Laura stopped off in Ghent on her way to the recent ‘Transnationalism at Court’ event in Liège, and it was an ideal opportunity for some project-related sightseeing. In this series of blog posts, Laura considers the famous ‘Ghent altarpiece’, from Flemish artist Jan van Eyck.
Researcher Christophe Masson reflects on the latest MALMECC study day, an academic tour of Europe in search of the cultural influences of papal Avignon…
As well as researching and writing, a large part of academic work is presenting your findings. Christophe’s work is featured in the recently published conference proceeding, La Paix de Fexhe (1316) et les révoltes dans la Principauté de Liège et dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux. Here, he presents a post which looks at life in the courts of the prince-bishops of Liège. drawing on some of the themes of his paper.
What do you leave out when you only have 30 seconds to explain your research? That was the challenge facing Laura and our other researchers recently in the context of our upcoming project videos. In this post, Laura explains some of her more painful editorial decisions.
In the second of her posts on modern views of the Middle Ages, Laura considers how the work of the engaging historian is a careful balancing act between over-simplification and mind-boggling detail. Does a simplistic view of the Middle Ages hide interesting facts, and darker truths, from a non-specialist audience?
In the first of a new series of posts on the perception and reality of the Middle Ages, Laura announces a public engagement activity and considers why the imagery of the medieval era has been so often used to glorify war.
The second study day hosted by the MALMECC project (2nd November 2018) was devoted to the phenomenon of translingualism, in our case how phenomena—be they concepts like courtliness, musical or literary forms, or for that matter individuals themselves—pass between linguistic zones.
In the last of her posts on the Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny, Laura considers he Tree of Jesse, a unique surviving monumental sculpture.
In this post, Laura steps slightly out of the MALMECC time period to write about Lady Anne Clifford and the ‘Great Picture’, an important work of female patronage now housed at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, Cumbria
In my last post I looked at artworks from the castle at Runkelstein in what is now northern Italy inspired by popular courtly romances and epics. In this piece, I turn to murals from around the same period in Vienna inspired by the rather different court poet, Neidhart von Riuwental, and in rather less grand surroundings…
