Conference at U Princeton: Power, Patronage, and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections (Harvard co-organizer)

Power, Patronage, and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections

Princeton University Department of Art & Archaeology Conference ∙ January 13–15, 2022

https://bookarts.princeton.edu/

From October 15, 2021–January 23, 2022, the Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum in New York is hosting an exhibition ten years in the making: Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800–1500. The exhibition presents material that has never before been gathered together, treating topics including visual rhetorics of power in book media, the production and patronage of manuscripts, the relationship between vernacular and classical languages, and the position of imperial cities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Princeton conference, Power, Patronage, and Production: Book Arts from Central Europe (ca. 800–1500) in American Collections, expands the purview of the exhibition. The papers encompass material written in Czech, German, Hebrew, and Latin, made for both religious and non-religious contexts in the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth centuries. Most of the focal material is very little published; some papers present new looks at superstar examples based on cutting-edge findings. Themes include the networked relationships among centers of production, the representation of male and female patrons, early print culture, and the role of books in key developments for liturgy, private devotion, chronicle writing, and the law.

Organizers: Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University; Beatrice Kitzinger, Princeton University; Joshua O’Driscoll, Morgan Library & Museum; and Pamela Patton, Princeton University.