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• 15 sep 2016

  Kalamazoo

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Walruses, Whales and Narwhals

  Maritime Ivories in Western Europe, 900-1500

  In the history of carved ivories, maritime mammals have often been eclipsed by the elephant, considered as a nobler ivory to which walrus or whale ivory would only be a poor man's substitute. But this historiographical view is not without its shortcomings, as not only did walrus hunting play a significant role in the first European explorations toward the west, but the trade for those ivories went as far as the Islamic world and even the Far East. This session at the 52^nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, sponsored by the National Museum of Scotland, aims to address the variety of questions posed by the maritime ivories: how the raw material was collected, how it was traded, the workshops that carved them and their specific symbolic value in medieval treasuries

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• 07 jan 2016

  Paris

  Study days - Middle Ages

  Emblems and broaches: objects that travel

  Musée de Cluny – Institut national d'histoire de l'art joint program: Medieval artefacts

  Le domaine médiéval de l’Institut national d'histoire de l'art, en partenariat avec le Musée de Cluny, porte un programme de journées d’étude bisannuelles dédiées à la place de l’objet dans les usages et dans les modèles de représentation médiévaux. Chacune de ces journées propose à des archéologues, historiens de l'art, historiens et historiens de la littérature de se rencontrer autour d’un type d’artefact qui sert de thème fédérateur.

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