The University of Bamberg hosts a programme focusing on Medieval Portals as Sites for Transformations. CFP for a conference in November has recently been posted

Workshop: Medieval Portals as Sites for Transformations
University of Bamberg
23.11.2016 – 24.11.2016

The University of Bamberg hosts a programme focusing on Medieval Portals as Sites for Transformations. The organisers are inviting contributions which deal with the use or function of medieval portals – processions, consecrations, ceremonies, meetings, weddings, venerations of relics etc. The conference also wishes to explore sacred urban topographies and the use of metaphorical representations of portals in pictorial representations. From earthly to the heavenly, from the bodily to the spiritual: How does this central idea of Christian transformation reflect the medieval portal? This is the question the Bamberger project aims to explore through iconographical, architectural, scientific and technical studies and in an interdisciplinary setting.

Special attention is given to the following types of portals:

• The Transept Portals in Paris
• The Portals in the Cathedral of St. Stephens in Vienna (Stephansdom)
• The St. Peter’s portal on Cologne
• The Portal of Judgement at the Cathedral in Laon
• The Portal of Mercy in the Cathedral in Bamberg

The conference is organised by Thomas Flum at the University of Bamberg

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Mittelalterliche Portale als Orte der Transformation

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Royal Portal in Chartres. Source: Wikimedia/Guillaume Piolle