Reading group - Bernard de Clairvaux
The LUCAS research reading group The Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics is dedicated to examining affective, cognitive-enactive, and new materialist approaches to the arts.
It is open to anyone interested in experiential interactions between the arts (in a broad sense), their makers, and audiences.
Come join the next LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” reading group session to discuss sermons on the Song of Songs by the medieval mystic Bernard of Clairvaux, selected by Lieke Smits.
For the reading:
– Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, sermon 1–4, 7, and 9.
– Additionally, if you like to read more about them, there’s an article by Julie Orlemanski, “Literary Persons and Medieval Fiction in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs” (2021).
Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:15–15:00
