This year’s event is held at Villanova University (The Inn at Villanova, Room 101) from 10am-3pm in conjunction with the 46th annual Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference. The program's speakers include Em Friedman, Margo Weitzman, Brooke Adamski, Jessica Pagan, Ailie Posillico, Paolo Scartoni, and Kevin Lower. For more information:

https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/theology/events/pmr.html

The Winter Meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association takes place January 13-15 at Princeton University. DVMA members participate in the conference Power, Patronage and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in  American Collections, an international conference co-sponsored by The Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology, the Center for Culture, Society and Religion, the Program in Medieval Studies, the German Department and The Morgan Library and Museum. This is a virtual event with limited in-person attendance.  

The conference draws on the exhibition hosted October 15, 2021–January 23, 2022 at the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500, which presents material that has never before been gathered together, treating topics including visual rhetorics of power in book media, the production and patronage of manuscripts, the relationship between vernacular and Classical languages, and the position of imperial cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. 

The Princeton conference expands the purview of the exhibition. The papers encompass material written in Czech, German, Hebrew, and Latin, made for both religious and non-religious contexts in the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth centuries. Most of the focal material is very little published; some papers present new looks at superstar examples based on cutting-edge findings. Themes include the networked relationships among centers of production, the representation of male and female patrons, early print culture, and the role of books in key developments for liturgy, private devotion, chronicle writing, and the law.

For program and to register click here.

 Please join us for the CHAT Premodern Research Forum Symposium.

Epidemics and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World
Temple University
Friday, September 30, 9:00 am-6:30 pm

The purpose of our symposium will be to examine how Pre-Modern societies coped with epidemics that presented similar challenges and upheavals, comparable to the ones we are currently experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. What can the Pre-Modern past offer to better prepare us for our present and future? 

This event is organized by the Pre-Modern Research Forum Group at the Center for the Humanities at Temple University.

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How did they learn? How did they teach?: Exploring Knowledge Transmission from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern

Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022; 9am-6pm, Princeton University
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Much of our modern knowledge is the result of centuries of experiments driven by human desire to record and pass down successes, failures and lessons learned. The timespan from the periods often called "Late Antique" to that called "Early Modern" offers enormous scope to explore the historical record of knowledge transmission across diverse social contexts. While scholars in Baghdad, such as Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (9th c.), translated ancient medical texts, Theophilus (12th c.) distilled complex information to record proprietary painting techniques in his De diversis artibus. Just as Renaissance humanists classicized their curricula, Enlightenment thinkers sought to secularize scientific methods. In each case, knowledge was consistently safeguarded, amended, and transmitted. This conference will explore the many networks and forms of knowledge transmission active across the Late Antique and Early Modern periods. We will work within a wide span of geographical and chronological parameters as well as across disciplines..[READ MORE]