Annual-Report-2019

TIME AND SCIENCE IN THE LIBER FLORIDUS OF
LAMBERT OF SAINT-OMER
LE STUDIUM CONFERENCES
AROUND THE PROJECT:
Article
The Liber Floridus is an encyclopedic
compilation written in the first
quarter of the 12th century by a canon
of Saint Omer named Lambert. In his
attempt at synthesis and innovation
he collected earlier sources but also
contemporary literature.
The work was conceived as an
illustrated edition which combines
texts on different topics with images
and diagrams. In this medieval
project time plays an important role,
manifested in the liturgical calendar
and theological ideas about time, in
the movements of planets and the
signs of the zodiac, the division of
time in years, months and days, the
local and universal history.
. P. Carmassi, Testimonianze manoscritte di
tradizioni liturgiche aquileiesi, in Gabriele Archetti
(ed.), Teodolinda. I longobardi all’alba dell’Europa.
Atti del 2° Convegno internazionale, Centro studi
longobardi. Convegni 2, volume I, Milano 2019, pp.
361-381.
Book
. P. Carmassi - C. Heitzmann (edd.), Marginalien
im Bild und Text: Essays zu mittelalterlichen
Handschriften, Wiesbaden 2019 (Wolfenbütteler
Forschungen 156).
The conference investigated from different points of view and disciplines the
reception of new scientific ideas and the many concepts of time which are
transmitted in the Liber Floridus in images and texts, considering also the
theological, exegetical and philosophical backgrounds.
Moreover, the manuscript tradition of the Liber Floridus was taken into
account comparing the autograph codex preserved in Ghent with other later
manuscript copies.
The conference hosted scholars from six different countries and offered a public
lecture about “Temps, le Liber Floridus et la science des astres au XIIe siècle”
(Prof. Charles Burnett, The Warburg Institute, Londres). The proceedings will
be edited by Brepols Publisher Turnhout.
TEMPS, LE LIBER FLORIDUS ET LA SCIENCE DES
ASTRES AU XIIE SIÈCLE
LE STUDIUM LECTURES
Interest in the past, awareness of the
present or anticipation of the future,
time plays a significant role in the
Liber Floridus by Lambert de St Omer.
This presentation proposed
comparisons and contrasting insights
between the ideas of time present in
the Liber Floridus with those found
in scientific works circulating in 12th
century Europe, particularly in the
fields of astronomy and astrology.
Prof. Charles Burnett, from The
Warburg Institute, London, engaged
the public into a stimulating
reflection.
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