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2022-
Maritime Training Academy UK
Training author: The History of Marine Art
2021-
Avvocatura Generale dello Stato Rome, Italy
(Office of the State Attorney General)
Expert witness assisting the defence of Italy at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
2021-
Pegaso University Naples
Lecturer in Italian Art and Cultural Heritage
2020-
HEI Pegaso International Malta
Lecturer in General Didactics and Ecology
2018 - 2020
Pázmány Péter Catholic University Hungary
Adjunct Lecturer
2014 - 2018
Rome Art Program New York
Art Historian
2021-
Council of Europe Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals
2008 – 2014
University of Kent Canterbury, UK
Ph.D. in Medival and Early Modern Studies
"On Perfect and Imperfect Angels: A Catholic Reformer’s Angelology from the Late-Sixteenth Century Veneto"
(Analysis of Vincenzo Cicogna’s 'Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa...', The J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute Los Angeles MS 86-A866)
2006 – 2007
Central European University
Postgraduate Research MA with Distinction in Medieval Studies
1999 – 2006
Pázmány Péter Catholic University Hungary
MA in English studies
MA in Art History
2008 – 2011 University of Kent Postgraduate Research Scholarship, UK
2010 Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Research Support Grant, Rome-Verona-Venice, Italy
2010 2010 Hungarian Scholarship Committee research trip, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Collegium Hungaricum Fellowship, Vienna, Austria
2008 The J. Paul Getty Foundation Library Research Grant, Los Angeles, US
2007 Heckman Research Stipend, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library - Saint John's University, Minnesota, US
2007 Central European University Departmental Research Grant, Slovakia
2005 University of Oslo Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies, Erasmus fellowship, Norway
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Have you ever had a paper rejected despite original research, compelling arguments, and flawless ... more Have you ever had a paper rejected despite original research, compelling arguments, and flawless English? Perhaps your content was indeed strong and your language crystal clear, but your key message was simply put to the wrong place within the paper. Structure is the skeleton of the essay and Skeleton Stuff guides you through the traditional rules of English essay writing, which are essential at quality publishers. Thinking with the mind of your future readers, publishers, and peer-reviewers, this course offers very practical advice on how to structure your essay to make sure your message gets through. We study winning paragraph, introduction, and conclusion examples from a number of disciplines; and the course is designed in a flexible way that allows you to focus on the parts most crucial to you. Since the formal requirements we study apply in any discipline, this course offers training in a vastly transferable practical skill.
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Theses by Edina Eszenyi
My research thesis on the cult of St. Michael the Archangel in medieval Hungary, defended at Cent... more My research thesis on the cult of St. Michael the Archangel in medieval Hungary, defended at Central European University (CEU) in 2007. This work extended my previous thesis on his artistic representations in the region by exploring the warrior profile of the Archangel as mirrored by textual and pictorial traces of his encounters with the devil.
Book chapters by Edina Eszenyi
Promenades dans Rome: Assembly Practices between Visions, Ruins and Reconstructions, 2023
Castel Sant’Angelo embodies the metaphor of the assemblage, as a building whose architectural his... more Castel Sant’Angelo embodies the metaphor of the assemblage, as a building whose architectural history is intertwined with the broader context of the iconographic symbolism of ornamentation. The Archangel was spectacularly integrated into the line of warrior saints in the Eternal City, which is difficult to dissociate from the architectural prominence of the military fortress named after him. The architectural assembly practice of the complex also affected the (self-)image of Rome, as a result of a mutual interdependence between the architectural mosaic and the angel’s more abstract, symbolic undertones.
Arts (MDPI) Special Issue: Royal Divine Coronation Iconography in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean Area, 2019
The article examines the Hungarian corona angelica tradition, according to which the Holy Crown o... more The article examines the Hungarian corona angelica tradition, according to which the Holy Crown of Hungary was delivered to the country by an angel. In order to embed Hungarian results into international scholarship, it provides an English language summary of previous research and combines in one study how St. Stephen I (997-1038), St. Ladislaus I (1074-1095), and King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) came to be associated with the tradition, examining both written and visual sources. The article moves forward previous research by posing the question whether the angel delivering the Crown to Hungary could have been identified as the Angelus Domini at some point throughout history. This possibility is suggested by Hungary's Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV and an unusually popular Early Modern modification of the Hartvik Legend, both of which use this expression to denote the angel delivering the Crown. While the article leaves the question open until further research sheds more light on the history of early Hungarian spirituality; it also points out how this identification of the angel would harmonize the Byzantine and the Hungarian iconography of the corona angelica, and provides insight into the current state of the Angelus Domini debate in angelology.
Papers by Edina Eszenyi
Rivista di storia della miniatura , 2022
Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Abstract degli interventi presentati in occasione delle ... more Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Abstract degli interventi presentati in occasione delle Giornate di studio in modalità Webinar in memoria di Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré dal Poggetto, 18-19 settembre 2021
Humanities and Rights Global Network Journal, 2022
Sword and the scales in the hands identify the personification of justice, be it heavenly or prof... more Sword and the scales in the hands identify the personification of justice, be it heavenly or profane. The representative of divine justice in Christian art is Saint Michael, the Archangel, while the representative of justice in profane legal contexts is the figure of Iustitia. The two figures rarely ever appear in the same context. Despite the almost identical artistic depictions, their association with the common attributes is based on contrasting, if not opposite, concepts. The article discusses the iconography of the two figures from a comparative perspective and ponders the role of attributes in the reading of their images. Is the message conveyed by the attribute or by the representative person in the case of common attributes? How much can an angel and a personification be regarded as persons at all? What chains the figures to the concept of justice, and to what extent can their artistic attributes entitle the bearers to the concept they represent? Through the examination of diverting associations conceived by strikingly similar compositions, the article explores the meeting points and diversions of Justice in heaven and on earth.
Please note that the published version of the article contains a typo: the inscription on the halo of the Chauvigny Archangel is 'Micael Arcangel' (p. 108).
Arts (MDPI), 2022
The article examines the War in Heaven scene depicting the Fall of the Rebel Angels in the 1200s ... more The article examines the War in Heaven scene depicting the Fall of the Rebel Angels in the 1200s Anglo-Norman group of illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts, key in the development of Apocalypse illustration as far as quality, quantity, and art historical heritage are concerned. The iconography of the crucial War in Heaven scene shows a variety in the manuscript group; the compositions, divided into three well-defined groups at Satan’s pivotal moment of defeat, are depicted in three principal compositional types: one manuscript group focuses on the narrative of the battle, the second fuses the battle and its victorious result, and the third type focuses on the victory itself. The article establishes further subgroups on the basis of compositional similarities, and results occasionally strengthen or weaken existing theories about the traditional grouping of the manuscripts. The highlighted iconographical similarities provide new material for the reconsideration of the manuscripts’ artistic relations and dating.
The English Historical Review, 2022
Review
Hungarian Historical Review , 2021
Hungarian Historical Review 10, no. 2 (2021): 395–397.
Figura. Studies on the Classical Tradition, 2021
The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in the angelology of Vincenz... more The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in the angelology of Vincenzo Cicogna (1519?-after 1596), an Italian Catholic reformer who approached Biblical interpretation in search of the harmony between Christianity and pre-Christian philosophical systems. Cicogna's dedicated his Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866, c. 1587) to Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532-1602), Italy's Grand Inquisitor, presumably in an attempt to restore the author's reputation after repeated clashes with the Inquisition. Cicogna's angel and demon lexicon evoked the mythological Python to explain the origins and limits of the diabolic ability to foresee the future and juxtapose the powers of preaching and fortune-telling. His Christian application of Greek philosophy echoes the ideology of Bishop Gianmatteo Giberti's (1495-1543) Church reform process, executed with Cicogna's collaboration.
Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition, 2021
The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History in the angelology of Vincenz... more The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History in the angelology of Vincenzo Cicogna (1519? - after 1596), an Italian Catholic reformer who approached Biblical interpretation in search of the harmony between Christianity and pre-Christian philosophical systems. Cicogna’s dedicated his Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866, c. 1587) to Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532–1602), Italy’s Grand Inquisitor, presumably in an attempt to restore the author’s reputation after repeated clashes with the Inquisition. Cicogna’s angel and demon lexicon evoked the mythological Python to explain the origins and limits of the diabolic ability to foresee the future and juxtapose the powers of preaching and fortune-telling. His Christian application of Greek philosophy echoes the ideology of Bishop Gianmatteo Giberti’s (1495-1543) Church reform process, executed with Cicogna’s collaboration.
Healthcare Research and Public Safety Journal, 2020
This paper is a 'what if' type thought-experiment connecting psychology, history, and religion. A... more This paper is a 'what if' type thought-experiment connecting psychology, history, and religion. Angels were created but do not experience death, though transformation is not fully alien from their nature. Vincenzo Cicogna's c. 1587 Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa… (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866) analyses Lucifer's transformation at the Fall of the Rebel Angels, and interprets the fallen angel's separation from his Creator as a fate worse than death. In a Church historical context, the manuscript echoes concerns of the Church reformer Bishop Gian Matteo Giberti, who was the decisive force on the author's intellectual development. The way separation replaces death as the hardest possible punishment in the mind of the Catholic reformer author bears, at the same time, considerable reminiscences to the psychological condition identified as Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
Open Access Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020
The article examines how the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis, the very starting point of the af... more The article examines how the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis, the very starting point of the afterlife, was imagined by medieval Christians in territories that belonged to Hungary from the tenth-century foundation of the state until the 1400s. Since the crucial task is traditionally assigned to Saint Michael in Christianity, the article provides a concise overview of the Archangel’s cult in the region and examines more in detail written and visual sources associating him with the Psychostasis. The examination of the source material delineates a medieval idea of the Psychostasis as a moment where Saint Michael’s warrior profile counterbalances his role in divine judgment, and fashions the Archangel as the milites Dei able and willing to provide custody against expectable machinations of evil, in earthly life and beyond. From a methodological point of view, the enquiry also highlights the complexity of text-image relationship in shaping ideas about death and the afterlife.
Keywords:
Weighing of Souls; Psychostasis, Hungary; Middle Ages; Saint Michael the Archangel; Halotti beszéd és könyörgés (‘Funeral Sermon and Prayer’); Pelbartus de Themeswar, sermon; fresco; cheating devils
Abstracts are invited from interested faculty members, research scholars and students within 300 ... more Abstracts are invited from interested faculty members, research scholars and students within 300 words with 3 to 5 key words to be mailed to cmenglishwebinar@gmail.com by 30 July.
Studi Veronesi. Miscellanea di studi sul territorio veronese, 2018
The J. Paul Getty Research Institute’s Library in Los Angeles hides a curious manuscript entitled... more The J. Paul Getty Research Institute’s Library in Los Angeles hides a curious manuscript entitled 'Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa passim in divinis scripturis contenta ad patrum sententiam explicata ad illustrissimum et reverendissimum Iulium Antonium Sanctorium cardinalem Sanctae Severinae amplissimum et de ecclesiastica hierarchia' (MS 86-A866). The manuscript is an encyclopaedic work on angelology, accompanied by a treatise on
the parallel of the angelic and ecclesiastical hierarchies, dedicated to cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532-1602). The author signed it as Vincentius Ciconia, translated by Onica Busuioceanu, late librarian of the Getty Research Institute, as ‘Vincenzo Cicogna’. The author, who introduces himself as «old and decrepit» in the dedication, is identified as a Venetian ecclesiastical scholar by the GRI catalogue, also author of a commentary on the Psalms. On the basis of this information, the mysterious angelologist is identifiable as Vincenzo Cicogna, the first ecclesiastical member of an Early Modern Veronese painter dynasty.
Parazoology. Special Issue of Paranormal Review , 2016
Before machines took the place of both, donkeys challenged horses in agriculture, industry, and s... more Before machines took the place of both, donkeys challenged horses in agriculture, industry, and several other fields everyday life, including fantasy and religion. Proof for the latter is the mythological onocentaur or ass-centaur, described as a beast with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a donkey. The onocentaur has left hoofprints on literature and visual arts from Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Pythagoras, Claudius Aelianus, the Physiologus, Isidore of Seville, Philippe de Thaon, Jacob van Maerlant, etc.) as an (in)famous symbol of honesty and dishonesty simultaneously residing in man. The article provides an overview of this little-known centaur variant's career in intellectual history and its (his? her?) rediscovery by Vincenzo Cicogna in Verona of the 1500s.
Proceedings of The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place conference (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, May 2015)
There is no consensus in art history about the reasons for the association of Archangel Michael w... more There is no consensus in art history about the reasons for the association of Archangel Michael with the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis in Christian art, and the paper examines Karl Künstle’s theory that the figure of the angel replaced the Manus Domini, the Hand of God. Tracing the process of transformation through examples that were not provided by Künstle, it argues for a coexistence of the angel and the Manus Dei in the same role, with the angel eventually taking precedence perhaps due to the increased diffusion of Saint Michael’s cult. Through the analysis of Vincenzo Cicogna’s Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... the paper demonstrates that the understanding of the angel as the Manus Dei in medieval and Early Modern art was supported by contemporaneous theories in angelology.
Proceedings of the Center for Cognition and Neuroethics Free Will Conference
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth. A special issue of Culture and Cosmos Vol. 20 nos. 1 and 2 Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2016 , 2016
Lacking a clear Scriptural base, medieval authors and illuminators often related the Fall of the ... more Lacking a clear Scriptural base, medieval authors and illuminators often related the Fall of the Angels to natural phenomena. Ancient beliefs were brought into the source discussion by Early Modern authors, among them Vincenzo Cicogna (ca. 1519–ca. 1596) from the influential Church reformer circle of the Veronese bishop Gianmatteo Giberti (1495–1543). Cicogna argued that the thunderbolt would be a proper metaphor for the fallen Lucifer, but his ideas were unwelcomed by the Inquisition.
Postcards from the Edge. European Peripheries in the Middle Ages. Bulletin of International Medieval Research 15-16 (2011): 141-161., 2011
Have you ever had a paper rejected despite original research, compelling arguments, and flawless ... more Have you ever had a paper rejected despite original research, compelling arguments, and flawless English? Perhaps your content was indeed strong and your language crystal clear, but your key message was simply put to the wrong place within the paper. Structure is the skeleton of the essay and Skeleton Stuff guides you through the traditional rules of English essay writing, which are essential at quality publishers. Thinking with the mind of your future readers, publishers, and peer-reviewers, this course offers very practical advice on how to structure your essay to make sure your message gets through. We study winning paragraph, introduction, and conclusion examples from a number of disciplines; and the course is designed in a flexible way that allows you to focus on the parts most crucial to you. Since the formal requirements we study apply in any discipline, this course offers training in a vastly transferable practical skill.
7 video lessons395 views
My research thesis on the cult of St. Michael the Archangel in medieval Hungary, defended at Cent... more My research thesis on the cult of St. Michael the Archangel in medieval Hungary, defended at Central European University (CEU) in 2007. This work extended my previous thesis on his artistic representations in the region by exploring the warrior profile of the Archangel as mirrored by textual and pictorial traces of his encounters with the devil.
Promenades dans Rome: Assembly Practices between Visions, Ruins and Reconstructions, 2023
Castel Sant’Angelo embodies the metaphor of the assemblage, as a building whose architectural his... more Castel Sant’Angelo embodies the metaphor of the assemblage, as a building whose architectural history is intertwined with the broader context of the iconographic symbolism of ornamentation. The Archangel was spectacularly integrated into the line of warrior saints in the Eternal City, which is difficult to dissociate from the architectural prominence of the military fortress named after him. The architectural assembly practice of the complex also affected the (self-)image of Rome, as a result of a mutual interdependence between the architectural mosaic and the angel’s more abstract, symbolic undertones.
Arts (MDPI) Special Issue: Royal Divine Coronation Iconography in the Medieval Euro-Mediterranean Area, 2019
The article examines the Hungarian corona angelica tradition, according to which the Holy Crown o... more The article examines the Hungarian corona angelica tradition, according to which the Holy Crown of Hungary was delivered to the country by an angel. In order to embed Hungarian results into international scholarship, it provides an English language summary of previous research and combines in one study how St. Stephen I (997-1038), St. Ladislaus I (1074-1095), and King Matthias Corvinus (1458-1490) came to be associated with the tradition, examining both written and visual sources. The article moves forward previous research by posing the question whether the angel delivering the Crown to Hungary could have been identified as the Angelus Domini at some point throughout history. This possibility is suggested by Hungary's Chronici Hungarici compositio saeculi XIV and an unusually popular Early Modern modification of the Hartvik Legend, both of which use this expression to denote the angel delivering the Crown. While the article leaves the question open until further research sheds more light on the history of early Hungarian spirituality; it also points out how this identification of the angel would harmonize the Byzantine and the Hungarian iconography of the corona angelica, and provides insight into the current state of the Angelus Domini debate in angelology.
Rivista di storia della miniatura , 2022
Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Abstract degli interventi presentati in occasione delle ... more Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Abstract degli interventi presentati in occasione delle Giornate di studio in modalità Webinar in memoria di Maria Grazia Ciardi Dupré dal Poggetto, 18-19 settembre 2021
Humanities and Rights Global Network Journal, 2022
Sword and the scales in the hands identify the personification of justice, be it heavenly or prof... more Sword and the scales in the hands identify the personification of justice, be it heavenly or profane. The representative of divine justice in Christian art is Saint Michael, the Archangel, while the representative of justice in profane legal contexts is the figure of Iustitia. The two figures rarely ever appear in the same context. Despite the almost identical artistic depictions, their association with the common attributes is based on contrasting, if not opposite, concepts. The article discusses the iconography of the two figures from a comparative perspective and ponders the role of attributes in the reading of their images. Is the message conveyed by the attribute or by the representative person in the case of common attributes? How much can an angel and a personification be regarded as persons at all? What chains the figures to the concept of justice, and to what extent can their artistic attributes entitle the bearers to the concept they represent? Through the examination of diverting associations conceived by strikingly similar compositions, the article explores the meeting points and diversions of Justice in heaven and on earth.
Please note that the published version of the article contains a typo: the inscription on the halo of the Chauvigny Archangel is 'Micael Arcangel' (p. 108).
Arts (MDPI), 2022
The article examines the War in Heaven scene depicting the Fall of the Rebel Angels in the 1200s ... more The article examines the War in Heaven scene depicting the Fall of the Rebel Angels in the 1200s Anglo-Norman group of illustrated Apocalypse manuscripts, key in the development of Apocalypse illustration as far as quality, quantity, and art historical heritage are concerned. The iconography of the crucial War in Heaven scene shows a variety in the manuscript group; the compositions, divided into three well-defined groups at Satan’s pivotal moment of defeat, are depicted in three principal compositional types: one manuscript group focuses on the narrative of the battle, the second fuses the battle and its victorious result, and the third type focuses on the victory itself. The article establishes further subgroups on the basis of compositional similarities, and results occasionally strengthen or weaken existing theories about the traditional grouping of the manuscripts. The highlighted iconographical similarities provide new material for the reconsideration of the manuscripts’ artistic relations and dating.
The English Historical Review, 2022
Review
Hungarian Historical Review , 2021
Hungarian Historical Review 10, no. 2 (2021): 395–397.
Figura. Studies on the Classical Tradition, 2021
The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in the angelology of Vincenz... more The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder's Natural History in the angelology of Vincenzo Cicogna (1519?-after 1596), an Italian Catholic reformer who approached Biblical interpretation in search of the harmony between Christianity and pre-Christian philosophical systems. Cicogna's dedicated his Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866, c. 1587) to Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532-1602), Italy's Grand Inquisitor, presumably in an attempt to restore the author's reputation after repeated clashes with the Inquisition. Cicogna's angel and demon lexicon evoked the mythological Python to explain the origins and limits of the diabolic ability to foresee the future and juxtapose the powers of preaching and fortune-telling. His Christian application of Greek philosophy echoes the ideology of Bishop Gianmatteo Giberti's (1495-1543) Church reform process, executed with Cicogna's collaboration.
Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition, 2021
The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History in the angelology of Vincenz... more The article explores the legacy of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History in the angelology of Vincenzo Cicogna (1519? - after 1596), an Italian Catholic reformer who approached Biblical interpretation in search of the harmony between Christianity and pre-Christian philosophical systems. Cicogna’s dedicated his Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866, c. 1587) to Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532–1602), Italy’s Grand Inquisitor, presumably in an attempt to restore the author’s reputation after repeated clashes with the Inquisition. Cicogna’s angel and demon lexicon evoked the mythological Python to explain the origins and limits of the diabolic ability to foresee the future and juxtapose the powers of preaching and fortune-telling. His Christian application of Greek philosophy echoes the ideology of Bishop Gianmatteo Giberti’s (1495-1543) Church reform process, executed with Cicogna’s collaboration.
Healthcare Research and Public Safety Journal, 2020
This paper is a 'what if' type thought-experiment connecting psychology, history, and religion. A... more This paper is a 'what if' type thought-experiment connecting psychology, history, and religion. Angels were created but do not experience death, though transformation is not fully alien from their nature. Vincenzo Cicogna's c. 1587 Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa… (Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute MS 86-A866) analyses Lucifer's transformation at the Fall of the Rebel Angels, and interprets the fallen angel's separation from his Creator as a fate worse than death. In a Church historical context, the manuscript echoes concerns of the Church reformer Bishop Gian Matteo Giberti, who was the decisive force on the author's intellectual development. The way separation replaces death as the hardest possible punishment in the mind of the Catholic reformer author bears, at the same time, considerable reminiscences to the psychological condition identified as Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD).
Open Access Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2020
The article examines how the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis, the very starting point of the af... more The article examines how the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis, the very starting point of the afterlife, was imagined by medieval Christians in territories that belonged to Hungary from the tenth-century foundation of the state until the 1400s. Since the crucial task is traditionally assigned to Saint Michael in Christianity, the article provides a concise overview of the Archangel’s cult in the region and examines more in detail written and visual sources associating him with the Psychostasis. The examination of the source material delineates a medieval idea of the Psychostasis as a moment where Saint Michael’s warrior profile counterbalances his role in divine judgment, and fashions the Archangel as the milites Dei able and willing to provide custody against expectable machinations of evil, in earthly life and beyond. From a methodological point of view, the enquiry also highlights the complexity of text-image relationship in shaping ideas about death and the afterlife.
Keywords:
Weighing of Souls; Psychostasis, Hungary; Middle Ages; Saint Michael the Archangel; Halotti beszéd és könyörgés (‘Funeral Sermon and Prayer’); Pelbartus de Themeswar, sermon; fresco; cheating devils
Abstracts are invited from interested faculty members, research scholars and students within 300 ... more Abstracts are invited from interested faculty members, research scholars and students within 300 words with 3 to 5 key words to be mailed to cmenglishwebinar@gmail.com by 30 July.
Studi Veronesi. Miscellanea di studi sul territorio veronese, 2018
The J. Paul Getty Research Institute’s Library in Los Angeles hides a curious manuscript entitled... more The J. Paul Getty Research Institute’s Library in Los Angeles hides a curious manuscript entitled 'Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa passim in divinis scripturis contenta ad patrum sententiam explicata ad illustrissimum et reverendissimum Iulium Antonium Sanctorium cardinalem Sanctae Severinae amplissimum et de ecclesiastica hierarchia' (MS 86-A866). The manuscript is an encyclopaedic work on angelology, accompanied by a treatise on
the parallel of the angelic and ecclesiastical hierarchies, dedicated to cardinal Giulio Antonio Santori (1532-1602). The author signed it as Vincentius Ciconia, translated by Onica Busuioceanu, late librarian of the Getty Research Institute, as ‘Vincenzo Cicogna’. The author, who introduces himself as «old and decrepit» in the dedication, is identified as a Venetian ecclesiastical scholar by the GRI catalogue, also author of a commentary on the Psalms. On the basis of this information, the mysterious angelologist is identifiable as Vincenzo Cicogna, the first ecclesiastical member of an Early Modern Veronese painter dynasty.
Parazoology. Special Issue of Paranormal Review , 2016
Before machines took the place of both, donkeys challenged horses in agriculture, industry, and s... more Before machines took the place of both, donkeys challenged horses in agriculture, industry, and several other fields everyday life, including fantasy and religion. Proof for the latter is the mythological onocentaur or ass-centaur, described as a beast with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a donkey. The onocentaur has left hoofprints on literature and visual arts from Antiquity through the Middle Ages (Pythagoras, Claudius Aelianus, the Physiologus, Isidore of Seville, Philippe de Thaon, Jacob van Maerlant, etc.) as an (in)famous symbol of honesty and dishonesty simultaneously residing in man. The article provides an overview of this little-known centaur variant's career in intellectual history and its (his? her?) rediscovery by Vincenzo Cicogna in Verona of the 1500s.
Proceedings of The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place conference (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, May 2015)
There is no consensus in art history about the reasons for the association of Archangel Michael w... more There is no consensus in art history about the reasons for the association of Archangel Michael with the Weighing of Souls or Psychostasis in Christian art, and the paper examines Karl Künstle’s theory that the figure of the angel replaced the Manus Domini, the Hand of God. Tracing the process of transformation through examples that were not provided by Künstle, it argues for a coexistence of the angel and the Manus Dei in the same role, with the angel eventually taking precedence perhaps due to the increased diffusion of Saint Michael’s cult. Through the analysis of Vincenzo Cicogna’s Angelorum et daemonum nomina et attributa... the paper demonstrates that the understanding of the angel as the Manus Dei in medieval and Early Modern art was supported by contemporaneous theories in angelology.
Proceedings of the Center for Cognition and Neuroethics Free Will Conference
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth. A special issue of Culture and Cosmos Vol. 20 nos. 1 and 2 Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2016 , 2016
Lacking a clear Scriptural base, medieval authors and illuminators often related the Fall of the ... more Lacking a clear Scriptural base, medieval authors and illuminators often related the Fall of the Angels to natural phenomena. Ancient beliefs were brought into the source discussion by Early Modern authors, among them Vincenzo Cicogna (ca. 1519–ca. 1596) from the influential Church reformer circle of the Veronese bishop Gianmatteo Giberti (1495–1543). Cicogna argued that the thunderbolt would be a proper metaphor for the fallen Lucifer, but his ideas were unwelcomed by the Inquisition.
Postcards from the Edge. European Peripheries in the Middle Ages. Bulletin of International Medieval Research 15-16 (2011): 141-161., 2011
Online proceedings of the 'Power in the Middle Ages' interdisciplinary postgraduate conference at the National University of Ireland, 2009
A Collection of Collections. A Review of 'Hungarian Art Collections 1945-2005' by Gábor Ébli (Enc... more A Collection of Collections. A Review of 'Hungarian Art Collections 1945-2005' by Gábor Ébli (Enciklopédia Kiadó: Budapest, 2006) in: Élet és Irodalom 50/36 (8 September 2006)
Új hangok. Szemelvények a PPKE-BTK Angol Tanszék műfordítói szemináriumának munkáiból 5., 2005
Új hangok. Szemelvények a PPKE-BTK Angol Tanszék műfordítói szemináriumának munkáiból 5., 2005
Werner Oechslin Library Einsiedeln: 'Theorie der Praxis … oder doch „Theorie?“ Eleventh Colloquium on Architectural Theory, 2023
'The Life and Legacy of Ferdinando I de’ Medici' international workshop at The Medici Archive Project in Florence, 2023
Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Conference, 2023
“Summit Art: Art and Political Events since the 1970s” conference, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2022
'Carved in stone – Set in Gold: Script in Sacral Space – The Latin West and Greek East in Comparison' conference, Universität Heidelberg, 2022
'Cracks in the Canon: Modernism and Censorship in Eastern Europe' conference, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2022
"The fortified landscape: new research perspectives and value.' 9th International Congress on Military Monuments, Associação Portuguesa dos Amigos dos Castelos, 2022
My presentation at the "Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Webinar in memoria di Maria Graz... more My presentation at the "Storia della miniatura: lavori in corso. Webinar in memoria di Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprédal Poggetto" on 17-18 September 2021 (English/Italian, see PDF for registration and further details)
Roundtable discussion / online event at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Ingresso Via Liguria 20, Villa Maraini, Roma), on-site presence subject to availability. The event can also be followed online, please register here : https://www.istitutosvizzero.it/it/summer-schools/promenades-dans-rome/
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](This text comprises the abstracts of the Poster Session of the convention Archaeology and Anthrop... more This text comprises the abstracts of the Poster Session of the convention Archaeology and Anthropology of Death (Rome 2015)
Keynote Address at 'International Webinar on Mental Health in Literature: Significance, Issues an... more Keynote Address at 'International Webinar on Mental Health in Literature: Significance, Issues and Representations', co-organized by the Departments of English at Chandidas Mahavidyalaya and Hiralal Bhakat Colleges, West Bengal, India, 6 August 2020
Angels in the Medieval World conference, Northern/Early Medieval Interdisciplinary Conference Series, University of York, 2019
‘Reframing Medieval Bodies’ 35th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, 2018