What are the reasons to discover, teach, preserve, exhibit, and experience an art so distant and yet so close to the twenty-first century?...

Dear Colleagues and Friends, the members of the Center for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled Rome in a Global World: Visual Cultures during the Carolingian Transition, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 14th to the 15th October 2019...

On the occasion of this celebration, we would like to personally invite you to a reception which will be held during the International Medieval Congress 2019 in Leeds...

Dear friends and colleagues, The art historical journal Convivium. Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean published by Masaryk University, the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of Lausanne celebrates its fifth anniversary...

Dear friends and colleagues, The Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History (Masaryk University) would like to kindly invite you to the lecture From Trace to Print: Histories of an Islamic Image Relic by Prof. Finbarr Barry Flood (New York University)...

Dear friends and colleagues, The Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History (Masaryk University) would like to kindly invite you to the lecture series Islam and Image: Beyond the Bilderverbot of Prof. F. Barry Flood held from May 13 to 17 in Hans Belting Library. The lectures will take place each day from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 1 to 3 p.m...

We would like to kindly invite you to a lecture of professor Yves Gallet Re-thinking 13th-century Mont-Saint-Michel. It will take place on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 p.m. in Hans Belting Library (the ground-floor of building “K” of the Faculty of Arts at the Masaryk University, Veveří 28). The event is organized by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies within the frame of StředověC JinaX lectures...

Dear friends and colleagues, The members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled Spaces of Initiation. Objects, Images, and Rituals in the Middle Ages, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 11th to the 13th March 2019...

Dear friends and colleagues, The members of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the conference entitled TRANSFORMED BY EMIGRATION. Welcoming Russian Intellectuals, Scientists, and Artists 1917–1945, which will take place in the Hans Belting Library from the 11th-13thFebruary 2019. ........

On Thursday December 13, we had the unique opportunity to organize a round table entitled Transcultural Spaces in Mediterranean, which consisted of contributions of two specialists currently post-doc at the Centre for Early Medieval Studies. Chiara Croci offered a lecture ........

The organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture by Dr. Francesca Dell'Acqua from the University of Salerno titled "The Power of Wisdom: The Virgin Mary and Moral–Doctrinal Authority in the Middle Ages". The lecture will take a place on Thursday, November 29th, in the Hans Belting Library. This lecture will explore a fundamental issue in the western society of the past as well as of the present: female leadership and authority........

On Thursday October 18 took place a lecture of Chiara Bordino, MSCA fellow of the Centre, entitled Byzantine Painting in the 13th Century: Constantinople, Asia Minor and the Balkans.......

From October 8 to October 10, the international conference “Liminality and the Medieval Art II” was held at the Hans Belting Library. Following up on a first conference in 2017, this year, the contributions regarding physical or imaginary places of transition in medieval art were conceived in pairs......

The International Summer School (Moravian) Middle Ages in the Mirror of the 20th century takes place at Masaryk University at the Hans Belting Library. The summer school is held in cooperation with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

More than a year has passed since the group of Migrating Art Historians got off the train at the railway station in Brno, after having walked 1500 km on foot. Today, we are setting off for a new journey: far less long and with a considerably smaller group, but interesting nonetheless. This year, our pilgrimage is going to start in Arles.

After the gathering in Scala, which was devoted to the topic of the Armenian cultural genocide, the organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies have prepared a new field trip to explore the monuments in the Caucasus. The journey which will take place from May 26th to June 2nd will be already our fourth expedition into the region.

Dear colleagues,
on behalf of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies we would like to cordially invite you to the conference Step by Step towards the Sacred: Ritual, Movement and Images in the Middle Ages, which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday (May 16-17th) in the Hans Belting Library.

The organisers of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Department of Art History would like to cordially invite you to the lecture by prof. Daniela Mondini titled Furtum Sacrilegum. The “Holy Heads” of Peter and Paul and a Lost Fresco Cycle in the Lateran Basilica in Rome. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, May 15th, at 18.00, in the Hans Belting Library. It will be devoted to the reliquaries containing the remains of St. Peter and St. Paul as well as to the currently-already-lost cycle of frescos in the Lateran Basilica.

The event, which took place at the university cinema of Scala in the early evening of May 10th, was marked by a shared consideration about the beauties of the Caucasus. The students of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies were trying to convey their experiences which they have gathered during several field trips into the region since 2016 to the attendees. In particular, they presented various pieces of information about Armenia - a country with a rich cultural history.

Since 2016, the Centre for Early Medieval Studies have already organised several study trips to explore the monuments of the medieval Caucasus. During these trips, we have not only collected a lot of new pieces of knowledge and intriguing questions, but also rich visual material - as well as considerations about how to share at least a part of it with you all. And so, we would now like to invite you all to our multi-genre meeting titled On Cultural Genocide, Memory and Beauty: The Art of Medieval Armenia.

After the introductory words by prof. Kroupa, the Head of the Centre for Early Medieval Studies, Ivan Foletti, presented his inaugurating professor-to-be lecture titled Step out of the Shade. Constantinople, Ravenny, Rome and the year 500 in the premises of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, on May 3, 2018.

On April 9-13th, a lecture series/block course by Katharina Meinicke (Universität Wien) titled The Umayyad Visual Culture between Continuity and Change took place in the Hans Belting Library. The course presented an overview of the visual culture of the empire of the first islamic dynasty, the Umayyads (AD 661-750), which was, figuratively speaking, a superpower on the crossroads, in the sense of both geography and history.

On Thursday, April 5, a public lecture from the series "Middle Ages, differently" took place in the Hans Belting Library. The lecture titled On the Path towards Eternity: The Face of the Empress between Illusion and Representation was presented by Teodora Georgievova.