Historical Image Overlays for the St Chad Gospels

From Ansax-net. This is a terrific website: I'm sure many of you will also find it fascinating: 

Celia

 

 

On 2/12/14 7:59 AM, Endres, William F wrote: 

Dear Colleagues,

I am happy to announce that I now have available for viewing images taken over the last 125 years for nine pages of the 8th-century St Chad Gospels: https://lichfield.as.uky.edu . These images complement the RGB and multispectral images for the complete manuscript on the website and offer a sense for how the manuscript is aging. I've also included a brief discussion of some preliminary findings from the overlays.

All best,
Bill

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Bill Endres
University of Kentucky
Division of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Media
Lexington, KY 40506

859-257-8337

UCSB Graduate Conference in Medieval Studies

University of California, Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 31st, 2014
UC Santa Barbara, HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room)
Call for Papers: “Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages”
Keynote Speaker: Professor William Tronzo, Department of Visual Arts, UC San Diego
Recent scholarship within medieval studies increasingly attends to the movements of peoples, objects, and ideas. Such concerns with mobility allow for a range of interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies in understanding how we track not only the transmission of material objects but also movement within seemingly fixed categories such as gender, class, and religion. Discourse on mobility in a medieval context provides a way of viewing the aforementioned categories as fluid, and thus provides rich opportunities for exploration and interpretation. This conference encourages discourse from all fields around the theme of movement in any aspect of the Middle Ages. For instance, how does an examination of the movement of objects, such as relics, challenge notions of regionalism and local identification? How is mobility determined by intersections of class, gender, and ethnicity? How do literature, medical treatises, and archeological finds inform an understanding of bodily movement?
Possible topics for consideration include but are not limited to:

• Trade and commercial exchange: the movement of goods and currency
  
• Travel literature and the movement of individuals within cultures
  
• Fragmentation of objects, including the circulation and the transformation of visual
  images
  
• Movement of material texts across borders, geographical space, and languages
  
• Religious movements: conversions, infidels, and apostasy
  
• Movement within dramatic performance: staging travel, social movements, and
  commerce
  
• Influence of architectural structures on human movement
  
• Physical disability and limitations of movement
  
• Transmission of architectural styles, including landscape design
  
• Ritual movement and processions
  
• Cross dressing and movements across genders
  
• Strategic movement in war campaigns; displacement in response to violence
  
• Pilgrimage routes and the movement of pilgrims
  
• Legally sanctioned movement or restrictions on movement, including banishment
  
• Threshold spaces and movement across boundaries, including from ‘public’ to ‘private’
  and from ‘sacred’ to ‘profane’ space
  
• Spread of germs, diseases, and plagues
  
• Social mobility: titles, ranks, and their acquisition; apprenticeships and occupational
  training
  

Professor William Tronzo (UC San Diego and affiliate of Università degli Studi Roma Tre) has published extensively on the art and architecture of the Mediterranean world from Late Antiquity through the early Renaissance, as well as on problems of theory and method and historiographical issues such as the persistence of Antiquity and the afterlife of the Early Christian tradition in Rome. Although his training is in art history, the intellectual ethos of his work derives from the history of architecture and landscape, as manifest in the spatial imagination of the past. His edited collection, Fragments: An Incomplete History, published in 2009, brought together interdisciplinary scholarship on the motion of physical and narrative fragments. His most recent book, Petrarch’s Two Gardens: Landscape and the Image of Movement, was published in 2013 and received the David R. Coffin award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. He has held research appointments at the American Academy in Rome, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, CASV A at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, the Huntington, the Clark Art Institute and the Stanford Humanities Center.
This conference is open to graduate students studying the Middle Ages (300-1500) in all disciples, geographical regions, and stages of research.
We welcome 250- to 300- word abstracts for presentations 20 minutes in length. Please submit your name, email, university, and departmental affiliation with your abstract to Shay Hopkins at s_hopkins@umail.ucsb.edu by February 21st,, 2014. 

Romanesque Research Award 2014

Romanesque Research Award 2014

Application deadline: Mar 15, 2014

Romanik-Forschungspreis 2014
Romanesque Research Award 2014 [english version below]
Prix de recherche de l‘Art roman 2014 [Texte en français plus bas]


Ausschreibung

Internationaler Nachwuchspreis des Europäischen Romanik Zentrums e.V.
für herausragende Forschungsarbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Romanik
gefördert durch die Stiftung der Saalesparkasse, Halle und Herrn Gerhard
Mauch, Ludwigshafen

Ziel der Preisvergabe ist die Nachwuchsförderung, insbesondere die
Auszeichnung junger Wissenschaftler/innen, die auf dem Gebiet der
Romanik (Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie, Geschichte, Kirchen- oder
Rechtsgeschichte) herausragende Forschungsleistungen erbracht haben.

Ausgezeichnet werden noch unveröffentlichte Forschungsarbeiten zur
Romanik (Dissertationen). Der Preis wird an Graduierte vergeben und
besteht aus einem Preisgeld von 2.000 €. Über die Vergabe entscheidet
eine international besetzte Jury, bestehend u.a. aus Mitgliedern des
internationalen Beirats des Europäischen Romanik Zentrums. Die Annahme
des Romanik-Forschungspreises verpflichtet zu einem öffentlichen Vortrag
des Preisträgers.

Bewerbungen (Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, Publikationsliste) und ein Exemplar
der Forschungsarbeit (incl. Abstract, Gutachten) werden erbeten bis zum
15.03.2014 an den:

Direktor des Instituts Europäisches Romanik Zentrum
Domplatz 7
06217 Merseburg

http://www.romanik-zentrum.eu

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Announcement

The Reseach Award of the European Center of the Romanesque (Europäisches
Romanik Zentrum, ERZ) supports outstanding research works on Romanesque
art and architecture. It is donated by Stiftung Saalesparkasse (Halle)
and Mr Gerhard Mauch (Ludwigshafen).

The award especially aims to promote, honor and encourage graduated
junior researchers contributing to the study of Romanesque art, history,
archaeology, Church history as well as history of the law.

Only unpublished research works will be considered (PhD thesis). The
award is valued at 2000 Euro. The awarding itself is co-judged by
international members of the ERZ's board of advisors. Accepting the
award, the winner is encouraged to give a public lecture at the ERZ.

Until March 15th 2014, the application (CV, certificates, references,
list of publications) as well as one piece of his/her research works
including an abstract and the academic evaluation is to be send at:

Direktor des Instituts Europäisches Romanik Zentrum
Domplatz 7
06217 Merseburg
Germany

http://www.romanik-zentrum.eu

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Appel d‘offres

Ce prix de recherche international du Centre européen d'art roman
(Europäisches Romanik Zentrum, ERZ) pour des travaux de recherche
exceptionnels dans le domaine de l'art roman est parrainé par la
fondation de la caisse d'épargne „Saalesparkasse“ de la ville de Halle
et par Monsieur Gerhard Mauch de la ville de Ludwigshafen. Le but de
l'attribution du prix est l'encouragement de la jeune génération de
chercheurs, en particulier la distinction de jeunes scientifiques
fournissant des résultats de recherche exceptionnels dans le domaine de
l'art roman (histoire de l'art, archéologie, histoire, histoire de
l'Église et du droit).

Le prix doté de 2.000 € est décerné à des doctorants pour des travaux de
recherche inédits (thèses de doctorat) traitant de l'art roman.

L'attribution est faite par un jury international, composé notamment de
membres du conseil consultatif du centre européen d'art roman. Le
lauréat acceptant le prix de recherche d'art roman s'engage à donner une
conférence publique.

Les candidatures (C.V., certificats, liste des publications) ainsi qu'un
exemplaire du travail de recherche (incl. résumé, expertises) peuvent
être déposées jusqu'au 15 mars 2014 à l'attention du directeur de
l'institut.

Direktor des Instituts Europäisches Romanik Zentrum
Domplatz 7
06217 Merseburg
Allemange

http://www.romanik-zentrum.eu

Clothing sacred scripture Zurich 9-11 Oct 14

Deadline: Feb 25, 2014

International Conference. Zurich, October 9-11 2014

Organizers:
Prof. Dr. David Ganz (University of Zurich)
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schellewald (University of Basel)

In a traditional perspective, book religions are seen as agents of
logocentrism, establishing a sharp dichotomy between scripture and
aesthetics, religion and art. This judgment was based primarily on
dogmatic assumptions and posterior idealizations, however. In the light
of their material, performative and artistic practice, religions of the
book show a surprisingly strong tendency to evolve their
own »aesthetics of inlibration«. Especially in pretypographic
cultures, »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and ornate
forms was a powerful instrument for creating a close relation between
the divine words and their human audience.

The questions this conference aims to address grow from a comparative
and transcultural approach to religious book culture. Whereas
traditional research on book art has focused on single textual
communities within exclusive religious frameworks, we propose to look
beyond these boundaries. Our discussion of various strategies for
clothing sacred scripture shall include objects and practices from all
Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam developed
different approaches to the aesthetics of inlibration. By analyzing and
comparing these practices of religious book art, we aim to better
understand their cultural and historical specificity within a broader
spectrum.

To which extent the choice of materials, book formats, and artistic
patterns mark religious difference and shape religious identity is one
of several questions this conference will address. Yet »Clothing« the
book could also produce the contrary effect. Since it was based on
practices of circulation and exchange between different religious
cultures, it could also undermine claims of religious identity and
absolute truth.

Furthermore, addressing questions of materiality and mediality should
not obfuscate the conflicts and tensions that arise at times between
the visual and tactile dimension and the invisible and intangible
dimension of sacred books. In this respect, the activity of adorning
holy scripture appears to be located between two extremes that
characterize the concept of the book. On the one hand, the book is a
visible and tangible container of God’s animate speech, on the other,
the book is a threshold that leads to the invisible and immaterial
realm of God’s holy words.

This conference will explore both sides of the nexus between sacred
scripture and art. How did art shape the religious practice of books,
and how did the central importance of religious books shape the
evolution of artistic practices? The organizers welcome contributions
from a wide range of medievalist research, discussing topics such as:

- the spatial and temporal structure of books. How do books articulate
the process of opening, unfolding, and closing, and how does their
physical or visual structure contrast exterior with interior spaces,
beginnings with endings? How do these elements create different spheres
and times of revelation?

- the performativity of book rituals. Which kind of ritual activities
(in the broadest sense) involve sacred books? How does book art answer
to the dynamics of animating the letter by reading, singing,
displaying, carrying, illuminating and writing or burying books?

- materiality and its transformation. Which materials were chosen for
creating sacred books, which semantic values and transformative forces
were ascribed to them, and in which ways did these materials contribute
to mediate between human and divine spheres?

- ornament and its rejection. Analyzing the art of sacred books can
lead to a more nuanced understanding of ornamental practices. In some
contexts, traditional ornament is rejected in favor of scripture in its
purest form, thus generating a kind of anti-ornamental décor for the
book. So when was ornamentation considered merely a mundane practice?
And which arguments were put forward to propagate ornament as evocation
of divine beauty?

- iconicity and aniconicity of decorated books. Recent scholarship has
underlined analogies between the cult of books and the cult of images.
This approach has opened new avenues of thought for perceiving books as
objects and not just as texts. Some book religions tend to contrast
books with images, however, and treat books as alternative solutions
for worship. How is the clothing of books related to these contrasting
principles of iconicity and aniconicity?

Please send Please send proposals of up to 300 words for 30min papers
and a short CV to:
David Ganz (david.ganz@uzh.ch <mailto:david.ganz@uzh.ch>) and Barbara
Schellewald
(Barbara.Schellewald@unibas.ch <mailto:Barbara.Schellewald@unibas.ch>)
by February 25 2014

DH Awards 2013: voting open!

It is my pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2013 is open for voting!

 

http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/

 

Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. There were many nominations and the international nominations committee (http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/committee/) reviewed each nomination. We're sorry if your nomination was not included, all decisions are final once voting opens. Please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/faqs2013/ for this and other frequently asked questions.

 

Anyone is allowed to vote, yes anyone, but please only vote once.

 

Please cast vote by looking at the nominations and following the link to voting form at http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ before midnight (GMT) on Friday 14 February 2013 when voting will be closed.

 

Good luck!

 

james@dhawards.org

11th Annual Marco Symposium at UT, Knoxville - March 6-8, 2014

 

 

The Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pleased to announce the 11^th Annual Marco Symposium, “Reconceiving Pre-Modern Spaces,” March 6-8, 2014, on the UT campus.

 

This year’s Symposium addresses the rich ways in which pre-modern peoples conceived of space: as physical reality, philosophical idea, and topic of artistic expression. The Symposium will be engaged with recent scholarship on landscape, urbanism, geography, cartography, soundscape, and ecocriticism, which all variously acknowledge how realities and readings of space fundamentally shaped the lands, populations, and cultures of late antique, medieval, andrenaissance peoples.

 

Invited speakers include Benjamin Anderson (Cornell University), Ellen Arnold (Ohio Wesleyan University), Matthew Canepa (University of Minnesota), Megan Cassidy-Welch (Monash University), Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame), Gregor Kalas (University of Tennessee), Louisa Mackenzie (University of Washington), Craig Monson (Washington University in St. Louis), Ricado Padrón (University of Virginia), and John Wall (North Carolina State University).

 

Diane Favro, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, will present the keynote address, “Bricks into Marble: Reverse Engineering Augustan Rome,” on March 6 at 7:00 p.m. A reception in Hodges Library will follow.

 

Please see attached and contact marco@utk.edu or 865-974-1859 for further information.

 

CFP: To Die Would be an Awfully Big Adventure

“To Die Would be an Awfully Big Adventure”: The Glory and the Gore of Death and Horror Through the Ages

10th Annual Medievalism Transformed Conference
Friday 6 June 2014
University of Wales, Bangor

Abstracts are now being invited for the 10th annual Medievalism Transformed conference at the University of Wales, Bangor, a one-day interdisciplinary event sponsored by the School of English Literature. We will be convening to explore the medieval world and its sustained impact on subsequent culture and thought.

Papers are welcome from all disciplines related to medieval studies as well as modern expressions of medievalism. All topics within the general scope of the conference will be considered, including:

• Preparing for death
• Dying well
• Limbo / Purgatory
• Underworld
• Disease / Black Death / Medicine
• Ghosts
• The Occult / Cults
• The grotesque
• Apocalypse
• Saints / Martyrdom
• Theme of horror in medieval literature

Your proposal for a 20-minute paper should be no longer than 300 words. Please make submissions electronically to:MedievalismTransformed@Bangor.ac.uk by 11 April. Proposals should be accompanied by your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and contact information. Please also specify any audio/ visual requirements.

Letters of acceptance will be sent via email unless a hard copy is requested.