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January 31, 2022

First NetMAR Stakeholders Workshop ‘Creative Tourism and Medieval Arts and Rituals in Cyprus’

The Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals, a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Union and bringing together the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals of the University of Cyprus (host institution) and the Centre for Medieval Literature of the University of Southern Denmark and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bamberg, organised in Nicosia on the morning of Wednesday 26 January its first Stakeholder Workshop.
January 30, 2022

Representing Kingship (and Queenship): On the Role of the Visual for the Understanding of Medieval Rituals

By Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto

What lies behind coronation rituals? Why are they important? What do they hide and what do they reveal? Dr Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto of Universidade de Santiago de Compostela goes behind the scenes to investigate the role of the visual in understanding medieval (and modern) coronation rituals.
January 17, 2022

Call for Papers for NetMAR International Conference: The Arts and Rituals of Pilgrimage

The conference invites papers from scholars of all career levels that engage with questions and themes including but not limited to: • The practice of pilgrimage and its place in medieval literature and visual arts • Pilgrimage in literature and literature as pilgrimage • Pilgrimage in painting/ sculpture/ music/ rhetoric and/or performance • The architecture of pilgrimage • The communities of pilgrimage-goers and of pilgrimage sites • Pilgrim routes • The afterlives of pilgrimages by no later than 31 July 2022.
January 15, 2022

Postdoctoral and Project Manager Positions

By NetMAR

In the framework of the project "DigiByzSeal – Unlocking the value of seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in Byzantine Studies" jointly funded by the ANR and the DFG, there are open positions for 2 postdoctoral researchers in Byzantine Studies and Digital Humanities to start on April 1st 2022 for 24 months.
January 14, 2022

Call for Papers: Material Culture and Emotions

The online journal Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online (MEMO) invites expressions of interest for articles on the subject of Material Culture and Emotions for publication in MEMO #10 (2022). Those interested are invited to send a short abstract (max. one page) in English or German to [email protected] by 31 January 2022. Manuscripts should be ready for submission by 30 April 2022. For more information on the topics covered by this issue, please click here.
December 30, 2021

Medievalism in Linguistic Teaching

By Gabriele Knappe & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna

What is ‘linguistic medievalism’ and what can it teach us? In our brand new post, Prof. Gabriele Knappe and Prof. Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna of the University of Bamberg jointly present a teaching experiment they carried out on ‘Linguistic Medievalism’. Read on to find out what they did and what they found!
November 30, 2021

A palimpsest that faith built: The Church of the Transfiguration in Sotera (Cyprus) and its Murals

By Maria Parani

Dr Maria Parani tells the story of one of the many medieval churches that populate the Cypriot countryside: that of the Church of the Transfiguration at the village of Sotera in southeast Cyprus. Tracing its history of successive building phases and painting campaigns opens up a window into the lives of the people whose needs - social and spiritual - it served.
November 18, 2021

Bookcity Università 2021: Milano University Press at Bookcity Milano

19 November 2021, 18:00 CET (in Italian) More info here: https://lastatalenews.unimi.it/bookcity-universita-2021-statale-presenta-sua-milano-university-press “Libera e senza barriere: l’Università editore di saperi” è il titolo dell’evento di apertura di Bookcity Università alla Statale 2021, il palinsesto di 65 eventi con cui l’Ateneo aderisce, come da tradizione, a Bookcity Milano. 18 novembre, ore 18, Aula Magna (via Festa del Perdono 7) e in diretta sul canale YouTube @UnimiVideo.
November 3, 2021

Seminar by Dr. Nils Holger Petersen (University of Copenhagen/SDU): “The Medieval Latin Mass and its Receptions into the Modern Concert Hall and Various Electronic Media”

You are cordially invited to the second lecture within the Medieval advanced level Seminar series of UNI BA’s Winter Semester 2021/22, by Prof. Dr. Nils Holger Petersen (Odense), with title: “The Medieval Latin Mass and its Receptions into the modern Concert Hall and various Electronic Media" Coordination: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Bennewitz/Prof. Dr. Klaus van Eickels Monday, November 22, 2021 19:00 CET, via Zoom