• 20 mai 2016

• Poitiers, Résidence universitaire Michel Foucault
12 rue Pasteur

• Registration : We kindly ask you to notify us of your participation in the workshop via email: marika.rasanen@univ-poitiers.fr

Présentation

The history of the senses is a rapidly expanding field of research in medieval and Early Modern studies. The aim of the present workshop is to contribute to this expansion by concentrating on space related devotional practices of venerating saints and disseminating sanctity.

Programme

Morning session

9h15 – 12h30

• Éric Palazzo
Opening of the workshop

• Cécile Voyer
Le théâtre de la Présence : Le cycle pascal peint dans les Évangiles de l’Arsenal (Paris, Arsenal, ms. 592)

• Teemu Immonen
Giant Bibles, Wall Paintings, and Liturgy: Points of Contact

• Laura Skinnebach
Practice and Perception – Transfiguration of mind and matter

Afternoon session

13.30 – 18.30

• Éric Palazzo
Saints, senses and devotion

• Constant J. Mews
Juliana of Cornillon, Thomas Aquinas, and the Implementation of the Feast of Corpus Christi: Politics, Liturgy and Spirituality

• Marika Räsänen
Sensory experience and the body duplicate in the cult of Thomas Aquinas

• Seppo Heikkinen
Metre, Allusion and Meaning in the Memorial Liturgies of Thomas Aquinas

• Johanna Korhonen and Hilkka-Liisa Vuori
Chanting presentation on the liturgy for the translatio feast of St Thomas Aquinas