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Dr. Andreina Contessa,
My study concerns the artistic elaboration of the scientific illustrations in the early Middle Ages (tenth and eleventh century). In medieval scholar books numerous kinds of schemes, diagrams, and maps translate the information contained in scientific text into an iconographical form. This form influenced the vision of nature and cosmos, and the visual configurations of concepts. Research on scientific illustrations may greatly enhance the study and comprehension of the transmission of knowledge in the medieval epoch, clarifying the process of explication, cognition, and memorization of data through a visual support. Investigation will start with a Medieval Catalan scriptorium that played a leading role in the transmission of Classical and scientific knowledge to Europe: the Ripoll monastery, where a tradition of scientific and astronomical studies flourished in between the 10th and 12th centuries, as attested by documentary data and a few existing codices. These manuscripts testify to the state of scientific understanding and learning, and the role of Catalonia in the transmission of culture from Al-Andalus to Europe at that time.
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