CFP: ‘Hurt and healing: people, texts, and material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean’ – 19th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies (University of Birmingham) (deadline 21st April 2018)

Hurt and Healing: people, texts, and material culture in the Eastern Mediterranean’.

The 19th Annual CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium

2nd June 2018

The Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 19th Postgraduate Colloquium of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

The concepts of hurt, trauma and healing cross between the different disciplines that deal with Eastern Mediterranean. The colloquium aims to explore transformations and multifarious dimensions of the notions of trauma and wreckage, and their opposition, healing, from the Late Antiquity to the Present.

Whilst serving as antitheses to one another they are also complementary. After destruction and breakage, comes the need for repair. However, when a broken textile’s ripped edges are joined again, the visible seam signifies the damage that has happened. Trauma and healing are key concepts in medicine, psychology, and sociology. However, political ideology has constantly used them in order to justify the rising and the existence of authoritarian regimes. In the past, medicine, saints, and magic offered different ways for healing the body and the soul. The current aim of restoration practices is to heal remnants of cultural heritage after damage and to prevent damage with appropriate conservation strategies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Healing power of saints and healing people in society;
  • Medicine and magic;
  • Cultural heritage and material culture: restoration and preservation practices, as well as preventive actions for the preservation;
  • The individual aspects of trauma, especially in relation to the politics of gender, sexuality, class, race, and identity (sexual abuse, domestic violence, shame and fear, death and mourning or melancholia);
  • Collective experiences of trauma (war, genocide, terrorism, victims and perpetrators, practices of memory and oblivion);
  • Migration from the Late Antiquity to the current migration crisis and harrowing events in refugee camps;
  • Public health and medical, therapeutic approaches to illnesses and trauma;
  • Texts and images related to medical practices

Papers of approximately 20 minutes related to any of the fields covered by Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies are welcome. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words no later than Saturday 21st April 2018 to 2018cbomgscolloquium@gmail.com.  Applicants will be notified of selection by 28th April 2018.

 

For more information click here: https://cbomgs2018colloquium.wordpress.com/

New Book roundup: Boydell & Brewer, 2018

Boydell & Brewer have announced their new publications for 2018. You can see the full list here: https://boydellandbrewer.com/media/wysiwyg/Catalogues/Medieval_Studies_Catalogue_-_2018.pdf 

Here are four that were featured in the Boydell & Brewer: Medieval Herald 32.

Frisians and their North Sea Neighbours
Frisians and their North Sea Neighbour
Although Frisians neighboured Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Saxons and Danes in north-western Europe, the details of their lives, communities and culture have remained little-known. Why is this? Well, largely because Frisia and Frisian have meant different things to different people through time, and partly because Frisians had no tradition of writing until relatively late. We trust that this new collection, edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger, will help change that and broaden knowledge of and interest in the previously mysterious Frisians.
Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547, by Dr Rhianydd Biebrach
Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547, by Dr Rhianydd Biebrach
Despite the modest distances that separate them, monuments in south Wales can differ greatly from those in north Wales or the west of England. And although they can tell us much about religious and cultural practices of the time and place, they have until now been sadly understudied. Rhianydd Biebrach explains their special significance, reveals her two favourite monuments and how she undertook her extensive research (losing her dining table in the process). And why we should all (continue to) be grateful to Michael Praed.
The Saint and the Saga Hero- Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature
The Saint and the Saga Hero: Hagiography and Early Icelandic Literature, by Dr Siân E. Grønlie
While they might not seem to be natural literary bedfellows, Siân E. Grønlie’s new book explains the profound impact that the medieval saint’s life had on the saga literature of Iceland. Predating sagas by several centuries, the Latin lives of saints could, in some ways, be said to provide a model for the (anti-)heroes of the later written sagas, though these protagonists had of course usually led largely un-saintly lives. Here Dr Grønlie provides a quick introduction to both genres and guides us through the results of their intermingling.
The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy
The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy: Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio, by Dr Laura Chuhan Campbell
Dr Campbell uses the figure of Merlin to demonstrate how language and culture shaped different takes on the same character and story. And what an ideal focus he makes, for within him texts, languages, events real and fictional all converged. Crucially, the language barrier between France and Italy proved highly porous and the fluidity of cultural exchange brought new translations with new narrative possibilities. Dr Campbell explains the remarkable process.

Conference: New Light on Old Manuscripts; Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies, 25–27 April 2018

Austrian Academy of Sciences Sitzungssaal Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 1010 Vienna, Austria

“New Light on Old Manuscripts: Recent Advances in Palimpsest Studies” brings together an international assembly of scholars who have been in the forefront of palimpsest studies in recent years, either in reading and analysing palimpsests texts, or in making them legible through advanced imaging and image processing methods. The conference will also feature work that has been accomplished in the course of the Sinai Palimpsests Project (http://sinaipalimpsests.org).

See full programme here: https://rchivecom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/palimpsests-conference-programme-25-27-2018.pdf

Programme:

WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL 2018

09:00–10:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten

Michael B. Phelps – The Sinai Palimpsests Project: its History, Philosophy, and Contributions

Claudia Rapp – The Palimpsest Corpus at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Preliminary Observations

Giulia Rossetto – Greek under Arabic: Behind the Lines of Sinaiticus arabicus NF 66

10:30–11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:00–12:30 Moderator: Otto Kresten

Pasquale Orsini – Greek Scripts, Books and Texts: New Materials from Sinai

Agamemnon Tselikas – Textual Observations on Some Sinai Majuscule Palimpsests

Steve Delamarter – Getatchew Haile The Ethiopic Undertext of Sinai Greek NF 90: Discovery and Analysis

12:30–14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00–14:45 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner

Damianos Kasotakis – Implementing Spectral Imaging in the Sinai Desert

Kenneth Boydston – Beyond Discovery: Bringing More Good Things to Light

14:45–15:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

15:00–16:00 Moderator: Manfred Schreiner

Keith T. Knox – Recovery of Erased Text Using Unsupervised Methods

Roger L. Easton Jr. – Customized Processing of Multispectral Imagery of Palimpsests Based on Spectral Statistics

Dave Kelbe – Is it Magic? The Science Behind Image Processing: Perspectives and Possibilities

16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:30–17:15 Moderator: Bernadette Frühmann

Michael B. Toth – Dispersed Palimpsest Offers Digital Insight into St. Catherine’s Library

Doug Emery – Reflections on the Digital Palimpsest: Data Modeling and Data Management

THURSDAY, 26 APRIL 2018

09:00–10:00 Moderator: Ernst Gamillscheg

Sebastian P. Brock – What Can Be Learnt, and What Not, from the Experience of the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests

Grigory Kessel – Codex Arabicus (Sinai Arabic 514) Revisited

10:00–10:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

10:15–11:30 Moderator: Basema Hamarneh

Christa Müller-Kessler – A Florilegium of Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsests from St. Catherine’s Monastery

Alain J. Desreumaux – L’apport des palimpsestes du Sinaï à la codicologie araméenne christopalestinienne et aux versions anciennes des textes bibliques

11:30–12:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

12:00–13:00 Moderator: Kurt Smolak

Michelle P. Brown – Arabic NF 8 and the Latin Manuscripts of St. Catherine’s, Sinai

Heinz Miklas – ‘Excavating’ the Slavonic Palimpsests in the New Sinaitic Finds

13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30–16:00 Moderator: Hans-Jürgen Feulner

Zaza Aleksidze – Dali Chitunashvili Palimpsest N/Sin Geo 7 Kept at the St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai (Identification of the Texts)

Bernard Outtier – New Insights in Christo-Palestinian Aramaic and Georgian Literatures

Jost Gippert – New Light on the Caucasian Albanian Palimpsests of St. Catherine’s Monastery

16:00–16:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:30–18:00 Moderator: Katharina Kaska

Irmgard Schuler – Imaging for Manuscript Inspection

Simon Brenner – Photometric Stereo for Palimpsest Analysis

Leif Glaser – X-Ray Fluorescence Investigations on Erased Text Written in Iron Gall Ink

Ivan Shevchuk – Full Field Multispectral Imaging as a Tool for Text Recovery in Palimpsests

18:30 DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS

FRIDAY, 27 APRIL 2018

09:00–11:00 Moderator: Andreas E. Müller

Felix Albrecht – Chiara Francesca Faraggiana di Sarzana – A Carbonized Septuagint Palimpsest of the Libri Sapientiales in Biblical Majuscule, Codex Taurinensis, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, C.V. 25 (Rahlfs-Ms. 3010): Its Text and Context

Jana Grusková – Giuseppe De Gregorio – Neueste Einblicke in einige palimpsestierte Handschriftenunikate aus den griechischen Beständen der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

Bernard H. Stolte – Editing the Basilica and the Role of Palimpsests. The Case of Vindob. Suppl. gr. 200

11:00–11:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11:30–13:00 Moderator: Christian Gastgeber

Dieter Harlfinger – Palimpsest-Forschung am Beispiel der Athener Handschrift EBE 192 mit juristischen Texten und Aristoteles-Kommentaren

André Binggeli – The Making of a Greek Palimpsest from the Patriarchal Library in Istanbul

Carla Falluomini – The Gothic Palimpsests: New Readings and Discoveries

13:00–14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30–16:00 Moderator: Bernhard Palme

Peter E. Pormann – The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: Between Philology and Digital Humanities

Ronny Vollandt – Palimpsests from Cairo and Damascus: A Comparative Perspective from the Cairo Genizah and the Qubbat al-Khazna

Alba Fedeli – A Few Remarks on Qur’anic Palimpsests

16:00–16:15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

16:15–17:45 Moderator: Gerda Wolfram

Andreas Janke – Challenges in Working with Music Palimpsests

András Németh – Interactive Learning of Palimpsest Research: Virtual Guided Tour from the Invisible to the Abstract Reconstruction

Gregory Heyworth – From Technology to Text: Reading and Editing the Lacunose Manuscript

17:45–18:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK

18:00–18:30 Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Course: Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy, Koç University, September 3–9, 2018 – DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018.

Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), September 3–9, 2018

DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018 (for 8 places)

We are delighted to announce that the Summer Programme in Byzantine Epigraphy 2018 will take place between 3 and 9 September, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Programme will be convened by Ida Toth and Andreas Rhoby, and it will include contributions from over twenty leading specialists exploring Istanbul’s Byzantine inscriptional heritage, and its significance for the discipline of Byzantine Epigraphy as a whole.

Drawing on a wide range of topics such as display, taxonomy, context, ideology, and performance, the Programme will combine daily seminars, evening lectures, practical sessions in Istanbul’s museums, and guided visits to Byzantine monuments and excavation sites. It will provide an interactive platform for exchange of ideas among more experienced scholars of Byzantine epigraphic culture as well as involving younger academics, who require instruction and expert guidance in dealing with Byzantine inscriptional material.

Although contribution to the Programme is by invitation only, we welcome expressions of interest from scholars in early and/or middle stages of their academic career, whose research stands to significantly benefit from attending an intensive, week-long exploration of Byzantine epigraphic traditions. Please, note that the number of available places is limited to the maximum of eight.

Fees will not be charged. However, full funding will be offered only to three exceptional applicants. Non-funded participants should expect to cover their own travelling and accommodation costs.

DEADLINE: 15th April, 2018 (for 8 places)

Find out more information here: https://maryjahariscenter.org/blog/summer-programme-in-byzantine-epigraphy-koc-university-2018

Conference: Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century, Rome, 18-20 April 2018

Conference: Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century, Rome, 18-20 April 2018

Atti privati e pratiche documentarie nel lungo X secolo / Private Charters and Documentary Practice in the long 10th century (ca.870-ca.1030), conference Rome 18-20 April 2018

On the occasion of the publication of the twelfth and final volume of the edition of the ninth century St.-Gall charters, the University of Groningen, the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and the Stiftsarchiv St. Gall are organizing a conference on the changes of documentary practice in the long tenth century in Europe. This conference is a follow-up to an earlier one (Die Privaturkunden der Karolingerzeit) on the continuation and spread of the Roman heritage of documentary-legal administration, taking into account, among other things, the standardizing tendencies of the Carolingian empire. This time we will be dealing with what happened when the different parts of the Carolingian empire started to diverge after 870.

The entire programme is available here: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/agenda/2018-04-18-programmeknir.pdf

Find out more information here: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/agenda/2018-08-18-knir-privatechartersanddocumentarypractice?lang=en

Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019)

Call for Paper: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (New York, 13-16 Feb 2019)

CAA Conference, New York, February 13 – 16, 2019
Deadline: Apr 18, 2018

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Call for Panel Proposal
College Art Association
New York, 13-16 February 2019
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (http://ssemw.org/) will sponsor one panel at the annual conference to be held in New York, 13-16 February 2019. We are soliciting proposals for panels that explore the relationships between women, gender, and artistic or material culture during the early modern period (c. 1300-1800). Cross-cultural or transnational panels are especially welcome.
CAA offers the SSEMW the opportunity to submit an already-formed panel or to participate in the association’s general call for participation. Panel proposals may therefore consist of a completed panel with pre-selected speakers or a call for participation that will be widely circulated. The format is similarly flexible, and might include three 20-minute papers, several “lightning” papers, a roundtable discussion, or other interactive format.

Panel proposals should be sent to Maria Maurer at maria-maurer@utusal.edu no later than Wednesday April 18th with the following materials:

–    Abstract of 250-500 words describing the panel
–    Name(s) of panel organizers and, for complete panels only, the speakers. Include the institutional affiliation and email address for each participant.
–    One-page CV for organizers. For complete panels, a one-page CV is also required for speakers.
–    CAA Member ID of each participant – please note that CAA requires all participants to be active members through February 16, 2019.
–    For complete panels only: titles (max 15 words) and abstracts (max 250 words) of each paper.

Sponsorship by SSEMW signifies that the panel is pre-approved and automatically accepted by CAA.

CAA offers several travel grants to support participation by emerging scholars, women, and international scholars: http://www.collegeart.org/programs/travel-grants

Participants do not need to be members of SSEMW at the time of submission, but should join the society before CAA meets in February 2019. A regular membership costs $25; students, independent scholars and contingent faculty may join for $15.

Conference: Medieval Medicine, London Medieval Society Colloquium, Saturday 5th May 2018

Conference: Medieval Medicine, London Medieval Society Colloquium

Date & Location: Saturday 5th May 2018, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1 3RA

Join us to explore medieval medicine at this one day colloquium with papers ranging from medical expertise and remedies in England and Normandy and the dissemination of Arabic and Persian medical works in Byzantium to the mapping the medieval brain and the origins of public health. Guest speakers include Alison Hudson (British Library), Elma Brenner (Wellcome Institute), Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London), Bill MacLehose (UCL) and Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway). A wine reception which will immediately follow the colloquium.

Programme:

10.45 Registration
11.00 ‘Feeling no Pain? Remedies and Rhetoric in England c.1000’, Alison Hudson
(British Library).
11.45 ‘Medical Expertise in Medieval Normandy’, Elma Brenner (Wellcome Institute)
12.30 Lunch
1.30 ‘The Dissemination of Arabic and Persian Medical Works in Byzantium’, Petros
Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London)
2.15 ‘The Normal and the Pathological: Mapping the Brain in Medieval Medicine’,
Bill MacLehose (UCL)
3.00 Coffee
3.30 ‘The Origins of European Public Health?’ Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway)
4.15 Round Table (Chair: Daniel McCann, Lincoln College, Oxford)
5.00 Wine Reception

Information:

Tickets £5

 Book your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medieval-medicine-tickets-44481357939

Find about more here: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/colloquia/

Exhibition: The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best: Meaningful Jewels, Les Enluminures New York, April 5 to 20, 2018

Exhibition: The Thing of Mine I have Loved the Best: Meaningful Jewels, Les Enluminures New York, April 5 to 20, 2018

The engaging title “The thing of mine I have loved the best” comes from the medieval will of a English duchess who bequeaths a reliquary jewel to her son. It expresses the sentiment that jewels appealed (then, as well as now) to the truest and strongest emotions. “I have bought these pieces one by one over a period of fifteen years (and put them aside with this project in mind), and to my knowledge no such collection has been assembled, studied, and exhibited in modern times,” states Founder and President of Les Enluminures Sandra Hindman. She goes on to say “Not at all unlike the medieval manuscripts I also present, they are some of the most intimate of art objects from the Middle Ages.”

New York Opening and Reception:
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6 PM to 8 PM

Exhibition Dates:
April 5 to 20, 2018
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM

Les Enluminures
23 East 73rd Street • 7th Floor, Penthouse
New York, NY 10021
Tel +1 212 717 7273

THE COVEHITHE PENDANT
                        The Covehithe Pendant, Anglo-Saxon England, mid- to late 7th century
Gilded silver, gold, reticulated glass

 

DIPTYCH PENDANT WITH VIRGIN AND CHILD AND CRUCIFIXION SCENE .jpeg
Diptych Pendant with Virgin and Child and Crucifixion Scene, Probably Germany (Lower Rhine?), late 14th century
Gilded silver, mother of pearl, ivory

New Books: ‘Il Maestro di Nola’ and ‘Medieval manuscripts: Ghent University Library’

Il Maestro di Nola. Un vertice impareggiabile del tardogotico a Napoli e in Campania, by EMANUELE ZAPPASOD

ISBN: 978-8874613465

Description:
En los últimos años se ha puesto de manifiesto, cada vez con más claridad, que el patrimonio artístico del sur de Italia puede compararse, por la calidad, importancia y carga poética, de igual a igual con las obras producidas por otros centros cuyo valor ha sido ponderado desde hace mucho tiempo por una larga tradición histórica.

La Galería Sarti siempre ha mantenido vivo el enfoque en el arte de esta tierra llena de creatividad, que en la época medieval y renacentista constituyó un animado cruce de diferentes culturas y el centro de una espesa circulación mediterránea que incluía Sicilia, Cerdeña, Liguria, pero también Francia y España. Una similar pluralidad de influencias que se mezclan con la tradición local ha fomentado el nacimiento de un lenguaje fascinante, rico de una abrumadora expresividad y, al mismo tiempo, de una elegancia refinada.

El libro -con el estudio específico de Emanuele Zappasodi y el de Virginia Caramico sobre el contexto artístico del Reino de Nápoles entre los siglos XIV y XV – presenta el redescubrimiento de una hermosa pintura, hasta ahora desconocida, del pintor conocido como Maestro di Nola, un raro artífice que, a juzgar por la alta calidad de sus obras, supuso realmente la cumbre incomparable del gótico tardío en Nápoles y Campania.

El volumen -destinado a ser en el futuro un valioso punto de referencia para futuros estudios- permite dibujar con mayor claridad la trayectoria del artista y arrojar nueva luz sobre algunos episodios importantes de la pintura a finales del gótico en Campania.

More information here.

 

Medieval manuscripts. Ghent University Library

Medieval manuscripts: Ghent University Library, by Albert Derolez
ISBN: 9789461613813 ISBN-13: 9789461613813

Description:

This is the first catalogue to provide metadata on all medieval manuscripts in the collection of Ghent University Library. The catalogue offers full descriptions of texts and provides codicological data for all handwritten books and archival documents on parchment or paper, including fragments, dating prior to c. 1530. Giving all the essential information in a nutshell and in a uniform way opens numerous ways to new research with these unique relics. Albert Derolez (1934) is Curator emeritus of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at Ghent University Library. He taught for many years palaeography and codicology at the Free Universities of Brussels and at several American universities. President of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine 1995-2005. Editor-in-Chief of the series Corpus Catalogorum Belgii. The Medieval Booklists of the Southern Low Countries (1994-2016). Editor of the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer (1968), the Liber divinorum operum of Hildegard of Bingen (1996), and other medieval texts. Author of books on medieval libraries, codicology and palaeography.

More information here.

Conference programme: VIII colloquium Ars Mediaevalis: Memory: Monument and Image in the Middle Ages (Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) May 4th-6th 2018)

Conference programme: VIII colloquium Ars Mediaevalis: Memory: Monument and Image in the Middle Ages

Date and Location: Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia), May 4th-6th 2018

Memory is a psychological faculty and an intellectual power that found its expression in the foundational and oft-repeated phrase of the Eucharistic celebration heard by all believers: “do this in remembrance of me”. Memory is projected onto ritual commemorations of the dead, funeral processions, anniversaries, liturgical celebrations and concerns all of the deceased, from the humblest to those who hold eminent institutional, religious or administrative positions, and, of course, the “special dead”, namely, the saints. It is not restricted to commemorating the deceased, whose presence is invoked by naming them in obituaries and in the objects associated with them. The latter were movable (liturgical vessels, manuscripts, ritual vestments, portable altars, trophies, objects associated with reliquaries and artistic patrons) or the fixed furnishings of buildings (reredoses, mural paintings, stained-glass windows, heraldic sculpture and, in particular, epigraphs and funerary monuments). By extension, the term memory was used in reference to the buildings or altars (e.g. cella memoriae) that sheltered these objects of such high sacred value.

 

Memory is at the heart of Augustinian epistemology, which believed that human reason is nourished by intelligence, love and memory. In the secular domain, memory played a central role in underpinning laws and institutions whose legitimacy depended on established customs. To establish the legal foundation of the present and future, lawmakers had to express the past and the certainty of the past.

 

This colloquium intends to analyze social memory as the process that enables society to renew and reform its understanding of the past so that it can be incorporated into the present, thus establishing a historical analogy in the narrative of the passing of time. Social memory includes liturgical memory, historiography, genealogy, oral tradition and other forms of cultural production and reproduction. Therefore, the colloquium’s aim, in particular, is to revisit the concept of cathedral memory, which includes all of those works, activities and uses of space that transmit over time the memory of important bishops, clerical dignitaries and laypeople and the origins and historical episodes in which they had played leading roles.

 

However, in each cathedral, the promotion of memory was incorporated into a communal setting in use over a long period of time and thus fostered diverse dynamics in terms of the interactions and intersections between the memory of the individual and/or the cooperative memory of social groups. Furthermore, mnemotechnic resources played a highly important role in adopting, storing, connecting, activating, modelling and reinventing the information and visual expressions received at a given moment in the past.

 

Memory, as contemporary psychology shows, is a dynamic process that transforms the past to such an extent that it creates new pasts. In fact, operative and dynamic memory is an exercise not so much in recognizing the past as an immutable reality but rather in reorganizing that past to the point of imagining it. Remembering always means connecting new stimuli (images, logical sequences, references, stories, etc.) that awaken this recollection with earlier information that has already been taken on board but stored away.Without the analogous links that adapt memories, it is impossible to integrate new events into a historical sequence. How did such assumptions affect the way in which images functioned during the Middle Ages? Where and when were architectural spaces composed to promote the gestation or remodelling of individual or institutional memories? This colloquium will provide a forum for analysis and debate regarding these fundamental questions of visual culture and medieval art.

 

Programme:
May 4th Location: Fundacion Sta. Maria la Real
Chair: Francesca ESPAÑOL BERTRÁN / UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
09.45 h.: Colloquium Ars Mediaevalis Opening
10.00 h.: Beat BRENK / UNIVERSIT€T BASEL, The Mosaics of Cefalù revisited: innovation and memory
10.45 h: Discussion
11.30 h.: César GARCÍA DE CASTRO VALDÉS / MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE ASTURIAS, Variaciones sobre el tema del Salvador y el colegio apostólico en la Catedral de Oviedo. Aventuras ydesventuras de una advocación
12.15 h.: Montserrat JORBA, Ritos funerarios en el arte románico catalàn: a propósito de la lápida sepulcralde Sant Miquel de Fontfreda (Maçanet de Cabrenys) 
12.30 h: Javier CASTIÑEIRAS, La memoria dumiense en las empresas escultóricas de Mondoñedo y Braga afinales del siglo XI 
12.45 h: Ma Teresa CHICOTE, Adaptar un Panteón a la Memoria del Linaje: La Colegiata de Belmonte y los Marqueses de Villena
13.00 h: Discussion
Chair: Alejandro GARCÍA AVILÉS / UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA
16.00 h.:
Marta CENDÓN FERNÁNDEZ / UNIVERSIDADE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Memoria y privilegio: las capillas funerarias episcopales en las catedrales castellanas bajomedievales 
 
16.45 h.: Marta SERRANO – Gerardo BOTO / UNIV ROVIRA I VIRGILI – UNIV DE GIRONA
Memoria per corporis sensum combibit anima. Relato hist—rico en la catedral de Tarragona: presencia ysecuencia de escenarios de memorias arzobispales
17.30 h.: Discussion
18.00 h.: Round table: Objects and Remembrance Objetos y recuerdo
 – Herbert L. KESSLER
 
19.00 h.: Public presentation of the new book of editorial line “ARS MEDIAEVALIS. Estudios de arte medieval”

May 5th (Location: Palencia. Diputación Provincial)

Chair: Fernando GUTIÉRREZ BAÑOS / UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID
09.45 h.: Ma Elvira MOCHOLÍ, La Virgen de la Seo y otros iconos reales en la ciudad de Valencia
10.00 h.: José Alberto MORAIS MORAN / UNIVERSIDAD DE LEÓN, Memento in mente habete: storiae y monumentos de memoria en el reino de León. De Magio (968) a Florencio (1138)
11.30 h.: Amadeo SERRA DESFILIS / UNIVERSIDAD DE VALENCIA, Memoria de reyes y memorias de la ciudad. Valencia entre la conquista cristiana y las Germanías
12.15 h.: Diana LUCÍA GÓMEZ-CHACÓN / CSDMM-UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID, Contemplar con la mirada del alma: arte, memoria y observancia a fines de la Edad Media
13.00 h.: Discussion
16.00 h.: Academic visit: Becerril de Campos and Paredes de Nava

May 6th (Location: Monasterio Sta. María la Real, Aguilar de Campoo)

Chair: Esther LOZANO LÓPEZ / UNED

09.30 h.: Cynthia HAHN / CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Reliquaries and Commemoration: Saint, Patron, Artist
10.15 h.: María J. SÁNCHEZ, La métrica de la memoria en la ciudad Alto Medieval: consecratio, monumentum aedificationis y dedicatio en Hispania

10.30 h: Elena MUÑOZ, Memorias de una muerte esperada. Técnicas narrativas en el sepulcro del Doctor Grado

10.45 h: Sonia MORALES, La memoria póstuma del caballero en la diócesis de Sigüenza-Guadalajara

11.00h: Discussion

11.45 h.: Felipe PEREDA ESPEJO / HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Imagen y olvido. Imagen del lamento fúnebre entre la Antigüedad y la Reforma católica

12:30 h.: Discussion

13.00 h: Conclusions and perspectives

13.15 h.: Closing ceremony

PLACE: Fundación Santa María la Real – Aguilar de Campo (SPAIN) FEES: Regular 140 € / Reduced 95 € / Special (students) 60 € /

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