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📣 Book Launch! On Tuesday, November 10, Maria Grazia Bartolini will discuss her new book. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 explores the role of vision, memory, and meditation in the sermons produced in Ukraine during the second half of the seventeenth century. Dr. Bartolini argues that the cognitive importance that vision and memory enjoyed in medieval and early modern culture informed their centrality in these sermons. Join us on campus or online to learn more. Michelle Viise of HURI Books will host the discussion. 📘 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥: 𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩-𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨
💡 This study explores the role of vision, memory, and meditation in the sermons produced in Ukraine during the second half of the seventeenth century. It argues that the cognitive importance that vision and memory enjoyed in medieval and early modern culture informed their centrality in these sermons. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥 demonstrates how preachers used verbal and visual images to encourage the meditative re-creation of biblical events in the minds of their audiences. An investigation of the mental furniture of early modern Ukrainian preachers and their audiences, this book recovers a fascinating tradition that merged word and image to build “multimedia machines” for the spiritual elevation of the faithful.
💙 Dr. Maria Grazia Bartolini is an Associate Professor of Slavic Philology and Linguistics at the University of Milan. Her research focuses on the religious culture of early modern Ukraine, with special attention to the intersection of preaching, memory, and visual arts in seventeenth-century Ukraine. She specializes in the political and social aspects of homiletic and hagiographical texts, and the reception of Christian Neoplatonism in the East Slavic region. Dr. Bartolini was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Harvard for the Fall 2025 term.
📍 ONLINE AND ON CAMPUS | CGIS-Knafel Building, 2nd Floor, Room K-262
🗓️ Tuesday, November 10 at 5:00 – 6:30 pm EST
🔗 Learn more and register to attend: https://www.huri.harvard.edu/event/maria-grazia-bartolini-eye-mind
💛 HURI Books | Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
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