(Français) JOURNÉES ROMANES | Du 4 au 9 juillet 2022
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Conception and representation of the world and geographical space (11th-12th centuries)
Nathalie Bouloux, Université de Tours-CESR How and by what means was the world wiewed in the 11th-12th centuries? The aim of this presentation will be threefold. On the one hand, to describe the ways in which the scholars of the 11th and 12th centuries represented the world, conceived the place of the Earth in the cosmos and…
Art and Science in the Romanesque period
Isabelle Marchesin, Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art Scientific knowledge and technology: the influence of knowledge on the development of Christian visual discourses in Romanesque art. The conference will offer an overview of the scientific and technical knowledge with which medieval men and women represented the functioning of their world. It will show, on the basis of…
The factory of the Beatus of Saint-Sever: techniques and materials of the color
Charlotte Denoël, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Based on the physico-chemical analyses carried out on the Beatus de Saint-Sever (Paris, BnF latin 8878) by the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France and the Centre de recherche sur la conservation du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle with the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine, this paper will…
Hoc est Pascha sine termo… Around the Easter table of Saint-Front de Périgueux
Cécile Treffort, Université de Poitiers (CESCM), Institut universitaire de France In the old Romanesque cathedral of Périgueux (Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité), a “Paschal table” can be seen on the south wall of the choir, a list of 91 consecutive dates of Easter preceded by a short heading: “This is the date of Easter without term or number. When…
The wheel, a visual paradigm for exegetical science
Véronique Rouchon, Université Lumière Lyon 2 The graphic model of the wheel was used by the Catholic Church, after Pope Gregory the Great (around 600), to illustrate the concordance between the Old and New Testaments: « quasi sit rota in medio rotae ». This formula was elaborated from the commentary of a passage of the Scriptures, the…
The acephalous trumpeters of the Cabestany Master
Olivier Poisson, Association culturelle de Cuxa In the Romanesque portal of the Augustinian priory known as lo Monestir del Camp, in Passà (Pyrénées-Orientales), a capital represents a fantastic creature, an acephalous, a kind of headless man whose face opens at the top of the trunk. This portal is generally attributed to the work of the…
Mythical beings and prodigious plants in the herbarii in the Romanesque period
Lara de Mérode, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgique) This conference examines the notion and presence of “wonders” in pharmaco-botanical treatises, or herbarii, during the Romanesque period. Starting from the question of the meaning of “wonder” in this field of natural history, a reflection will follow on the presence not only of plants but also of…
From wonder to sanctity. Saint Christopher and the Cynocephalae (High and Middle Ages)
Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgique) The Cynocephali or Dog Heads are not as common in pre-Romanesque art as other human-animal hybrids coming from Late Antique culture. Nonetheless, they have a significant role there and above all particularly in that they befit generally from a powerful push to humanize them. However disconcerting humans may…