The
European Fortune of the Roman Veronica
in the Middle Ages
International Conference 4th-5th April 2016
PROGRAMME
4th April Morning
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00 Welcome: Amanda Murphy Conference Convenor
Introduction: Herbert L. Kessler, Baltimore & Brno
The Literary Warp and Artistic Weft of Veronica's Cloth
The Origins of the Fame of the Roman Veronica
09.30 Zbigniew Izydorczyk, Winnipeg
The Cura Sanitatis Tiberii according to Ernst von Dobschütz
Barry Windeatt, Cambridge
‘True Image’? Versions of the Veronica in Medieval England
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Federico Gallo, Milan
De sacrosanto sudario Veronicae by Giacomo Grimaldi. First Investigations
Nigel Morgan, Cambridge
‘Veronica’ images in England c. 1240-c. 1280
12.00 Lunch and Visit to the Parker Library, Corpus Christ College (reserved for speakers only)
4th April Afternoon
The Devotion and Cult of the Veronica
14.30 Aden Kumler, Chicago
signatis…vultus tui: (Re)-impressing the Veronica in the Middle Ages
Rebecca Rist, Reading
Innocent III and Veronica’s Veil: Papal PR or Eucharistic Icon
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Guido Milanese, Milan-Brescia
Quaesivi vultum tuum
Joerg Bölling, Göttingen
Face to face with Christ in Late Medieval Rome. The Veil of Veronica in Papal Liturgy and Ceremony
Uwe Michael Lang, London
The Mass Proper of the Holy Face and of Saint Veronica in Medieval Liturgical Sources before the Tridentine Reform
19.45 Gala dinner in Magdalene College Hall
5th April Morning
08.30-09.00 Registration
09.00 Welcome by the Master of Magdalene College, Professor Rowan Williams
The Promotion of the Veronica Cult
09.15 Gisela Drossbach, Augsburg
The Roman Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia and the symbolic Communication of the Veronica
Kathryn Rudy, St Andrews
Philip the Good and the Face of Christ
Etienne Doublier, Wuppertal
“Sui pretiossisimi vultus Imago”: Veronica and Grants of Indulgences in the 13th and early 14th centuries
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Marc Sureda i Jubany, Vic
Veronicae of Christ and the Virgin in the Kingdom of Aragon in the Late Middle Ages. A Survey of their Diffusion and Liturgical Context
Chiara Di Fruscia, Rome
“Datum Avenioni” Avignon Papacy and the Custody of the Veronica
12.15 Lunch
5th April Afternoon
The Spread of the Veronica Cult
13.30 Hanneke Van Asperen, Nijmegen
Images of the Veronica in Religious Books of the Laity: Their Provenance and Meaning
Marco Petoletti - Angelo Piacentini, Milan
Veronica by Boniface from Verona, 13th century poet
Stefano Candiani, Milan
The iconography of the Veronica in the Lombardy region during the 14th century
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Raffaele Savigni, Bologna
The Roman Veronica and the Holy Face of Lucca: parallelisms and tangencies in the formation of both traditions
Raffaella Zardoni - Emanuela Bossi - Amanda Murphy, Milan
The iconography of the Veronica: an assessment of chronologically and geographically ordered data
17.00 Closing discussion