The science of Cervantes (La ciencia de Cervantes) — book launch

The Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on theStirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest. The Centre’s work draws also upon the University’s outstanding collection of early photography, the riches of the Hunterian collections, both in the Library and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, that take us from Dürer to Picasso, and the modern emblem, namely the graphic novel, or French bande dessinée, for which our collection, in association with the Alliance Française, is potentially the strongest in a non-French speaking country.We offer postgraduate study on all aspects oftext/imagesandvisual cultures, with particular emphasis on the graphic novel and its historical antecedents, such as the emblem book. The University of Glasgow's collections are second to none and there is a lively environment of postgraduate and general scholarly activity, through seminars, publications and conferences.Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), whose passions included Spanish painting and early photography, and upon whose land the Burrell Collection now stands, amassed the world’s most complete gathering of emblem books. Starting with Andrea Alciato’sEmblematum liberof 1531, these works interact text and image so as to make a point or tell a story. Sir William’s collection was bequeathed to the University of Glasgow in 1956.Following on from the Centre for Emblem Studies, founded some fifteen years ago, the Stirling Maxwell Centre fosters an unrivalled tradition of scholarship in the field of text/image interaction, building primarily, but not uniquely, on theStirling Maxwell Collection, which with additions now numbers over 2000 volumes, by far the world’s largest (the second being Princeton with c. 700 volumes).But we do not just do dusty picture books. The Centre’s work draws also upon the University’s outstanding collection of early photography, the riches of the Hunterian collections, both in the Library and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, that take us from Dürer to Picasso, and the modern emblem, namely the graphic novel, or Frenchbande dessinée, for which our collection, in association with the Alliance Française, is potentially the strongest in a non-French speaking country.We offer postgraduate study on all aspects of text/images cultures, with particular emphasis on the graphic novel and its historical antecedents, such as the emblem book. The university of Glasgow's collections are second to none and there is a lively environment of postgraduate and general scholarly activity, through seminars, publications and conferences.

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Book  launch of La ciencia de Cervantes, with Vicente Pérez de León, Frank Quitely, and Esperanza Jiménez.

Archives and Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library (Level 12)

The science of Cervantes (<a href="https://brill.com/display/title/62340" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">La ciencia de Cervantes</a>) — book launchVicente Pérez de León (University of Glasgow), Frank Quitely (independent illustrator), Esperanza Jiménez (independent illustrator)Thursday, 9 March 2023, 5pm, Special Collections Seminar Room and online.The Counter-reformation path to natural philosophy was increasingly conditioned by its need to reconciliate the scholastic method with the experimental one, at the light of the evidence of new scientific and geographic discoveries. The official world-view was supported by approaches to knowledge such as the anti-superstitious discourse, which were sustained by the confluence of experimental, religious and legal methodologies, in support of a more accurate interpretation of reality. La ciencia de Cervantes shows how selected cervantine texts, including the Quixote, Persiles and Sigismunda, and the Exemplary Novels, reflect how the confluence of artistic and scientific views of the period was evidenced in the depiction, among others, of exorcisms, animal-human interactions and geographical explorations. Particularly relevant is the case of the Colloquy of the Dogs, showing an attempt to reconciliate the conflictive confluence of Humanistic, Scholastic, anti-superstitious and baroque knowledge, in line with other unique Neoplatonist works, such as Maldonado’s and Kepler’s Somnium.Vicente Pérez de León, La ciencia de Cervantes (Leiden: Brill, 2023), series Foro Hispánico, volume 71.
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