IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 337: Medieval Images of Science: Domains and Epistemic Tools
Monday 7 July 2025, 16:30-18:00
| Organiser: | Gerd Micheluzzi, DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 'Imaginarien der Kraft', Universität Hamburg |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gerd Micheluzzi, DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 'Imaginarien der Kraft', Universität Hamburg |
| Paper 337-a | The Domain of Scholastic Zoology: Albert the Great's De animalibus (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Science |
| Paper 337-b | Images, Science, and Analogies in the Work of Hildegard of Bingen (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Science, Theology |
| Paper 337-c | Giotto and the 'Science of Painting': Some Thoughts on Images of Art in the Early-14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Philosophy, Science |
| Abstract | Images of knowledge, as coined by Yehuda Elkana, not only influence the change of conceptions of knowledge relative to cultural frameworks and social consensus. They also affect sources, legitimization, audience, and location of knowledge on the sacred-secular-axis, amongst others. While we are well informed about such changes for the early modern period, no robust general history of the developments and shifts in medieval theorizing is available. This is especially true for the notion of medieval science (scientia). The interdisciplinary contributions to our session seek to reconstruct such images of science operative during the Middle Ages from the bottom up: building on case studies, they elucidate the images of science behind it by paying heed to bodies of knowledge in their social contexts, especially within medieval universities (Dominic Dold), monasteries (Yael Barash), and artists’ workshops (Gerd Micheluzzi), as they were likewise responsible for the production and dissemination of (scientific) knowledge. |