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Étiqueté : artefact

Appel à contribution : « ‘Instrumenta altaris’. Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy », Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 20-22 janvier 2026, date limite le 15 octobre 2025

In the Middle Ages, Christian liturgy was far more than a sequence of prayers and ceremonies: it structured religious practice, shaped sacred space, and gave material form to the expression of faith. Objects, vestments, and books played a central role in this framework, endowed with a visual, tactile, and symbolic language that embodied the theology of the sacred. The International Conference Instrumenta altaris: Ritual Artefacts and Their Images for Medieval Liturgy seeks to refocus attention...

Cycle de séminaires : “The Byzantine World: The Arts in the East Roman Empire from the Fourth to the Fifteenth Centuries”, du 14 au 18 juillet 2025

From the transformation of the Roman Empire in the late third century CE to the European discovery of the Americas in the fifteenth century, Byzantium mattered, and its legacy still matters today. The socio-political entity that developed from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 by Constantine the Great and ended with Constantine XI in 1453 is central to the history of the Eurasian and African continents and determined their societies, religions, cultures. This course will...

Séminaire : Term Fellow’s Presentation VII – Jacques Aymeric Nsangou, Léa Roth et Lucky Ugbudian, Florence, Villa I Tatti, le 4 mars 2025, de 17h30 à 19h30

Join us as our Term Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects and discuss their work in progress. 17:30 – 18:00 Jacques Aymeric Nsangou (I Tatti/Getty Foundation Fellow) Material Culture of African Resistance to the Slave Trade: The Case of the Angolares of São Tomé (16th-19th century) 18:00 – 18:30 Léa Roth (Marlène and Paolo Fresco Fellow in African Studies) From the Gulf of Benin to the Italian Maritime Republics : Cosmopolitanism and the Invention of...