To mark the 650th anniversary of Johannes Tauler’s death this meeting will take on the form of a conference to highlight Tauler, who has played a significant role as intermediary between various reading communities in the convents, city houses and beguinages he visited on his travels from his hometown Strasbourg to Basel and up the Rhine to Cologne and Brabant where he stayed with the Dutch mystical writer Jan van Ruusbroec. Through his preaching Tauler must have been a key figure in the dissemination of mystical theology among the religious women in the Dominican convents and the Gottesfreunde in the Rhineland and Brabant. Through a presentation of Tauler’s life and works it will be possible to demonstrate the general ideas of the programme Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts to a broad audience. The proceedings of the colloquium will be published in Ons Geestelijk Erf, the journal of the Ruusbroec-genootschap, which will offer the PhD-students a chance to practice editing for academic publishing.
Programme :
Universiteit Antwerpen
On 2 December 2011 the Marie Curie Network Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts (MITT) and the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp organize a joint one-day conference on Johannes Tauler, at the occasion of the 650th anniversary of his death.
8.30 Registration
9.00 Opening by Thom Mertens (Universiteit Antwerpen, B)
9.15 Youri Desplenter (Universiteit Gent, B) – The Cook, the Dominican, Their Writings, and Their Connection. Jan van Leeuwen († 1378) and Johannes Tauler († 1361).
9.45 Joni De Mol (Universiteit Leiden, NL) – ‘Closer to God than I ever heard of’. How Johannes Tauler’s Sermons Shaped the Thought of Alijt Bake.
10.15 Anna Dlabačová (Universiteit Leiden, NL) – Tauler, Herp and the Changing Layers of Mobility and Reception in the Low Countries (ca 1460-1560).
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Coffee / Tea
11.30 Rudolf Weigand & Regina Schiewer (Forschungsstelle für Geistliche Literatur des Mittelalters, Kath. Universität Eichstätt, D) – ‘Ich glaube vestiglich, das dise predigen entweder Meister Eckhards oder Taulers sind, dan sich durch auss ire worte gleich lautent’. Zur Problematik der Rezeption und Authentizität der Predigten Johannes Taulers.
12.00 Martina Wehrli-Johns (Universität Zürich, CH) – Tauler als Modell geistlichen Lebens?Überlegungen zur Predigt Ego vox clamantis (Io 1,23).
12.30 Discussion
12.40 Lunch
14.00 Ann-Kristin Badel (Otto von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, D) – Medienwandel und Sprache. Die taulersche Predigt Divisiones ministracionum sunt, idem autem spiritus.
14.30 Markus Polzer (Universiteit Antwerpen, B) –‘Sol mein aug sehen die farb’. Tauler’s Concept of Perception and its Reception in the Early Prints.
15.00 Discussion
15.10 Coffee / Tea
15.40 Helga Dierckx (Universiteit Leiden, NL) – Hildesheim, Dombibliothek, 724b.
16.10 Claudia Lingscheid (University of Oxford, GB) – Das Buch von den Neun Felsen – Ein Wegweiser für Taulers Via Mystica?
16.40 Almut Suerbaum (University of Oxford, GB) – Tauler Reception in Religious Lyric: the (Pseudo-)Tauler Cantilenas.
17.10 Discussion
17.25 Conclusion
Informations pratiques :
Hotel & Congrescentrum Elzenveld – Lange Gasthuisstraat 45 – 2000 Antwerpen
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