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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
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SUMMARY:Houghton-Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History
DESCRIPTION:<p class="text-align-center"><strong>DUE TO THE CONTINUED CLOSURE OF THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, 25 FEBRUARY</strong></p><p><a href="https://jewish-history.haifa.ac.il/index.php?option=com_contact&amp;view=contact&amp;id=161:hy&amp;catid=36&amp;lang=en&amp;Itemid=109" data-entity-type="external">Yossi Chajes</a> (Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa), <em>Philosophy, Pedagogy, Prophecy, and the Enigmatic Origins of Ilanot</em>. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and Houghton Library. Free and open to the public; please register <a href="https://libcal.library.harvard.edu/calendar/main/philosophy-pedagogy-prophecy" data-entity-type="external">here</a>.</p><hr><p>I<em>n the fourteenth century, Jewish mystics began producing parchment sheets inscribed with arboreal diagrams that mapped the kabbalistic Godhead: </em>ilanot<em> (trees). Rather than serving merely as pedagogical charts designed to introduce beginners to Kabbalah, these iconotexts represent a sophisticated convergence of medieval visual culture and esoteric practice. Exploring the genre’s enigmatic origins, this lecture examines its previously unstudied foundational artifacts, revealing the early </em>ilan<em> as a unique synthesis of systematic theology, philosophical speculation, and ecstatic trance.</em></p>
LOCATION:Houghton Library, Edison & Newman Room
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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