Visions and Visuality in Medieval Culture
Literature and Religion and Images of Knowledge will host an afternoon seminar on visions and visuality in medieval culture.
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Co-sponsored by the Images of Knowledge research group and supported by Norges Forskningsråd's HUMEVAL grant, this seminar is FREE and lunch is available to those who register to Julia.King@uib.no.
The schedule for this day is as follows:
12-12:30 Lunch
12:30-13:00 Laura Skinnebach, University of Aarhus, Denmark: “Heavenly nourishment - consuming the milk of the virgin”
13:05-13:35 Henning Laugerud, LLE, UiB: “'I was all moist with blood sprung from the Man's side.' Visions, Animation and Living Matter in The Dream of the Rood - some preliminary musings.”
13:35-13:55 Q&A
13:55-14:10 Coffee break
14:10-14:40 Diana Denissen, University of Lausanne, Switzerland: “‘As Small as a Mustard Seed’: Alijt Bake’s Performative Piety”
14:45-15:15 Laura Saetveit Miles, IF, UiB: “Visions of the Annunciation in Books of Hours”
15:15-15:45 Q&A
15:45-16:00 Summing up
We hope to see you there!