PROGRAMME
Thursday 28th of June
11.00 Reception, talks, and manuscript display at the University Library’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC). Venue: 5th floor of the Main Library building, George Square.
Welcome by Rachel Hosker, Deputy Head of Special Collections (CRC).
Presentation by Aline Brodin, “From the Scriptorium to the Screen. Exploring medieval manuscripts in the digital age”.
Talks by Giulia Sagliardi, Emma Trivett and Manuel de Zubiria Rueda.
NB. A priori this event is only open to speakers and chairs (additional places will be subject to space availability).
14.00 Lunch break
15.00-15.30 General Registration. Venue: Hunter Building at Edinburgh College of Art (Lauriston Place, Ground floor)
Welcome and initial remarks (Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hunter Building)
15.30-17.00. Session I. Manuscripts in the Christian East. Chaired by Niels Gaul.
Elijah Hixson (Edinburgh), “The lost miniatures in Codex Sinopensis(Paris, BnF, supplément grec 1286), a sixth-century copy of the Gospel of Matthew”
Ketevan Mamasakhlisi (Tbilisi), “A few theological issues from the teachings of St. Amun”
Courtney Tomaselli (Harvard), “Teach me Good Judgement and Knowledge. King David as Spiritual Father in a Byzantine Book of Psalms”
Irma Mamasakhlisi (Tbilisi), “Healing miracles of Christ from the Gelati Gospels”
17.00-18.00 Keynote I. Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan (Yale).
“Models of Suffering: The Passion miniatures of the St Augustine Gospels and their iconographic sources”
20.00 Conference dinner
Friday 29th of June
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Hunter Building at ECA (Lauriston Place).
10.00-11.15 Session II. The Insular World I. Chaired by Heather Pulliam.
Jane Geddes (Aberdeen), “The earliest portrait of St Columba: his presence at St Gallen”
Christine Kemmerich (Bonn), “The Evangelist symbols in early medieval book illumination: the Book of Durrow in context”
Tina Bawden (Berlin), “Illuminating the elements”
11.30-13.00 Session III. Carolingian Europe and Ottonian Germany. Chaired by Jesús Rodríguez Viejo.
David Ganz (Berlin), “The initials in Berlin Philips 1741”
Ivana Jakovljevic-Lemcool (Belgrade), “Zodiacal imagery in early medieval manuscripts: appropriation and transmission of the Classical motif”
Jean-Louis Walther (Independent, Switzerland), “Les Tituli de la Bible de Moutier-Grandval”
Katharina Theil (Zurich), “Interplay between Figuration and Abstraction, Inside and Outside: The Abstract Goldsmith Cover of the Reichenau Gospels”
13.00 Lunch break
15.00-16.00 Keynote II. Prof. Michele Bacci (Fribourg).
“Dynamics of Artistic Interaction in the Mediterranean World After Antiquity: A Typological Approach”
16.15-17.10 Session IV. The Insular World II. Chaired by Heather Pulliam.
Colleen Curran (Oxford), “Fair words and fairer forms: the poetic function of the illustrations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11”
Stephanie McGucken (Edinburgh), “Illuminating the woman in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Images of Femininity and the Female body”
17.15-18.30 Session V. The Iberian Peninsula. Chaired by Jesús Rodríguez Viejo.
Roger Collins (Edinburgh), “The Beatus Problem”
Soledad de Silva y Verástegui (Basque Country), “Bibles, the Beatus Commentary and canonic collections: Three great illustrated manuscripts from tenth-century Hispania”
Jessica Sponsler (Pennsylvania College of A&D), “In the Pure Womb of the River: The Baptism of Christ in the Girona Beatus and theological dilemmas of tenth-century Iberia”
18.30 Concluding remarks and acknowledgments.
15th annual conference of the International Medieval Society-Paris (IMS-Paris) in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP) and the Centre d’Etude et de Recherches Antiques et Médiévales (CERAM), this year on the theme of “Truth and Fiction.”
«…FIERI FECIT» –– is the established wording, with which commissioners usually memorized their donations. Partly these cut deeply into the body and shape of a sacred space, as for example in S. Lorenzo fuori le mura, where Cencius Camerarius, treasurer of the Holy Chair, transformed the crypt over the martyr’s grave of Saint Lawrence. Far more common are donations of liturgical furnishings, such as the ciborium in S. Eustachio, possibly donated by Otto II, Count of Tusculum, around 1200. Apart from liturgical objects, panel or mural painting formed the preferred genre for the patrons, i.e. the famous «Last Judgement» (Vatican Museums), commissioned by two female commissioners of S. Maria di Campo Marzio around 1050.
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En este curso mostraremos la importancia del Mediterráneo como espacio de intercambios culturales y artísticos, así como de enfrentamientos y conflictos sociales durante la edad media y moderna. Mediante una visión multidisciplinar y diacrónica se estudiarán aspectos como la coexistencia de diversos credos o religiones y sus manifestaciones identitarias, el comercio como elemento de cohesión y difusión de modelos, así como las relaciones políticas y eclesiásticas entre las coronas de Castilla, Aragón, los territorios italianos y del sur de Francia mediante sus implicaciones artísticas. Esta visión diacrónica se verá completada con una actividad práctica que consistirá en una visita guiada a la ciudad de Tarragona donde se expondrá la importancia de esta urbe en el enclave mediterráneo.
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