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Workshop

Cosmology and Conception of Nature in the Middle Ages

The Creation Narrative of the Old Testament in Hexaemeron Literature

Programm

Mo, 17.11. 
18.00Auerbach Lecture | Przemysław Marciniak: Regaining Lost Perspectives: Nature in Medieval Hexaemera
Di, 18.11. 
10.00Begrüßung
10.15-11.00Caroline Macé: A Strange Cosmogony in the Later Recension of the Dialogus Timothei et Aquilae (CPG 7794)
11.00-11.45Max Ritter: An Aberrant Sea-Creature? The Dolphin in the Byzantine Imagination
12.00-13.00Mittag
13.00-13.45Cornelia Horn: Early Byzantine Perspectives in Syriac Sources on the Creation of Birds, Fishes, and Other Animals
13.45-14.30Jost Gippert: Early Christian Views on Nature: The Shatberdi Codex
14.30-15.15Sophia Dege-Müller: Three Heavens, or Seven? Views on Cosmology in Ethiopic Hexaemeral Literature
15.15-16.00Kaffee
16.00-17.00Kate Rigby: Revisiting the Hexaemeron in the Anthropocene

Ort & Zeit

Bibliothek Erich Auerbach Institut (3. OG), Weyertal 59 (Rückgebäude), 50937 Köln 
17. November 2025, 18:00 Uhr | 18. November 2025, 10:00-17:00 Uhr

Organisation

Claudia Sode

Przemysław Marciniak

Kontakt

Claudia Sode 
E-Mail: claudia.sodeSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de