Dr. Laurence Garneau presenting at l’Université de Caen Normandie

Dr. Laurence Garneau is presenting the paper "De Déméter à la femme procréatrice : le signe zodiacal de la Vierge dans l’Astrolabium Planum in tabulis ascendens de Pietrus d’Abanus (1293/1488)" at the international conference La réception des mythes grecs liés à la nature et au vivant : textes et images (XIVe-XVIe siècles). 

This conference brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to examine the reception of Greek myths relating to nature and the living world in manuscripts and printed books produced between 1300 and the 1550s. The aim is to investigate the fortune, reinterpretations and new uses of myths that give pride of place to the “natural world” in its broadest sense. Which of them have been reformulated and put into images in Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries? What are their intermediaries and filters? In what kinds of text and image are such reinterpretations to be found? What are their meanings and purposes? From ancient Greece to medieval and Renaissance Europe, how depictions of nature and the living world, of the relationships between the human and the non-human, of divine and nature, offered by these myths, were transmitted and reinterpreted?

The conference is from June 4-6, 2025 at the University of Caen Normandy.

See the full schedule here.