Manuscript Tradition and Visual Culture. Circulating Models and their Reception in South-Eastern Europe, 14th-18th c.

Event: International Workshop

Location: Zoom

26 November 2021, 10.00 – 15.30 (Bucharest time)

Within the framework of two research projects financed by UEFISCDI and harboured at NEC, we propose a joint workshop that addresses the circulation of textual and visual models in Late and Post-Byzantine traditions, focusing on issues of cultural networks, transfers, and intersections.

Convenors:
Emanuela TIMOTIN, Vlad BEDROS

Participants:
Anna ADASHINSKAYA, Lidia COTOVANU, Ștefania DUMBRAVĂ, Andrei DUMITRESCU, Mihail George HÂNCU, Oana IACUBOVSCHI, Elisabeta NEGRĂU, Ovidiu OLAR, Anca OROVEANU

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Program

10:00–10:15 
Anca OROVEANU (NEC), Emanuela TIMOTIN (NEC | AKATHYMN), Vlad BEDROS (NEC | NODES)
Welcoming remarks

Session 1 | Chair: Emanuela TIMOTIN
10:15–10:45
Anna ADASHINSKAYA (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Between Byzantine and Serbian monks: the transmission of anti-Latin treaties in the fourteenth century

10:45–11:15
Oana IACUBOVSCHI (New Europe College | Institute of South-East European Studies, Bucharest)
The names of the angels – the expanded list: literary and artistic routes of dissemination in late fifteenth-century Moldavia

11:15–11:45
Vlad BEDROS (New Europe College | “G. Oprescu” Institute of History of Art, Bucharest)
The devotion to the Five Martyrs of Sebaste in Post-Byzantine Moldavia: texts and images

11:45–12:00 Coffee break

Session 2 | Chair: Vlad BEDROS
12:00–12:30
Andrei DUMITRESCU (New Europe College | Central European University, Vienna)
Melodists or visionaries? The image of the Virgin in the narthex of Voroneț Monastery and its iconographic context

12:30–13:00
Emanuela TIMOTIN (New Europe College | “I. Iordan–Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics)
Mihail-George HÂNCU (New Europe College | Institute of South-East European Studies, Bucharest)
Translating the Akathistos Hymn from Slavonic into Romanian: Ms 1348 of the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest

13:00–13:30
Ovidiu OLAR (Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | “N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest)
“Writings full of sweetness and grace:” The hybrid codex Ms. gr. 113 of the Romanian Academy Library in Bucharest

13:30–14:00 Lunch break

Session 3 | Chair: Ovidiu OLAR
14:00–14:30
Lidia COTOVANU (New Europe College | “N. Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest)
Le Ms. gr. Garrett 113 de l’Université de Princeton et les circonstances de sa production

14:30–15:00
Elisabeta NEGRĂU (“G. Oprescu” Institute of History of Art)
The Ship of Salvation: thematic transfers in the rhetoric and iconography of the Orthodox Church in the seventeenth century

15:00–15:30
Ștefania DUMBRAVĂ (New Europe College)
Visions of resurrection, restored: Ezekiel in an eighteenth-century embroidery

 

The program of the workshop is also available in the PDF format.

This workshop is organized within the framework of the UEFISCDI research projects, Networks of Devotion: The selection of saints as marker of religious identity in Post-Byzantine Moldavian representations (wall-paintings and texts) and The Oldest Romanian Manuscript and Printed Versions of the Akathistos Hymn (17th C). The History of a Liturgical Masterpiece Between Text and Image hosted by NEC.