Course

CALL: LUCAS “ROLE OF EXPERIENCE” READING GROUP - Bernard of Clairvaux

• Lieke Smits

Date

Thursday 19 February 2026

Time

13:15 - 15:00 hour

Address

Arsenaal
Arsenaalstraat 1
2311 CT Leiden

Room

A1.04

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, here’s an article by Julie Orlemanski, “Literary Persons and Medieval Fiction in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermons on the Song of Songs” (2021).

More on the LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” cross-cluster research theme at https://researchplatform.art/projects/lucas-research-group/. 
Contact: Sophie van Romburgh [e-mail]. 

Thursday 19 February, 13:15–15:00, room Arsenaal A1.04. All welcome!