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…
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……
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
