(Français) Journée-découverte du Monestir de Santa Maria de l’Estany
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Space and time in some world maps of the 11th and 12th centuries
Emmanuelle Vagnon, CNRS (LAMOP), Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne Mappae mundi, which are representations of the entire known world in Western Europe in the Middle Ages, display a geographical image based on certain scientific principles inherited from Antiquity, while depicting the history of the world and of humanity since its origins. These images of the medieval world…
The Aosta mosaic and the representation of the world
Martine Jullian, Université de Grenoble The cathedral of Aosta in Piedmont has a mosaic pavement, situated in the manner of a carpet in front of the main altar. In the centre, a personification of the Year appears first, surrounded by a circular ring in which the twelve months are represented, symbolised by the characteristic human…
Ways of representing and visualizing scientific knowledge in Byzantium
Stavros Lazaris, CNRS Through the examination of figures from certain Byzantine scientific treatises, this paper will analyse their contribution to the deployment and diffusion of scientific knowledge. It will also discuss the ways in which these figures were developed (page layouts, iconography, etc.) to become real didactic and mnemonic tools in order to transmit knowledge in a different way……
Romanesque diagrams and Gothic patterns
Thomas Le Gouge, Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne The translation of numerous philosophical and scientific texts from Arabic into Latin during the 12th century brought about a profound change in the way the universe was represented. Astronomy was no longer dominated by the figures of Plato and Boethius, in whom the geometry of celestial movements was…
Images of medicine and doctors between East and West (11th-12th centuries)
Joël Chandelier, Université de Paris VIII How were medicine and physicians represented in the Romanesque period? How were they described within society? What stock of symbols, what markers were used to identify and qualify the practitioners of this venerable and useful art? Using images and objects, but also certain preserved texts, we will try to characterize the perception of…
Unpublished inventories of Cuixà silverware: towards the rediscovery of a piece of treasure?
Guillem Dalmau, Doctorant en histoire de l’art moderne, sous la direction de Julien Lugand (UPVD) et Francesc Miralpeix (UdG) UMR 5136 FRAMESPA – Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) About the silver of Saint-Michel de Cuxa The silver of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Michel de Cuixà is known by some inventories from the second half of…
The sculpted astrolabes of the Portail Royal: study and teaching of astronomy in Chartres in the 12th century
Emma Claverie, Ecole nationale des Chartes Four astrolabes appear in the archways framing the tympanum of the central bay of the Royal Portal of Chartres Cathedral. Carried by the angels of the Apocalypse placed around Christ in majesty, their presence raises questions about the relationship that the intellectuals of Chartres had with this object, and…
Astronomy, a royal art in the princely Mediterranean courts at the end of the Romanesque period
Vinni Lucherini, Università di Napoli Federico II In Late Romanesque Europe, while the literary and philosophical expressions of what is known as the “12th century Renaissance” were developing, images of the signs of the astrological zodiac (which had already flourished in the Carolingian period) invaded the mosaic pavements of churches, and also appeared sculpted in portals and on capitals,…
The medical knowledge of an extraordinary nun: Hildegard of Bingen
Laurence Moulinier, Université Lumière Lyon 2 The question of the book culture of the Rhenish Benedictine Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was brilliantly raised in the 1930s by Hans Liebeschutz in his work Das allegorische Weltbild der heiligen Hildegard von Bingen, and was subsequently constantly taken up without being completely trench. However, it is now clear that Hildegard did…