Programme
Monday 20 September
All sessions will take place at Tieteiden Talo, Kirkkokatu 6, 00170 Helsinki.
| 8:30 | REGISTRATION OPENS |
| 9:00 |
OPENING WORDS Room 505 Sami Pihlström, Director, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies |
| 9:30 |
KEYNOTE Room 505 David Abulafia (University of Cambridge, England) - Seeing, Hearing and Believing. Wandering Gypsies in Fifteenth-Century Europe. |
| 10:30 | COFFEE |
| 11:00 |
Session 1A: VARIETIES OF FEMALE AUTHORITY Room 505, Chair: Sirpa Aalto, Joensuu Alexandr Koptev (University of Tampere, Finland) - Woman in Power: Princess Olga in the Early Rurikid Dynasty. Alexandra Vukovic (University of Cambridge, England) - Concord and Reconciliation in the ‘Life of Queen Helen’ by Archbishop Daniel II. Jessica Barr (Eureka College, Illinois, USA) - Body Language: The Semiotics of Saintly Bodies in Medieval Women’s Hagiography. Dámaris M. Otero-Torres (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA) - Perplexity and Divine Grace in Teresa de Cartagena’s Admiraçión Operum Dey. |
| 11:00 |
Session 1 B: EPISCOPAL AUTHORITY BETWEEN THE EMPIRE AND THE PAPACY Room 404, Chair: Christian Krötzl, Tampere Ken A. Grant (University of Texas Pan American, USA) - A Defense of Papal Authority – Pope Gregory VII’s Second Letter to Bishop Hermann of Metz. Sigga Engsbro (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) - Secular Sanctity, The Bishop in the East Frankish Realms in the 10th -11th centuries, Archbishop Bruno of Cologne - an Exemplar? Britt Forde (University College of Cork, Ireland) - ‘Make right what is wrong,’ Auctoritas in Adam of Bremen. Christopher Petitt (City University of New York, USA) - Empire and Sanctity in the Hagiography of Peter Damian. |
| 12:45 |
LUNCH Restaurant Piano |
| 14:15 |
Session 2 A: LEADERSHIP AND SECULAR AUTHORITY Room 505, Chair: Antti Matikkala, HCAS Miia Ijäs (University of Tampere, Finland) - Shifting Authorities and Political Negotiation in the Sixteenth Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Inka Moilanen (University of Bergen, Norway) - The Problem of Authority: Ælfric of Eynsham, Lay Aristocracy, and the Ideals of Society. Mollie Madden (University of Minnesota, USA) - The Black Prince in Command: Sources of Military Authority in the Duchy of Gascony during the Hundred Years War. |
| 14:15 |
Session 2 B: AUTHORATITVE TEXTS AND TEXTUAL AUTHORITIES I Room 404, Chair: Maijastina Kahlos, Helsinki Csaba Nemeth (Central European University, Hungary) - Fabricating Philosophical Authority The Twelfth Century: The Case of the De septem septenis. Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen, Netherlands) - Working with the Authorities in the Devotio Moderna. Samu Niskanen (University of Oxford, Jesus College, England) - A Text as an Author: Anselm’s Friendship and Cassian’s Conferences Once Again. |
| 15:45 | COFFEE |
| 16:15 |
Session 3A: SUPERNATURAL AUTHORITY Room 505, Chair: Jesse Keskiaho, Helsinki Susanna Niiranen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) - Pater noster or gogum gogum? Auctoritas and Healing Power in an Occitan Remedy Collection. Nicole Leapley (St Anselm College, New Hampshire, USA)- Vision and Blindness in Matthew Paris’s Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei. Jen Reid (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Patrick and the Power of Words in Medieval Ireland. |
| 16:15 |
Session 3B: THE AUTHORITY OF IMAGES AND OBJECTS Room 404, Chair: Chair: Elina Räsänen, Helsinki Jill Bradley (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Tuula Hockman (University of Tampere, Finland) - The Harrowing of Hell and Romanesque Baptismal Fonts. Sarah Parker (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) - “That You Yourselves are God’s Temple”: Shifting Identities and the Foundation of Faith in the Hortus deliciarum Tabernacles. |
| 18:00 |
RECEPTION HCAS, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Studies |
