February 1, 2022
Pavlos Michaelides serves as the Operations Manager of the newly established Center for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR) at the University of Cyprus (UCY) as well as Project Manager for NetMAR.
January 31, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.