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Tomorrow, Monday, November 10, a new edition of the Cátedra Magna Hispalensis of Faith, Art and Culture will begin, dedicated to the Hispalis capital during the time of Emperor Charles I of Spain and V of Germany under the title:The Magna Hispalensis in the time of Charles I of Spain. The Cathedral and the city” developed by the Cathedral Chapter, in collaboration with the San Isidoro de Sevilla Faculty of Theology and under the direction of canon and professor of the Faculty D. Manuel Sánchez Sánchez.
The sessions will take place from November 10 to 12 with the following program:
The main objective of the Cátedra is to value, investigate and publicize the Cathedral of Seville as a reference for the relationship between Faith, art and culture. Secondly, the Cátedra aims to create a specialized bibliographic collection, in collaboration with the Benedict XVI Library and with the publications of the San Isidoro de Sevilla Faculty of Theology. Finally, it seeks to be in contact with all institutions, universities, dioceses, religious congregations, seminaries, archives, etc. that investigate or disseminate these specialized studies.
Those people who want the certificate of attendance must attend all three sessions and request it in the email:
catedramagna@catedraldesevilla.es
PROGRAM:
November 10 at 6:30 p.m.: “Between patios and streets: the Seville of the imperial wedding of Charles V and Isabella of Portugal.”
Farmhouse and urbanism in 1526. The City .
In 1526, Seville became the setting for the wedding of Charles I of Spain and Isabella of Portugal, receiving the court and numerous visitors. The city, center of Atlantic trade, offered a diverse farmhouse and an urbanism inherited from its Islamic and medieval past. Through documents from the Cathedral Archive and historical images and visual reconstructions, this conference proposes a journey through streets, squares and houses that made up the Seville that saw the emperor pass.
It will be given by Dña. María Núñez González. Architect, has dedicated her doctoral thesis to this topic. Doctor Architect from the University of Seville, member of the Expregráfica research group. Professor in the Department of Architectural Graphic Expression. She collaborates in research projects on life and domestic architecture in Spain in the 15th and 16th centuries at the Univ. Granada, Dept. of Art History, directed by Dr. Mª Elena Diez. Master in Architecture and Historical Heritage. Project coordinator at Proyectos de Ingeniería y Arquitectura del Sur SL (PRIASUR). Specialized in housing, ways of living and rehabilitation of buildings (adaptations to other uses).
The conference will be complemented by a guided visit to the cape of Emperor Charles V, by Dña. Ana Isabel Gamero González, curator of Movable Property of the Cathedral.
November 11 at 6:30 p.m.: “The Church and the Cathedral Chapter of Seville in the time of Emperor Charles V“.
An initiation into the history of the Cathedral Chapter of Seville in a relevant period of its history that we will frame in the reign of Charles V (1517-1558). These dates will serve as a reference because they will allow us to move with some chronological freedom. The subject is not minor. Necessarily, its treatment extends to the history of the Church of Seville and its prelates, all of them at this time men of a very strong personality. The Seville Chapter, in addition, only yielded in the Spain of its time in wealth and power at this time to that of Toledo and was in a city that was experiencing a prodigious expansion. It is no exaggeration to say that its chapter members were protagonists of the profound cultural and religious changes in the Europe of their time.
Conference by D. José Antonio Ollero Pina. High School Professor and, until his recent retirement, Professor of Modern History in the Department of Modern History of the University of Seville. His doctoral thesis, The students of Maese Rodrigo and the University of Seville in the 16th and 17th centuries, read in 1991, received the Focus prize of that same year, being published in 1993 with the title and the University of Seville in the 16th and 17th centuries (Seville, University of Seville-Focus). His studies have been oriented to research in the fields of the history of universities, cultural and social history in modern centuries. He is the author of numerous works that deal with ecclesiastical history of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, including economic aspects, resources, taxation and income, especially in relation to the church and the cathedral chapter of Seville in those same centuries.
The talk will be complemented by the screening of the audiovisual “The Gospel of Wood” in front of the Main Altar, which narrates passages from the life of Jesus through the more than 200 polychrome carvings of the majestic altarpiece of the Cathedral of Seville.
November 12 at 6:30 p.m.: “From liturgical codices to printed humanism: The Chapter Library in the times of Charles V and the prelude to the Colombina“. The Library.
Marks the transition between a traditional ecclesiastical library and the arrival of Renaissance thought with the legacy of Hernando Colón. The union of both collections gave rise to one of the most unique libraries of Renaissance Europe. We will explore the state and relevance of the Chapter Library of Seville at that time (inventories and architects of them), as well as its subsequent transformation. The figure of Hernando Colón will be analyzed as a visionary bibliophile, his relationship with Charles V — who partially supported his bibliographic project with a significant subsidy — and the process by which, after Hernando’s death in 1539, his monumental collection of more than 15,000 volumes passed into the hands of the Cathedral Chapter.
Conference by Dña. Pilar Jiménez de Cisneros Vencelá. Degree in Documentation and Diploma in Library Science and Documentation from the University of Granada. She has developed her professional career in institutions such as the Birthplace Museum of the Picasso Foundation (Málaga) and the Library of the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum (Madrid). Since 1999 she has been part of the technical team of the Institución Colombina, assuming the Head of the Library Area in October 2023. In these years she has specialized in the manuscript section, also performing her work of organization and description in the section of old printed background. She has actively participated in projects for the digitization and dissemination of documentary heritage, reference service and preparation of bibliographic description instruments.
The conference will be complemented by the interpretation of musical works from the 15th and 16th centuries by the Ministriles Hispalensis group.
Access will be through the Puerta de San Miguel of the Cathedral at 6:00 p.m.
Each day, a careful selection of books and documents referred to in the conferences will be exhibited in an exhibition stand.
