The Memory of Rome in the Roman Middle Ages, a lecture by AUR’s visiting Professor Dale Kinney
Tuesday, November 15 2011
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Auriana Auditorium – Via Pietro Roselli 16, Janiculum
The memory of ancient Rome was preserved in prose, poetry, persons (saints) and pieces of buildings (spolia) that were dispersed throughout medieval Europe. In Rome itself such vehicles of memory were accompanied and complicated by the ruinscape in and from which Romans made their own contemporary life. This lecture examines some of the evidence for how Rome was remembered at the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era (11th-12th centuries).
The lecture will be held in English and is free to the public.
About Professor Dale Kinney:
With a Ph.D. from New York University, Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Dale Kinney spent 38 years on Bryn Mawr’s faculty, during which time she also served as Acting Provost (2000) and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2000-2008) before retiring in 2010.
As Research Professor, she is at work on several publications on various topics concerning medieval art and architecture. Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, which she co-edited with Richard Brilliant, will be published on September 28 and will be distributed in November (Ashgate). Prof. Kinney is also currently working on the architecture of a 6th Century monastery in Sohag, Egypt, while continuing to do research on medieval Rome.
