Tue 13 Mar, 2018 International Center of Medieval Art at The Courtauld, Research Forum

All in the Family: The Byzantine imperial family of the C...

The Comnenian imperial family dominated the later 11th and 12th centuries in Byzantium: Emperor Alexios I, and his son and successor John II, ruled for a combined total of 62 years (1081-1143).  And the family was large: Alexios had nine children and John had eight, and most of these children…

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Wed 22 Feb, 2017 International Center of Medieval Art at The Courtauld

Local and Global: Medieval Art in an Age of New Nationalisms

This lecture will be LIVE-STREAMED on YouTube, and available for on-demand viewing shortly afterwards. In light of recent world events, this talk addresses some of the disciplinary questions about methodology and classification that underlie the study and teaching of medieval art today. It focuses on the tension between working intellectually…

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Wed 24 Feb, 2016 International Center of Medieval Art at The Courtauld

Reading and Seeing: the beginnings of book illumination a...

Much attention has been paid to the change of books from roll to codex form, largely accomplished by the fourth and fifth centuries, and the impact of this change on the illustration of books.  However, for some centuries the form of writing in the new codex format changed relatively little,…

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Find Out MoreReading and Seeing: the beginnings of book illumination and the modern discourse on ethnicity