© University of Kent - Contact | Feedback | Legal | Cookies
The University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NZ, T +44 (0)1227 764000
Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediation Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages
St Andrews University - 9th-11th April 2010
Programme Friday 9th April
09.30-10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.30 Welcome by Trish Stewart and Diane Heath
10.30-12.30 Introductory talk by Peter Maxwell-Stuart and visit to Dunino Den
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Session 1 Tour of All Saints Church, North Castle Street, Stephen Holmes, University of Edinburgh: Reading the Church:Looking at the church-building through the eyes of William Durand of Mende (c.1230 – 96)
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Session 2 - Chair Diane Heath
Sophie Gray (University of Liverpool): Beyond Permanence:Martin Luther and the Spoken Word
Chris Nicholson (SSEES, University College, London): Explaining a Numinous Proof: Two Bohemian Accounts of Oath-helping at the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
16.30-16.45 Short Coffee Break
16.45-17.45 Session 3 - Chair Trish Stewart
Ilya Dines (University of Cologne): John Salisbury, ‘Policraticus,’ and Bestiaries
Diane Heath (University of Kent): Snakes as Deadly Sins - Artistic Comment in BL Harley 3244 Bestiary?
18.00-19.00 Wine Reception
Dinner (paid by attendees) followed by pub
Programme Saturday 10th April
09.15-09.45 Coffee
09.45-11.00 Keynote Address by Dr. Julian Luxford
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00 Session 4 - Chair Iona McCleery
Tom Lawrence (University of Kent): ‘Strange Vysion’:Sharing Supernatural Experience in A
Disputation Between the Body and Worms
Monika Studer (University of Oxford): Explaining the beyond:Visionary experience of the otherworld in texts and images
Chris Wilson (University of Exeter): Helinand of Froidmont, visions of the otherworld and genre in the thirteenth century
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Astrolabe use and background: James Parnell and Trish Stewart (St. Andrews)
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-18.00 Astrolabe-making Session
Programme Sunday 11th April
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.00 Roundtable discussion:
12.00-13.00 Lunch