The Winter Meeting of the Delaware ValleyMedieval 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.