Ladies Playing Trictrac with Zodiacal Degree Divination, detail in the Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch (Regensburg, after 1491). Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek, Cpg 832, fol. 50r.
Nina Rowe and Eliza Garrison
62nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
May 13-15, 2027
In person only
CALL FOR PAPERS
Objects and images created over the course of the Middle Ages manifest a range of strategies for visualizing and concretizing knowledge. Diagrams could pictorialize theological hermeneutics, sculptures could bear traces of the techniques used in their own production, and figurative illuminations could capture practical wisdom for corporeal well-being, cultivation of land, or the movement of the stars, among many possible examples. We invite papers structured as case-studies, revealing the medieval intersections of art and knowledge in arenas ranging from the circles of ecclesiastics and courtiers to urban artistic ateliers to the domestic abodes of burghers.
DEADLINE: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
CONTACT: Please send inquiries and abstracts to Eliza Garrison (Professor of Art History, Middlebury College) and Nina Rowe (John L. Marion Professor of Art History, Fordham University) at: egarriso@middlebury.edu and nrowe@fordham.edu.