Medieval Women and Their Books. Manuscript Culture and Devotion in Germany and the Low Countries
Oxford – Somerville College, Taylorian Institute
Friday, 12 October 2012
Organized by Almut Suerbaum, Racha Kirakosian, Monika Studer. With the support of the Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages Lyell Fund
Contact
Almut.Suerbaum@some.ox.ac.uk
Programme :
9h00-9h30
Almut Suerbaum (Oxford) – Welcome and Introduction
9h30-11h00
Ruth Wiederkehr (Zurich) – Collecting Everyday Knowledge Quire by Quire. The Hermetschwil Prayer Book
Susan Marti (Berne) – Nuns as Book Illuminators. Liturgical Manuscripts from Mendicant Convents in Northwestern Germany
11h15-12h45
Racha Kirakosian (Oxford) – The Book as Embodiment of Divine Truth. The Mystical Account of Christina of Hane
Elizabeth Andersen (Newcastle) – Birgitta of Sweden and the Printing Houses of Lübeck. From the Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae to the Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe
14h30-16h00
Joni de Mol (Leiden) – ‘Nothing but the open heart of Christ’. How Alijt Bake Dealt with Books
Ed van der Vlist (The Hague) – Books used by Late Medieval Monastic Women in Holland
17h00-18h00 – Taylorian Institute
Barbara Newman (Chicago) – ‘Iam cor meum non sit suum’. Exchanging Hearts, from Heloise to Helfta
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