Programme for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’

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We are delighted to share the programme for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’.
Details below, or download the PDF.

Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Best, Stewart and Julie

If you've not registered yet, it's not too late. Just go to Eventbrite

NB: times are GMT and the conference will be held on Zoom. 

Day 1: Monday 21 February 2022
2.15pm: Welcome to 'Opening the Sacred Text'
Session 1. Chair: Andrew Dunning
2.30pm-2.50pm
• Stewart Brookes
  "Carpet Pages: What?"
2.50pm-3.10pm
• Carol Farr
 "Unravelling the Insular Carpet Page: Needs and Responses in Book Art"
3.10pm-3.30pm
• William Endres
 "An Insular Meditative Sequence: Sorting Out the Evolving Complexity of Interplay among Cross-Carpet and Other Decorative Pages as Preparation for Entering a Gospel"
Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm

Session 2. Chair: Catherine Karkov
4.10pm-4.30pm
• Bernard Meehan
  "Roman Mosaics, Early Christian Architecture and the Books of Durrow and Kells"
4.30pm-4.50pm
• Laura McCloskey Wolfe
 "Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Irish Manuscript Illumination: A Comparative Analysis of Metalwork Techniques and Textual Decoration in the Book of Durrow"
4.50pm-5.10pm
• Christine Bachman
 "Holistic Visions: Connecting Book Covers and Ornamental Pages in Early Medieval Manuscripts’l"
Qs: 5.10pm-5.30pm

Day 2: Tuesday 22 February 2022
2.15pm: Welcome to Day 2
Session 3. Chair: Reed O'Mara
2.30pm-2.50pm
• Rose Walker
  "Opening Iberian Sacred Books from the Tenth to the Early Thirteenth Centuries"
2.50pm-3.10pm
• Dalia-Ruth Halperin
 "Reciprocal Ties Between the Calligraphic Frames in Sefardi Bibles and the Text and Images in their Micrography Carpets: Variant Regional Emphasis"
3.10pm-3.30pm
• Elina Gertsman
 "Untethered Image"
Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm

Session 4. Chair: Aleksandra Buncic
4.10pm-4.30pm
• Eva Hoffman
  "The 'Carpet Page' A Space of Exchange Between Religion and Culture"
4.30pm-4.50pm
• Cailah Jackson
 "Opening the Islamic Book in Medieval Konya: Illuminated Pointed Ovals and Their Possible Sources"
Qs: 4.50pm-5.10pm

Day 3: Wednesday 23 February 2022
2.15pm: Welcome to Day 3
Session 5. Chair: Lisa Fagin Davis
2.30pm-2.50pm
• Georgi Parpulov
  "The Frontispiece Miniatures of the Oldest Arabic Gospel Book"
2.50pm-3.10pm
• Anastasija Ropa
 "Ornamental Frontispieces in Slavic Orthodox Gospels"
3.10pm-3.30pm
• Jacopo Gnisci
 "Woven Prayers: Carpet Pages in Ethiopian Manuscripts"
Qs: 3.30pm-3.50pm

Session 6. Chair: Susan Boynton
4.10pm-4.30pm
• Elvira Martín-Contreras
  "Decorative and Textual: Carpet Pages in the Earliest Hebrew Bible Codices"
4.30pm-4.50pm
• Julie Harris
 "The Sense of an Ending: Finispieces in the Iberian Bible Codices"
Qs: 4.50pm-5.10pm
5.10pm-5.30pm
• Stewart J. Brookes and Julie Harris
 Closing remarks

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