Cultural Astronomies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The Academic Director of the course is prof. Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas from the Institute of the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The classes will be held in a hybrid format.
Monday, 17 July 2023
9:15-9:30am Preliminary remarks: Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas
9:30-11:30am Session 1: Nicholas Campion. Some Reflection on What Cultural Astronomy is
12:30-2:30pm Session 2: Alberto Bardi. Cultural Astronomy in Byzantium and its Aftermath
4-6pm Session 3: Anne-Laurence Caudano. The Place and Nature of Astronomy in Late and Post-Byzantine Culture and Society
Tuesday, 18 July 2023
9:30-11:30am Session 4: Tzvi Langermann. Jewish Cultural Astronomy
12:30-2:30pm Session 5: Sacha Stern. The Science of Jewish Calendar Computation, Astronomy, and the Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter
4-6pm Session 6: Ilana Wartenberg. Mediating Astronomy from the Elite to the Popular Cultural Jewish Spheres in the Middle Ages
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
9:30-11:30am Session 7: Maciej Jasiński. Astronomy and Culture in the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth
12:30-2:30pm Session 8: Sylwia Konarska-Zimnicka. The Astrological School at Krakow University
4-6pm Session 9: Richard L. Kremer. Public Astrology in Fifteeenth- Sixteenth-Century Europe
Thursday, 20 July 2023
9:30-11:30am Session 10: Stephen Johnston. Astronomy as Material Culture: Representing, Using and Making the Sphere and Astrolabe
12:30-2:30pm Session 11: Seb Falk. Astronomies and Books in Late-Medieval
Europe
4-6pm Session 12: Reimund Leicht. Astronomy in the Medieval Jewish Study Programs of Sciences
Friday, 21 July 2023
9:30-11:30am Session 13: Barbara Bienias. Astronomy in Culture and Astronomy as Culture in Elizabethan and Early Jacobean England
12:30-2:30pm Session 14: Tayra Lanuza. Cultural Astronomy in Early-Modern
Spain
4-6pm Session 15: Henrique Leitão. Cultural Astronomy in Early-Modern Portugal.
Final Program Summer Course on Cultural Astronomies
