Daily Archives: 10 September 2015

The Medici Archive Project

The Medici Archive Project is offering a new online educational program in Italian paleography and archival studies for the A.Y. 2015 – 2016. The course is comprised of two components: an online course, which is divided into three modules, and an onsite seminar in Florence.

Reflecting increased interest from scholars at every stage of their careers, but especially the needs of students attempting archival research in Italy for the first time, our new modular program will provide students with both a firm introduction to working in Italian archives and the confidence to read, understand, and use archival material as an integral part of their research.

The current offer is a redesign and expansion of our previous educational courses. For the first time, students can now pick and choose from diverse modules suited to their interests. Moreover, students will be taught using our new online teaching tool developed with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that allows students to collaborate online in the transcription of high quality digital reproductions of archival documents. The Fall semester will conclude with a standalone two-week seminar in Florence.

The syllabus can be found at: www.medici.org/educational-programs

Questions and queries should be addressed to: education@medici.org

Some financial aid may be available to successful applicants undertaking most or all of the four modules.

Prof. Dagmar Eichberger, Public Lectures @ The University of Melbourne

The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100-1800) presents:

“Herzschmerz – Love and Pain: Representing the Heart in Early Modern Art”, Prof. Dagmar Eichberger (University of Trier; Heidelberg University)

Date: Thursday 17 September
Time: 6:15pm
Venue: Singapore Theatre, Basement, Melbourne School of Design (Architecture), The University of Melbourne, Parkville
Registration: http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/s/1182/index.aspx?sid=1182&pgid=6541&gid=1&cid=10065&ecid=10065&post_id=0

This paper investigates the contexts in which the image of a heart-shaped object could be used in order to evoke a range of different meanings. Human love and magic, divine love and faith, the passion of Christ and the sorrows of the Virgin Mary are some of the most prominent associations invoked by the heart in the early modern period and beyond. The heart can also be used in a more allegorical context to signify wrath and envy. Thus the heart is often employed as a symbol for compassion (or lack of compassion), a tradition that continued well into the modern period as Wilhelm Hauff’s novel The Cold Heart and other literary texts convey.

Dagmar Eichberger is part of an EU-funded research project, Artifex, at the University of Trier and is Professor in the Department of Fine Arts in Heidelberg. With Charles Zika she edited Dürer and his Culture (1998). She wrote Leben mit Kunst – Wirken durch Kunst (2002), and edited several books on women and the arts in early modern Europe: Women of Distinction. Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria (2005) and Women at the Burgundian Court (with Anne-Marie Legaré). Her next publication will be Visual Typology in Early Modern Europe: Continuity and Expansion (edited with Shelley Perlove).

Dagmar will also be speaking in the same week as part of the Kerry Stokes collection Lecture Series:

“Women who Read are Dangerous’ Illuminated Manuscripts and female book collections in the early Renaissance”

Date: Tuesday 15 September
Time: 6:15pm
Venue: Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville
More info on the Kerry Stokes Collection Lecture Series: http://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/5408-women-who-read-are-dangerous-illuminated-manuscripts-and-female-book