To satisfy the MEMS Minor, students must complete 6 courses (18 credits) with a “C” or better. You must take 2 English courses, 2 History Courses, and 2 Courses in any of the following: Africana Studies, Ancient Studies, Art, French, Music, Latin, or Philosophy.
AFST 312 West African History Dr. Tarquin Schwartz
Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:15 PM Counts towards: Writing Intensive
History of West Africa from the period of the medieval empires through the era of the slave trade, the revolutionary 19th century, colonial rule, and independence.
Required preparation: completion of ENGL 100 or equivalent with a C or better. Recommended preparation: AFST211 or AFST212 or HIST242 or HIST243 or permission of instructor.
ART 216 Studies in Visual Culture (Prehistory through the 1750s) Dr. Kimberly Anderson
2 sections: Tues OR Thurs 4:30-7 PM Counts towards: Arts/Humanities (GEP), Culture (GEP)
Focused study of six or seven specific, momentous periods in the history of world art dating from prehistory to the mid-eighteenth century. By studying selected moments in the history of world art in some depth, students will gain an awareness of how art objects and visual culture both shape and represent societies and their histories.
Cross listed: ART 329/ART 429 Animating the Middle Ages Dr. James Magruder
Mon/Wed 5:30-6:45 PM
Today we think of animation as moving images, but medieval patrons pioneered narrative programs to engage human movement using new artistic media, such as illuminated books, sculpture, stained glass, and tapestry. This class explores how medieval artisans animated stories, from the Bible to the Trojan War to King Arthur. It will also consider the effect of social rituals and the rise of drama in animating medieval social groups.
Required preparation: completion of ART 216 or ART 221 with a grade of C or better.
ENGL 250 Introduction to Shakespeare Dr. Michele Osherow
Tues/Thurs 2:30-3:45 PM Counts towards: Arts and Humanities (GEP), Arts and Humanities (GFR)
An introduction to the times and art of Shakespeare through the study of selection of major plays. Students will be given background information necessary to an understanding of the works. The emphasis of the course will be on making Shakespeare and the dramatic form accessible.
ENGL 304 The Renaissance Court Dr. Raphael Falco
Tues/Thurs 8:30-9:45 AM
In this course we will read the literature of the 16th and 17th centuries through the lens of four English courts: that of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I. These four courts, spanning some of Britain's most turbulent political times, witnessed an exceptional period of literary productivity. We will study Elizabethan sonnet sequences, the court masque, pastoral and Cavalier poetry, and tragic drama. Authors include Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Philip Sidney, Mary Herbert, Edmund Spencer, Elizabeth Carey, Shakespeare, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Katherine Philips, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and John Milton.
Required preparation: completion of a 200 level ENGL course with a C or better.
ENGL 336 Medieval and Early Modern Drama Dr. Kathryn McKinley
Tues/Thurs 11:30-12:45 PM
A study of medieval and/or early modern drama, largely excluding Shakespeare.
Required preparation: You must have completed ENGL 301 with a grade of C or better.
Cross Listed: ENGL 364/GWST 364 Perspectives on Women in Literature Dr. Kathryn McKinley
Tues/Thurs 10-11:15 AM Counts towards: Writing Intensive, Arts and Humanities (GFR)
Boccacio's Decameron showcases the riotous social fabric of late medieval Italy, including family, love, marriage, and desire. This course considers medieval constructions of gender. How do Boccacio's female characters experience desire, love, courtship, marriage, and selfhood? Are their manifestations of agency sometimes (always?) illusory? How do violence and coercion mark some domestic and amatory relationships in Boccaccio? How is courtly love tied to medieval masculinities? Which forms of feminist theory work, and which don't, in examining gender in premodern European culture? How might we read Boccacio's depictions of gender in relation to his narrative experiments with the unreal?
Required preparation: completion of an ENGL 100 or equivalent and any 200 level ENGL course with a grade of C or better.
ENGL 451 John Milton, Radical Poet Dr. Raphael Falco
Tues/Thurs 10:00-11:15 AM
This seminar analyzes the poetry, prose, and political career of John Milton. Like Shakespeare, Milton has had an incalculable influence on English-language literature. A radical Protestant and a revolutionary member of Oliver Cromwell's government, Milton was also a linguistic genius whose poetry earned him a prominent place in a tradition stretching back to Homer. We will read such important works as Lycidas, Comus (a masque), his sonnets, and Areopagitca, Milton's famous call for freedom of the press. The semester concludes with Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes, both written after the interregnum when Milton was under house arrest.
Recommended preparation: completion of ENGL 301 with a grade of C or better and senior standing.
HIST 341 The American Colonies Dr. Marjoleine Kars
Mon/Wed 2:30-3:45 PM Counts towards: Social Sciences (GEP)
A history of the American colonies from their founding to 1774, comparing the social and economic development of the West Indies, New England, mainland South and middle colonies. Topics include patterns of settlement, racial and ethnic interaction, labor, religion, family and gender roles, and cultural achievements.
HIST 383 Japan in the Shogun Age Dr. Constantine Vaporis
Tues/Thurs 10:00-11:15 AM Counts towards: Culture (GEP/GFR)
The history of Tokugawa (1600-1868) or early modern Japan: the age of shogun, samurai, castle-towns, kabuki actors, geisha courtesans and woodblock prints. Emphasis will be placed on the problem of how warriors produced more than two centuries of peace. The course also will investigate the political, economic, and cultural patterns that laid the foundation for Japan’s emergence as a modern nation.
Recommended Preparation: Any 100-level social science course.
HIST 445 History of Science to 1700 Dr. Nicholas Bonneau
Mon 4-5:15 PM Counts towards: Social Sciences (GEP/GFR), Writing Intensive
This course examines the growth of scientific knowledge in the World. Topics will include views of nature in traditional societies, Babylonian mathematics and astronomy, Egyptian medicine, the work of the ancient Greeks, medieval European and Arabic science, the Copernican revolution, the relationship between religion and science, and the Scientific Revolution.
Required Preparation: completion of an ENGL 100 or equivalent with a grade of C or better.
Recommended Preparation: Lower level Social Sciences or Culture course (if student has not had one of these courses, it is still possible to take the course with permission of the department).
HIST 470 Tudor and Stuart England: 1485-1714 Dr. Amy Froide
Tues 1:00-2:15 PM
An introduction to British politics, society, economy, religion and culture during the 16th and 17th centuries. It is under the Tudors that England developed into a strong and relatively wealthy nation state. The country also underwent revolutions in culture (the Renaissance) and religion (the Reformation). The 17th century was a turbulent one, with unemployment and poverty, witchcraft accusations and civil wars affecting the British people. But Britain also was emerging as a colonial naval and trading power, as well as a center of the Scientific Revolution.
Recommended Preparation: HIST 100 or HIST 110, or HIST 111, plus junior/senior status.
MUSC 307-07 Collegium Dr. Lindsay Johnson
Mon/Wed 2:30-3:45 PM
This course introduces students to medieval and early modern literature composed for small ensembles. Students will perform with their small ensemble at the end of the semester. This course is repeatable for a maximum of 10 credits.
Recommended Preparation: MUSC 190 or MUSC 193 or MUSC 194 or prior experience playing in an ensemble. Note: Permission of department is required.
LATIN 101 Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 9:00-9:50
LATIN 101 Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 11:00-11:50
LATN 102 Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis Mon/Tue/Wed/Thurs 10:00-10:50 AM
LATN 102-02 Dr.Molly Jones-Lewis Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs 11:00-11:50 AM
Counts towards: Language (GFR)
Continuation of LATN 101.
Required Preparation: completion of LATN 101 with a C or better or two years of high school Latin.
LATIN 402 Special Author Seminar Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis
Mon/Wed 1:00-2:15 PM
For a complete list of courses that satisfy the MEMS Minor, consult the website: mems.umbc.edu.
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UMBC’s History Department and the Folger Shakespeare Library Host a Virtual Escape Room: The Ghost of Blithfield Hall: A Special Paleographical Mystery
At Blithfield Hall, the ancestral seat of the Bagot family, the ghost of an ancestor roams the corridors. A cache of family letters has been discovered, which seems to hold the answer to the spirit’s unrest. The only problem? These missives were penned in the early 17th century, and other paranormal investigators have failed to make sense of them. It’s up to you to decipher the documents, solve the puzzles, and free the ghost.
Bring your paleographical knowledge and form teams to play, in this live virtual experience. (Small teams of three or four are ideal, but you are welcome to play with a partner or by yourself.)
Reservations are required for this event and can be made athttps://forms.gle/xbibi4j4FUYAKVa57
Want to brush up on early modern handwriting in the meantime? Check out this https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/List_of_online_resources_for_early_modern_English_paleography in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Folgerpedia!
The MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Wednesday March 24, 12:00 PM: MEMS Co-Director Prof. McDonough presents with Prof. Armstring-Partida: “Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean”
MEMS students and faculty are invited to join the History Graduate Program’s Works in Progress Seminar series. In this installment, Drs. McDonough and Armstring-Partida will talk about how they have developed their topic and collaborated in the archives. Join this presentation on webex: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/gmusgr1
If you have any questions, please email Professor Amy Froide, froide@umbc.edu.
Mark Your Calendars!!!! MEMS Colloquium: April 7: 7 PM
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies minor of UMBC’s Department of History hosts Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, an Associate Professor of Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Dr. Randell Upton’s primary research area is medieval music. Her recent work examines late fourteenth and early fifteenth century vocal music to discover evidence for the experiences of performers and listeners in the medieval past, recorded in surviving musical notation. Join us on Zoom for her lecture: “Listeners as Players, Music as Play.” For questions or further information, contact Laurel Bassett: lburgg1@umbc.edu.
Join Zoom Meeting
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Friday, April 16, 2-4 PM UMBC’s History Department and the Folger Shakespeare Library Host a Virtual Escape Room: The Ghost of Blithfield Hall: A Special Paleographical Mystery
At Blithfield Hall, the ancestral seat of the Bagot family, the ghost of an ancestor roams the corridors. A cache of family letters has been discovered, which seems to hold the answer to the spirit’s unrest. The only problem? These missives were penned in the early 17th century, and other paranormal investigators have failed to make sense of them. It’s up to you to decipher the documents, solve the puzzles, and free the ghost.
Bring your paleographical knowledge and form teams to play, in this live virtual experience. (Small teams of three or four are ideal, but you are welcome to play with a partner or by yourself.)
Reservations are required for this event and can be made athttps://forms.gle/xbibi4j4FUYAKVa57
Want to brush up on early modern handwriting in the meantime? Check out this https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/List_of_online_resources_for_early_modern_English_paleography in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Folgerpedia!
COMMUNITY EVENTS
March 17: The Walters Art Gallery Reopens
The reopening includes new in-person exhibitions and installments as online programming continues for events, lectures and guided virtual tours with docent educators. Level 3’s Islamic Gallery now approaches the permanent collection and display of Islamic art with a focus on the cultural diversity and chronological breadth under the umbrella of Islamic art. (See the video on our website from Walters Curator Ashley Dimmig’s fall presentation to MEMS students and faculty). For more information on the reopening, see https://thewalters.org/
The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute presents Zoom Lectures
· Thursday, March 25, 10-11 AM (PDT) Early Modern Intellectual and Cultural History with Alan Mikhail
This presentation on “God’s Shadow: A Conversation about Writing Global Histories” will be given by Alan Mikhail, Yale University, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Linda Colley, Princeton University. For more information and to register, see https://dornsife.usc.edu/events/site/73/36015549009511/emsi-early-modern-intellectual-and-cultural-history-with-alan-mi/
· Saturday, March 27, 10-12 PM (PDT) Early Modern British History with Chris Kyle
This paper explores the visual landscape of proclamations in early modern England. It examines how proclamations were distributed and hung in secular spaces, their intrusion into the sacred space of the Church, and how they formed part of a nascent (papered) administrative state that increasingly defined the centre/locality paradigm. For more information and to register, see https://dornsife.usc.edu/events/site/73/34609824879531/emsi-early-modern-british-history-with-chris-kyle/
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
April 14-16, 2021 The International Association for Neo-Latin Studies Presents an Online Conference: Digital Humanities and Neo-Latin Studies
This conference, held on zoom, presents a wide variety of projects and perspectives on Digital Neo-Latin Studies. For more information on the presentations and to register, see https://dnls.hypotheses.org/
Call for Papers: 97th Annual Meeting Medieval Academy of America, March 9-13, 2022
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies and medievalism studies. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from those working outside of traditional academic positions. The meeting will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and is committed to fostering conversation around the fifth-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Additional themes and threads of the meeting include: rethinking the global medieval, vulnerability and the ethics of care, queering the medieval, inter-religious coexistence and conflict, trade and cultural exchange and diplomacy and ambassadorial practices. Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. For more information, please consult:
https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting
DIGITAL RESOURCES
“Houston, we have a problem:” Erasing Black Scholars in Old English Literature.”
This article, posted at ACMRS Arizona, details experiences of Black students and professors as they work with premodern texts and grammars. The hyperlinks liberally splashed across this article all take the reader to powerful further research and commentary on the subject.
Check out the new digital critical edition of The Canterbury Tales:
https://www.canterburytalesproject.org/
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
On our website!
Check out videos of curator Ashley Dimmig’s presentation: Exploring Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery and MEMS faculty Dr. James Magruder’s presentations on Instrumental to Intellectual: Italian Female Artists, 1600s and Resurrection, Metamorphosis, and the Art of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age. http://mems.umbc.edu.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu
The MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Mark Your Calendars!!!! MEMS Colloquium: April 7: 7 PM
The Medieval and Early Modern Studies minor of UMBC’s Department of History hosts Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, an Associate Professor of Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Dr. Randell Upton’s primary research area is medieval music. Her recent work examines late fourteenth and early fifteenth century vocal music to discover evidence for the experiences of performers and listeners in the medieval past, recorded in surviving musical notation. Join us on Zoom for her lecture: “Listeners as Players, Music as Play.” For questions or further information, contact Laurel Bassett: lburgg1@umbc.edu.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://umbc-edu.zoom.us/j/87556785236?pwd=QlVQdEo2OXBIK3M2WG9DZ0MvajZZUT09
Meeting ID: 875 5678 5236
Passcode: 081181
One tap mobile
+13017158592,87556785236#,*081181# US (Washington DC)
Passcode: 081181
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Friday March 5, 4:00 PM: The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University presents “Making and Knowing in Sixteenth-Century Europe” with Pamela Smith (Columbia University)
Professor Smith is the founding director of The Making and Knowing Project at Columbia University that explores the intersections between artistic making and scientific knowing. The Project has now created a digital critical edition of an anonymous sixteenth-century French artisanal and technical manuscript. This digital edition includes transcription, English translation, encoding of text, multimedia annotations, analyses of techniques and a searchable format in French and English. This lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is requested and the form can be accessed at https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/cmrs-lecture-pamela-smith-columbia-university-making-and-knowing-sixteenth-century-europe.
Friday March 12, 12 PM: Yale Lectures in Late Antique & Byzantine Art and Architecture presents Africa in Late Antiquity: Faith, Politics, & Commerce Between the Mediterranean & The Red Sea
This online lecture will be presented by Dr. Andrea Achi from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Consult the following link for more information including ways to register: https://twitter.com/MedievalArtRes/status/1366315698394431496
Thursday March 18, 9 AM (CST): The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Presents A Roundtable on the Present and Future of Manuscript Studies
This Zoom roundtable will respond to Ralph Hanna’s pre-recorded talk “Adventures in Libraries: Thoughts on Epistemology.” Professor Hanna’s talk focuses on the lessons learned from his career studying medieval manuscripts and the stories of those who made, used, and collected them. This roundtable will continue this conversation; panelists will share their own adventures in libraries and consider the paths ahead for the next generations of manuscript scholars. To view the pre-recorded lecture and register for this free event, please consult: https://www.newberry.org/03182021-adventures-libraries-thoughts-epistemology.
Thursday March 18, 3:00 PM-4:15 PM: The Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Critical Race Conversations: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Black Life and Anti-Black Violence in the Early Modern World
This youtube event with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Cecile Fromont (Yale University) and Robin Mitchell (California State University Channel Islands) will discuss what it means to center the African continent in the study of the “early modern” and what kinds of conversations this study engenders in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. For more information, consult:
https://www.folger.edu/critical-race-conversations#Reading,%20Writing,%20and%20Teaching
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Call for Papers: 97th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America March 9-13, 2022 The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies and medievalism studies. We are particularly interested in receiving submissions from those working outside of traditional academic positions. The meeting will take place on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and is committed to fostering conversation around the fifth-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. Additional themes and threads of the meeting include: rethinking the global medieval, vulnerability and the ethics of care, queering the medieval, inter-religious coexistence and conflict, trade and cultural exchange and diplomacy and ambassadorial practices. Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2021. For more information, please consult: https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/2022AnnualMeeting
DIGITAL RESOURCES
“Houston, we have a problem:” Erasing Black Scholars in Old English Literature.”
This article, posted at ACMRS Arizona, details experiences of Black students and professors as they work with premodern texts and grammars. The hyperlinks liberally splashed across this article all take the reader to powerful further research and commentary on the subject.
Check out the new digital critical edition of The Canterbury Tales:
https://www.canterburytalesproject.org/
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
On our website!
Check out videos of curator Ashley Dimmig’s presentation: Exploring Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery and MEMS faculty Dr. James Magruder’s presentations on Instrumental to Intellectual: Italian Female Artists, 1600s and Resurrection, Metamorphosis, and the Art of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age. http://mems.umbc.edu.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu
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Welcome Back!
The MEMS bi-weekly e-newsletter shares information about events, conferences, calls for papers, student and faculty work in the field, and digital resources that enrich our understanding of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. If you have any items you would like to share in the newsletter, please send them to Laurel Bassett at lburgg1@umbc.edu.
CONGRATULATIONS TO CORBIN JONES!
Recent UMBC graduate Corbin Jones (M.A., 2020) has just been admitted to Cornell University's doctoral program with full funding! Corbin's research interests include British and North African travel writing of the Global Middle Ages. The attached photograph shows Corbin at the Bibliotheque nationale in Paris, studying the travels of the 14th century Moroccan judge ibn Battuta. Jones' studies in Paris were supported by a Dresher Center Graduate Student Fellowship and a Graduate Student Association travel grant. Look for Jones' story on the MEMS website in the coming weeks.
ON CAMPUS EVENTS
Mini-MEMS Lunch and Learn: February 24: 12:15-12:45 PM
Dr. James Magruder will share his talk: Resurrection, Metamorphosis, and the Art of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age on WebEx. Q and A will follow.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Tuesday February 16, 6:30-8:00 PM, Omohundro Institute presents "Mistress, Housemaid, Daughter, Spy: Servants and the Management of Household Gossip in 17th Century New England" with Melissa Johnson
The OI's Colloquium series is an ongoing seminar for scholars to present work in progress. Advanced registration is required. All participants read the pre-circulated paper and prepare to engage in generative feedback. This event is free and online registration is limited to 40 people. Use the link below for registration and further information.
Wednesday, February 17, 12:30-1:30 PM, Walters Art Gallery presents "New Eyes on Old Books: Unraveling the Mystery of the Walters Lace Manuscript" with curator Lynley Herbert and conservator Abigail Quandt
The De Bar Hours, likely created as a wedding gift for a young bride in early 14th century France, is an unusual manuscript with lacy rosettes cut into every one of its parchment margins. Its early date places it many centuries before other known lace books, so it has long been assumed that the cutting of the pages could not be original, but was just an 18th-century alteration meant to beautify the book. Lynley Herbert and Abigail Quandt reveal how they proved that the cutting was original to the manuscript's original creation ca. 1310, a fact that could make it the earliest known book of its kind. To register for this free event, go to:
https://thewalters.org/event/lace/
Friday February 19, 12:00 Noon and Friday March 19, 12:00 Noon: The Turn to the Medieval in Ethiopian Studies
This pair of webinars engages with the intersection of Medieval Studies and Ethiopian Studies over the past several years. Each offers the other a rich comparative (and sometimes connected) context for the study of Christian culture, including monasticism, hagiography, manuscript studies, and art and architecture, and both contribute to an exploration of what medieval Africa might entail.
The February webinar features Andrea Achi (Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum), Marie-Laure Derat (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Kristen Windmuller-Luna (Cleveland Museum of Art) and Felege-Selam Yirga (The University of Tennesse, Knoxville). For more information and to register for these webinars, consult:
https://www.ias.edu/hs/ias-ethiopian-studies-series
Thursday March 18, 3:00 PM-4:15 PM: The Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Critical Race Conversations: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Black Life and Anti-Black Violence in the Early Modern World
This youtube event with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Cecile Fromont (Yale University) and Robin Mitchell (California State University Channel Islands) will discuss what it means to center the African continent in the study of the early modern and what kinds of conversations this study engenders in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. For more information, consult:
https://www.folger.edu/critical-race-conversations#Reading,%20Writing,%20and%20Teaching
PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Call for Papers: Power, Patronage and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800-1500) in American Collections
The Index of Medieval Art (Princeton University), the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum (New York), and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University will host a conference to accompany the exhibition, Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500, presented at the Morgan Library from October 15, 2021 to January 23, 2022 . The conference runs January 13-15, 2022. For more information, including topics and categories for proposals, see http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-power-patronage-and-production-book-arts-from-central-europe-ca-800-1500-in-american-collections/
DIGITAL RESOURCES
For ongoing digital updates from the Medieval (academic) world, check out #medievaltwitter, #shakeRace, and #raceB4Race.
On our website!
Check out videos of curator Ashley Dimmig's presentation: Exploring Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery and MEMS faculty Dr. James Magruder's presentation on Instrumental to Intellectual: Italian Female Artists, 1600s. http://mems.umbc.edu.
For more information, please join the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Group: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/mems and see our website: www.mems.umbc.edu
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