Performance, Perception, and Devotional Experience in the Medieval Sacred Spaces Seminar
On October 13-14, 2022, the Performance, Perception, and Devotional Experience in the Medieval Sacred Spaces Seminar was celebrated and organised by the Project, together with the Università di Bologna and the Università di Padova (ERC StG Project “The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century) – SenSArt”).
Programme
Thrusday October 13
9:00 – Presentació i apertura de la conferència by Núria Jornet, Fabio Massaccesi, Zuleika Murat
9:20 – Performance and Pleasure in Convent Spaces: Practice-based Research and the Medieval Convent Drama Project by Olvia Robinson
Session 1: Creating, Sanctifying and Experiencing Space: Architecture, Objects and Paintings
Chaired by: Maria Soler Sala
10:00 – Seeing and Believing: How the Triumphal Cross Shaped the Sacred Space (11th-14th century) by Fabio Massaccesi
10:30 – Sanctifying Spaces: Transmedial Interactions, Relics, and Apsis (9th-13th century) by Maddalena Vaccaro
Coffe break
11:00 – Pilgrims, Cripples, and Worshippers. Patterns of Devotion and Experience in the Shrine of St. Anthony in the Basilica del Santo by Cristina Guarnieri
11:30 – Los coros altos de los monasterios femeninos como espacios litúrgicos y devoción: los monasterios de Sant Pere de les Puelles, Sant Antoni i Santa Clara i Santa Maria de Pedralbes de Barcelona by Marta Crispí
12:00 – The Death of Christ in German Nunneries: Liturgical Spaces and Sensorial Dynamics by Davide Tramarin
Discussion
Session 2: Sight and the Other Senses: Interferences, Synergies, Synaesthesia
Chaired by: Silvia Pérez
14:30 – Scenting the Blood of Christ: Material and Immaterial Aspects of Eucharistic Devotion in Late Medieval Venice by Zuleika Murat
15:00 – Liturgical Combs or Liturgical Use of Combs? An Evaluation of Textual and Material Evidence 10th-13th century by Micol Long
Coffe break
16:30 – Sensing the Saint, Experiencing the Resurrection: the Shrine of Saint Lazarus in Autun by Valentina Baradel
17:00 – Tactile Discourse: Material Transmission of Theological Ideas in 14th Century Castile by Sara Carreño
Discussion
Friday October 14
9:30 – Benvinguda por Anna Castellano
Session 3: Performances in a Monastic Space: Legal, Devotional and Liturgical Rituals
Chaired by: Marta Sancho
10:00 – Muerte conmemorada y muerte ritualizada en las cofradías andaluzas de finales de la Edad Media by Silvia Pérez and Alberto Ruiz Berdejo
10:30 – Crimen y castigo en los primitivos cenobios hispanos (s. VI-VII): escenificaciones y performances by Jordina Sales
11:00 – Monastic Performances, a Database. Conclusions on Perception and Categories by Sergi Sancho
Coffe break
12:00 – La ritualización de la obediencia a la abadesa: capellanes beneficiados y campesinos. Conventos de clarisas en la Barcelona de los siglos XIV y XV by Núria Jornet-Benito
12:30 – The Abbot, the Prior and the Destitute: The Washing of the Feet in Medieval Catalan Cloisters by Delfi Nieto
Discussion and Closing Remarks
