Online conference: registration link
Contacts:
Pietro Delcorno p.delcorno@let.ru.nl
Bert Roest b.roest@let.ru.nl

Session 1
Observant cultural practices: books, learning and preaching
9 June, 4.00-7.00 PM (Amsterdam time)
Chair: James Mixson (University of Alabama)
Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester) Lessons from Reutin: What exactly was the Dominican Observance responsible for in the ‘Literaturexplosion’ of late medieval Germany?
Cécile Caby (Université Lumière Lyon 2) Pratiques humanistes et pratiques observantes dans l’Italie du XVe siècle
Pietro Delcorno (Radboud Universiteit) An amphibious identity: Apollonio Bianchi between Observance and humanism

Session 2
Observant liturgy and the transformations in religious music
10 June, 4.00-7.00 PM (Amsterdam time)
Chair: Bert Roest (Radboud Universiteit)
Sergi Sancho Fibla (Université Catholique de Louvain), Constanza de Castilla’s Libro de Devociones y oficios: Meditation, Prayers, and Liturgy in Santo Domingo el Real (Madrid, 15th c.)
Pablo Acosta-Garcia (Heinrich Heine Universitat Düsseldorf), Liturgy, reform and vision in the sermons of Juana de la Cruz
Hugo Perina (Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris), Place et rôle de l’orgue dans les communautés observantes italiennes
Giovanni Zanovello (Indiana University) The sounds of liturgy:
the dialogue between monastic communities and citizens in Florence

Session 3
Observant spirituality in contexts: models of sanctity and spiritual practice
11 June, 4.00-7.00 PM (Amsterdam time)
Chair: Anna Dlabačová (Universiteit Leiden)
Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds) What did the Observant reforms mean in the context of the Cistercian Order?
Koen Goudriaan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Varieties in spirituality: tertiaries and observantism in the Low Countries
Valentina Zivkovic (Institute for Balkan Studies, SASA, Belgrade) Dominican Observance and the cult of new saints in South Dalmatia
Patricia Stoop (Universiteit Antwerpen) Preaching Observant reform in female communities related to the Devotio moderna