{"id":145,"date":"2016-09-20T20:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T03:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301\/?p=145"},"modified":"2018-08-15T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T06:42:06","slug":"notes-week-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/notes-week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes: week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_484\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_2660\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"wp-image-484 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911.png\" alt=\"img_6911\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_6911-624x468.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isidore of Seville, <em>Etymologiae &amp; De natura rerum<\/em><br \/> British Library Harley MS 2660 (1136)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GEOMETRY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reading: psychometry \/ psychogeography \/ psychomachia, the multiplicity of impediments (ex. Wealth), Pygmalion, structure, (compositional) shape (<i>Roman de la Rose<\/i>\u00a04-9, 44-45, 53-59, 154-158, 229-233, 236-245, 319-326)<\/li>\n<li>music in class this week:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hildegard_of_Bingen\" target=\"_blank\">Hildegard of Bingen<\/a>, <i>The Origin of Fire &#8211; Music and Visions<\/i> (Anonymous 4) https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q8gK0_PgIgY<br \/>\n&#8212;, <i>Canticles of Ecstasy<\/i> (Sequentia)\u00a0https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk<br \/>\n(attrib.) Alfonso X, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cantigas_de_Santa_Maria\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Cantigas de Santa Maria <\/i><\/a>(Sequentia)\u00a0https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=56By5YVqP_0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TUESDAY<\/p>\n<p>1 Discussion of blog questions &amp; comments on week 7<\/p>\n<p>2 Geometry and geography<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>maps and mapping and visualisations<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_world_maps\" target=\"_blank\">early world maps<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T_and_O_map#\" target=\"_blank\">T and O maps<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/12\/12-maps-that-changed-the-world\/282666\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;12 Maps that Changed the World&#8221;<\/a> <em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/li>\n<li>human <em>external\u00a0<\/em>spatial relations, relationship to physical space,<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_14_c_vii\" target=\"_blank\">British Library Royal MS 14 C VII<\/a>: Matthew Paris, mapping the journey from London to Jerusalem<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themappamundi.co.uk\/mappa-mundi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hereford Mappa Mundi project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_376\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Sever_Beatus\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-image-376 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859.jpg\" alt=\"img_1859\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859.jpg 1443w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/10\/IMG_1859-624x393.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beatus of Li\u00e9bana, <em>Commentary on the Apocalypse<\/em><br \/> BNF MS lat. 8878 (11th c.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>THURSDAY<\/p>\n<p>1 Student presentation &amp; class discussion<\/p>\n<p>2 Geometry, geography, and geology<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>human <em>external\u00a0<\/em>spatial relations, relationship to physical space, environment:<br \/>\n&#8212;the idea of <i>adventure <\/i>and<i> quest\u00a0<\/i>especially in romance; related, pilgrimage; distinction from exploration, discovery, and conquest<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_14_c_vii\" target=\"_blank\">British Library Royal MS 14 C VII<\/a>: Matthew Paris, mapping the journey from London to Jerusalem<br \/>\n&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themappamundi.co.uk\/mappa-mundi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hereford Mappa Mundi project<\/a><\/li>\n<li>human <em>internal<\/em> space:<br \/>\n&#8212;as a man-made imaginary construct and artificial creation<br \/>\n&#8212;psychomachia, psychometry, and psychology; the &#8220;minor&#8221; but instrumental characters:<br \/>\nWealth, Poverty, Hunger (154-158)<br \/>\nRebuff (&#8220;Resistance&#8221;; <i>Dangiers<\/i>), Shame, Evil Tongue, Fear (44-45)<br \/>\nthose four guardians + Jealousy (53-59)<br \/>\nRebuff , Fear, Shame (229-233)<br \/>\nVenus vs Shame &amp; Fear (319-320)<br \/>\nOn <i>Dangiers<\/i>: see People of Color in Medieval Art History &gt; <em>Roman de la Rose<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/medievalpoc.tumblr.com\/search\/Roman+de+la+rose\/page\/4\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/medievalpoc.tumblr.com\/search\/Roman+de+la+rose\/page\/3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>human artifice, artefacts, design, architecture, and art:<br \/>\n&#8212;reading (broad sense) man-made physical spaces in the <em>Rose<\/em>: the garden wall decorated with carved images (<i>bas-relief <\/i>sculpture) and painting\u00a0(4-9):\u00a0(L-R) Cruelty, Hate, Baseness, Covetousness, Avarice, Envy, Sorrow, Old Age, Religious Hypocrisy, Poverty<br \/>\nInside, the art of textiles and fashion (10-20): the doorkeeper, Idleness; inside, birds, Pleasure &amp; Joy, the God of Love &amp; Pleasant Looks &amp; Beauty, Wealth &amp; her lover, Largesse &amp; Arthurian knight, Generosity of Spirit &amp; young man, Courtesy (the first to speak to the lover, 13) &amp; knight, Youth &amp; her lover<br \/>\n&#8212;the story of Pygmalion and Galatea, embedded within the description of another three-dimensional art-work, a tiny silver image-statue-reliquary (321-26);<br \/>\nwhich is also used as a device to bring &#8220;relics&#8221; and &#8220;pilgrimage&#8221; into the grand OTT mixed metaphor of the &#8220;conquest&#8221; of the &#8220;Rose&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Points to Ponder &amp; sneak previews of next week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking at reliquaries, in association with Astronomy work of looking at astronomical instruments<\/li>\n<li>QUESTION TO CONSIDER: the story of Pygmalion, its relationship to Genius on creativity (vs Nature: see next week&#8217;s reading), and considering what the difference is between:<br \/>\na stone-mason and a sculptor?<br \/>\na carpenter and a carver?<br \/>\na metal-worker or a smith and a jeweller (we can also discuss the interesting in-between-or-both case of <i>goldsmith <\/i>&amp; <i>silversmith<\/i>)?<br \/>\n<em>craft<\/em> and <em>art<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Art,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychogeography\" target=\"_blank\">psychogeography<\/a> (see also: Rhetoric group notes), and ideas of <i>making <\/i>and <i>finding,\u00a0<\/i><i>materials <\/i>and <i>sense, <\/i>and<i> making sense of\u00a0<\/i>and<i> understanding:<br \/>\n<\/i>ex. <i>entendemen,\u00a0<\/i>Troubadour poetry about <i>trobar,<\/i> and the use of <i>sens &amp; matiere <\/i>in\u00a0prologues to Marie de France&#8217;s <i>Lais <\/i>and <i>Fables <\/i>and to some of Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes&#8217;s romances<br \/>\nex. in 20th c. plastic &amp; visual arts: Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Bill Reid, Kenojuak Ashevak, Louise Bourgeois<br \/>\nalso Aristotle <i>Poetics<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 494px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_4425\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-image-262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-09-21-at-7-18-36-pm\" width=\"484\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM.png 484w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/files\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-21-at-7.18.36-PM-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Library Harley MS 4425 f. 14v<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEOMETRY reading: psychometry \/ psychogeography \/ psychomachia, the multiplicity of impediments (ex. Wealth), Pygmalion, structure, (compositional) shape (Roman de la Rose\u00a04-9, 44-45, 53-59, 154-158, 229-233, 236-245, 319-326) music in class this week: Hildegard of Bingen, The Origin of Fire &#8211;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/2016\/09\/20\/notes-week-8\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1573970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mdvl301a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}