The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique

Dear colleagues,

we cordially invite you to the international conference The Jeweled Materiality of Late Antique / Early Medieval Objects and Texts | From Cloisonné to Stained Glass to Experimental Poetry (4th–9th Centuries), which will take place on November 11-12 in the Hans Belting Library.

This conference wishes to expand and collectively rethink the “cumulative aesthetics” of the long late antiquity ranging from the 4th to the 9th century by examining material artefacts and literary texts which are, in one way or another, rooted in what came to be called the “jeweled style”. The aim of the conference is to offer a shared interdisciplinary platform to study late antique aesthetic developments across different media and territories (especially late Roman and Merovingian Gaul, the British Isles, the Italian peninsula, Hispania, and Northern Africa) by bringing together specialists from different disciplines, including, but not limited to, art history, aesthetics, classical philology, and archaeology.

The conference will be held under the auspices of the project “Fragmented Images. Exploring the Origins of Stained-Glass Art” (GA23-05243S) funded by the Czech Science Foundation.

We are looking forward to seeing you

Centre for Early Medieval Studies