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Étiqueté : Sensory

Appel à contribution : « Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages », Padoue, Università degli Studi di Padova, 6-8 mai 2026, date limite le 31 octobre 2025

Materialising the Holy. Matter, Senses, and Spiritual Experience in the Middle Ages – 4th International Multidisciplinary Conference of the Series ‘Experiencing the Sacred’. Organisers: Zuleika Murat, Valentina Baradel, Vittorio Frighetto, Teresa Martínez Martínez. In recent years, the growing interest in materiality has shifted art-historical inquiry from a primary focus on images to the physical and material characteristics of objects themselves. No longer viewed merely as carriers of representation, materials have emerged as crucial sites of...

Appel à communications : “Rethinking Sacred Images as the “Book of the Illiterate” – An Early Modern, Global, and Auditory Perspective”, Rome, Academia Belgica, 4–5 June 2026, date limite le 30 septembre 2025

The idea that sacred images served as the “Book of the illiterate” (Liber idiotarum), a concept traditionally attributed to Gregory the Great and rooted in the practices of the expanding European Christian Church, has had a lasting influence on art historiography. Following the linguistic turn of the 1970s, scholars often used this concept as a framework for interpreting images as texts and their reception as a form of visual reading. In the 1990s, however, this...