGM

2:45-3:00 PM - Rachel Newman (Oxford Archaeology), “The Monastic site of Dacre”

3:00-3:15 PM - Emily Bowyer-Kazadi (University of Liverpool), “Deconstructed Landscape Photography: A Framework for Engaging with Church Archaeology in NW Britain”

3:15-4:00 PM - Morn Capper (University of Chester) and Rachel Abbiss (Churches Conservation Trust), “St Mary’s, Shrewsbury: Preserving an Historic Assemblage in the 21st Century”

4:00-4:30 PM - 15 min Q&A with the speakers (plus closing remarks)

4:30 PM - Conference ends

5:30-6:45 PM - Wine Reception and Keynote: Professor Harold Mytum (The Gibberd Room)

7:00 PM - Conference Dinner

Sunday 17th September 2023: Norton Priory Fieldtrip

9:45 AM - Meet at coach pick-up point for 10:00am departure

11:00 AM-4:00 PM - Tour of the Priory Grounds and excavations by Prof. Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool); the Old English elegy ‘The Ruin’ by Prof. Jill Rudd (University of Liverpool); free time at Priory and Museum.

4:00 PM - Depart Norton Priory, ETA in Liverpool 4:45pm.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Graduate Student Museum Study Day: Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (31 October 2023), Applications Due 17 July 2023

Call For APplications

Graduate Student Museum Study Day

Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade

October 13, 2023, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC

Applications due: July 17, 2023

In conjunction with the ongoing interdepartmental project “Passage Between Worlds: Exchanges Along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages,” the 2023 Dumbarton Oaks Museum Graduate Study Day Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade will consider Indian cotton textiles found in Egypt, India, and Indonesia and emblematic of a vibrant maritime trade network found east of the Mediterranean Sea in the late antique and medieval periods.

The workshop will be co-taught by Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks), Anna Kelley (University of St. Andrews), Sumru Belger Krody (The George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum), and Arielle Winnik (Yale University), who will discuss the trade, manufacture, and use of textiles across the Indian Ocean in the premodern periods.

In the morning, these scholars will present their current research, with a particular focus on recent exhibitions featuring Indian textiles. After lunch, participants will spend the afternoon studying textiles from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in object storage and the Cotsen Textiles Collection at the Textile Museum.

Funding 

Dumbarton Oaks will reserve participants’ accommodation in its on-site Guest House for one night (October 12) and will arrange for Friday lunch in the Refectory. Participants should book their own travel to Washington, to be reimbursed up to $600 upon submission of receipts. 

Applications 

Currently enrolled graduate students in good standing are eligible to apply. Dumbarton Oaks does not sponsor J1 visas for Study Day attendees. We encourage applicants from graduate programs in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collections and from training in material culture approaches.

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter with a brief summary of the candidate’s research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of why attendance is important to the candidate’s intellectual and professional development. All materials should be submitted as one pdf to museum@doaks.org. Applications are due July 17, 2023.

For more information, https://www.doaks.org/events/other-events/museum-study-day

Call for Papers: Visualising Crisis in Late Middle Ages, Panel Session at Leeds IMC 2024 “Crisis”, Abstracts Due 31 August 2023

Call for Papers

Visualising Crisis in Late Middle Ages

Panel Session at Leeds IMC 2024 “Crisis”

Abstracts Due 31 August 2023

Slowly but surely, the last centuries of Medieval Europe on the verge to turn to Modernity, bang to build up a lot of dilemmas and moral interrogations: numbers of heresies and peculiar religious questions indicate how intricate cultural identities were during the Middle Ages. One of the many ways to document and explore those discrepancies and the modalities of maybe mending them, is the study of visual images, mental ones and pictures.

The session invites papers dealing with multiple societal / moral / religious / economic crisis in late medieval Europe resulting in the new approaches in visual media - such as new or idiosyncratic iconography (crisis of images), emotional aspects of visual objects, naturalism etc. Papers should address not only the ways the visual media reflected, responded to and represented the period crisis, but also the rituals and rites that helped to pacify it and battle the period anxiety. Papers using the variety of methodologies are welcome, in particular those addressing the period relation between the society and images via the optics of media studies, visual anthropology, visual semiology and information and communication sciences, theories of reception, or addressing the particular aspects of the late medieval visuality.

The possible topic may (but not have to) include:

  • moral and religious crisis and its visual perceptions

  • visualizing late medieval heresy and witchery and how to "deal with it" with images or pictures

  • crisis of images - new images in mind

  • moral theology and art (seven deadly sins, works of mercy, Sunday Christ etc.)

  • visualizing the pastoral didactics

  • visual objects and prayers against the illness / heresy

  • magical visual obiects

  • visual media and sin / death / devil

  • new ways: visual information and communication (dogmatic images, pastoral education)

Studying relationships and collective dynamics within mediation processes with visual objects and artefacts give us a better understanding of cultural representations of the idea of "crisis" during this particular time. We can analyse social and individual identities, but also how images are used to perform and mediate meaning and sym-bol, that can also change through use. This panel will therefore look at the agency and the multimodality of new sets of thinking the crisis through, with, and in reflection to Late Medieval images.

Paper proposals should be sent to Marianne Cailloux (marianne.cailloux@univ-lille.fr) and Daniela Rywiková (daniela.rywikova@osu.cz).

Paper proposals (20 minutes) should include paper title, max 150 word abstract, speakers' affiliation and contact information.

The deadline for paper proposals is 31 August 2023.