(Français) Saint-Guilhem, la maîtrise du lieu sauvage
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(Français) « Sa forme et sa couleur signalaient chaque chose » la perception médiévale de la nature représentée dans l’art roman
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Nature in the aesthetics of the Chartres school
Oleg Voskoboynikov, École des Hautes Études économiques, Moscou, EHESS, Paris Nature in the aesthetics of the Chartres school. The role of the Chartres scholars in the revival of the natural sciences in the first half of the twelfth century is well known. Their re-reading of a number of ancient texts, including the Timaeus and the…
(Français) Autour de l’articulation entre nature et spiritualité chez Bernard de Clairvaux et Guillaume de Saint-Thierry
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Sanctifying the world
Jean-Claude Bonne, École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales Opening conference: Sanctifying the world. I. Romanesque art and the question of the relationship between the sensitive and the spiritual in creation “Man, art and nature” are not universal and unambiguous categories that can be associated with self-evident realities. When we think of “Nature” – a…
(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……
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,…