Call for Papers: Discourse of Diversity in the Medieval World, edited by Eric Bryan and Jill Fitzgerald, Abstracts Due 28 April 2023

Call for Papers

Discourse of Diversity in the Medieval World

edited by Eric Bryan and Jill Fitzgerald

Abstracts Due 28 April 2023

Raimundus Lullus, Thomas le Myésier: Electorium parvum seu breviculum (nach 1321) - Manuscript in the Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe, Germany - Cod. St. Peter perg 92, Blatt fol. 12r

The editors of this volume welcome essays on discourse in sources from cultures coeval with texts produced in medieval Europe—for example, from the Islamic world, Central and East Asia, Africa, and beyond. Of equal importance are examinations of discourse and diversity in European sources along the axes of culture, language, socio-economics, gender and other identities, nationality, and religion.

Discourse may here be fundamentally understood as how we talk to one another but may be represented in medieval texts as direct discourse, missives, sermons, or visual communication.

The editors of this collection invite 300-word abstracts (essays of 7,000-8,000 words following abstract acceptance) that approach this subject from a range of perspectives.

Please submit a 300-word abstract jointly to co-editors Dr. Eric Bryan (bryane@mst.edu) and Dr. Jill Fitzgerald (jfitzger@usna.edu) on or before 28 April 2023. Questions may likewise be submitted to the editors via email.

For more information, please see the call for papers.

The library of the Marquis of Santillana (d. 1458) and the cultural networks of the European Renaissance, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto, 20 February 2023 6:00-7:30PM GMT/1:00-2:30 PM ET (Online)

Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art

The library of the Marquis of Santillana (d. 1458) and the cultural networks of the European Renaissance

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto

20 February 2023 6:00-7:30 PM GMT/ 1:00-2:30 PM ET (Online)

First page of a copy of Cicero’s De officiis made for the 1st Marquis of Santillana (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Res. 236, fol. 1)

This talk will focus on an analysis of the books collected by Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, one of the most prominent figures of early Castilian Humanism. Although the relevance of his library was already acknowledged in a pioneering study by Mario Schiff in 1905, art historians have tended to pay more attention to the manuscripts produced for Santillana in Castile. And yet, the books he acquired or commissioned in France and, most notably, Italy, allow us to reconstruct the dense network of political, family and cultural connections behind his eclectic patronage, and to understand how his leading role in the introduction of new visual languages in Castile granted him a towering position among the other Castilian magnates. 

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto is Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Southern Denmark. She has extensively worked on late medieval book illumination, on medieval Iberian courtly art and on the Classical tradition in the Middle Ages. Her latest publication is "La biblioteca del Marqués de Santillana", for the catalogue of the exhibition El Marqués de Santillana: Imágenes y letras at the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Biblioteca Nacional de España, from 4 and 5 Oct 2022 to 8 January 2023.

The event is part of the Research Seminar series organised by the Zurbarán Centre with the ARTES Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group. The series provides an open forum for engaging with innovative research and exhibition projects relating to the visual arts in the Hispanic world.

The sessions usually take place online (Zoom). Click here to register.

For more information, https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/zurbaran/news-and-events/events/research-seminar-series-spring-2023/20-february-2023/

Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives (Roundtable), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 24 February 2023 2:00-4:15 PM ET

roundtable

Curating Global Medieval Art: Questioning Paradigms and Perspectives

West Building Lecture HalL, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

24 February 2023 2:00-4:15 PM ET

This program, hosted by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center) at the National Gallery of Art, is in conjunction with the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.

This roundtable on curating global medieval art will bring together curators representing Washington, DC-area medieval collections. Panelists will be asked to address what “medieval,” “internationalisms,” and “global” mean to them. Panelists may also speak to the structural and institutional barriers that exist towards accomplishing an “international” or “global” approach in their curatorial, scholarly, and public-facing work and consider possible solutions. How can institutions foster collaboration between curatorial departments and empower curators to collaborate with other institutions to present a more “global” view of the medieval period? By engaging curators in dialogue with one another, we seek to develop a more coherent view of curation, research, and teaching in global medieval art and material culture. 

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC

• Emma Natalya Stein
  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

• Frank Feltens
  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

• Kevin Tervala
  Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

• Ellen Hoobler
  The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Moderator:

• Steven Nelson
  Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

To reserve your spot, click here.

Questions? Contact Matthew Westerby at m-westerby@nga.gov, or call 202.789.4944.

Mary Jaharis Center Lecture Series:Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter, Mary Cunningham, 1 March 2023, 12-1:30 PM (Online)

The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce the next lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.

Dialogue in Homilies and Hymns on the Annunciation: The Dynamics of a Divine Encounter

Mary Cunningham, University of Nottingham

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | 12:00-1:30 PM EST | Zoom

Mosaic Icon of the Annunciation, ca. 1320, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (7231-1860). Image: Victoria and Albert Museum (https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93208/the-annunciation-mosaic-unknown/).

The story of the Annunciation of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary is first recounted in the Gospel of Luke 1: 26-38. The event was formally adopted as a major feast in the Eastern Church, celebrated on 25 March (nine months before Christmas) in 560, during the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Homilies and hymns on the Annunciation were composed long before this date, however, not always in association with the feast. These texts build on Luke’s narrative, describing Mary as the ‘Second Eve’ who overturned the disobedience of her first ancestor by consenting to God’s will and conceiving Christ, the Son of God. They celebrate the event as the inauguration of the new dispensation, which will bring salvation to humanity and the rest of creation. Further elaboration, which appears especially in homilies – but later also in hymns – on the Annunciation, can be seen in the invention of dialogues between Gabriel and Mary or Mary and Joseph. These serve not only to convey the doctrine of the incarnation to audiences, but also to illustrate the Virgin’s human condition. She expresses shock and doubt at her first encounter with the archangel, but gradually accepts his message of salvation. This lecture will examine variations in liturgical writers’ handling of the issues of free will, gender, and Marian devotion in Byzantine homilies and hymns on the Annunciation. It will be illustrated by images of the scene, including in icons, manuscript illustrations, and monumental art.

Mary B. Cunningham is Honorary Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. Her latest monograph is The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000. Hymns, Homilies, and Hagiography (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Advance registration required at https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/dialogue-in-homilies-and-hymns-on-the-annunciation

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

Call for Papers: MEDIEVAL IDENTITIES: (RE-)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF AND THE OTHER, WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG (23 MAY 2023), Deadline 26 February 2023

Call for Papers

MEDIEVAL IDENTITIES: (RE-)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF AND THE OTHER

WORKSHOP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG 23 MAY 2023

Abstracts Due: 26 February 2023

The rise in popularity of studies on medieval subjectivity, emotions, affect, alterity, and individuality, betrays our continued fascination with the medieval self. The affective turn in the Humanities sparked new discussions and a renewed concern with the study of the individual, which prompted the development of different theories and approaches, ranging from historical and sociological to cognitive. Medievalists, too, have contributed to these emerging discourses on selfhood and since then engaged with the ongoing debates around the self and the other—be it human or animal.

The aim of this workshop is to explore how selfhood and otherness are expressed in cultural artifacts of the medieval period and onwards. It is targeted at researchers in the area of Medieval Studies from a variety of disciplines and fields, such as literary and cultural studies, philosophy, history, linguistics, gender studies, book and manuscript studies, and medieval art. We seek proposals for 20-minute presentations in English which explore new theoretical avenues and encourage interdisciplinary approaches. Contributions can consist of more developed research projects or work in progress. To maximize the opportunity for feedback and the exchange of ideas, each talk will be followed by a group discussion. The workshop will conclude with a public talk by Prof. Carolyne Larrington (St John’s College, University of Oxford).

Potential questions and topics we hope to address throughout the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Which forms do the expressions of selfhood take in medieval literature or visual culture? How do they differ from modern representations?

• In what ways are otherness and the non-human articulated in medieval cultural productions?

• How are emotions used to represent the self?

• What continuities and discontinuities exist between the representation of the modern and the medieval self?

• How are medieval identities represented in medievalism(s) and popular culture?

• How can we incorporate newer theoretical approaches, such as gender studies, queer studies, or critical race theory, into ongoing academic discussions?

Please submit an abstract of up to 200 words and a short biography of up to 100 words by February 26th, 2023 to the organizers Dunja Haufe and Sonia García de Alba Lobeira at medieval.identities@gmail.com.

Call for Applications: Visiting Senior Fellowships 2023-2024, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Application Due 21 March 2023

Call for Applications

Visiting Senior Fellowships 2023-2024

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Application Deadline: 21 March 2023

Miklós Boskovits (1935–2011), “Puccio di Simone, Allegretto Nuzi/Saint Venantius [right panel]/1354,” Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/8 (accessed February 14, 2023).

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for visiting senior fellowships. All of the fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Each visiting senior fellow is provided with a study. In addition, fellows who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the National Gallery, subject to availability. Fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to the Library of Congress and other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area.

Up to two Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowships and up to five Paul Mellon and Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellowships will be awarded for the period September 1, 2023–February 28, 2024. Qualified applicants are considered for all visiting senior fellowships.

Fields of Study

Leonard A. Lauder, Paul Mellon, and Beinecke Visiting Senior Fellowships are intended to support research in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period. For the Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowship, the Center encourages applications in historically marginalized fields. Visiting senior fellowship applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of visual form.

Qualifications and Selection

Visiting senior fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more at the time of application, or who possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishment. Holders of visiting senior fellowships may reapply three years after the completion of the fellowship. Individuals currently affiliated with the National Gallery of Art are not eligible for the visiting senior fellowship program. Visiting senior fellowships are awarded without regard to the age or nationality of applicants. Applications are reviewed by an external selection committee composed of scholars in the history of art and related disciplines. Outside readers may assist in the evaluation of proposals.

Stipends

Recipients of Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships are eligible for an augmented stipend of $12,500 for a two-month residency, which includes a supplement of $2,500 to support future research and publication expenses. 

Recipients of Paul Mellon and Beinecke Fellowships will receive a basic stipend of $7,000 or $8,000, depending upon relocation requirements. In addition, fellows receive housing, as available.

Applications

Candidates for visiting senior fellowships must submit, on or before the deadline, an online application that includes a proposal and a copy of one article or chapter of a book. Two letters of recommendation in support of the application are required.

Visiting senior fellows may receive awards in three consecutive years but thereafter must wait three years before reapplying to the Center. Individuals may not apply for other Center fellowships while an application is pending or once a fellowship has been awarded. Visiting senior fellowships may not be postponed or renewed.

Award period: September 1, 2023–February 28, 2024

Application Deadline: March 21, 2023

To apply, click here.

Contact: 1.202.842.6480 TheCenter@nga.gov

Mailing Address: 2000 South Club Drive, Landover, MD 20785

For more information, https://www.nga.gov/research/casva/fellowships/visiting-senior-fellowships.html.

Call for Applications: PhD ON the Project, Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries)

Call for Applications

PhD Candidates for the SNSF PRIMA Project

Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries)

University of Fribourg

Due 20 February 2023

Taux d'activité/Activity Rate: 80-100%

Lieu / District/Location: Fribourg, CH, Sarine, CH

Délai de postulation/Application Date:  20.02.2023

Date d'entrée en fonction/Date of Entering the Position:  01.03.2023 or to be agreed

Type de contrat/Contract Type: CDD

Who Are We?

The SNSF PRIMA Project Portraying Medieval Women: The Materiality of Female Images and Art Patronage in the Latin East (12th–15th centuries) (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208477), hosted at the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg, offers a four-year doctoral position focused on female representations and patronage in Southern Italy under Latin rule (12th–15th century). Her/his dissertation will be dedicated in the compilation of a comprehensive catalogue of the extant material in the assigned territories.

Why Join Us?

The state-employer encourages the balance of work life and private life and offers an environment and working conditions attractive to its employees. To know more, follow this link.

Your Mission

The most important task of the PhD researcher will be the carrying out of original research and the completion of her/his dissertation. Moreover, she/he is expected to actively participate in all the project’s research activities and scientific events, such as workshops, conferences and research trips.

Ideal Profile

• MA in Art History with specialization in Medieval or Byzantine Art

• Proficiency in Italian

• Very good language skills in English

• Good command of French and/or German

For more information, contact the project’s PI (Asst. Prof. Rafca Nasr, rafca.nasr@unifr.ch), or visit https://jobs.fr.ch/job/Fribourg%2C-CH-PhD-Position-Sari/763894202/. or https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208477.

Call for Papers: The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference (6-9 June 2023, Online), Due 9 April 2021

Call for Papers

The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference

(@MidAgesModGames, #MAMG23)

6 to 9 June 2023 (ONline)

Applications Due 9 April 2021

The Public Medievalist and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research at the University of Winchester present The Fourth Middle Ages in Modern Games Twitter Conference. The central themes of this year’s event are ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Apocalypse’. Fantasy and Apocalypse are closely tied to medievalist games. Pseudo-medieval worlds are by far the most common setting for fantasy games from Dungeons and Dragons to World of Warcraft. Meanwhile, many games with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic settings such as Fallout and Torment: Tides of Numenera make use of medieval tropes to build their worlds. These settings are clearly removed from the Middle Ages, but are nevertheless fundamentally medieval and can strongly influence modern perceptions of the period.

This conference considers the Medieval and Medievalism in Modern Games. We invite ‘papers’ (comprising a thread of 12 Tweets) and sessions of 3 to 5 papers which address any aspects of the medieval period or medievalism in any and all forms of modern games. We particularly welcome papers addressing the central conference themes of ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Apocalypse’. The conference will be conducted remotely and there will be no registration fee. To promote accessibility and inclusivity, the event runs asynchronously across time zones.

Topics may include (but are not restricted to):

• The End of the World in Medievalist Games

• Fantasy Games beyond Western Europe

• Post-Apocalyptic Feudalism

• Medieval and Fantasy Mechanics in Sci-Fi Worlds

• Magic and Technology

• Gender and Sexuality in Fantasy and Apocalyptic Worlds

• ‘Historical Accuracy’ in Fantasy Games

• Boundaries between Fantasy and Medievalism

• Constructing and Portraying Nuanced Fantasy Races

• Building Pseudo-Medieval Worlds

• Literary and Audio-Visual Influences

• Teaching through Fantasy and Apocalyptic Games

• Heterogeneity and Diversity in Fantasy Games

• Chronological and Genre limits of Medievalism

We encourage submissions from medievalists, and games scholars and developers at any point in their career— especially those from Postgraduate Students, Early Career Researchers and members of any groups under-represented within the academy and industry. We welcome pieces addressing any region globally, and within a broad definition of ‘medieval’ and ‘medievalism’.

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words, brief biographies, and indications of time zone and availability as attachments in Word to Robert.Houghton@Winchester.ac.uk by Friday 9 April.

For a PDF of the call for papers, click here.

Call for Applications: The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Grant Fund of the American Friends of Chartres, Deadline 31 March 2023

Call for Applications

GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR
Ph.D. CANDIDATES AND EMERGING SCHOLARS

The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Grant Fund of the
American Friends of Chartres

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 31, 2023

The American Friends of Chartres is accepting proposals from current graduate students and emerging scholars for its annual research grant for the study of Chartres. The American Friends of Chartres will provide a stipend of $2,000.00 and will facilitate lodging, as well as access to the cathedral, the Centre International du Vitrail, the municipal library, archival collections and related resources.

The grant will help to support a research project requiring on-site research in Chartres that promises to advance knowledge and understanding of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres or its historical contexts in the medieval to early modern period. Topics in the fields of art history, history, or related disciplines might include architecture, stained glass, sculpture, urban development, economy, religious practices, manuscripts, or the cathedral treasury, among others.

Applicants should currently be pursuing a Ph.D. or have received the degree within the last six years. Following the research project, the grantee is asked to provide a synopsis of the research and conclusions, which will be publicized through the cultural activities and website of the American Friends of Chartres. Questions about the grant may be addressed to ChartresResearchGrant@gmail.com.

Applicants should supply:

A description of up to 500 words of the proposed project, including:
• questions to be researched and their importance to scholarship on the art, culture, or history of Chartres;
• requirements for access to monuments, works of art, and archival resources;
• projected length of time and tentative dates to be spent in Chartres;
• expectations for publication of conclusions, whether alone or as part of a larger project, including a Ph.D. dissertation, article, or book.
A current Curriculum Vitae
Names and contact information of two references

Please send application materials as e-mail attachments in Word or PDF format to ChartresResearchGrant@gmail.com

The Servane de Layre-Mathéus Fund for Research on Chartres Cathedral

The American Friends of Chartres has established a special fund honoring the memory of Servane de Layre-Mathéus (1939-2020), co-founder of Chartres--Sanctuaire du Monde, of the Centre International du Vitrail, and of American Friends of Chartres. Servane dedicated much of her life to the preservation of Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral, and to the pursuit and transmission of knowledge of medieval art, culture, and spirituality. In recognition of her contributions, she was made chevalier of the Légion d’honneur, officier des Arts et des Lettres, and officier de l’ordre national du Mérite. The fund is intended to support research that furthers her work.

Call for Applications: Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin, Deadline 17 February 2023

Call for Applications

Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin

Bewerbungsfrist für den Studienpreis 2023: 17. Februar 2023.

Bild: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin

Die Berliner Denkmallandschaft ist so vielfältig wie die Stadt: Moderne Siedlungen und alte Dorfkerne, intime Hausgärten und weitläufige Volksparks, durchmischte Gründerzeitquartiere und wohlhabende Villenvororte, technische Infrastrukturen und global operierende Industrien, weltbekannte Ikonen der Moderne und Aufsehen erregende archäologische Funde.

So vielfältig wie die Denkmallandschaft sind die Formen der Beschäftigung mit ihr: Bau- und stadthistorische Forschungen, denkmalgerechte Sanierungen und Umnutzungen, Partizipationsangebote und Vermittlungsaufgaben sind wichtige Grundlagen der Berliner Denkmalpflege.

Seit 2021 vergibt das Landesdenkmalamt Berlin einen Studienpreis. Der Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin würdigt und fördert die Beschäftigung an Universitäten und Hochschulen mit der Berliner Denkmallandschaft. Er wird jährlich für herausragende Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten verliehen, die sich auf die Berliner Denkmallandschaft beziehen und für die Berliner Denkmalpflege relevante Themen behandeln.

Es handelt sich um den ersten Studienpreis der Amtsdenkmalpflege in Deutschland.

Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Studierende an allen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen im In- und Ausland. Eine Eingrenzung auf bestimmte Disziplinen oder Fachgebiete wie Kunstgeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Architektur, Gartenarchitektur, Restaurierung oder Archäologie besteht nicht. Ausschlaggebend ist allein die thematische Ausrichtung der Abschlussarbeit.

Der Studienpreis des Landesdenkmalamtes Berlin wird jährlich an bis zu drei Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten verliehen. Jeder Preis ist mit 1.000 Euro dotiert. Über die Verleihung der Preise entscheidet das Landesdenkmalamt Berlin.

Aktuelle Ausschreibung

Einsendeschluss ist der 17.02.2023.

Teilnahmeberechtigt sind Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten, die im Zeitraum von bis zu zwei Jahren vor der Auslobung des Studienpreises an einer Universität oder Fachhochschule abgeschlossen und bewertet wurden. Für den Studienpreis 2023 entspricht das dem Zeitraum vom 01.01.2021 bis zum 17.02.2023.

Folgende Dokumente müssen bis zum Einsendeschluss vollständig vorliegen:

1. Anmeldeformular als PDF

2. Gutachterliche Empfehlung von mindestens einer der betreuenden Professuren als PDF

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4. Vollständige Bachelor- oder Masterarbeit in deutscher oder englischer Sprache als PDF

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49th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 30 March - 1 April 2023

49th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

March 30 to April 1, 2023

The 49th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society will be held from March 30 to April 1, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Those attending will find an iconic example of contemporary architecture and leading research universities within a vibrant cultural setting along Lake Michigan. On Thursday, March 30, the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will host sessions at the Raynor Memorial Library and will offer tours of the museum. That evening, the Milwaukee Art Museum will host the keynote speaker—internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist and member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe) Rebecca Belmore—and a reception. On Friday, March 31, sessions will be offered at the Art History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and tours will be available of the Art History Department’s Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. For weekend events and more information, click here for the Fall 2022 edition of MAHS eNews.

The Midwest Art History Society brings together academic, museum-based, and independent art historians in the common goal of scholarly inquiry and the exchange of ideas.

For more information about registering, accommodation, and other aspects of the conference: https://www.mahsonline.org/conference/

Interdisziplinäres Symposium: Der Wandmalereizyklus zu den Wissenschaften und Künsten in der Brandenburger Domklausur im Kontext, Brandenburg an der Havel, 30-31 März 2023

Interdisziplinäres Symposium

Der Wandmalereizyklus zu den Wissenschaften und Künsten in der Brandenburger Domklausur im Kontext. Kunstproduktion und Wissensorganisation um 1450

Institut für Kunst | Musik | Textil, Universität Paderborn und Domstift Brandenburg, Brandenburg an der Havel

30 - 31 März 2023

Anlässlich des Abschlusses des kunsthistorischen DFG-Projekts (Projektnummer 346774044) „Der Wandmalereizyklus zu den Wissenschaften und Künsten in der Brandenburger Domklausur. Kunstproduktion und Wissensorganisation um 1450“ organisieren der Lehrstuhl für Mittlere und Neuere Kunstgeschichte am Institut für Kunst | Musik | Textil – Fach Kunst, Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Paderborn, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Heinrichs und das Domstift Brandenburg, Domkurator Dr. Cord-Georg Hasselmann ein interdisziplinäres Symposium.

Das Symposium stellt im Spiegel der jüngsten Forschungsergebnisse ein neues Bild von der Thematik und Funktion der Wandmalereien wie auch von der ursprünglichen Ausdehnung und Gestalt der Brandenburger Dombibliothek des späten Mittelalters vor und entwickelt von diesem Standpunkt aus ein erweitertes Spektrum von Fragestellungen in die europäischen Kulturräume des Mittelalters und der Renaissance hinein.

Abstract

ProgrammÜbersicht PDF

Programm

Tag 1 – Donnerstag, 30. März 2023

Auftakt und Begehungen

[Ort: Domstift Brandenburg, Aula der Ritterakademie]

9.00 Ankunft / Willkommen

9.30 Grußworte: Dr. Cord-Georg Hasselmann, Domstift Brandenburg, Domkurator; Prof. Dr. Thomas Drachenberg, Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum (BLDAM), Landeskonservator; Prof. Dr. Maria Deiters, Brandenburgische Historische Kommission |Einführung: Ulrike Heinrichs, Universität Paderborn | Musikalische Begleitung: Clothilde Oelmüller, Harfe

10.30–13.00 Michael Adam, Ulrike Heinrichs, Dirk Schumann, Martina Voigt: Führungen zur Architekturgeschichte, zu Werken der Skulptur und Malerei im Dom und im Dommuseum sowie zum Wandmalereizyklus der Wissenschaften und Künste in der ehemaligen Dombibliothek

13.00 Mittagsimbiss [Ort: Sommerrefektorium in der Domklausur, Domklausur Brandenburg, Burghof 8, 14776 Brandenburg an der Havel]

Vortragssektionen 

[Ort: Altstädtisches Rathaus, Rolandsaal, Altstädtischer Markt 10, 14770 Brandenburg an der Havel]

14.00 Ankunft / Willkommen

14.30 Begrüßung durch den Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Brandenburg an der Havel, Steffen Scheller | Ulrike Heinrichs, Universität Paderborn: Einführung in die Sektionsthemen

Sektion I –  Zum baulichen Umfeld: Beobachtungen der Architekturgeschichte und der Restaurierungswissenschaft

15.00–15.30 Dirk Schumann, Berlin: Bischöfliche Ambitionen und bauliche Repräsentation – die spätgotische Architektur der Brandenburger Domklausur

15.30–16.00 Sabine Herrmann, pmp Architekten, Brandenburg an der Havel: Zur Rekonstruktion der Bauzustände des 13. und 15. Jahrhunderts am Nordflügel der Brandenburger Domklausur. Grundlagen, Ergebnisse und offene Fragen

16.00–16.20 Olaf Schwieger, Wilhelmshorst: Befunde mittelalterlicher Putze und Wandmalereien im Inneren und am Außenbau des nördlichen Klausurgebäudes - ein Rapport nach knapp 25 Jahren

Diskussion

16.45–17.15 Kaffeepause

Sektion II – Entwicklung, Vermittlung und Archivierung an den Institutionen und historischen Bauten der Brandenburger Domklausur

17.15–17.45 Lennart Hellberg, pmp Architekten, Brandenburg an der Havel: Ausblick auf das Projekt der Sanierung der Spiegelburg und des Ostflügels der Domklausur

17.45–18.15 Michael Adam, Domstift Brandenburg, Domschatz: Die Wandmalereien in der spätmittelalterlichen Dombibliothek zu Brandenburg – Museale Präsentation vs. Konservierung und Bewahrung

18.15–18.35 Burkhard Freitag, Passau und Alexander Stenzer, AriInfoWare GmbH, Passau: Modellierung von Nutzungskontexten im zeitlichen Verlauf in MonArch am Beispiel der Domklausur in Brandenburg

Diskussion

19.30 Öffentlicher Vortrag | Sabine Krause-Riemer und Ursula Schädler-Saub, Hochschule für angewandte Kunst und Wissenschaft (HAWK) Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen: Das Fragment zum Sprechen bringen: Innovative Techniken zur Dokumentation und Visualisierung des Wandmalereizyklus in der Brandenburger Domklausur

Tag 2 – Freitag, 31. März 2023

Fortsetzung der Vortragssektionen

[Ort: Altstädtisches Rathaus, Rolandsaal, Altstädtischer Markt 10, 14770 Brandenburg an der Havel]

Sektion III –  Quellen und Themenfelder

9.00–9.30 Julia Knödler, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt Historische Sammlungen: Wer führte die Feder in Clm 650? Paläographische Anmerkungen zu den Autographen Hermann und Hartmann Schedels

9.30–10.00 Mischa von Perger, Neusäß: Theologie und Jurisprudenz in den Wandgemälden der Brandenburger Dombibliothek

10.00–10.30 Katharina Pick, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz: Zur Ikonographie der Artes mechanicae im Bildprogramm der ehemaligen Brandenburger Dombibliothek

Diskussion

11.00–11.30 Kaffeepause

11.30–12.00 Michael Stolz, Universität Bern: Altera pictura artium: Schedels Bildbeschreibung der Brandenburgischen Bibliothek im Kontext der Büchersammlung des Frühhumanisten Sigmund Gossembrot

12.00–12.30 Martina Voigt, Berlin: Die Inschrift zur Stiftung von Matthias Prenne in St. Gotthard in Brandenburg. Zum epigraphischen Umfeld der Inschriften in der ehemaligen Dombibliothek in Brandenburg

Diskussion

12.45-13.45 Mittagspause

Sektion IV –  Stilgeschichtliche und gattungsgeschichtliche Bezüge und Kontexte

13.45–14.00 Maria Deiters, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Corpus vitrearum medii aevi. Arbeitsstelle für Glasmalereiforschung Potsdam: Einführung in die Thematik der stilgeschichtlichen Bezüge

14.00–14.30 Ulrike Heinrichs, Universität Paderborn: Zwischen ‚internationalem Stil‘ und ‚Ars Nova‘: diachrone und synchrone Bezüge eines großen Werks brandenburgischer Malerei

14.30–15.00 Steffen Kremer, Köln: Schlüssel und Schwert – Der fragmentarische Wappenfries des südlichen Bibliothekssaals im europäischen Kontext

Diskussion

15.15–15.45 Annegret Möhlenkamp, Lübeck: Ikonographische Bezüge: Die spätmittelalterliche Ausmalung der ehemaligen Sakristei der Franziskanerkirche St. Katharinen mit Sibyllen und Propheten

15.45–16.15 Hans-Walter Stork, Erzbischöfliche Akademische Bibliothek Paderborn: Der Bibliotheksraum im ehemaligen Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Böddeken. Zur Ausmalung in Böddeken und in vergleichbaren Stiftsbibliotheken

Diskussion

16.30–17.00 Kaffeepause

Sektion V – Durch (Wand-)Malerei geprägte historische Räume im Museum – Perspektiven der Erforschung und Vermittlung

17.00–17.30 Helga Fabritius, Stiftung Kloster Dalheim. LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, Lichtenau-Dalheim: Wandmalerei – eine sperrige Attraktion im Museum? Erschließung der Malereifragmente im Kreuzgang von Kloster Dalheim

17.30–18.00 Peter Knüvener, Städtische Museen Zittau: Die Wandmalereien im Dormitorium des Zittauer Franziskanerklosters und ihre museale Präsentation

18.00–18.30 Merike Kurisoo, Niguliste Museum, Tallinn: Presenting the Dance of Death. Biography and exhibition history of the Tallinn Dance of Death | Vortrag in englischer Sprache

Diskussion

Ende der Tagung ca. 19.30 Uhr

Nähere Informationen unter: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/forschungsprojekte/wandmalereizyklus

22nd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Harvard University, 16-18 March 2023

22nd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

16-18 March 2023

Click the link below to register for the 22nd annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies! This year’s conference will be held at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA from March 16-18th, 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

Register here: https://forms.gle/eh88pGh7oNrDh3PS8

The program for the 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies will be posted in early 2023.

For more information: https://vagantesconference.org/

33rd Annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), "Lacunae," Cornell University, 11 March 2023 (Zoom)

33rd Annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC)

“Lacunae”

Cornell University

Saturday 11 March 2023 (Zoom)

Time: TBA

“Lacunae” can refer to unfilled spaces, gaps, cavities, holes, or absences. For the purposes of this conference, papers may address lacunae in medieval archives or records (i.e., what materials or knowledge about the Middle Ages are we missing or have we lost?) or lacunae in research and other later engagements with the Middle Ages. What strands of theory or scholarship have not been applied to medieval studies? What voices are absent in the field? What medieval works or aspects of medieval culture (material or immaterial) have been overlooked by postmedieval thinkers or reconstructions/re-imaginings of the ‘medieval'? What are the ramifications of medieval lacunae in our current or past understandings of the Middle Ages? Papers may respond to, but are certainly not limited to, these questions.

For more information: https://events.cornell.edu/event/2023_medieval_studies_student_colloquium_lacunae

Book Launch: Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography, Cornell University, 7 March 2023 12:00-1:30 PM

Book Launch

Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography

Physical Sciences Building, 401 (245 East Avenue), Cornell University

7 March 2023 12:00 - 1:30 PM

Benjamin Anderson (Cornell) and Mirela Ivanova (Sheffield) will discuss their edited volume, Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography, forthcoming this summer from Penn State University Press. In this volume, scholars of art, history, and literature address the entanglements, past and present, between the academic discipline of Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism. Starting with the premise that the Byzantine Empire and the field of Byzantine Studies are both simultaneously colonial and colonized, the chapters address topics ranging from the material basis of philological scholarship and its uses in modern politics to the colonial plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial practice in the present. 

Editor bios:

Benjamin Anderson is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Classics at Cornell University.

Mirela Ivanova is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.

The event is funded under a collaborative research grant from the Society for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by Medieval Studies, History of Art, and Classics

For more information: https://events.cornell.edu/event/book_launch_is_byzantine_studies_a_colonialist_discipline_toward_a_critical_historiography

Seminar: Thresholds of Heaven: The Creation and Judicial Use of Sacred Space in Post-Carolingian Catalonia, 800-1100, Adam Matthews, Cornell University, 28 March 2023 4:45-6:00 PM

Medieval Studies Lecture Series

"Thresholds of Heaven: The Creation and Judicial Use of Sacred Space in Post-Carolingian Catalonia, 800-1100"

Adam Matthews

AD White, Guerlac Room, Cornell University

28 March 2023, 4:45 PM to 6:00 Pm

Between the ninth and early twelfth centuries, judges in the Catalan counties of northeastern Iberia and Septimania adjudicated disputes using the Visigothic law code. These judges, who often lacked guarantees of litigant commitment to the judicial process, developed strategies in order to fulfill the code’s mandates and thereby keep courts functional. One such strategy was to place special emphasis on the procedural step of bringing witnesses and litigants to church altars to authenticate testimony with an oath. This practice transformed centers of worship into arenas of justice. Despite the prominence of churches in legal records and the importance of oath exaction to stabilizing particularly challenging disputes, scholars still know little about how exactly judges themselves understood the sacred spaces they used. Hundreds of documents of church dedication (dotalia) offer a way forward. They reveal the close relationship between judges’ conception of these places and the broader regional attitude toward sanctuaries in the wake of the Carolingian liturgical reforms. This talk explores the variety of ways in which judges participated at dedication assemblies, including as scribe, celebrant, builder/founder, and even liturgical commentator. Attention to such varied forms of involvement allows legal historians to nuance judges as a professional class and thereby to refine our understanding of the strategic resources at their disposal in the courts of post-Carolingian Catalonia.

Adam Matthews is a historian of the legal, documentary, and liturgical practices of medieval Catalonia and southern France during the ninth through eleventh centuries. His current book project examines how the judges and community leaders of the lands bordering the eastern Pyrenees Mountains capitalized on ever-evolving conceptions of churches as sacred spaces in order to develop innovative court strategies and thereby reinforce the authority of the region’s law code and disputing norms. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2021 and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History at Cornell University. 

The Cornell Medieval Studies Program presents a series of lectures on a wide range of medieval topics. All lectures take place on Tuesdays at 4:45pm.

Cosponsored by the Society for the Humanities

For more information: https://events.cornell.edu/event/medieval_studies_lecture_series_adam_matthews

Exhbition Closing: Die Normannen/The Normans, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Museum Zeughaus, 18 September 2022 - 26 February 2023

Die Normannen/The Normans

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Museum Zeughaus, Mannheim, Germany

18 September 2022 - 26 February 2023

The history of the Normans continues to astonish and surprise to the present day: starting out as highly mobile warriors, mercenaries or minor aristocracy, Normans became powerful princes and rulers who left their traces all over Europe and beyond. Their history is a story of interconnectedness, which influenced in a long-lasting way the cultural and political development of Europe and the Mediterranean.

For the first time in such a comprehensive fashion, the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen and their partners will dedicate an exciting exhibition project under German-French aegis to the “men from the North”. In a presentation with around 300 outstanding exhibition-pieces from more than 10 countries, the exhibition tells a multifaceted story and ties together different and highly fascinating threads of a history spanning the eighth tothirteenth centuries. Precious works of art encounter other treasures, weapons and manuscripts coming from North-, East- and West-Europe as well as the Mediterranean. These exhibits are complemented by the latest digital reconstructions which provide innovative ways of displaying and transferring knowledge.

Discover the secrets of the Normans’ success, as well as when and why these techniques failed them. Embark on an adventurous journey from Scandinavia across Europe to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

The exhibition is developed and presented together with the “Réunion des Musées Metropolitains” in Rouen and connected to a co-project realised by the Musée de Normandie in Caen.

For more information: https://www.rem-mannheim.de/en/exhibitions/special-exhibitions/the-normans/

Exhibition Closing: THE HABSBURGS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: Rise of a Dynasty, Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, 16 October 2022 - 16 April 2023

THE HABSBURGS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: Rise of a Dynasty

Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, Speyer, Germany

16 October 2022 - 16 April 2023

No major medieval history exhibition in Germany comparable to the important surveys of the Carolingians, Ottonians, Salians, Hohenstaufens and Wittelsbachs has ever explored the medieval imperial Habsburg dynasty. Speyer, the sole grave site of medieval Habsburgs outside Austria, is particularly suited among German museum and exhibition venues to trace the dynasty’s rise from Rudolf I to Maximilian I on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Rudolf I’s accession to the throne.

Following the state exhibitions “Salians” (2011) and “Richard the Lionheart” (2017/18) shown at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate, the Habsburgs will make it possible to localize major history of the European Middle Ages in Speyer and the Palatinate once again.

The Habsburg dynasty shaped Europe’s fortunes for centuries. The family, known as the “House of Austria”, has its roots in southwestern Germany, though. Rudolf I, who in 1273 became the first Habsburg elected King of the Romans, laid the foundation for their rise from comital to imperial dynasty. Following his death in Speyer on July 15th 1291, he was laid to rest in the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer “where more of my ancestors are, who were also kings”.

The exhibition takes the grave site of Rudolf I and his son Albrecht I as its point of departure and, building upon this, recounts the history of the Habsburgs through the European Middle Ages. It follows the struggles for kingship in the 13th and 14th century and the resurgence of the House of Austria in the shadow of the crown through their return to the throne and ultimately Maximilian I’s presence on the European stage in the 15th century – both 300 years of imperial history and a success story with fateful detours and caesuras.

The special art and cultural history exhibition has been elevated to the status of a Rhineland-Palatinate State Exhibition under present Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Science Konrad Wolf.

In preparation for the exhibition, the Europäische Stiftung Kaiserdom zu Speyer hosted a scholarly conference in April 2018, the year of Rudolf I’s 800th birthday, the findings of which are entering into the preparation of the exhibition.

An extensive and richly illustrated publication with essays by prominent scholars will be published to accompany the exhibition.

For more information about the exhibit: https://museum.speyer.de/en/preview/translate-to-englisch-habsburger-1

For information about hours and directions: https://museum.speyer.de/en/informationen/visitor-service

Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History Seminar: Venetian Mediterranean Networks, Nicola Carotenuto, 28 March 2023, 5:00-6:00PM CET/11:00AM-12:00PM ET (Online)

Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History

Online seminars organised by the German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome

Venetian Mediterranean Networks

Nicola Carotenuto (Oxford)

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

5:00–6:00 PM (CET)/11:00 AM -12:00 PM (ET)

Discussant: Ella Sophie Beaucamp (München)

To register, click here.

Organisers: German Historical Institute of Paris/German Historical Institute of Rome Location: Online Zoom
Date: Academic year 2022/2023
Language: English

Coordinators: Dr. Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris), Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rome)

The German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome are continuing the online seminar series on "Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History". It focuses on sharing new ideas and perspectives. The sessions take place every two months and are addressed to both young and established scholars from all medieval disciplines. The aim is to create an international and interdisciplinary forum where diverse topics and methodological approaches can be presented and discussed.

Our speakers begin with a 10-minute keynote to present their ongoing or recently completed work, followed by a 10-minute commentary from a specialist. This is the basis for the subsequent 40-minute discussion with the online-audience.

If you have any questions about the research seminar, please contact:

Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris): asagasser@dhi-paris.fr

Kordula Wolf (DHI Rome): wolf@dhi-roma.it

For more information on the Deutches Historiches Institut Rom/Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma, click here.

For more information on the Italien und Deutsches Historiches Institut Paris, click here.

Exhibition Closing: Magic Rock Crystal Museum Schnütgen, 25 November 2022 - 19 March 2023

Magic Rock Crystal

Museum Schnütgen, Köln/Cologne, Germany

25 November 2022 - 19 March 2023

Precious stones have fascinated people since time immemorial. The Museum Schnütgen is now dedicating an exhibition to the water-clear rock crystal with around 130 objects from international collections. The exhibition is based on the high-quality rock crystal objects in the museum's own collection and the hitherto unique discovery of a 12th-century rock crystal cutting workshop near Cologne Cathedral.

Manifestation of power and beauty
The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder considered the pleasantly cool, colourless rock crystal to be petrified ice that will never melt. Even in ancient times, people believed in the healing powers and magical properties of the crystal. In the Middle Ages, the precious mineral played an important role in the context of Christian faith - it was interpreted as a manifestation of the divine. But it was also in demand at the courtly table and, of course, for fortune-telling.
It is above all its transparency and translucency that give rock crystal its great attraction. Even uncut, it offers an imposing appearance with its sparkling, six-sided cones. When processed, the material becomes even more luxurious - the sacred and profane exhibits made of and with rock crystal bear witness to this and stand for themselves in their uniqueness and preciousness.
Rock crystal is a hard but fragile material that requires great skill to work. It cannot be carved or worked with hammer and chisel, but it can be shaped and decorated using various cutting techniques.
On display are exquisite rock crystal containers that were used, among other things, as reliquaries and as royal ceremonial vessels. But also optical lenses, cooling balls and even a chess stone made of rock crystal await the visitors. In addition, hundreds of individual parts of the Cologne rock crystal workshop found in 2005 will be on display. Furthermore, panel paintings, sculptures and manuscripts bear witness to the importance and use of the transparent "gemstone".

For more information: https://museum-schnuetgen.de/Magic-Rock-Crystal