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Apr72025

Seminar “Medieval Architectural Spaces and Water in the Iberian Peninsula; A Necessary Conversation” Rescheduled.

Seminar “Medieval Architectural Spaces and Water in the Iberian Peninsula; A Necessary Conversation” Rescheduled.

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Mar222025

RSA Boston 2025

SenSArt team will participate in the RSA Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston from March 20 to March 22.

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Mar112025

Vittorio Frighetto’s article in “Rivista di storia della miniatura” has been published

The article examines how medieval users interacted with illuminated manuscripts, seen as a combination of text and image.

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Feb72025

Divine Senses: Exploring Sensorial Experiences in Religious Contexts throughout the Premodern Iberian World

We are interested in how these elements affected bodily sensations, behaviors, mindsets and/or were harnessed and incorporated into religious experiences as a whole.

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Oct22024

Micol Long and Zuleika Murat’s articles in Cahiers d’études italiennes 39: Objects: Gender, Practices, Representations (Italy, Middle Ages – Baroque) have been published!

Padua, 02 October 2024     Micol Long and Zuleika Murat’s articles in Cahiers d’études italiennes 39: Objects: Gender, Practices, Representations (Italy, Middle Ages – Baroque) have been published! These…

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SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture (a.y. 2024-2025)

    SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture (a.y. 2024-2025) Padua, Palazzo Liviano, Aula Diano/Sala Sartori, 5.00 pm   30 October, 5.00 pm, Aula Diano: Liturgy, Light, and…

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Jul102024

Call for papers for RSA 2025 on “Sensing the Elements in the Experience of the Sacred (14th-16th century)”

We are interested in how these elements affected bodily sensations, behaviors, mindsets and/or were harnessed and incorporated into religious experiences as a whole.

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Mar142024

Conference on “Embodied Preaching: Multisensorial Preaching Performances in Medieval Europe”

By the Late Middle Ages, the liturgy has become the most important and elaborate ceremonial of Christianity in an already highly ritualised society.

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Nov62023

Conference on “The Senses, Cognition and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices”

The conference aims to shed new light on the intricate ways in which the senses, cognition, and the body were engaged in devotional practices, emphasizing themultisensory nature of medieval spirituality

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Jun292023

International Medieval Congress 2023

SenSArt team is going to participate at the International Medieval Congress 2023 in Leeds (03/07-06/07). The four sessions organised by the team are entitled “Entanglements of Senses in Medieval Sacred Art and Religious Experience” and will all be held on 5th July.

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Feb282023

Micol Long’s article on Reorienting Desires, Emotions and Perceptions has been published!

The purpose of this article is to investigate the mental and spiritual process of interiorization of the Passion imagery, the mechanism that permitted the transition from a material representation, experienced with the senses, to a mental image, impressed into the memory, then evoked and relived in a purely spiritual form.

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Feb252023

Fourth Seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture” 

This 4th Seminar will approach the medieval use of illuminated manuscripts for the private devotion with presentations by Francesca Manzari (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Zuleika Murat (Università di Padova)

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Feb242023

Third Seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture”

The third seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture” will feature specialists’ presentations on the medieval altar and its environment, approaching the subject both from a broad perspective that draws a comparative analysis of different European regions, to a more focused case-study from the Crown of Castile.

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Jan182023

Zuleika Murat’s article on Pacino di Bonaguida’s manuscript (M.643) has been published!

The purpose of this article is to investigate the mental and spiritual process of interiorization of the Passion imagery, the mechanism that permitted the transition from a material representation, experienced with the senses, to a mental image, impressed into the memory, then evoked and relived in a purely spiritual form.

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Nov302022

Second Seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture”

The hydraulic and musical fountain in the Cleveland Museum of Art offers a perfect opportunity for theoretical reflection and practical experimentation in multisensory art history. It is a unique device of gilt and enamelled silver made in Paris ca. 1320.

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Nov32022

First Seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture” Karl Kinsella

The late medieval church in western Europe was a site of competing signifiers that called on contemporary Christians to actively engage with the architecture, furniture and art that decorated the interior.

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Oct132022

Conference on “Performance, Perception and Devotional Experience in Medieval Sacred Spaces”

The conference, jointly organized by Zuleika Murat (University of Padua) Fabio Massaccesi (University of Bologna) and Núria Jornet (Universitat de Barcelona), brings together international scholars working on diverse topics and materials

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Sep212022

Conference on “The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Rituals”

By the Late Middle Ages, the liturgy has become the most important and elaborate ceremonial of Christianity in an already highly ritualised society.

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Aug252022

Sara Carreño’s paper on Image Reception in the work of Lucas Tudense has been published!

This paper examines ideas of image reception in the theological treatise ‘De altera uita’, written by the Iberian bishop Lucas de Tui in ca. 1230. This analysis of the book reflects on the importance of sight within the religious experience of late-medieval Europe.

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950248).

Overall budget: € 1.499.328,00

Start date: 1 September 2021

End date: 31 August 2026

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