From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Virtual Conversations on History, Art, and Cultural Heritage, register for updates!

Please mark your calendars for events in the lecture series:
From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Virtual Conversations on History, Art, and Cultural Heritage,
an initiative sponsored by the ICMA and others

Below we share an updated announcement of the online lecture series From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: Virtual Conversations on History, Art, and Cultural Heritage. This series is co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks, North of Byzantium, and Connected Central European Worlds, 1500-1700, and is supported by the ICMA, among other organizations and institutions.

Details about the series will be regularly updated on the organizers’ websites. The recording of the inaugural lecture is already available here. 

We encourage you to join the email list here to receive updates. 

The ICMA is proud to be listed among these organizations and institutions in sponsoring and endorsing From Kyivan Rus’ to Modern Ukraine: 
Dumbarton Oaks | Princeton University | Boise State University | Tufts University | Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent | Society of Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA) | College Art Association (CAA) | Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA) | British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) | Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art (HGSCEA) | International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) | Renaissance Society of America (RSA) 

We express our admiration and support for the organizers of this initiative:

Alice Isabella Sullivan
Tufts University | North of Byzantium

Maria Alessia Rossi
Princeton University | North of Byzantium

Suzanna Ivanič
University of Kent | Connected Central European Worlds

Tomasz Grusiecki
Boise State University | Connected Central European Worlds

Nikos D. Kontogiannis
Dumbarton Oaks

Anatole Tchikine
Dumbarton Oaks

 

Fragmented Illuminations Symposium at the V&A (online, 7-8 July)

Fragmented Illuminations Symposium at the V&A (online, 7-8 July)

As a follow-up to the display Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (now extended to 26 June), a symposium will take place online on 7-8 July (pm).
The Fragmented Illuminations Symposium will explore the same themes as the exhibition, and seek to make sense of these detached leaves, cut-out initials and other ornamented snippets.

On Day 1, we will examine the practice of collecting pieces and leaves cut from illuminated manuscripts, with a particular focus on the 19th century.
On Day 2, we will investigate the original context of some of these cuttings, the books they came from and the artists involved.
Joining will be free, but attendees will need to register online prior to the event. Registration will open in a few weeks.
For details and the full programme, see HERE.
For any questions, contact Catherine Yvard: c.yvard@vam.ac.uk

Manuscript cuttings from a Sistine Chapel Missal completed for Pope Clement VII, ca. 1523-1534 (illuminated), 19th century (collage), 19th century (framing), Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Register today for "Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture" on 1 June 2022 at 12:00pm ET

Medieval Make Believe: The Middle Ages in Popular Culture
1 June 2022 at 12:00pm ET

Register HERE

LEFT: Saint George and the Dragon, Book of Hours, c. 1450. Master of Guillebert de Mets, (Flemish, active about 1410-1450). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 2 (84.ML.67), fol. 18v. RIGHT: “Sleeping Beauty gallery” from “Inspiring Walt Disney, The Animation of French Decorative Arts” exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 10, 2021--March 6, 2022.

Please join the Friends of the ICMA for the fourth in a series of special online events on Wednesday, June 1st at 12:00 p.m. ET (9:00 a.m. PT; 5:00 p.m. BST; and 6:00 p.m. CET) with the following panelists, in alphabetical order:

Wolf Burchard, Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and curator/author of the recent exhibition and catalogue, “Inspiring Walt Disney, The Animation of French Decorative Arts” (December 10, 2021—March 6, 2022). The exhibition is now on view at the Wallace Collection, London until October 16th.

Larisa Grollemond, Assistant Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and co-curator/co-author, with Bryan C. Keene of the upcoming exhibition and catalogue, “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages; An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds.” (J. Paul Getty Museum) (June 21—September 11, 2022).

Bryan C. Keene, Assistant Professor of Riverside City College, co-curator and co-author  with Larisa Grollemond, of “The Fantasy of the Middle Ages.” (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2022)

The panel will be introduced and moderated by Matthew M. Reeve, Associate Professor of Art History at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON and author of Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole (Penn State, 2020)

Please feel free to notify colleagues and friends who may not be ICMA members, about this event.

Register HERE

For questions, please contact Doralynn Pines, Chair of the Friends of the ICMA, doralynn.pines@gmail.com. 

ICMA Sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress; July 4–7; register now!

ICMA Sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress

July 4–7

Call for papers, program, and registration: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk

Metaimages, I: Threshold Effects and Micro-Architectures

July 4, 2022 | 2:15 PM BST

Organizers: Giulia Puma (Université Côte d’Azur/Collège Sévigné) and Maria Alessia Rossi (Index of
Medieval Art, Princeton University)

Moderator: Giulia Puma (Université Côte d’Azur/Collège Sévigné)

Speakers:
Alison Locke Perchuk (California State University Channel Islands)

“Micro-Architecture in 12th-Century Roman Painting: History, Typology, and Function”

Livia Lupi (University of Warwick)

“Performative Structures: Meta-Architecture in Italian Painting”

Anita Paolicchi (Università di Pisa) “Micro-Architectures and Micro-Landscapes in the Post-Byzantine World: Function, Meaning, and Symbolic Implications”

Metaimages, II: Beyond the Frame of the Enshrined Icon

July 4, 2022 | 4:30 PM BST

Organizers: Giulia Puma (Université Côte d’Azur/Collège Sévigné) and Maria Alessia Rossi (Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)

Moderator: Livia Lupi (University of Warwick)

Speakers:
Simone Piazza (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) “Another Place, Another Time: The Imago clipeata as Meta-Image in Byzantine Art”

Hans Bloemsma (University College Roosevelt, Universiteit Utrecht)

“Meta-Paintings in Italy and Byzantium Compared”

Giulia Puma (Université Côte d’Azur/Collège Sévigné) and Maria Alessia Rossi (Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)

“Meta-Paintings and Their Viewers: Performing Devotion through Time and Space”

Crossing Borders and More

July 5, 2022 | 4:30 PM BST

Organizers: Francesco Capitummino (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) and Ziqiao Wang (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)

Moderators: Francesco Capitummino (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) and Nieve Cassidy (Università degli Studi di Salerno)

Speakers:
Nicola Carotenuto (University of Oxford)

“Liminal Spaces in the World of Medieval Merchants”

Marco Innocenti (Università Cattolica di Milano) “The Perception of the Space beyond the Threshold in the Mosaics of the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna”

Olga Todorović (University of Belgrade) “Spatio-Temporal Liminality and Transcendence in Trecento and Early Quattrocento Last Judgment Scenes”

Amy Danielle Juarez (University of California, Riverside)

“(In)Human Architectures in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”

ICMA at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022

ICMA AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2022


For a full listing of the sessions, consult the ICMS program, available here:
https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u385/2022/medieval-schedule-2022.pdf

MONDAY 9 MAY 2022


Session 8
9:00 a.m. EDT
From Prophet of Israel to Miracle-Working Saint: The Transformations of Elijah’s Story in Jewish and Christian Iconographic Traditions (ca. Third–Fifteenth Centuries)

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Barbara Crostini, Uppsala Univ.
Presider: Barbara Crostini

Witness and Redeemer: Elijah the Prophet as Envisioned by Jews in Medieval Europe Chana Shacham-Rosby, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard Univ.

Narrative Strategies and Sacramental Meanings: Picturing Elijah’s Story in the Thirteenth-Century Frescoes at Morača Monastery Andrei Dumitrescu, Central European Univ./New Europe College

Witnessing Elijah and Elisha: The Sons of the Prophets as Monastic Exemplars Erika Loic, Florida State Univ.

The Prophet Elijah and the Theme of Spiritual Filiation in Moldavian Iconography, ca. 1480–1530 Vlad Bedros, New Europe College



Session 43
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection I: Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Michael Chagnon, Aga Khan Museum
Presider: Michael Chagnon

Oliphant
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria & Albert Museum
Albarello
Marcus Milwright, Univ. of Victoria
Base of an Incense Burner
Ruba Kana'an, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga

TUESDAY 10 MAY 2022


Session 107
10:00-11:30 am PDT
Mining the Collection II: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum
Presider: Elizabeth Morrison

Wenceslaus Psalter
Meredith Cohen, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Ovid, Excerpts from Heroines
Cynthia Brown, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Bifolium from the Pink Qur'an
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2022


Session 171
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection III: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; C. Griffith Mann, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Presider: C. Griffith Mann

Magdeburg Ivory
Jacqueline Lombard, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Mirror Backs
Scott Miller, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Panels with Peter and Paul and Ivory Mortar
Nicole Pulichene, Metropolitan Museum of Art

THURSDAY 12 MAY 2022


Session 219
9:00 a.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks I: Within Naples

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Presider: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.

Confraternal Art and Architecture in Angevin Naples: The Hospital of Saint Eligio and the Compagnia della Croce at Saint Agostino Stefano D’Ovidio, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Ribbed Domes in Naples and South Italy Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke Univ.

Naples outside Naples: Medieval Funerary Sculpture at the Abbey of Montevergine Paola Vitolo, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

De statua: Visualizing Fame in Early Renaissance Naples Nicolas Bock, Univ. de Lausanne



Session 229
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection IV: Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, D.C.

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Jonathan Shea, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Presider: Jonathan Shea

Seal of Constantine, Imperial Protospatharios
Nikos Kontogiannis, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Metropolitan of Mytilene
Eric McGeer, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Candlemaker
Alex Magnolia, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities



Session 242
3:00 p.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks II: Beyond Naples I

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.
Presider: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware

Xmaltatis per totum: The “Church Reliquary” at San Nicola, Bari, in Context Jill Caskey, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga

Kings in Heaven and Workers in Hell: A Civic Last Judgment Fresco in Sant’Agata de’ Goti Claire Jensen, Univ. of Toronto

Court Art beyond Naples: The Frescoes of Santa Caterina, Galatina Maria Harvey, James Madison Univ.



Session 262
5:00 p.m. EDT
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks III: Beyond Naples II
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ. Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Cathleen A. Fleck, St. Louis Univ.

A Manuscript on the Move: The Kitāb al-Hāwī between Tunisia and Naples Nora S. Lambert, Univ. of Chicago

The Dynastic in the Monastic: Considering the Image of Robert of Anjou in Morgan MS M.626 Denva Gallant

The Hungarian Angevin Legendary: A Picture-Book of Saints Lives and Its Connection to Angevin Naples Janis Elliott



Session 280
7:00 p.m. EDT
New Approaches to the Art and Architecture of Angevin and Aragonese Naples (1265–1458)
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Emma Langham Dove, Univ. of Virginia; Gilbert Jones

A Christological Cycle Fit for a Queen in the Bible of Naples (BnF, MS fr. 9561) Eilis Livia Coughlin, Rice Univ.

Joanna I of Naples: A Queen’s Visual Heritage Paula van der Zande

Francisco Laurens, Ymagier du roi: Sculpting the King of Sicily in Provence during the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Françoise Keating, Univ. of Victoria

The Battle for Otranto: Adriatic Cultural Competition in the Wake of Ottoman Aggression Jacob Eisensmith, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Respondent: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware; Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.

FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022


Session 307
1:00-2:30pm EDT
Mining the Collection V: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Gerhard Lutz, Cleveland Museum of Art
Presider: Gerhard Lutz

Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Manuscript
Reed O'Mara, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Fragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion
Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Death of the Virgin
Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve Univ.

ICMA STAHL AND FORSYTH LECTURES - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS DUE 15 MAY 2022

ICMA STAHL AND FORSYTH LECTURES
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
DUE 15 MAY 2022

INVITE A STAR TO YOUR CAMPUS (Virtually or in Person)!
 
The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for virtual or face-to-face programs under the Stahl and Forsyth Lecture Series to be held under the sponsorship of the organization in 2022-2023. Stahl Lectures are to be sponsored by colleges or universities in what might be termed the greater southwest, while Forsyth lectures, as a rule, take place in institutions located east of the Mississippi River, especially in what might be termed the greater Midwest. At this time, we have the opportunity to make the program available virtually to all ICMA members, though we are also interested in proposals that include some in-person engagement between students and speakers if conditions and logistics allow.
 
Please suggest the name(s) of appropriate speakers and indicate your willingness to host the event at your institution. Please indicate the format (face-to-face or virtual) and, if applicable, whether your college or university has the infrastructure for a Zoom (or other) webinar and the tech support to launch and troubleshoot a virtual event. Joint proposals—of two or more institutions—are welcome, as traditionally, lecturers are expected to speak at more than one venue. The hosts assume the responsibility for organizing the event, ideally working in conjunction with colleagues at other institutions; for publishing the details in advance on the ICMA website and ICMA News (the newsletter); and for reporting on the event after it is over. International exchange of scholarship is encouraged, though not required.
 
The ICMA will contribute to an honorarium and/or travel costs, depending on the particulars of the speaker and the event itinerary and modality. 
 
For Stahl Lecture, please submit your CV and the CV of the proposed speaker, as well as a brief proposal/preliminary itinerary by clicking HERE.
 
For Forsyth Lecture, please submit your CV and CV of the proposed speaker, as well as a brief proposal/preliminary itinerary by clicking HERE.
 
Please direct any inquiries to the Chair of the ICMA Programs & Lectures Committee: Bryan C. Keene, Riverside City College; email: bryan.keene@rcc.edu. The deadline for the nominations is 15 May 2022 for lectures to be planned for the fall of 2022 or the spring of 2023.


Reminder: ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT, DUE 29 APRIL 2022

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT
DUE 29 APRIL 2022

The ICMA Advocacy Seed Grant is an annual grant for local initiatives in public scholarly engagement and outreach, student mentoring (from grade school to graduate), and projects that advance the ICMA's commitment to inclusion in the field. These grants could be used to support initiatives including, but not limited to: group visits to special collections/museum exhibitions, curricular development, workshops and student training, community/artist conversations, website design, equipment, and outreach to local classrooms.

We especially encourage applications that will support the initiation or continuation of longer-term projects, but all projects will be considered. Proposals should describe the project’s aims and audience (including short and long-term goals), and the ways in which it will engage the intended audience in a meaningful understanding of medieval art, broadly conceived.

Grants are available for up to US $1,500. Depending on the number of proposals received, the committee may decide to divide the total available funds (US $1,500) into multiple smaller awards or to give the full grant to a single recipient.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applications are due by Friday 29 April 2022. To submit, upload your CV, 1 page proposal (single-spaced), itemized budget, and list of potential collaborators and target engagement audience here.

For questions, please contact awards@medievalart.org.


Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History featuring Nicola Camerlenghi; 24 May; 12:00pm ET

Digital Approaches to Medieval Art History

featuring Nicola Camerlenghi

May 24, 2022

12:00pm ET

This event is the first installment in a series of online gatherings which will provide opportunities for critical conversations about digital medieval art history. Nicola Camerlenghi (Dartmouth College) will open with a short presentation at the top of the hour, and thereafter the session will take the form of a dialogue among the speaker and two members of the ICMA Digital Resources committee, with time for open discussion with attendees at the end. 

Register HERE

Rythmes et résonances. Les objets sonores au Moyen Âge (online, 18-20 May 22)

Colloque international: Rythmes et résonances. Les objets sonores au Moyen Âge
online / Paris, May 18–20, 2022

Colloque international: Rythmes et résonances. Les objets sonores au Moyen Âge
Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art - DFK Paris
45, rue des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris
Et en ligne : liens ci-dessous

Conception et organisation
Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art - DFK Paris
Rebecca Müller, Universität Heidelberg
Joanna Olchawa, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

More information: https://arthist.net/archive/36242

The Editors of Gesta invite you to "Working towards Equity and Inclusion in Journal Publication" - 4 April 2022 5-6:30pm ET - Register today!

Working towards Equity and Inclusion in Journal Publication

Monday 4 April 2022
5:00-6:30pm ET
Register HERE

Join us for the third of three workshops on inclusion, diversity and equity in the editing and publishing of peer-reviewed journals.

Panelists:

What does it take to make journal publishing function more inclusively and transparently? In this workshop, participants will discuss their perspectives on future paths for greater equity and inclusion in authorship, the division of labor, peer review, the constitution of editorial boards, and consider the ways in which journals can foster the diversity of all participants. Presenters will address the ways in which institutional contexts (universities, university presses, scholarly societies) shape journal operations, and consider how the relationships between journals and institutions can lead to support for enhanced inclusion and equity.

Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

 

REGISTER HERE

ICMA TOWN HALL - EVALUATING 2021: RACE, DIVERSITY, AND MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM AND THE MUSEUM, WEDNESDAY 4 MAY 2022. REGISTER TODAY!

EVALUATING 2021: RACE, DIVERSITY, AND MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM AND THE MUSEUM
AN ICMA TOWN HALL

 
WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
12-1:30PM ET / 18:00-19:30 CET 
ONLINE
 
PLEASE REGISTER HERE.

Lusterware Tile. Spanish, 1450–75. Glazed earthenware. The Cloisters Collection, 2006. 2006.256. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This Town Hall is envisioned as a continuation of the conversations begun at the November 2020 ICMA Town Hall on Diversity, Medieval Art History, and 2020. This first Town Hall, which over one hundred ICMA members attended, served as a productive forum for listening, brainstorming, and discussing issues of diversity and inclusivity and how they pertain to our practices and our work as medieval art historians. Following this event, the IDEA Committee collaborated with other ICMA committees to plan, develop, and implement many of the suggestions and requests voiced at the 2020 Town Hall. (Please see the updates on those initiatives and developments on our website)

At the 2022 Town Hall, scholars, teachers, and curators will have the opportunity to assess the diversity initiatives of the past few years, share triumphs and cautionary tales, and develop guidelines for best practices. What has worked, in the classroom, in the museum, in other spaces? What has proven to be challenging? What are things that we as a field still have to think through? Simply put: as we adjust to altered circumstances of research and teaching, how is it going?

The 2022 Town Hall will feature a panel of ICMA members who will share some of their own experiences engaging with diversity initiatives. We will then split into themed breakout rooms (e.g., Curating and the Museum, The Classroom, etc.) to continue the conversation in smaller groups. This Town Hall will serve as a space for sharing, listening, collaborating, and looking to new solutions as we move toward the future of medieval art history.

Please register HERE.

“Opus Magnum: The Great Restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris;" Friday, April 1st at 1PM (EST) via Zoom Webinar

“Opus Magnum: The Great Restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris"

On April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames. Soon after, medieval architectural historians and restoration specialists began the work of restoring this Gothic masterpiece. Join the Valencia College Humanities Speaker Series and the medieval art and technology historians of AVISTA, with special guest Dany Sandron of the Sorbonne Université, for an inside look at the progress made in the last three years and discover how modern scholars address the many questions posed in such a monumental effort.

Friday, April 1st at 1PM (EST) via Zoom Webinar

Webinar Link: https://valenciacollege.zoom.us/j/95514566898?pwd=RWpPL2h2V3Jsc0hVU3U4OCtiemgxUT09

Webinar ID: 955 1456 6898

Password: 259066

You may log on before 1PM on April 1st by clicking the Zoom link above or the image below. For more information, contact Dr. George Brooks, coordinator of the Humanities Speaker Series (gbrooks@valenciacollege.edu).

ICMA AT AAH 2022: RETHINKING ROYAL MANUSCRIPTS IN A GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES, THURSDAY 7 APRIL 2022

ICMA AT THE ASSOCIATION FOR ART HISTORY’S 48TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
6-8 APRIL 2022
DIGITAL EVENT

 

RETHINKING ROYAL MANUSCRIPTS IN A GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES
THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2022, DAY 2
ALL DAY SESSION, 9:55 - 17:15 BST


Click HERE for full conference website

Badr al-Din Lu’lu’ Enthroned, frontispiece in Kitāb al-Aghānī (Book of Songs) of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (Istanbul: National Library of Turkey [Milli Kütüphane]), ca. 1218

Organized by
Jacopo Gnisci, University College London
Umberto Bongianino, University of Oxford

 

This panel sets out to examine and compare the impact of royal patronage on the visual, material, and textual features of manuscripts produced across Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica and Europe during the ‘Global Middle Ages.’ As polysemic and multi-technological objects, royal manuscripts were produced in different forms and sizes, and from a variety of materials that could vary according to the taste, wealth, ideology, religion, and connections of their patrons and makers. Their visual and textual content could conform or deviate from existing traditions to satisfy the needs and ambitions of those involved in their production and consumption. Finally, pre-existing manuscripts could be appropriated, restored, enhanced, gifted, and even worshipped by ruling elites for reasons connected with legitimacy and self-preservation, becoming powerful instruments of hegemony, or symbols of prestige and piety. Because of this semiotic versatility, written artifacts provide ideal vantage points for understanding the agency of material culture in the creation and perpetuation of political power.

To what extent do the materials, texts, and images of royal manuscripts reflect the integration of pre-modern courts in networks of patronage and exchange? In which ways were these features adapted for different audiences and for female, male, or genderqueer patrons? How did they inform local and transregional notions of power and authority? How did communities that opposed royal authority situate themselves in relation to the political agency of written texts and their illustrations? When and how did such artifacts become imperial relics to be displayed, or symbols of a contentious past to be concealed or destroyed? What can manuscripts tell us about the royal patronage of other artistic media, dynastic rivalries, political alliances, and state-endorsed religious phenomena?

In pursuing similar questions, we are particularly interested in multidisciplinary papers that move beyond a Eurocentric reading of material culture by considering royal manuscripts from pre-modern polities traditionally seen as ‘peripheral.’ We welcome proposals that apply innovative methodologies to the study of handwritten material and its circulation, questioning conventional assumptions about politics, culture, and religion, and privileging comparative approaches and transcultural artistic phenomena.


 

SPEAKERS


Western Aspirations in Royal Armenian Manuscripts from the Cilician Kingdom
Emma Chookaszian (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier)

Patronage and Political Reflections in Late Medieval Georgian Art: The Case Study of Illuminated Charters
Eter Edisherashvili (G. Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, Tbilisi)

Inside Out Borders: Production and Circulation of Aviz Royal Court Illuminated Manuscripts During the Fifteenth Century
Catarina Isabel Martins Tibúrcio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

A Monstrous Assemblage: Trajectories of Sovereignty in a Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Manuscript
Saygin Salgirli (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

Noble Ladies of the Painted Page: Overlooked Expressions of Female-Led Legitimacy in a Timurid Illustrated Manuscript
Meghan Clorinda Montgomery (Independent Researcher)

Illuminating the Queen’s World: Ovide moralisé as Miroir des reines
Christopher T. Richards (New York University)

Reimagining Southern Italy in the Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120 II)
Elvira Miceli (Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford)

The Power of Manuscripts or Manuscripts of Power: The Promulgation of a Visual Identity at the Ḥafṣid Court in Tunis (c. 1440 to 1468)
Laura Hinrichsen (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)




MINING THE COLLECTION: "CRUSADES AND CANIVET: CURIOUS TREASURES FROM THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM" WITH LYNLEY ANNE HERBERT AND CHRISTINE SCIACCA ON 30 MARCH 2022 AT 11AM. REGISTER TODAY!

Mining the Collection
Crusades and Canivet: Curious Treasures from the Walters Art Museum with Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, and Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11am ET
Register HERE

De Bar Hours, W.93, Northeast France (Lorraine), ca. 1310, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Nearly a century after its founding, the Walters Art Museum continues to be a place of remarkable discovery, with tantalizingly strange objects haunting the storage shelves. Join Dr. Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, and Dr. Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, as they explore two mysterious medieval oddities: a bronze figure of unknown origin possibly representing a crusader, and a lace-cut manuscript with no known precedent.  

Register HERE
 

 

In case you missed it...


You can watch a selection of previous Mining the Collectionevents here: https://www.medievalart.org/mining-the-collection

Seminar: ‘The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible’ by Kathryn A. Smith; 15th March 2022, 4:45pm BST

The final Murray Seminar at Birkbeck, entitled ‘The Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible’, will be delivered by Kathryn A. Smith on Tuesday 15th March, 16:45 BST.

‘Sometime probably c.1366-73, Maud de Ros, widow of the Lincolnshire nobleman John, 4th Baron Welles, commissioned the Welles-Ros Bible, a grand illuminated pandect that preserves the most complete surviving witness of the Anglo-Norman Bible—England’s earliest full prose vernacular Bible translation. This paper examines evidence for the Bible’s production under Carmelite auspices, and for the Carmelite sympathies of its patron and principal intended reader-viewer, the adolescent John, 5th Baron Welles. The paper analyzes a selection of the Bible’s richly narrative illustrations as well as elements of its design, to show how these painted histories register the lineal, tenurial, spiritual, and social concerns of a noble family struggling to rebuild in the wake of the Plague.’

Kathryn A. Smith, Professor of Art History at New York University, is the author of Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England (2003), The Taymouth Hours: Stories and the Construction of the Self in Late Medieval England (2012), and articles, essays and reviews on early Christian and late medieval art, especially the illustrated manuscripts of Gothic England. She is founding series editor of Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages (Brepols) and was a co-editor of the journal Studies in Iconography. Her seminar derives from her current book project, Scripture Transformed in Late Medieval England: The Religious, Artistic and Social Worlds of the Welles-Ros Bible, her work on which is supported by a Senior Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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Sandy Heslop, “Crowning William the Conqueror: Archbishop Stigand and the Tiberius Psalter,” 12 May, 17:30 BST (12:30 ET); register now!

University of East Anglia's Department of Art History & World Art Studies is thrilled to invite you to the Martindale Lecture 2022, our annual lecture from a world-renowned expert in medieval and renaissance art:

CROWNING WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR: ARCHBISHOP STIGAND AND THE TIBERIUS PSALTER

Prof. Sandy Heslop (UEA)

Thursday 12 May 2022, 17:30 BST

Lecture Theatre 4 at UEA and online

1066 was a momentous year in English history: two invasions, two bloody battles, and two coronations. The trauma has been written into the national narrative ever since, but we rarely have much insight into the mentality of the individuals involved. The Tiberius Psalter offers an exception, illuminating the character and predicament of Archbishop Stigand of Canterbury, a leading player in the drama.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception to toast Prof. Heslop on his retirement from the department. All are welcome, both in-person at UEA and online.

For more information and to register for a free ticket to the lecture, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/277417933507. 

ICMA Sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9–14

ICMA Sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies

The 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place online Monday, May 9, through Saturday, May 14, 2022, followed by two weeks of recorded content available to registrants from Monday, May 16, through Saturday, May 28. Special events include a series of behind-the-scenes museum visits.

More information: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress

Monday, May 9, 9:00 a.m. EDT 

From Prophet of Israel to Miracle-Working Saint: The Transformations of Elijah’s Story in Jewish and Christian Iconographic Traditions (ca. Third–Fifteenth Centuries) 
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Barbara Crostini, Uppsala Univ.
Presider: Barbara Crostini 
Witness and Redeemer: Elijah the Prophet as Envisioned by Jews in Medieval Europe 
Chana Shacham-Rosby, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard Univ. 
Narrative Strategies and Sacramental Meanings: Picturing Elijah’s Story in the Thirteenth-Century Frescoes at Morača Monastery 
Andrei Dumitrescu, Central European Univ./New Europe College 
Witnessing Elijah and Elisha: The Sons of the Prophets as Monastic Exemplars 
Erika Loic, Florida State Univ. 
The Prophet Elijah and the Theme of Spiritual Filiation in Moldavian Iconography, ca. 1480–1530 
Vlad Bedros, New Europe College 

Monday, May 9, 1:00 p.m. EDT 

Mining the Collection I: Aga Khan Museum (A Virtual Visit) 
Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Michael Chagnon, Aga Khan Museum
Presider: Michael Chagnon
Oliphant
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria & Albert Museum 
Raqqa Albarello 
Marcus Milwright, Univ. of Victoria 
Base of a Mosul Incense Burner 
Ruba Kana’an, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga 

Tuesday, May 10, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Mining the Collection II: J. Paul Getty Museum (A Virtual Visit)
Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum
Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Presider: Elizabeth Morrison
Wenceslaus Psalter
Meredith Cohen, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
Ovid, Excerpts from Heroides
Cynthia Brown, Univ. of California–Santa Barbara
Bifolium from the Pink Qur’an
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Wednesday, May 11, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Mining the Collection III: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (A Virtual Visit)
Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: C. Griffith Mann, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Presider: C. Griffith Mann
Magdeburg Ivory
Jacqueline Lombard, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Mirror Backs
Scott Miller, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ivory Panels with Peter and Paul and Ivory Mortar
Nicole Pulchene, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thursday, May 12, 9:00 a.m. EDT

Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks I: Within Naples
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Presider: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.
Confraternal Art and Architecture in Angevin Naples: The Hospital of Saint Eligio and the Compagnia della Croce at Saint Agostino
Stefano D’Ovidio, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Ribbed Domes in Naples and South Italy
Caroline A. Bruzelius, Duke Univ.
Naples outside Naples: Medieval Funerary Sculpture at the Abbey of Montevergine
Paola Vitolo, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
De statua: Visualizing Fame in Early Renaissance Naples 
Nicolas Bock, Univ. de Lausanne

Thursday, May 12, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Mining the Collection IV: Dumbarton Oaks Museum (A Virtual Visit)
Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Jonathan Shea, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Presider: Jonathan Shea
Seal of Constantine, Imperial Protospatharios
Nikos Kontogiannis, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Metropolitan of Mytilene
Eric McGeer, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Seal of John, Candlemaker
Alex Magnolia, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Thursday, May 12, 3:00 p.m. EDT

Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks II: Beyond Naples I
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.
Presider:Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Xmaltatis per totum: The “Church Reliquary” at San Nicola, Bari, in Context Jill Caskey, Univ. of Toronto–Mississauga
Kings in Heaven and Workers in Hell: A Civic Last Judgment Fresco in Sant’Agata de’ Goti
Claire Jensen, Univ. of Toronto
Court Art beyond Naples: The Frescoes of Santa Caterina, Galatina
Maria Harvey, James Madison Univ.

Thursday, May 12, 5:00 p.m. EDT

Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks III: Beyond Naples II

Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer: Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.
Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Cathleen A. Fleck, St. Louis Univ.
A Manuscript on the Move: The Kitāb al-Hāwī between Tunisia and Naples Nora S. Lambert, Univ. of Chicago
The Dynastic in the Monastic: Considering the Image of Robert of Anjou in Morgan MS M.626
Denva Gallant
The Hungarian Angevin Legendary: A Picture-Book of Saints Lives and Its Con- nection to Angevin Naples
Janis Elliott

Thursday, May 12, 7:00 p.m. EDT

New Approaches to the Art and Architecture of Angevin and Aragonese Naples (1265–1458)
Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer: Gilbert Jones, International Center of Medieval Art
Presider: Emma Langham Dove, Univ. of Virginia
Gilbert Jones
A Christological Cycle Fit for a Queen in the Bible of Naples (BnF, MS fr. 9561)
Eilis Livia Coughlin, Rice Univ.
Joanna I of Naples: A Queen’s Visual Heritage
Paula van der Zande
Francisco Laurens, Ymagier du roi: Sculpting the King of Sicily in Provence during the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century
Françoise Keating, Univ. of Victoria
The Battle for Otranto: Adriatic Cultural Competition in the Wake of Ottoman Aggression
Jacob Eisensmith, Univ. of Pittsburgh Respondent: Denva Gallant, Univ. of Delaware
Janis Elliott, Texas Tech Univ.

Friday, May 13, 1:00 p.m. EDT

Mining the Collection V: Cleveland Museum of Art (A Virtual Visit)

Sponsors: International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA); Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.
Organizer: Gerhard Lutz, Cleveland Museum of Art
Shirin Fozi, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Presider: Gerhard Lutz
Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā-sūtra Manuscript Reed O’Mara, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Fragment of an Icon of the Crucifixion
Elizabeth S. Bolman, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Death of the Virgin
Elina Gertsman, Case Western Reserve Univ.

More information: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress