Colloquium: “Secular Knowledge in Medieval Art,” XIII ARS MEDIAEVALIS COLLOQUIUM, Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), 6-8 October 2023

A substantial part of the scientific knowledge developed in the Middle Ages was inherited from Roman (in Western Europe) and Greek (in the Byzantine and Islamic domains) culture. However, new cognitive procedures were also developed in medieval societies, among them some related to vision, astronomy or zoology. Knowledge of the secular world was translated and codified in the three domains of the Middle Ages (Latin, Greek and Arabic) through complex and varied visual devices. These ingenious images allow us to understand how the procedures of thought and memory were established. With these iconic creations, the most dynamic cultural centres sought to provide themselves with didactic and mnemonic tools to say, think or remember the universe, earthly creatures or celestial realities more efficiently. Both the European continent and the Mediterranean shores witnessed the fluid communication between different domains in order to advance in the knowledge of the created and populated space, translating, codifying or reinterpreting what others had proposed before, or else enlightening new formulas and channels to solve the questions of people who intensified their self-awareness.

PROGRAM

6 de octubre (Aguilar de Campoo: Sede Fundación Sta. Mª la Real)

Presidencia de sesión: Alejandro García Avilés (Universidad de Murcia)  

08.45 h.: Recepción de asistentes

09.15 h.: Presentación e inauguración del Coloquio

09.45 h.: Kathrin Müller (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Fundamental Knowledge. Personifications of the artes liberales on High Medieval Liturgical Objects

10.30 h.: Debate

10.45 h.: Pausa-café

11.15 h.: Anna Caiozzo (Université d’Orleans): Entre images scientifiques, merveilles (terrestres) de la Création et imaginaires religieux

12.00 h.: Martin Schwarz (Universität Basel): The Crucifixion Eclipse and the Illumination of Philosophy in the Vie de Saint Denis (BnF, fr. 2090)

12.45 h: Debate  

Sesión de tarde (Aguilar de Campoo: Sede Fundación Sta. Mª la Real)

Presidencia de sesión: Mª Teresa López de Guereño (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)  

16.00 h.: Laura Fernández Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Entre fábulas y estrellas errantes. La luna en el imaginario alfonsí

16.45 h.: Debate

17.30 h.: Visita al monasterio de Santa María la Real  

7 de octubre (Saldaña. Villa romana La Olmeda)

Presidencia de sesión: Susana Clavo Capilla (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  

09.15 h: Desplazamiento en autobús a la villa romana La Olmeda

10.30 h.: Licia Buttà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): La danza en los tratados morales y de cortesía y su visualización en el relato poético narrativo en la Edad Media

11.15 h.: Begoña Cayuela (Universitat de Barcelona): Del stemma al grafo y viceversa. Los diagramas de las llamadas Tablas genealógicas en la miniatura hispana medieval: origen y pervivencias.

11.35 h.: Nerea Maestu Fonseca (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Vislumbres de cometas entre rayos y truenos: astrometeorología y teoría cometaria en la Edad Media.

11.55 h.: Debate

12.30 h.: Visita a la villa romana de La Olmeda

14.00 h.: Comida (a cargo de la organización)

16.00 h.: Visita al arte medieval de Cisneros  

8 de octubre (Aguilar de Campoo: Monasterio Sta. Mª la Real)

Presidencia de Sesión: Fernando Gutiérrez Baños (Universidad de Valladolid)  

09.30 h.: Marius Hauknes (University of Notre Dame): Representing the Origins of Human Knowledge

10.15 h.: Hanna Wimmer (Universität Hamburg): Visualising Logic in the Middle Ages

11.00 h.: Debate

11.30 h.: Descanso

12.00 h.: Rosa Rodríguez Porto (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): Incidentiae: Tiempo, espacio y sincronía en la historiografía medieval

12.45 h.: Debate

13.00 h:  Conclusiones y perspectivas

13.15 h.: Clausura y entrega de certificados a los asistentes  

Register here: https://tienda.santamarialareal.org/es/productos/detalles/xiii-coloquio-ars-mediaevalis-saberes-seculares-en-el-arte-medieval/761


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Rachel M. Carlisle is an art historian specialized in the art of northern Europe (c. 1400-1600). She holds a PhD from Florida State University and a Master of Arts degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her current research interests include materiality of late medieval and early modern objects, transalpine exchanges, patronage and collecting practices, the reception of antiquity during the early modern period, and development of print technologies.

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