BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220116T150000 DTSTAMP:20240329T055923 CREATED:20220103T045310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T003531Z UID:473-1642341600-1642345200@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca SUMMARY:Incense and the Nativity Cycle on the Sion Treasure Censer DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Osborne\, Distinguished Research Professor and Dean emeritus\, Carleton University \nWhat is incense? Where does it come from? What was its role in early Christianity and why was this considered controversial by contemporary theologians? Why and when did incense burners become important liturgical instruments\, often made from precious metals such as gold and silver? And how does their decoration reflect their function? These and other related questions will be addressed in a talk that takes as its starting point a remarkable gilded silver incense burner discovered at Kumluca in south-western Turkey\, part of the so-called Sion treasure\, datable by its control stamps to approximately the year 565 CE\, and now in the Antalya Museum. The censer is decorated with scenes related to the account of the birth of Jesus contained in a second-century apocryphal text known as the Protoevangelium of James. \nJohn Osborne is Distinguished Research Professor and Dean Emeritus at Carleton University\, and an Associate Fellow and Member of the Academic Council of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto. He is currently also a Research Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art\, University of London\, where he received his doctorate in 1979. His recent publications include Rome in the Eighth Century: a history in art (Cambridge University Press 2020)\, and a co-edited volume Santa Maria Antiqua: The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages (Brepols/Harvey Miller Press 2021). \nZoom link: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/99256715293 URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/incense-and-the-nativity-cycle-on-the-sion-treasure-censer/ LOCATION:Online with Zoom CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR