The Veronica Conference

 

SESSION 1	THE ORIGINS OF THE FAME OF THE ROMAN VERONICA
Amanda Murphy Conference Convenor	Welcome
Herbert L. Kessler	Introduction: The Literary Warp and Artistic Weft of Veronica’s Cloth
Zbigniew Izydorczyk	The Cura Sanitatis Tiberii according to Ernst von Dobschütz
Barry Windeatt	‘True Image’? Versions of the Veronica in Medieval England
Federico Gallo	De sacrosanto sudario Veronicae by Giacomo Grimaldi. First Investigations
Nigel Morgan	‘Veronica’ images in England c. 1240-c. 1280

SESSION 2	THE DEVOTION AND CULT OF THE VERONICA
Aden Kumler	Signatis…vultus tui: (Re)-impressing the Veronica in the Middle Ages
Rebecca Rist	Innocent III and Veronica’s Veil: Papal PR or Eucharistic Icon
Guido Milanese	Quaesivi vultum tuum
Joerg Bölling	Face to face with Christ in Late Medieval Rome. The Veil of Veronica in Papal Liturgy and Ceremony
Uwe Michael Lang	The Mass Proper of the Holy Face and of Saint Veronica in Medieval Liturgical Sources before the Tridentine Reform

Session 3	The Promotion of the Veronica Cult
Rowan Williams	Welcome
Gisela Drossbach	The Roman Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia and the symbolic Communication of the Veronica
Kathryn Rudy	Philip the Good and the Face of Christ
Etienne Doublier	“Sui pretiossisimi vultus Imago”: Veronica and Grants of Indulgences in the 13th and early 14th centuries
Marc Sureda i Jubany	Veronicae of Christ and the Virgin in the Kingdom of Aragon in the Late Middle Ages. A Survey of their Diffusion and Liturgical Context
Chiara Di Fruscia	“Datum Avenioni” Avignon Papacy and the Custody of the Veronica

SESSION 4	The Spread of the Veronica Cult
Hanneke Van Asperen	Images of the Veronica in Religious Books of the Laity: Their Provenance and Meaning
Marco Petoletti,   Angelo Piacentini	The Veronica by Boniface da Verona, 13th century poet
Stefano Candiani	The iconography of the Veronica in the Lombardy region during the 14th century
Raffaele Savigni	The Roman Veronica and the Holy Face of Lucca: parallelisms and tangencies in the formation of both traditions
Raffaella Zardoni,  Emanuela Bossi,  Amanda Murphy	The iconography of the Veronica: an assessment of chronologically and geographically ordered data

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Emanuela Bossi, Marta Ferrari, Elisabetta Pinciroli.

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Supported by

• Istituto Toniolo, Milan
• The Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
• The Department of Medieval, Humanistic and Renaissance Studies, UCSC
• The Department of Language Sciences and Foreign Literatures, UCSC
• The London Encounter by Manalive