Cusanus's Legacy in Number, Image, Text, and Sound

Sponsoring Organization(s)

American Cusanus Society

Organizer Name

Adam Knight Gilbert

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Southern California

Presider Name

Nancy van Deusen

Presider Affiliation

Claremont Graduate Univ.

Paper Title 1

Cusan Thought in Musical Symbolism and Theory, ca. 1430-1620

Presenter 1 Name

Adam Knight Gilbert

Paper Title 2

Performance of the Visual and Participation of the Divine: Sacred Representation in Cordier's Tout par compas

Presenter 2 Name

Rachel McNellis

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Case Western Reserve Univ.

Paper Title 3

Charles de Bovelles's Duodecimal System: The Creation of Renaissance Symbolic Number Theory

Presenter 3 Name

Tamara Albertini

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa

Start Date

11-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1225

Description

Johannes Reuchlin’s 1517 De arte cabbalistica, represents both a watershed in syncretism and theological symbolism—linking the Divine Name to Pythagorean number and musical harmony— and a culmination of a medieval Dionysian and Cusan traditions. Thus, on the 500^th anniversary of Reuchlin’s work, this panel explores Dionysian and Cusan theology's legacy and analogues in late medieval and Renaissance poetry, visual art, music, and mathematics.

Donald F. Duclow