Oh bronislava...

[highlyeccentric]

How 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.

Doctor  Kathryn  Rudy
Keeper of Illuminated Manuscripts
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
The Hague

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Nuns' Virtual Pilgrimages to the Holy Land



what think you, mdear?

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[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

they're talking about Jerusalem next week. Jerusalem is cool.

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.