Gallen, and in the Scientific Advisory Board of Campus Galli, Carolingian monastery city. Cornel Dora is active in various scientific and library committees, including the Business Committee of the Wolfenbüttel Working Group for Library, Book and Media History, the Editorial Board of Codices electronice Confoederationis Helveticae (CeCH), the Board of the Association for the Swiss German Dictionary, the World Heritage Member Stiftsbezirk St. His scientific interests lie in cultural and church history, as well as in book and library science. Since November 1, 2013, he is a member of the Stiftsbibliothek of St.Gallen. In 2012, he earned an Executive Master's degree in General Business Administration from the Executive School of the University of St. Gallen and from 2001 to 2013, he directed the Cantonal Library Vadiana in St. He studied English, history, and musicology at the University of Zurich, graduating with a doctorate degree in history, and then continued to study as a librarian. I wish you many happy adventures in research!ĭr. Dora, I thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us and for helping organize a splendid exhibition. In this sense, the Middle Ages become indeed a period of flying. Form these shadows and the word of God in the Bible, the medieval world perceived that every human being having an identity and equal ethical obligations. The shadows on the wall, as Plato called them, are more important than the visible world. The years from 500 to 1500 CE – especially the first half – were the period of a vigorous Christian idealism that was basically driven by the ideas of Plato and St. This is very basic when we try to understand the medieval period. Why were the people from the 5th to the 9th centuries CE so fascinated by Irish monks and scholars? I decided to explain it with the image of flying and the introduction of ideals. The biggest challenge is to bring the feeling of past to the present. What challenges did you face in its organization? Additionally, what do you hope visitors take away from the exhibition after seeing it?ĬD: We are very experienced in producing our exhibitions in which we draw on our own funds only. JBW: I am always curious to know which challenges librarians and curators face when planning exhibitions, and yours is no exception, Dr. This is indeed the earliest written testimony of Europe with the character it is viewed until today in the European Union. In the opening address to his only letter to Gregory, dated around 600 CE, he calls him the "flower of Europe in its decay." For Columbanus, Ireland was like Rome, part of the European continent, and this continent was of Christian identity with the Pope as a leading figure. He took part in some of the controversies of his time and discussed matters like discipline or the definition of the date of Easter, and he was conscious of his own originality, calling himself a "rare dove“ in another letter. Columbanus as well as the context in which he mentioned “Europe” in a letter to Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century CE?ĬD: Columbanus was a very dynamic figure who brought a new direction to monasticism in Gaul at the time of Pope Gregory the Great (c. Could you tell us a little bit more about St. JBW: When visiting The Cradle of European Culture: Early Medieval Irish Book Art, I was struck by the fact that it was an Irish monk who first wrote about Europe in a continental sense: St.
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