14th Century Society sessions at the 49th International Congress on
Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan:
Friday, May 9, 10:00 am:
Guilds, Confraternities, and Merchant Companies in the Fourteenth
Century - Session 181, Fetzer 2016.
Organizer and Presider: Marie D’Aguanno Ito, Catholic Univ. of America
The Scuole of Fourteenth-Century Venice: Guilds, Confraternities, and
Merchant Companies - Alan M. Stahl, Princeton Univ.
The Nitty Gritty of Trade: Weighing, Measuring, Discounts and Allowances
in Late Medieval Lucchese Commercial Transactions
- Christine Meek, Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin
Nuisance and Necessity: Supervising the Leather Industry in Late
Medieval Lucca - Daniel Jamison, Univ. of Toronto
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Call for papers: Exhibiting the Renaissance (Kunsttexte 2015)
Deadline: Oct 31, 2014
Exhibiting art objects has certainly increased over the past decades.
There are more and more large scale exhibitions, some of which able to
attract masses of people. What is the driving force behind this
multitude of exhibitions? Does Renaissance, once a classical topic,
still play a significant role? In order to understand the outreach of
the Renaissance in public view, we would like to have insides on how
museums are dealing with their Renaissance departments. A museum is
seldom build of objects just of one single period, but collections and
their curators are competing over permanent exhibition space and
temporary exhibitions.
We would like to invite papers with reflections on the value of
Renaissance objects in the perception of museum strategies, competing
collections, possibilities of exhibition, etc. The value and perception
of the collection might vary because the museum strategy values the
Renaissance highly, because the curator is a successful promoter,
because the civic surroundings are especially open to Renaissance
topics, because the permanent collection already contains widely known
Renaissance objects, or because the exhibition projects focus on topics
which attract a mass of people.
A thematic issue on “Exhibiting the Renaissance” is projected with the
open access online journal Kunsttexte (www.kunsttexte.de) for the first
half of 2015. We invite papers (in German, English, French, Italian,
Spanish) for a deadline in October 2014. Please feel free to contact
the editors of the section Renaissance with any questions.
Send your proposals to both editors of Kunsttexte (Sektion Renaissance)
Angela Dressen ([log in to unmask])
Susanne Gramatzki ([log in to unmask]).
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