Name: Words and Images: Late medieval spirituality of the Low Countries
Start: 2024-11-21T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-21T19:00:00+00:00
Location: The Lit & Phil

Words and Images: Late medieval spirituality of the Low Countries

Discussing the Trinitarian mystical theology of Jan van Ruusbroec (+1381) and the later movement of Modern Devotion.
About this Event

Thursday 21st November | 6pm

Members' priority booking until 4th November

Professor Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Professor of Medieval Thought, Durham University

Professor Van Nieuwenhove will discuss the Trinitarian mystical theology of Jan van Ruusbroec (+1381) and the later movement of Modern Devotion, also known as the Brethren of the Common Life. He will illustrate this spirituality with discussions of the paintings of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. Both the school of painting and the mystical writings of the Low Countries exerted a European-wide influence, including in England. The religious art of the fifteenth century Low Countries expresses some key themes of this spirituality and represents one of the pinnacles of European religious art.

A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | FREE

Members' priority booking until 4th November

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