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…
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…
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…
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…
Emmanuel Garland, Docteur en Histoire de l’Art As a “reflection of a society (…), a means of expression of a culture and, at the same time, of a latent and a collective unconscious” (Michel Meslin), the marvelous, omnipresent in the decoration of the Romanesque churches of the Pyrenean area, is a powerful revelator which highlights…
Laura Bartolomé Roviras, Docteure en Histoire de l’Art With the aid of the reproductions of the Centre de Sculpture Romane “Maître de Cabestany”, the scope of this intervention is to unveil the expressions of the marvelous in the sculptures created by the so-called Cabestany Master. By all means, the excellence and the rare talent of…
Florian Meunier, Musée du Louvre (Paris) Starting at the end of the Xth century and in the XIth century with the testimony of Bernard d’Angers about the miracles of Saint Foy de Conques and the interpretation of the Bayeux embroidery, it seems interesting to look at the relationship between reliquaries and miracles, which raise the…
Philippe Cordez, Centre allemand d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris) Hildegard of Bingen’s crown is a recent discovery. Since the early Middle Ages, nuns were given a crown as part of the blessing ritual that marked their status as virgins. Around 1150, the Rhineland nun Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a theoretician and important player in the ecclesiastical…
Francisco de Asís García García, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Espagne) As it was common with many sanctuaries located between the mountains, tradition places the origins of the Aragonese monastery of San Juan de la Peña in a miraculous event: a knight was saved from rushing into the void and built a monastery where an eremite…
Carlo Tosco, Politecnico, Turin (Italie) San Michele della Chiusa was founded in the Susa Valley, the main link between Italy and France, at the end of the 10th century. The monastery was born, according to tradition, for a miraculous event: the apparition of the archangel Michael on the top of the mountain. In the monastic…
