Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Feb 2015
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Suite 1M (Ground Floor), Conference room 104
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Friday, February 13th, 2015, 10:15AM-12:00PM (hosted by Middlebury)
Professor Louisa A. Burnham, Middlebury College
The Subtlety and Philosophy of Limoux Nègre’s Coagulating Cosmos
In 1329, Limoux Nègre was burned at the stake as an unrepentant heretic who claimed mystical inspiration for what he called his “subtlety” and his “philosophy.” The beliefs he professed were unlike any the inquisitors of Carcassonne had ever heard: skeptical and materialist, but also blasphemous, fantastical, and difficult for inquisitors and scholars alike to untangle. In this paper, I will argue that his mystical revelations bloomed on an alchemical substrate and that his most outrageous assertions regarding Jesus’s death and resurrection were based on the science of the Pseudo-Llullian Testamentum.
Spring 2015 lectures in the Medieval Virtual Seminar
A collaboration of the University of Bristol, The University of Oslo, Middlebury College, and New York University. A series of lectures on topics in medieval studies, one hosted by each institution, to take place during the 2014-15 academic year.
For those wishing to participate in New York: all meetings take place at
3 Washington Square Village, Suite 1M (Ground Floor), Conference room 104
Entrance on Bleecker St., between La Guardia Pl. and Mercer; look for the purple NYU-GTS banner. All participating institutions are connected virtually.
For further information, please contact Kathryn A. Smith, Department of Art History, NYU, at [email protected]