Today, February 20, marks the first day of the 10th Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium. This interdisciplinary colloquium, sponsored by the Research Training Group (GRK 2212) "Dynamics of Conventionality (400-1550)" by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, the Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien Köln (ZEMAK), and the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, alternates hosts between Cologne and Toronto, this year being held in Germany.
Thursday, February 20
2:30-3:45 pm Session 1
Chair: Tina Druckenmüller
Leonhard Fleischer: Giving Marital Consent – A Matter of Two! On the Emergence of two Papal Letters of Urban II in pre-Gratian Canon Law Collections
Commentator: Giulio Silano
4:00-5:15 pm: Session 2
Chair: Sabine von Heusinger
Gregory Carrier: Finding Paul Within: Berthold of Reichenau’s Pauline Interpretation of Herman of Reichenau’s Disability
Commentator: Karl Ubl
5:30-6:45 pm: Session 3
Chair: Karl Ubl
Brianna Daigneault: Riddling the Physiologus
Commentator: Susanne Wittekind
Friday, February 21
9:00-10:15 am: Session 4
Chair: Esther von Stosch
Zina Uzdenskaya: Crafting Sacred Images: Depicting Becket's Martyrdom on Limoges Reliquaries
Commentator: Sabine von Heusinger
10:30-11:45 am: Session 5
Chair: Peter Orth
Rui Xu: Henry of Ghent on the Grounds for Possibility and Impossibility
Commentator: Andreas Speer
12:00-1:15 pm: Session 6
Chair: Andreas Speer
Nicoló Vantaggiato: James of Metz’s Commentary on the Sentences. Peculiarities and textual evidence of a problematic critical edition
Commentator: James Ginther
2:30-3:45 pm: Session 7 Chair: Monika Schausten
Clara Humrich: (Un)Dressing for Devotion – Jeanne de Navarre’s owner portraits and their vestimentary changes in her Book of Hours
Commentator: Dorothea Kullmann
Saturday, February 22
9:00-10:15 am: Session 8
Chair: Étienne Doublier
Nils Foege: How to Mark a Book, or: Decoding the ‘Rheinischen Verbundkatalog’ (Basel, F VI 53)
Commentator: Sebastian Sobecki
10:30-11:45 am: Session 9
Chair: Andreas Speer
Martina Buccilli: Condemning falsafa in the Latin Middle Ages. Towards a new critical edition of the Errores philosophorum attributed to Giles of Rome
Commentator: Martin Pickavé
12:00-1:15 pm: Session 10
Chair: Annette Kaldorf
Álex Bermúdez Manjárres: The position of Petrarch in the context of 14th-century Latin letters production
Commentator: Peter Orth
2:30-3:45 pm: Session 11
Chair: Peter Orth
Elisa Tundo: Two Treatises of Human Nature from the 16th century by Pietro Galatino
Commentator: Bert Roest
4:00-5:30 pm: Session 12
Chair: James Ginther
Jamie St. Clair Collings: Critique, condemn, embrace? The ‘penitential’ adoption of classical materials in twelfth-century Cistercian meditative thought
Commentator: Étienne Doublier