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NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ❗

We are pleased to announce the new call for papers of The Open Edition Journal Frontières, R***e d'archèologie, historie & historie de l'art:

"Les frontières du sonore. Autour des sons et de la danse: identités, seuils et tolérances, de l'Antiquité au Moyen Âge"

Coordination:

Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer (Institute Catholique de Toulouse, UR CERES - Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès, PLH-ARTEMIS)

Angela Bellia (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale)

Licia Buttà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

Deadline for the Submission: June 2025 - April 30 2026

For more information:

https://journals.openedition.org/frontieres/3793

❗NEW ACTIVITY❗

Images of Dancing Women in the Middle Ages: Joy and Sorrow

Project Mudanza and Iconodansa will attend the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies hosted by the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

The Project will attend on May 9 with three different Sessions: 155, 237, 289 all dedicated to the iconography of dance in the Middle Ages 💃🏻

Link Sessions: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1057

Link to session 155 (1): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6333

Link to session 237 (2): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6627

Link to session 289 (3): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6628

❗NEW ACTIVITY❗

Images of Dancing Women in the Middle Ages: Joy and Sorrow

Project Mudanza and Iconodansa will attend the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies hosted by the Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo

The Project will attend on May 9 with three different Sessions: 155, 237, 289 all dedicated to the iconography of dance in the Middle Ages 💃🏻

Link Sessions: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1057

Link to session 155 (1): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6333

Link to session 237 (2): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6627

Link to session 289 (3): https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/6628

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💃🏻 Golden calf

🔎 On the left Moses destroys the Tablets of the Law while in the center the Israelites dance holding hands around the Golden Calf on top of a column, form the Munich Weltchronik, Germany, 1493

📌München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Ms. Rar. 287, f. 31 r

TextDance 📜

The Golden Calf: Dance of Idolatry

Cumque appropinquasset ad castra, vidit vitulum et choros; iratusque valde proiecit de manu tabulas et confregit eas ad radices montis

Liber Exodus 32:19

München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Ms. Rar. 287, f. 31r

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💃🏻 Dance of Jephthah's daughter

🔎 Miniature within a frame. Jefthah's daughter leaving the city gates welcomes her father by playing the violin; further down she is sacrificed in the flames, from Augsburg gothic Bible, Germany, 1422

📌Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 2 Cod 50 (Cim. 74), f. 167r

TextDay 📜

Jephthah's Daughter: The Dance of Sacrifice

'Revertenti autem Iephte in Maspha domum suam occurrit unigenita filia cm tympanis et choris: non enim habebat alios liberos'

Liber Iudicum 11:34

Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek, Ms. 2 Cod 50 (Cim. 74), f. 167r

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💃🏻 Glorification of David

🔎 Miniature in the lower margin. David, with Goliath's head on his sword, is welcomed by the women of Israel at the city gates, from the Bible of the Bibliothèque Municipale de Tours, France, 1495-1505

📌 Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. 52, f. 184v

TextDance 📜

Glorification of David: the Dance of Triumph

'Porro cm reverterentur, cm rediret David, percusso Philisthaeo, egressae sunt mulieres de universis urbibus Israel cantantes chorosque ducentes in occursum Saul regis in tympanis et in canticis laetitiae et in sistris. Et praecinebant mulieres ludentes atque dicentes: Percussit Saul milia sua, et David decem milia sua'

Liber I Samuelis 18:6-7

Tours, Bibliotheque municipale, Ms. 52, f. 184v

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💃🏻Salome's Dance

🔎 Full-page miniature on two registers on a gold background. In the upper register Salome, richly dressed, dances during Herod's banquet; in the lower one Salome offers Herodias the head of the Baptist after his beheading; from the Gospel Book of Munich, Germany, XI

📌Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 4453, f. 107r