You are cordially invited to the following event, which marks the recent work of the University of Reading Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies (GCMS) on the university’s Eales Hours, a fifteenth-century book of hours, made in Paris.
‘Word and Image in Medieval Manuscripts’ University of Reading, London Road Campus, L033 G12 Friday May 9th, 10.30-16.00
Attendance is free. Location Reading’s London Road campus is about 15 minutes’ walk from the mainline station.
Speakers :
Laurent Ungeheuer (Paris) is currently working on the Eales Hours, of the Special Collections at the University of Reading, under the supervision of Michel Pastoureau. He will speak about the manuscript’s artist, active c.1420-50, ‘Le Maître de la Légende Dorée de Munich’.
Simone Ventura, currently a Marie Curie Fellow at QMUL – ‘Visualising Boccaccio in late medieval France : The Story of Ghismonda’
Emma Croker (Bristol) – ‘The other apostle, St Paul in illustrated copies of the Book of Revelation made in England, c.1245-c.1400’
Irène Fabry-Tehranchi (Reading GCMS) – ‘The Maritime Adventures of King Arthur’
For further information and to register, please contact :
Professor Catherine Léglu Email : c.leglu@reading.ac.uk
School Director of Research (SLL) Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature Department of Modern Languages and European Studies Whiteknights PO Box 218 University of Reading Reading RG6 6AA tel. 00 44 (0)118 375 5276
Source de l’information : Ménestrel
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