Da San Genuario all'Europa. Monasteri e acqua, monasteri in terre d'Acqua
From San Genuario to Europe : monasteries and water, monasteries in wetlands
Published on Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Abstract
The conference will examine the central role of water in the life of cenobitic centres, through general overviews across vast areas of the Continent and individual case studies, in a discourse on the longue durée, which, from the most ancient Early Medieval experiences to the development of the monastic Orders, testifies to the many and complex facets of the relationship between monasteries and water still present in the European landscape.
Announcement
First documented in 707, the monastery of San Michele, located on the plain south of Vercelli, not far from the Po, testifies to the monastic presence in north western Italy in the Lombard period. It then assumed the title of San Michele and San Genuario following the arrival of the relics of the latter martyr, in the Carolingian age. From its origins, as written sources attest, the monastery dealt with a landscape profoundly marked by the presence of water, represented by rivers, streams and artificial canals, as well as marshes and swampy areas, traces of which can still be seen in the area today. Reflecting on the relationship between the monastery and its particular natural environment in the Middle Ages ; which is the subject of the first session of this conference ; led us to widen our gaze to the whole of Europe, looking specifically at interaction between the monastic phenomenon and water (second and third sessions). Water plays a central role in the life of cenobitic centres, from a symbolic point of view, in the liturgy, in hagiographic and artistic production, and from a functional perspective, as an essential componen tin the daily existence of the communities. At the same time, water is a resource that is widely exploited economically by the monastic world, from fishing to various productive activities, but first and foremost as asource of power for mills.
Programme
18th May 2023, 2 pm
18 Maggio 2023, Ore 14.00
13.00 - Registration
(the virtual room will open at 13.30)
14.00 - 14.30- Instituional welcome
14.30 - 15.00 - Eleonora Destefanis, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Sessione 1 : San Genuario and “Southern Vercelli” in the Middle Ages: a monastery and its wetlands
Chair: Silvia Beltramo, Politecnico di Torino
15.00 - 15.30: Maria Elena Gorrini, Università di Pavia : Prima di Eusebio: l’ager di Vercellae in epoca romana imperiale
15.30 - 16.00: Francesca Garanzini, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Biella, Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola e Vercelli : Comunità e territorio in età medievale nel territorio bassovercellese: dati archeologici
16.00 - 16.30 : Giancarlo Andenna, Emerito Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano e Accademico dei Lincei : Monasteri tra Ticino, Po e Dora. I fiumi da pericoli a risorse economiche: trasporti, agricoltura, allevamento e conseguente produzione artigianale (secoli X-XIII)
16.30 - 16.45 : Coffee break
16.45 - 17.15 : Eleonora Destefanis e Federica Pondrano, Università del Piemonte Orientale : Archeologia dei monasteri a San Genuario di Lucedio: dati acquisiti e nuova prospettive di ricerca
17.15 - 17.45 : Alessandra Cesare e Valeria Mosca, Archiviste : L’abbazia di San Genuario e le acque: disegno del paesaggio e politiche di uso e controllo
17.45 - 18.15 : Discussione
19 Maggio 2023, Ore 9.00
Sessione 2 : Water in monastic complexes, between ideology and practice. The Early Middle Ages
Chair : Saverio Lomartire, Università del Piemonte Orientale
9 - 9.30 : Teemu Immonen, University of Turku : Saint Benedict and water in the pictorial arts
9.30 - 10.00 : Maria Carla Somma, Università di Chieti : Acque e monasteri nei territori di Benedetto. Una lettura archeologica da alcuni contesti dell’Italia centrale
10.00 - 10.30 : Florent Thorel, Université de Lille : Les amenagements hydrauliques d’une abbaye benedictine : exemple de Saint-Bertin
10.30 - 10.45 : Coffee break
10.45 - 11.15 : Colin Rynne, University College Cork : Waterpower and the early Irish monastery: the archaeological evidence
11.15 - 11.45 : Francisco José Moreno Martín, Complutense University of Madrid e María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council : Early medieval Hispanic monasteries as production settlements. Between topography, territory, water and architecture
11.45 - 12.15 : Discussione
Lunch
19 Maggio 2023, Ore 14.00
Sessione 3 : The monastic Orders. High and Late Middle Ages
Chair: Giancarlo Andenna, Emerito Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano e Accademico dei Lincei
14 - 14.30 :Gilles Rollier, Inrap Bourgogne - Franche-Comté/Laboratoire HiSoMA : L’abbaye de Cluny et l’eau : entre traditions et innovations
14.30 - 15.00 : Cecilia Moine, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le Province di Parma e Piacenza : Acque monastiche. La laguna nord di Venezia nel bassomedioevo
15.00 - 15.30 : Silvia Beltramo, Politecnico di Torino : Monasteri cistercensi e acqua: architetture e spazi nelle abbazie del nord Italia
15.30 - 16.00 : Virgolino Ferreira Jorge, University of Évora : La pianificazione idraulica di antichi monasteri e conventi in Portogallo
16.00 - 16.15 : Coffee break
16.15 - 17.00 : Gaby Lindenmann-Merz, Independent researcher : The bowl retains the water, the canal pours out...Reflections on Cistercian water management using examples from the British Isles and the Upper Rhine area
17.00 - 17.30 : József Laszlovszky, Central European University : “…locum prescriptum in qua eadem insula scilicet fundata est ęcclesia…”. Monastic Orders and Island Monasteries in Medieval Hungary
17.30 - 18.00 : Laszlo Ferenczi, Charles University, Prague : Examples of medieval Cistercian water management practices in Poland, Czechia and Hungary
18.00 - 18.30 : Discussion
18.30 - 19 : Gisella Cantino Wataghin, Università del Piemonte Orientale. Conclusion
Participation guidelines
In order to attend the conference via Zoom, please email us at: convegnosangenuario@gmail.com
Subjects
- Europe (Main category)
- Mind and language > Representation > Cultural history
- Periods > Middle Ages
- Society > History
- Mind and language > Representation
- Mind and language > Representation > Architecture
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology > Archaeology
- Mind and language > Epistemology and methodology
Places
- Teatro “Cinico Angelini” - via manzoni 14
Crescentino, Italian Republic (13044)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Thursday, May 18, 2023
- Friday, May 19, 2023
Attached files
Keywords
- monasteries, archaeology, middle ages, water, monastic orders
Contact(s)
- Sala Valentina
courriel : convegnosangenuario [at] gmail [dot] com
Information source
- Sala Valentina
courriel : convegnosangenuario [at] gmail [dot] com
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Da San Genuario all'Europa. Monasteri e acqua, monasteri in terre d'Acqua », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, https://doi.org/10.58079/1b71