PROGRAM

9.45-10.00
Opening remarks
Valentina SANDU-DEDIU, Rector, New Europe College
Anca OROVEANU, Academic Coordinator, New Europe College

Chair: Ștefania DUMBRAVĂ
10.00-10.30
Mihnea MIHAIL
Of scales and mantles: the iconographic couple of St. Michael and the Virgin in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary

10.30-11.00
Marius BADRAGAN
Shaping sacred space through images: the case of St. Nicholas church, Sighișoara (Schäßburg / Segesvár)

11.00-11.30
Andrei DUMITRESCU
Blessed by the Great Angel and baptized by a saintly Pope: the veneration of Sts. Constantine and Sylvester in Moldavia during the reign of Stephen III

11.30-12.00
Vlad BEDROS | Mihail-George HÂNCU
Fantastic saints and where to find them: uncommon saintly bishops in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Moldavian images and texts

12.00-12.15
Coffee break

Chair: Andrei DUMITRESCU
12.15-12.45
Ovidiu OLAR
“Terrible, powerful, and frightful captain of the heavenly host”: the Archangel Michael in Anastasie Crimca’s 1610 Liturgical Apostle

12.45-13.15
Ștefania DUMBRAVĂ
Role model to icon: the prophet Elijah as prototype for the monastic life in post-Byzantine icons

13.15-13.45
Alice Isabella SULLIVAN
Transfer and adaptation: the Moldavian iconographic programs of the sixteenth century and monastic devotion

13.45-14.30 Lunch break

Chair: Mihail George HÂNCU
14.30-15.00
Barbara CROSTINI
Reflections on the relation between visual, oral, and written culture: another look at the Traditio Legis

15.00-15.30
Vladimir IVANOVICI
Late Antique martyr shrines and the construction of devotional webs

15.30-16.00
Mircea DULUȘ
Biography, narrative structure, and space in John Xiphilinos’ Miracula of St. Eugenios of Trebizond

16.00-16.15 Coffee break

Chair: Vlad BEDROS
16.15-16.45
Anna ADASHINSKAYA
Deserts of Paradise: sacral landscape of Lavriote monasteries on the peripheries of Byzantine world

16.45-17.15
Dragoș NĂSTĂSOIU
Final destination: Holy Land as a place of devotion, pilgrimage, and dying for medieval women

17.15-17.45
Oana IACUBOVSCHI
Devotional transfers from center to periphery: prototypes of famous icons and their fresco replicas

17.45-18.15
Elisabeta NEGRĂU
Icons with maps and icons as maps: the geography of devotion

18.15-18.30
Conclusions

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Participants:

Anna ADASHINSKAYA, NEC
Marius BADRAGAN, independent scholar
*Vlad BEDROS, NEC | National University of Arts, Bucharest
Barbara CROSTINI, Newman Institute, Uppsala
Mircea DULUȘ, Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy
*Ștefania DUMBRAVĂ, NEC
*Andrei DUMITRESCU, NEC | Central European University, Vienna
*Mihail-George HÂNCU, NEC | Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy
*Oana IACUBOVSCHI, NEC | Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy
Vladimir IVANOVICI, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio | University of Vienna
Mihnea MIHAIL, NEC | National University of Arts, Bucharest
Dragoș NĂSTĂSOIU, NEC
Elisabeta NEGRĂU, “G. Oprescu” Institute of History of Art, Romanian Academy
Ovidiu OLAR, PI, ORTHPOL**, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Alice Isabella SULLIVAN, Tufts University, Massachusetts

*) members of the NoDeS team  
**) Orthodoxies and Politics. The Religious Reforms of mid-17th Century in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, ERC Starting Grant 950287 (2022-2026)

This workshop is organized within the research project Networks of Devotion: The selection of saints as marker of religious identity in Post-Byzantine Moldavian representations (wall-paintings and texts), granted by UEFISCDI – Young Research Teams (PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1909) and hosted by New Europe College.