Shaping Authority. How did a person become an authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance?
Thursday 5 – Friday 6 December 2013
KU Leuven (Belgium)
In collaboration with Conference ‘The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700) (http://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/research_units/ru_church/council_of_trent/).
Programme :
Thursday 5 Dec 2013
08.00 : Registration
09.00 : Johan Leemans & Brigitte Meijns – Opening of the conference
09.15 : Session 1 – chair: Prof. Gerd Van Riel (KU Leuven)
09.15-09.40: Jan Opsomer & Angela Ulacco (KU Leuven, B) – What is epistemic authority? A model and some examples from ancient philosophy.
09.40-10.05 : Bram Demulder (KU Leuven, B) – Plato vs. Plato on the generation of the cosmos. The shaping of authority in the interpretative history of the Timaeus.
10.05-10.15: questions
10.15 Coffee
10.50 : Session 2 – chair: Prof. Pieter de Leemans (KU Leuven)
10.50-11.15 : Michiel Meeusen (KU Leuven, B) – Aristotle’s authority in the tradition of natural problems: the case of Plutarch.
11.15-11.40: Chiara Meccariello (University of Vienna, AU) – Deconstructing and reconstructing authorities. The interplay of Homer’s and Dio Chrysostom’s authorities in the making and reception of the Trojan Oration.
11.40-11.50: questions
12.00 Lunch
13.15 Session 3 – chair : Dr. Shari Boodts (KU Leuven)
13.15-13.40: Anthony Dupont – Matthew Gaumer (KU Leuven, B) – Reshaping an authority to become an authority: Augustine’s appeal to Cyprian in the Donatist and Pelagian controversies.
13.40-14.05: Jérémy Delmulle (Sorbonne Paris, F) – Autorité et censure dans les marginalia: une transmission souterraine de l’augustinisme de Prosper dans les manuscrits des Conlationes de Cassien.
14.05-14.30: Michael Williams (NUI Maynooth, Kildare, I) – ‘But I may be wrong’: The self-conscious construction of episcopal authority in the sermons of Ambrose of Milan.
14.30-14.45: questions
14.45 Coffee
15.15 Session 4 – chair: Prof. Jos Verheyden (KU Leuven)
15.15-15.40: Peter Toth (King’s College London,GB) – Playing on prophetic authority. Shifting the speakers’ identities in Christian « questions and answers » literature.
15.40-16.05: Christian Müller (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D) – Revisiting an authority’s secret(s) of success: The rise and decline of the Latin Athanasius.
16.05-16.30: David Defries (Kansas State University Manhattan, USA) – Fiery arrows: the authority to identify saints and miracles in the Early Middle Ages.
16.30-16.45: questions
16.50 Extra session – chair: Marleen Reynders (KU Leuven)
16.50-17.15: Dr. Peter Carpreau (Museum M Leuven, B) – Michiel Coxcie or the loss of artistic authority.
17.15-17.20: questions
18.30 : Keynote lecture Prof. John Van Engen (Notre Dame Indiana, USA) – Authorship, authorization and authority: The Cases of Bernard of Clairvaux and Hildegard of Bingen.
19.30 : Reception
20.30 : Encantar Concert in the Church of the Louvain Grand Beguinage
Friday 6 Dec 2013
09.00 : Session 5 – chair: Prof. John Van Engen (Notre Dame Indiana, USA)
09.00-09.25: Veerle Fraeters (U Antwerpen, B) – From magistral word over saintly oeuvre to literary muse. Hadewijch’s texts and the meanderings of authority.
09.25-09.50: Marieke Abram-Giacomo Signore (U Freiburg D)-Anna Dlabacova (U Leiden, NL) – Competing cultural models and transformation of authority and knowledge in the Late Middle Ages.
09.50-10.15: Youri Desplenter & Eva Vandemeulebroucke (U Gent, B) – How Jan van Leeuwen (†1378) became an author. Opera omnia and authority.
10.15-10.30: questions
10:30 Coffee
10.50 : Session 6 – chair : Prof. Steven Vanderputten (U Gent)
10.50-11.15: Aurian Delli Pizzi (Université de Liège B) – La construction de l’autorité par la faute religieuse: impiété et pouvoir dans le monde grec à l’époque hellénistique.
11.15-11.40: Jelle Lisson (KU Leuven, B) – The dark side of remembrance: how medieval chroniclers demonized Bishop Adalbero of Laon (977-1033)
11.40-12.05: Robert Gallagher (St. John’s College Cambridge, GB) – Constructing the authority of Edward the Elder.
12.05-12.20: questions
12:20 Lunch
13:15 : Session 7 – chair: Prof. Jan Papy (KU Leuven)
13.15-13.40: David Collins (Georgetown University Washington, USA) – Rescuing Albert: Rolevinck’s De excellentiis Alberti magni and the moral and intellectual exemplarity of Albertus Magnus.
13.40-14.05: Ahmad Khan (Pembroke College Oxford, GB) – Shaping (Islamic) authority in the Middle Ages: The rise, fall, and rehabilitation of Abu Hanifa.
14.05-14.40: Patricia Meneses (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, BRA) – Antonio Manetti’s Brunelleschi: an attempt of establishing artistic authority.
14.40-14.55: questions
14.55 Coffee
15.10 : Session 8 – chair: Prof. Johan Leemans (KU Leuven)
15.10-15.35: Edward Schoolman (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) – Engineered holy authority: The creation and diffusion of the vita of Saint Barbatianus of Ravenna.
15.35-16.00: Nicole Hartmann (Universität Leipzig, D) – The establishment of a short-term authority: The status of the martyrs.
16.00-16.10: questions
16:10 : Johan Leemans, Brigitte Meijns, John Van Engen – Concluding remarks
16.30 : Departure to Museum M – exhibition Michiel Coxcie. The Flemish Raphael
17:00 : Guided tour of the exhibition Michiel Coxcie. The Flemish Raphael – Museum M
18:00 : Lassus concert in Museum M
18:30 : Reception in Museum M
19.30 : Conference Dinner at the Faculty Club – Louvain Grand Beguinage
Source de l’information : LECTIO
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