Oh bronislava...
Oct. 15th, 2007 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricHow are the nuns going?
feel like a medieval nunly outing?
Dear Centre Members,
Our October evening lecture will be given at the usual time on Thursday 25th by Dr Kathryn M. Rudy, Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands.
The topic will be Nuns' Virtual Pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Nuns and religious women, who had little chance of visiting the Holy Land, instead invented, developed, and revised existing strategies for virtually visiting Jerusalem and the other holy places. Jerusalem was especially pivotal in the late Middle Ages, in that devotion increasingly had to do with affective piety, mostly centered on the Passion of Christ. This illustrated talk will show how nuns used images to carry out virtual pilgrimages.
As this is our last evening lecture for 2007 we hope a great many of you will be able to come. If you wish to join Kate and us at dinner locally afterwards, as is our custom, please let John.Pryor@arts.usyd.edu or Gabrielle.Singleton@arts.usyd.edu know by noon Wednesday 24 at the very latest.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Gabrielle.
feel like a medieval nunly outing?
Dear Centre Members,
Our October evening lecture will be given at the usual time on Thursday 25th by Dr Kathryn M. Rudy, Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Netherlands.
The topic will be Nuns' Virtual Pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Nuns and religious women, who had little chance of visiting the Holy Land, instead invented, developed, and revised existing strategies for virtually visiting Jerusalem and the other holy places. Jerusalem was especially pivotal in the late Middle Ages, in that devotion increasingly had to do with affective piety, mostly centered on the Passion of Christ. This illustrated talk will show how nuns used images to carry out virtual pilgrimages.
As this is our last evening lecture for 2007 we hope a great many of you will be able to come. If you wish to join Kate and us at dinner locally afterwards, as is our custom, please let John.Pryor@arts.usyd.edu or Gabrielle.Singleton@arts.usyd
Looking forward to seeing you,
Gabrielle.
Doctor Kathryn Rudy
Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
The Hague
w i l l l e c t u r e o n
Nuns' Virtual Pilgrimages to the Holy Land
what think you, mdear?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 05:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 05:42 am (UTC)wonder why it does that?
no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-16 09:29 am (UTC)would you care to accompany me and assorted boozy medievalists to dinner subsequently?
i love booze!
Date: 2007-10-17 02:12 am (UTC)what are the details?
Re: i love booze!
Date: 2007-10-17 02:18 am (UTC)i hope Awesome comes. she is fantabulous. and is right into nuns. i'm sure you would enjoy her spiel about masturbating-St-Mary.
when is your hons. thesis due, anyway? theses seem to have been handed in by now at USyd.
details... oh, i cut the details off. oops.
5.00 (for 5.30) p.m. Thursday 25 October
Fourth Floor Common Room
John Woolley Building A20
Which is on USyd campus, about a block away from Manning Bar. Then we all troop down to Roxanne on Glebe Pt Road for dinner.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 02:32 am (UTC)can i meet you at the entrance to that building or something?
(yes, i get the impression that Awesome is awesome!)
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 02:35 am (UTC)nice. good plan.
(Awesome is awesome. So is masturbating-St-Mary, apparently.)
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 02:41 am (UTC)heh, well if your name is masturbating-st-mary i imagine you would be awesome)
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 02:56 am (UTC)masturbating-st-mary is just my mental tag for her. i think she's technically St Mary of Egypt. and not widely renowned for her self-stimulatory habits. except in this one random vernacular anglo-saxon version of her life, which Awesome is working on at the moment. i was the enraptured recipient of a long ramble about bodies and physicality and other such things, all of which would make more sense if i'd read the text.
but apparently she was a nymphomaniac prostitute who took off into the desert for her sins, but this did not stop her being randy. and, oddly, being randy did not stop her being a saint.
no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-17 03:34 am (UTC)even if the talk turns out to be dull and/or entirely too dense for its own good (they do that sometimes), there will be people there/at dinner who will be quite delighted to talk about anything medieval and/or monastic. save up those questions i failed to anser last time i saw you.