Organizers:
Ewa Balicka-Witakowska,
Uppsala University
[email protected]
Tel: 0046-736821873
Anthony Lappin,
National University of Ireland at Maynooth
[email protected]
Tel: 0046-767468042
Venue:
Maynooth University
Maynooth; Co. Kildare
South Campus
Renehal Hall
Accomodation:
Maynooth Campus
Front Desk Reception tel: +353 1 708 6400
www.maynoothcampus.com
MIRACLES OF THE VIRGIN MARY
Medieval Narratives through Time and Space
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
Adresses and telephone numbers
29 March – 1 April 2017
Maynooth University
Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Programme
29.3 WEDNESDAY Maynooth University, Renehan Hall
17.00–17.15 17.15–17.30 Welcome Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Anthony Lappin
Practicalia Ewa Balicka-Witakowska
PLENARY LECTURE:
17.30–18.15 Francesca Dell’Acqua (University of Birmingham)
Restored to Fluency: a Miracle of Mary and the Beginnings of Early Medieval
Mariology
19.00 Dinner
PLENARY LECTURE:
16.30–17.30
31.3 FRIDAY Dublin, Trinity College, Henry Jones Room
10.00–10.30 Jean-Louis Benoît (Université de Bretagne Sud)
Les Miracles de Notre-Dame en français (XIIe et XIIIe siècles). Foi et littérature
10.30–11.00 Anthony Lappin (Maynooth University)
The Miracles of the Virgin Mary in Spain
10.30–11:00 Virginia Langum (Umeå University)
The Middle English Miracles: Between Sickness and Health
11.00-11.30 Coffee
30.3 THURSDAY Maynooth University, Renehan Hall
9.30–10.00
Anthony Lappin (Maynooth University)
Introduction: the Latin Collection
10.00–10.30 Matthew Driscoll (Copenhagen University/Ulster University)
Miracles of the Virgin in Old Icelandic
10.30–11.00 Zsófia A. Bartók (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest)
The Exempla of the Virgin Mary in the Early Hungarian Literature
11.00–11.30 Coffee
11.30–12.00 Johan Heldt (Uppsala Univeristy)
Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Collections of Marian Miracle Stories
12.00–12.30 Robert Phenix (Independent scholar) in absentia
A Comparative Examination of the Miracles of Mary in Armenian
12.30–13.00 Nino Doborjginidze (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
The Miracles of Virgin Mary in Georgian Literary Tradition
13.00–14.30 Lunch
14.30–15.00 Beatrice Daskas (Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Munich)
From Constantinople to the West: the miracle of Mary’s pallium and the Latinversion of the Greek Akathist hymn
15.00–15.30
M. Dimitrova (St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia) and A. Angusheva (University of Manchester) in absentia
Miracles of the Theotokos in Byzantine and Slavonic Vitae: Reception and Adaptation of Byzantine Hagiography in Slavic Context
15.30–16.00 Dessislava Uzunova (St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia)
“Miracles of the Theotokos” in South Slavonic Manuscripts (14th–18th centuries)
16.00–16.30 Coffee
Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham)
The Miraculous Presence of the Virgin Mary in Constantinople (ca. 7th–10th centries):
shrines, relics, icons
19.00 Dinner
PLENARY LECTURE:
11.30–12.30 Rasa Baločkaitė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas)
Marian Apparitions in the Soviet Lithuania: Cultural and Political Appropriations
12.30–14.00 Free time and opportunity to visit the exhibition “the Book of Kells”
14.00–14.30 Barbara Crostini (Uppsala University)
Silvano Razzi’s Tuscan Translation of Marian Miracles and its Success
15.30 Visit to Chester Beatty Library
Dinner in Dublin; return to Maynooth
1.4 SATURDAY Maynooth University, Renehan Hall
9.30–10.00 Cornelia Horn (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
Traditions on Miracles of Mary in the Syriac Literary and Cultural Realm: Towards the Status Qaestionis
10.00–10.30 Wadi Awad (Franciscan Centre of Christian Oriental Studies, Cairo)
The Arabic Miracles of Mary
10.30–11.00 Coffee
11.00–11.30 Ewa Balicka-Witakowska (Uppsala University)
The Miracles of the Virgin Mary: Two Ethiopian Collections Locally Composed
11.30–12.00 Jan Retsö (Gothenburg University)
A New Illuminated Manuscript of the Miracles of Mary from Enda Chege, Tigray,
Ethiopia
12.00–13.00 Roundtable ending
13.00–14.00 Lunch