Category Archives: Events

Lecture: David Ganz: Schreiben in Gold: Der Goldene Psalter von St. Gallen und die karolingische Ideologie der Goldschrift (Zürich, 24.09.2024)

Vortrag im Rahmen der interdisziplinären Ringvorlesung Wer schreibt, der bleibt: Schreiben und Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter, Zentrum der Zürcher Mediävistik, Universität Zürich, 22. September 2024. For more

Lecture: David Ganz: Die vernetzte Insel. Die ottonischen Prachthandschriften des Klosters Reichenau und ihre räumliche Verflechtung (Konstanz, 27.06.2024)

Vortrag im Rahmen der „Abende der Archäologie“ anlässlich der Großen Landesaustellung “Welterbe des Mittelalters – 1300 Jahre Klosterinsel Reichenau”, Badisches Landesmuseum in Kooperation mit dem Archäologischen Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg, Konstanz, 27. Juni 2023. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Moved by Books: Ornament, Movement and Musical Recitation in an Interreligious Perspective on Sacred Scripture (Lyon, 24.06.2024)

36th Congress of the Comité Internationale d’Historie de l’Art, Session The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts, organized by Alya Karame and Umberto Bongianino, June 23-28, 2024, Lyon. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Purple Writing: The Depiction of Inks for Sacred Scripture in the Carolingian Gospels (Mainz, 18.06.2024)

International Conference Creating Holiness: Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness, organized by Annett Martini, June 17-24, 2024, Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Baselitz avant la Lettre: Orthography turned upside down in an Einsiedeln manuscript of the 10th century (Basel, 12.06.2024)

Primary Source Workshop Breaking Visual Traditions in Pre-Modernity, organized by Masha Goldin, June 12, 2024, University of Basel, eikones. Center for the Theory und History of the Image. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Under Purple Skies. Dyes and Skies in Ottonian Manuscripts (Paris, 24.05.2024)

Colloque international La Couleur : matière, technique, perception. 23 et 24 Mai 2024, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art et Bibliothèque nationale de France. For more

Conf: Superficies–Surfaces, Skins and Textures. Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects, Zurich 18.01. – 20.01.2024

The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” and the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Zurich are organizing an international conference on “Superficies – Surfaces, Skins, and Textures. Sensory encounters with books and related multi-layered objects”. For the program and to participate online…

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures (San Antonio, Texas, 20.11.2023)

SCRIPT session Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s at the annual AAR/SBL conference, November 18-21, San Antonio, Texas, organized by Marianne Schleicher and James Watts. For more