Exhibition: The Bestiary, between science and beliefs.

Name: Exhibition: The Bestiary, between science and beliefs.
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliothèque d'Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer

at the Bibliothèque d'Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Without reservation, all public

Registration

Exhibition: The Bestiary, between science and beliefs.

Continuous on Saturdays and Sundays at the opening hours of the BAPSO The Bestiary is a literary genre born in the 12th century, from the fusion between a treatise of Christian interpretation of nature and the first western encyclopedia. It is a hybrid work, steeped in spirituality but based on a desire for scientific truth that will gradually take on an increasingly encyclopaedic dimension. Because in the Renaissance zoology treatises, knowledge and beliefs still intermingle in the scientific literature. This exhibition proposes you to try to better understand the motivations, the cultural foundations of the medieval Bestiary.
Without reservation, all public (game booklet available for a better discovery of the exhibition for the youngest). 40 rue Gambetta, Saint-Omer Free. Information and registration (if necessary) at 03.74.18.21.00. or at www.bibliotheque-agglo-stomer.fr

About the location

Bibliothèque d'Agglomération du Pays de Saint-Omer

40 rue Gambetta - 62500 Saint-Omer

Pas-de-Calais
Hauts-de-France

The Library(Bookcase) of Town(Conglomeration) was done up in the buildings(ships) of the old(former) middle school(college) of the Walloon Jesuits of which the room of classes, rebuilt in 1893\. In 1997, a contemporary wing was added. The site joins therefore in the four centuries of architecture. Indoors, the room of heritage receives the old(former) woodworks of the library(bookcase) of the abbey Saint-Bertin, and groups(includes) numerous manuscripts and incunabulum of which a volume of the famous Bible in 42 lines of Gutenberg.