Books of Knowledge and Their Reception
Through the looking Glass of the Texts
Programme Programme Abstracts Speakers Travel Contact

Thursday 18th October

14h Introduction (Pavlína Cermanová, Václav Žůrek)

14h15 Keynote
Chair: Pavlína Cermanová

Steven J. Williams, Beyond the Hyperbole: An Overview of the Reception and Readership of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secret of Secrets

15h00 Coffee

Session 1: 15:20-16:50
Chair: Pavel Soukup

15h20 Lucie Doležalová, Between Scylla and Charybdis. The De tribus punctis christianae religionis (1316) by Thomas Hibernicus and its heyday in late medieval Bohemia

15h50 Gleb Schmidt, The Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis and its readers in the Late Medieval Italy (14th-15th centuries)

16h20 Jaroslav Svátek, Devotion and Religious Polemics. Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis in Late Medieval Czech Lands

Friday 19th October

Session 2: 9:30-10:30
Chair: Dušan Coufal

9h30 Vojtěch Bažant, Chronicle of Popes and Emperors by Martinus Polonus in urban milieu in Kingdom of Bohemia

10h00 Nadine Holzmeier, Patterns of Knowledge in Late Medieval Historiography. The „Chronologia Magna" of Paolino Veneto

10h00 Coffee

Session 3: 10:50-11:50
Chair: Pavel Blažek

10h50 Lukáš Lička, Two Anonymous Commentaries on Peckham’s Perspectiva communis Written by the Hand of Reimbotus de Castro

11h20 Nicolas Weill-Parot, The commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics in the universities of Central Europe (c.1350-c.1500): a reassessment of the impact and metamorphosis of the “Buridanian” model.

11h50 Lunch

Session 4: 14:00-15:30
Chair: Jaroslav Svátek

14h00 Václav Žůrek, Chess, Moral Principles, and Ancient Stories. Reception of Cessolis’s Liber de moribus and other Classicizing Works in Medieval Bohemia

14h30 Barbora Hanzová - Pavel Blažek, The Pseudo-Bernhardine Epistola de cura rei familiaris and its Reception in Medieval Bohemia

15h10 Coffee

Session 5: 15:30-17:00
Chair: Lucie Doležalová

15h30 Julia Burkhardt, A handbook for everyone? The circulation of the “Book of Bees” in Late Medieval Europe

16h00 Dana Stehlíková, Kristan's of Prachatice Latin Herbarium and its successful journey to the Old Czech literature

16h30 Baudouin Van den Abeele, The Physiologus Theobaldi: A most successful bestiary in medieval schools and monasteries

18h00 Excursion to Strahov Monastery Library

19h15 Strahov Monastery Brewery

Saturday 20th October

Session 6: 9:30-10:30
Chair: Pavlína Cermanová

9h30 Petra Waffner, “How Collections shape the Text“– manuscript evidences of the Book of Sidrac

10h00 David Morris, The Czech Connection: The Proliferation of Pseudo-Joachim in Medieval Bohemia

10h30 Coffee

Session 7: 10:45-11:45
Chair: Zdeněk Žalud

10h45 Benedek Láng, What handbooks of practical magic were used for in the 14th-15th centuries?

11h15 Agnieszka Rec, Beinecke MS 650, A Book of Universal Knowledge

11h45 Coffee

Session 8: 12:00-13:00
Chair: Václav Žůrek

12h00 Godefroid de Callataӱ, The Impact of the encyclopaedic corpus known as RasāʾilIkhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity), with Emphasis on al-Andalus”

12h30 Pavlína Cermanová, Secretum secretorum versus Auctoritates Aristotelis: Channels of Dissemination

13h00 Closing Remarks

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