The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion

The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion

Audio resources from The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion at The Open University. Find out more at www.openmaterialreligion.org

Episodes

  1. Virtual Collections

    05/04/2019

    Virtual Collections

    Dr Jody Cundy visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on 21st March 2019, to give a paper entitled “Paradoxographic mentalité and the sacred: thinking through (im)material collections in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados”. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Jody Cundy were joined by Dr Jan Haywood and Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou to record an audio discussion about ‘virtual collections’ of votives and relics in ancient Greek and later texts. The discussion also featured the voice of Dr Naomi Howell, talking about a different kind of ‘virtual votive’ collection - that is, the 3D digital scans and models of some surviving medieval wax votives in the collections of Exeter Cathedral. Programme structure and timecodes 0.00 Introduction 1.00 Jody Cundy on Pausanias’ descriptions of votive dedications and relics in the temples of Peitho in Sicyon and Athena Elea at Tegea; 3.30 Jan Haywood on Herodotus and the dedications sent by King Croesus to Apollo at Delphi 6.58 Angeliki Lymberopoulou on the Gunther of Pairis’ inventory of sacred relics in the Abbey of Pairis, brought from the Church of Christ Pantokrator in Constantinople 12.50 Naomi Howell on the digitalisation of medieval wax votives from Exeter Cathedral 19.40 Studio responses to Naomi Howell 25.38 Jody Cundy on the Chest of Kypselos 26.41 Angeliki Lymberopoulou on the relic of the table of the Last Supper 28.00 Jan Haywood on a lustral vase from Delphi. Find out more at www.openmaterialreligion.org > Resources

    29 min
  2. Votives, fertility and early infancy

    02/15/2019

    Votives, fertility and early infancy

    The inaugural seminar of The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion took place on 14th February 2019. Professor Maureen Carroll from the University of Sheffield gave a paper entitled ‘‘Mater Matuta and her ‘Sisters’: Exploring Fertility Cults and Associated Votives in Early Roman Religion’. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Maureen Carroll were joined by Emma-Jayne Graham and Marion Bowman to record an audio discussion about votives, fertility and early infancy. The discussion also featured the voice of artist Tabitha Moses, talking about her work ‘The Go-Between’. Find out more at: https://www.openmaterialreligion.org/resources-1/2019/2/24/votives Programme structure and time-codes 0.00 Introduction 0.31 Maureen Carroll on fertility cults in ancient Rome, and the tufa models of mothers and babies from Capua 7.50 Marion Bowman on the cult of St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland, materiality and relationality 13.46 Emma-Jayne Graham on swaddled infants and other votives in ancient Italic sanctuaries 19.36 Tabitha Moses on her work ‘The Go Between’ 24.28 Studio responses to Tabitha Moses 30.16 Emma-Jayne Graham on model of swaddled infant from Gravisca 31.27 Marion Bowman on image of St Gerard Majella from the Placentia Bay maternity facility in Newfoundland 33.05 Maureen Carroll on tufa statue of woman from Capua, now in the Villa Giulia museum in Rome. Find out more at www.openmaterialreligion.org > Resources

    36 min

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