Friends of the Library Lecture: Prof. Adam Cohen, on Monday 19 Sept

September 5, 2016 by Communications

The Friends of the Library invite you to attend their 2016 Fall Lecture:

“The Book: A Symbol of Monastic Ascent”

 

BY ADAM S. COHEN

(DEPARTMENT OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)

Among the activities of monastic reformers around the year 1000 was the production of illuminated manuscripts. Examining a cluster of Ottonian and Anglo-Saxon pictures reveals the central place of the book itself as the ideological site of monastic reform and spiritual ascent.

3:00 p.m., Monday, 19 September

Room 100, Alumni Hall

University of St. Michael’s College

121 St. Joseph Street

All are welcome. A reception will follow the lecture in the Laurence K. Shook Common Room at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto. For further information, please visit www. pims.ca.