Materialising the Holy. Matter, senses, and spiritual experience in the Middle Ages (12th-15th century)

9.15 SESSION IV

SACRED MATERIALS AND THE BODY

chaired by Micol Long

Valentina Baradel (Università di Padova), ‘The Material is the Message’. The Sensory Agency and Meanings of Linen in Medieval Religious Culture

Flavia Galli Tatsch (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Feeling the Sacred: Textiles, Metal, and Devotional Experience in Marian Pilgrim Badges

Sarah Guerin (University of Pennsylvania), Interoception and Medieval Art, or The Art of the Bow

 Discussion

11.00 Coffee Break

11.15 SESSION V

MATERIAL WORD: INTERACTING WITH SACRED TEXTS

chaired by Vittorio Frighetto

Karen E. McCluskey (University of Notre Dame Australia), Grieving and Healing: The Sydney Hours as an Extended Tool of Cognition

 Sebastiano Crestani (Università di Padova), Look but don’t Touch: The Materiality of the Torah Scroll in Medieval European Judaism

Alison Ray (Royal Irish Academy Library), Perceiving the Page: Devotional Visions Across Double Openings in the Book of St Albans

Discussion

13.00 Lunch Break

14.30 SESSION VI

LIQUID MATTER: MEDIATING AND EMBODYING THE SACRED

chaired by Teresa Martínez Martínez

Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), The ‘Well of Moses’, a Well of Tears: Emotions and Sensory Devotional Experience at Champmol

Aisling Reid (Queen’s University Belfast), Sweet Matter: The Taste of the Virgin’s Milk and the Sensory Theology of Devotion

Elena Paulino Montero (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED), Materializing the Holy Blood: Sensory Experiences, Vicarious Touch, and Female Devotion in Late Medieval Castile

Discussion

16.15 Coffee Break

16.30 SESSION VII

CRAFTING THE SACRED SURFACE: MEDIA, MATERIALITY, AND DEVOTIONAL PRACTICES

chaired by Alfonso Zoleo

Emma Bruckner (Courtauld Institute of Art), Recreating Creation: Material Transformation and Artistic Identity in Jean Colombe’s Books of Hours

Marta Boscolo Marchi (Museo di Arte Orientale Venezia), The Many Faces of Kannon: Devotion, Material Culture, and Propaganda in Japan from the Middle Ages to the Edo Period (1603-1868)

Chiara Croci (HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland/HE-Arc Conservation Restauration), Managing the ‘Lost of Sense’. Conservation Practices and Sensorial Values of Medieval Objects

Discussion