Dear colleagues and students,<\/p>\n
The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas cordially invites you to its next colloquium talk: a presentation by Dr. Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Vassar College on “Jewish\/Christian Relations and the Egerton Hours.” Dr. Kim will unfold how medieval English manuscript culture relates to dialogue between religious communities. An abstract for Dr. Kim’s talk is below.<\/p>\n
The talk will take place in the Bilkent Library Orientation Room from 12:40 to approximately 13:20 on Tuesday, March 22, followed by time for questions. Sandwiches and fruit juice will be available.<\/p>\n
Best wishes,
\nCCI Colloquium Committee
\nWilliam Coker and Sjoerd Levelt<\/p>\n
Tuesday, March 22, 12:40-14:00. Bilkent Library Orientation Room:<\/p>\n
Dr. Dorothy Kim, Vassar College,<\/p>\n
“Jewish \/ Christian Relations and the Egerton Hours.”<\/p>\n
In examining the relationship of Ancrene Wisse and the Egerton Hours, both of thirteenth-century provenance, this talk concerns itself with the entangled worlds of female Christian readers, male Christian book producers and illuminators, and the Jews living in their midst. It will examine especially the Egerton Hours, a thirteenth-century Oxford Book of Hours (c. 1270) and its production history in\u2028relation to the William of Devon Group. In\u2028 particular, it will raise questions about how we can
\nconceptualize the entangled medieval process\u2028 whereby Christian devotional art is realized and\u2028 recalibrated in relation to Jewishness. As well as\u2028 accounting for the gender dynamics in texts such as\u2028 these\u2014especially within the triangulated relation\u2028between female reader and (often) commissioner,\u2028 male scribe and illuminator, and the image of male\u2028 Jewishness\u2014this article will draw upon the theories\u2028 of entanglement and \u2018intra- action\u2019, as posited by\u2028 Karen Barad, to deconstruct the totalizing idea of a\u2028 \u2018grotesque hall\u2019 of antisemitic images, particularly those appearing in the Egerton Hours. Finally, it will evaluate how the interactions of these groups gather together for moments of \u2018intra-action\u2019 on the manuscript page in order to produce Christian material devotion for female lay communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear colleagues and students, The Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas cordially invites you to its next colloquium talk: a presentation by Dr. Dorothy Kim, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Vassar College on “Jewish\/Christian Relations and the Egerton Hours.” Dr. Kim will unfold how medieval English manuscript culture relates [\u2026] <\/p>\n