Am Montag, den 27. Mai 2019, findet ab 17.15 Uhr im Elise-Richter-Saal im Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien das 236. Institutsseminar des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung statt. Es spricht Richard Gameson (Durham University) zum Thema:

Tournai and Durham: two great Romanesque book collections compared

St Martin, Tournai, and Durham Cathedral Priory were both (re)founded as Benedictine
monasteries at the end of the eleventh century. Both preserve twelfth-century
library catalogues, and both have numerous surviving Romanesque manuscripts: the
early development of their book collections can therefore be studied in some detail.
Comparison and contrast of their evolving libraries reveal general trends in spiritual
and intellectual culture in north-west Europe during the twelfth century, while highlighting
distinctive features of each foundation – which, in the case of Tournai, include
an intriguing link to Augustine of Canterbury, apostle of the English.

Die Veranstaltung ist wie alle Institutsseminare öffentlich, Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Die Einladung im PDF-Format finden Sie hier.