About this Event
The Eye of the Mind: Vision, Memory, and Meditation in Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching – a book talk and discussion by Maria Grazia Bartolini, Associate Professor of Slavic Philology and Linguistics at the University of Milan
This study explores the role of vision, memory, and meditation in the sermons produced in Ukraine during the second half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the cognitive importance vision and memory enjoyed in medieval and early modern culture informed their centrality in these sermons. In The Eye of the Mind, Dr. Bartolini demonstrates how preachers used verbal and visual images to encourage the meditative re-creation of biblical events in the minds of their audiences, merging word and image to build “multimedia machines” for the spiritual elevation of the faithful.
Learn more: https://www.huri.harvard.edu/event/maria-grazia-bartolini-eye-mind
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CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, United States
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