Dear friends and colleagues.

We would like to kindly invite you to a lecture of professor Yves Gallet Re-thinking 13th-century Mont-Saint-Michel . It will take place on Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 p.m. in Hans Belting Library (the ground-floor of building "K" of the Faculty of Arts at the Masaryk University, Veveří 28). The event is organized by the Centre for Early Medieval Studies within the frame of StředověC JinaX lectures.

Yves Gallet is a professor of Medieval Art History at the University Bordeaux Montaigne, who is mainly interested in architecture of the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. He explores architecture from the perspective of its construction, dealing especially with the role of an architect in the medieval building workshop's complex practice. Furthermore, he also specializes in monastic architecture and the function of monastic spaces.

For his Thursday lecture, Yves Gallet will prepare a paper on the Abbey Church at Mont-Saint-Michel which was in the Middle Ages, and still is, a popular destination for pilgrims. These travellers were/are coming to visit contact relics of the archangel and to experience Mont-Saint-Michel's genius loci. On this tidal island, the architecture completes impressive landscape of the region, connecting earth, sea and heaven.