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Ora Pro Nobis: Marian Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
An online day in honour of Dr Cathy Oakes
An online day in honour of Dr Cathy Oakes
SATURDAY 3 JULY 2021
Cathy Oakes was Director of Studies in the History of Art at Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, co-founder of the Centre for Marian Studies, and a lecturer for the Learning Department of the V&A, The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), Art Pursuits Abroad, ACE, and many other organisations, Dr Oakes inspired countless students by her knowledge of, and passion for, the visual culture of the Middle Ages. This study day is hosted by the British Archaeological Association, of which Cathy was a longstanding member. It will concentrate of various aspects of Marian devotion a subject close to Cathy’s heart and the focus of her book, Ora Pro Nobis: The Virgin as Intercessor in Medieval Art and Devotion (2008), from which this day takes its title.
PROGRAMME
SESSION 1. Chair – Sally Dormer
10.00 Introduction
10.05-10.30 William Wykeham’s devotion to Mary – mostly in relation to the glass at New College – Anna Eavis
10.30-10.55 Cult and Image at Our Lady’s Well, Hempsted Gloucestershire) – Sarah Boss
10.55-11.05 Questions
BREAK
SESSION 2. Chair – John McNeill
11.30-11.55 Revisiting the Quinity – the Virgin Mary in Ælfwine’s Prayerbook (London, BL MS Titus D. xxvi and D. xxvii) – Teresa Lane
11.55-12.20 The Lady and the Lion in the Map Psalter (London, British Library, Add. MS 28681) – Sally Dormer
12.20-12.45 The mystery of the Mother of God and her companion in the Homilies of James Kokkinobaphos – Cecily Hennessy
12.45-13.00 Questions
LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 3. Chair – Sarah Boss
14.00-14.25 Metope North 32 on the Parthenon: False Virgins and Cultural Vandals – Steve Kershaw
14.25-14.50 The Reception of Sancta Maria Rotunda: Recent Interpretations and Open Questions – Richard Plant
14.50-15.15 Crowned in Glory: The Virgin Mary enthroned – Eileen Rubery
15.15-15.30 Questions
BREAK
SESSION 4. Chair – Richard Plant
16.00-16.25 The Virgin by the Chapter-House: The life and times of a carved relief at St-Aubin in Angers – John McNeill
16.25-16.50 Imagery and Meaning in Michelangelo’s Bruges Madonna – Paula Nuttall
16.50-17.15 The Virgin Mary in Fragments – Julian Luxford
17.15-17.30 Questions