Kalamazoo 2027: Inquiry and Artistry: In the Library, in the Workshop, in the Parlor

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. Click here for more information!

 

 

Issue Fourteen, Open Issue: Call for Submissions

Issue fourteen of Different Visions is the second of the journal’s open issues, which contain peer-reviewed essays on a variety of timely topics that are published when they are ready. We welcome the submission of individual articles and projects. Different Visions aims for inclusive publishing and welcomes a variety of approaches and topics reflecting the diversity of medieval visual and material culture. It publishes work that engages with all forms of critical theory, including Premodern Critical Race Studies, Gender Studies, the global Middle Ages, and Medievalism. It also welcomes projects that work at the intersection of medieval art history and the digital humanities. In addition, it seeks integrated, socially-engaged, or pedagogical projects that examine the role of medieval visual culture in our contemporary world. Please see our submissions page for more information.