IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1748: Imagination, Splendour, and Alchemy in the High and Later Middle Ages
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies |
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Organiser: | Sven Meeder, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Moderator/Chair: | Sven Meeder, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen |
Paper 1748-a | The Usage of Space, Time, and Imagination in Hadewijch's Fifth Vision (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Theology, Women's Studies |
Paper 1748-b | Late Medieval Alchemical Comprehension (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Medicine, Science |
Paper 1748-c | The Virtue Magnificence: Theories and Practices in France and the Burgundian Lands (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Abstract | This session explores the various accomplishments of medieval imagination in high- and late- medieval northwestern Europe. A novel approach to one of the visions of the 13th-century poet and mystic Hadewijch will shed new light on the conceptions of 'hell' and 'purgatory'. The (super)natural is approached quite differently in the 'laboratory manual' of Albertus Magnus, testifying to the entanglement of science and imagination in alchemy. The recognition north of the Alps of the virtue of magnificence supported the patronage of imagination not only in virtuous architecture, but in a much broader set of cultural activity. |