Art in the Middle Ages in Hildesheim

The Forum, “Kunst des Mitttelalters” organises its third conference in Hildesheim in September 2015

Intended as an open colloquium occurring biannually at rotating sites, the Forum seeks to bring together research and researchers on different fields, regions and periods and to serve—as its name suggests—as a forum for ideas pertaining to the study of medieval art. Each individual meeting of the Forum Medieval Art will have a specific focus. The conference is planned by the Forum for Medieval art, a part of the German Art Historical Society (Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft)

The programme has not yet been published, but a series of interesting symposiums are being planned:

•  New insights into Bishops’ Palaces and Abbeys in Eastern Central Europe AD 900 -1300
• Bishops in the high Middle Ages
• European and Mediterranean trade. mobility and cultural horizons AD 600 -1200
• HAS VALVAS FVSILES – A 1000 years of the Bernward-door in Hildesheim
• The elite landscape around the Merseburger Cathedral and the architecture in Sachsen AD 1000 -1100
• Carolingian Art and the quest for authenticity
• Jewellery between Early and Late Middle Ages
• Mobility and exchange in the Art of the Early Middle Ages
• New research into Bamberg Cathedral from AD 1000 – 1300
• New research into Italian art in the Early and High Middle Ages
• New research into liturgical vestments in the Middle Ages until AD 1200
• Ornaments between aesthetics and function in Early Medieval Manuscripts
• Sacred Topographies
• Epigraphy and it contribution to dating of art
• Founder and memorials from the Brunones to the Welfs
• The role of Hildesheim in wider Europe in the Middle Ages
• Stories of origin of pieces of art, techniques. Materials etc. in the Early and High Middle Ages
• Wall-paintings in the High Middle Ages

III Forum Kunst des Mittelalters
Hildesheim in Germany
16.09.2015 – 19.09.2015

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