Workshop
Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages
The Creation Narrative of the Old Testament in Hexaemeron Literature
Program
| Mo, 17.11. | |
| 18.00 | Auerbach Lecture | Przemysław Marciniak: Regaining Lost Perspectives: Nature in Medieval Hexaemera |
| Di, 18.11. | |
| 10.00 | Welcome |
| 10.15-11.00 | Caroline Macé: A Strange Cosmogony in the Later Recension of the Dialogus Timothei et Aquilae (CPG 7794) |
| 11.00-11.45 | Max Ritter: An Aberrant Sea-Creature? The Dolphin in the Byzantine Imagination |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch break |
| 13.00-13.45 | Cornelia Horn: Early Byzantine Perspectives in Syriac Sources on the Creation of Birds, Fishes, and Other Animals |
| 13.45-14.30 | Jost Gippert: Early Christian Views on Nature: The Shatberdi Codex |
| 14.30-15.15 | Sophia Dege-Müller: Three Heavens, or Seven? Views on Cosmology in Ethiopic Hexaemeral Literature |
| 15.15-16.00 | Coffee break |
| 16.00-17.00 | Kate Rigby: Revisiting the Hexaemeron in the Anthropocene |
Location & Time
Library Erich Auerbach Institute (3rd floor), Weyertal 59 (back building), 50937 Cologne |
17. November 2025, 6 pm | 18. November 2025, 10 am - 5 pm
Organisation
Claudia Sode
Przemysław Marciniak
Contact
Claudia Sode
E-mail: claudia.sode(at)uni-koeln(dot)de