BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news584@kunstgeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260928T185748 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T181500 SUMMARY:Filling the Blanks: Heinrich Seuse\, Meister Eckhart\, and the Nuns of St. Walburg DESCRIPTION:This lecture pairs two seemingly unrelated bodies of material —a Dominican friar's devotional treatise of around 1330 and a set of new ly identified drawings by Benedictine nuns in Bavaria some 170 years later —to explore how late medieval religious writers and artists gave materia l form to an experience defined by its resistance to representation: mysti cal union with God. The first half examines Heinrich Seuse's Büchlein de r ewigen Weisheit\, showing how the friar structures his text around inter woven metaphors of writing and needlework\, punning on the Latin textus  to cast reading as a kind of embroidery performed on the "fleshly tables o f the heart." Seuse repeatedly stages his own work as incomplete—a visio n short ten meditations\, a thread of three unequal strands\, an embroider ed image missing its background—so that readers\, needle or pen in hand\ , are enlisted to finish what he left deliberately unfinished\, becoming c oauthors of a text designed to carry the aura of his living presence.\\r\\ nThe second half turns to a remarkable\, newly surfaced drawing from the c onvent of St. Walburg in Eichstätt\, in which Christ's side wound opens o nto a house-like interior populated by personified virtues attending an al legorical Nativity. Drawing on the convent's library\, which bound Seuse's sermons together with those of Eckhart and Tauler\, the lecture argues th at this image gives startlingly literal pictorial form to Meister Eckhart' s doctrine of the Gottesgeburt in der Seele—the birth of God in the sou l—a teaching Eckhart himself insisted could be reached only by abandonin g every image. The nun-artist's willingness to draw what Eckhart's own apo phatic theology seemed to forbid representing offers a final\, unexpected answer to Seuse's invitation to "fill in the blanks": where his readers we re asked to complete a metaphorical textile\, the St. Walburg nun complete s it literally\, translating text and doctrine alike into an image that da res to show what its theological source claimed could only be experienced in blindness. X-ALT-DESC:

This lecture pairs two seemingly unrelated bodies of material —a Dominican friar's devotional treatise of around 1330 and a set of new ly identified drawings by Benedictine nuns in Bavaria some 170 years later —to explore how late medieval religious writers and artists gave materia l form to an experience defined by its resistance to representation: mysti cal union with God. The first half examines Heinrich Seuse's \;Büc hlein der ewigen Weisheit\, showing how the friar structures his text around interwoven metaphors of writing and needlework\, punning on the Lat in \;textus \;to cast reading as a kind of embroidery perfo rmed on the "fleshly tables of the heart." Seuse repeatedly stages his own work as incomplete—a vision short ten meditations\, a thread of three u nequal strands\, an embroidered image missing its background—so that rea ders\, needle or pen in hand\, are enlisted to finish what he left deliber ately unfinished\, becoming coauthors of a text designed to carry the aura of his living presence.

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The second half turns to a remarkable\, n ewly surfaced drawing from the convent of St. Walburg in Eichstätt\, in w hich Christ's side wound opens onto a house-like interior populated by per sonified virtues attending an allegorical Nativity. Drawing on the convent 's library\, which bound Seuse's sermons together with those of Eckhart an d Tauler\, the lecture argues that this image gives startlingly literal pi ctorial form to Meister Eckhart's doctrine of the \;Gottesgeburt in der Seele—the birth of God in the soul—a teaching Eckhart himself insisted could be reached only by abandoning every image. The nun-artist' s willingness to draw what Eckhart's own apophatic theology seemed to forb id representing offers a final\, unexpected answer to Seuse's invitation t o "fill in the blanks": where his readers were asked to complete a metapho rical textile\, the St. Walburg nun completes it literally\, translating t ext and doctrine alike into an image that dares to show what its theologic al source claimed could only be experienced in blindness.

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