IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1019: Krakow and Beyond: Political, Intellectual, and Spiritual Climates in Late Medieval Literature, Book Illustration, and Architecture

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków
Organiser:	Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków
Moderator/Chair:	Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn
Paper 1019-a	Life and Prayer According the Stars of Heaven: The Zodiac as a Model of Life and Prayer - Rereading the Zodiacal Cycles in the Psalters of the 13th Century (Language: English) Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków Index terms: Art History - Painting, Lay Piety, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1019-b	Climate Changes: Reshaping the Centre of Krakow in the 14th Century and the Relations between the Royal and Town Authorities (Language: English) Piotr Pajor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Economics - Urban, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1019-c	Vegetation in 15th-Century Krakow: A Case Study of Botanical and Meteorological Notes in the Gart der Gesundheit, 1485 (Language: English) Julia Czapla, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Printing History
Abstract	This session is dedicated to the relationships between natural phenomenons and artistic creations. Dariusz Tabor discovers the astronomical model of human activities in the zodiacal constellations. In fact the cycles of Zodiaque in the 13th century illuminated psalters creates the visual structure giving a message of heavenly spheres concerning piety and works. Piotr Pajor considers the climate of changing in the urban area of Cracow in 14th century. Cracow at the time became the main and most important city in the reunited Kingdom of Poland. The area of the city was expanded and its central space gained a row of monumental secular buildings. These structures could be interpreted as manifestation of the power of town authority and its response to some earlier royal foundations. Julia Czapla analysis the richly illustrated work Gart der Gesundheit (Mainz 1485) from the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow (Call No. Inc. 31). It contains the observations made in Cracow in years 1490-1527 and provides valuable information about the rates in local apothecaries, plants cultivated in the owner's garden, as well as unusual weather phenomena.