Staff profile
Dr Ursula Betka
Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Historical and European StudiesDMB E101, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 2380
- F: +61 3 9479 1942
- E: u.betka@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
BA Hons, BEd Hons, PhD (Melbourne).
Area of study
Art History
Brief profile
Dr Ursula Betka is currently teaching Art and Cultural history of Medieval Europe c600-1200, Early Christian Rome & Byzantium, and Medieval & Early Renaissance Italy. Her research interests include: Icons and Marian devotion in Trecento Italy; The Orders and the role of the laity in artistic patronage; Confraternity devotional ritual and social service in late medieval Italy; Illuminated Laudario manuscripts in fourteenth century Italy; Pilgrimage sites and cult objects in early Byzantine Syria; Byzantine and early Italian icon paintings on wood – theology, methodology and workshop methods.
Research specialisation
- Art History
- European History
Teaching units
ARH2/3AOB - Art of Byzantium. ARH2/3IAS - Italian Art and Society C1250-1450. ARH2/3MEU - Medieval Europe c.600 - c.1200.
Recent publications
Betka, U 2001, Marian Images and Laudesi Devotion in Late Medieval Italy, ca.1260-1350. Ph.D dissertation, The University of Melbourne (UMI Michigan, 2002).
Betka U, Co-editor with Burke, J, Buckley, P Hay, K Stevenson A & Scott, R 2006, Byzantine Narrative. Papers in Honour of Roger Scott, (eds.). J AABS, Byzantina Australiensia 16.
Betka, U 2006, ‘Icon and Narrative. Commemorating Saint Francis in Assisi’ in Byzantine Narrative. Papers in Honour of Roger Scott, Eds. J. Burke, with U. Betka, P. Buckley, K. Hay, A. Stevenson & R. Scott, AABS, Byzantina Australiensia 16, Melbourne, 303-319.
Betka, U 2008, Catalogue entries, with S.Panayatova, Three miniatures from a Laudario, (Melbourne 2008), Macmillan, Catalogue Entry.
Research projects
L‘The Laudesi confraternity of Sant’Agnese in Florence – artistic patronage and the illuminated hymn book in context’ in Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, proceedings from the Exhibition Conference, SLV 29-31 May 2008. ‘The Laudario: A Choir Book for the Laity’ in Margaret M. Manion, History of the Italian Illuminated Choir Book (Macmillan, Australia, 2009).
The Medieval Italian Workshop. Painters, Illuminators and Patrons (Monograph).
