Professor Jeffrey H. Hamburger is the holder of the 2014 LECTIO Chair. Aside his public lecture on Tuesday 27 May entitled “The Autonomy of Images: The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin and Late Medieval Picture Books”, he will give on 28 May a Doctoral Seminar “Latinate Nuns and Liturgical Commentary: The Graduals from Paradies bei Soest, ca. 1360-1425”.

Programme :
09:30 : Introduction – Prof. Dr. Barbara Baert (KU Leuven – B)

09:40 : Doctoral Seminar – Prof. Dr. Jeffrey HAMBURGER (Harvard University – USA) – Latinate Nuns and Liturgical Commentary: The Graduals from Paradies bei Soest, c.1360-1425.
11:40 : Coffee break

12:00 : Ingrid Falque (UC Louvain – B) – Framing the text-image relationship(s) in Henry Suso’s Exemplar.
12:20 : Christina Weiler (U Wien AU) – Meditationes Vitae Christi – Text Illustrations for the devotional service of novices and laypersons.
12:40 : Discussion
13:00 : Lunch

14:00 : Jeroen Reyniers (KU Leuven – B) – When Art History meets Hagiography. A Word-Image Relation between the Historica de translatione beatae virginis et martyris Odiliae (Ulg 135C) and the Relic Shrine of Saint Odilia (1292).
14:20 : Fabian Wolf (U Frankfurt – D) – St. Bridget’s Vision of the Nativity. A late medieval case study of the interrelations of pictures, words and images.
14:40 : Lisanne Vroomen (U Antwerpen – B) – Hearing, viewing and sensing medieval religious songs.
15:00 : Discussion
15.20 : Coffee break

15.40 : Lotem Pinchover (U Jerusalem – IS) – A Walk in the Footsteps of the Devoted Nun – Challenges for the Historian of Medieval Art.

16:00 : Giuditta Cirnigliaro (Rutgers Univ NJ -USA) – Creation and Evolution of Subjects in Literary Texts and Serial Drawings: Leonardo’s Fable and Allegory of the Lily.

16:20 : Discussion and final conclusions

Informations pratiques :
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Venue: Museumzaal MSI 02.08, Mgr. Sencie-Institue, Erasmusplein 2, Leuven (B)

Scientific & organizing committee :
KU Leuven : Barbara Baert, Pieter De Leemans, Marleen Reynders, Annelies Vogels
U Antwerpen : Veerle Fraeters, Rob Faesen
U Gent : Maximiliaan Martens

Source de l’information : Lectio