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PROGRAM
DECEMBER 7, 2017
9h30-10h – Registration and Coffee
10h-10h30 – Welcome and Greetings
Johannes BARTUSCHAT (UZH)
Elisa BRILLI (Toronto-UZH/FNS)
Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
10h30-12h – Session I: Augustine as a Moral and Political Auctoritas
Chair: Eric L. SAAK (Indiana University)
Fiammetta PAPI (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum in the Italian Duecento and Trecento
Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
Réactions italiennes à la condamnation augustinienne du suicide catonien (XIIIe-XIVe siècle)
12h-14h – Lunch break (reserved to speakers)
14h-16h15 – Session II: OESA’s Augustine
Chair: Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
Pascale BERMON (CNRS)
Grégoire de Rimini et Augustin en Italie au XIVe siècle
Gianni PITTIGLIO (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Invenzioni, “furti” e modulazioni iconografiche nella propaganda eremitana
Xavier BIRON-OUELLET (UQAM – EHESS)
Simone Fidati da Cascia et la formation d'une communauté spirituelle en Toscane au XIVe siècle
16h15-17h – Coffee Break
17h-18h30 – Keynote conference
Chair: Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto – UZH/FNS)
Eric L. SAAK (Indiana University)
Augustine and Augustinianisms in the Fourteenth Century: Petrarch and Robert de Bardis
20h – Dinner (reserved to speakers)
DECEMBER 8, 2017
9h-10h30 – Session III: Dante’s Augustine(s)
Chair: Enrico FENZI (Genova)
Mira MOCAN (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Scrivere per immagini. Presenze agostiniane nella poesia italiana tra Due e Trecento
Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto – UZH/FNS)
Dante lecteur du De civitate Dei
10h30-11h – Coffee Break
11h-12h30 - Session IV: Petrarch’s Augustine(s)
Chair : Johannes BARTUSCHAT (UZH)
Luca MARCOZZI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Presenza di Agostino nei Fragmenta
Enrico FENZI (Genova)
Petrarca e l'invenzione dell'agostinismo politico
12h30-14h30 – Lunch break (reserved to speakers)
14h30-16h – Session V: Augustine and Civic Humanism
Chair: Luca MARCOZZI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Laurent BAGGIONI (Lyon III)
Salutati et Augustin. Le citoyen dans l’histoire
Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto-UZH/FNS) & Lorenzo TANZINI (Università di Cagliari)
Commentare e tradurre il De civitate Dei all’alba dello Scisma
16h – Conclusions
20h – Dinner (reserved to speakers)
CONTACTS
Conveners:
Prof. Johannes Bartuschat : bartusch@rom.uzh.ch
Prof. Elisa Brilli : elisa.brilli@utoronto.ca
Dr. Delphine Carron : delphine.carronfaivre@uzh.ch
Administrative staff:
Mme Rosa Pittorino segrlettit@rom.uzh.ch
Conference Presentations by Eric Saak
Papers by Eric Saak
Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages
A Companion to James of Viterbo, 2018
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, 2016
When Martin Luther entered the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine in July of 1505, he entered a wo... more When Martin Luther entered the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine in July of 1505, he entered a world that had been shaped by the diverse and varied monastic culture of the later Middle Ages. Luther became a new man in Christ by donning his monastic habit and very quickly rose to positions of responsibility within the order, first as a doctor of theology and then as district vicar. As professor of the Bible at Wittenberg, Luther was also the pastor of the parish church and, in this context, initiated a pastoral concern with the practice and theology of indulgences that was to set off what has become known as the Reformation. His critique was that of a late medieval Augustinian Hermit. Yet Luther had not been inculcated with the theological or spiritual traditions of his order. Consequently, his early theological development was conditioned by the Franciscan tradition (e.g., Ockham) more than by the Augustinian, even as he eagerly studied the works of Augustine himself. Nevertheless, ...
Preface Note on the Citation of Sources List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction I. Author II. T... more Preface Note on the Citation of Sources List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction I. Author II. The Augustinians in the Later Middle Ages IIII. The Late Medieval Catechetical Endeavor IV. The Lord's Prayer in Late Medieval Religion V. Jordan's Exposition VI. Editing Jordan's Expositio: Text and Translation Text and Translation Sigla and Abbreviations Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 Lecture 10 Exposition of the Tree of the Virtues and Vices Notes Notes on the Text Notes on the Work Bibliography Indices Index of Manuscripts Index of Biblical Citations Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors Index of Names and Places
Vessey/A Companion to Augustine, 2012
Church History and Religious Culture, 2006
This article traces the role of the desert fathers in the creation of the late medieval Augustini... more This article traces the role of the desert fathers in the creation of the late medieval Augustinian Myth. It argues that the major problem facing members of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine (OESA) was how to appropriate the tradition of the desert fathers and that of Augustine's monasticism for the tradition of the Order. In this light, special attention is given to the Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad fratres in eremo and the central importance of John Cassian and Paul of Thebes. Of particular importance are the works of Jordan of Quedlinburg, which shaped the identity of the OESA from the mid-fourteenth to the early sixteenth century. The desert fathers provided the model of the eremitical life, and thus Jordan "mythified" the desert fathers as he had Augustine himself. This was not an issue of historical identification, but of mythic creation in an attempt to provide the foundation of the late medieval OESA.
The Catholic Historical Review, 2008
This is an important book.The Order of Hermits of St. Augustine (OESA) has been overshadowed by t... more This is an important book.The Order of Hermits of St. Augustine (OESA) has been overshadowed by the Franciscan and Dominican Orders in the scholarship devoted to the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation, with the exception of the relationship between the Augustinian friars and Martin Luther. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to address this gap, and Bourdua and Dunlop have made a significant contribution.As Dunlop notes in her introductory chapter, the OESA “has received little attention from art historians, and yet it has a unique import for any rethinking of art and religious institutions in the premodern period” (p. 2). Following in the wake of Joseph C. Schnaubelt and Frederick Van Fleteren’s edited volume, Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend (New York, 1999), and Meredith Gill’s Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge, 2005), Bourdua and Dunlop’s work proposes to focus on the OESA “to examine the ‘mendicant thesis’” (p. 2), which argues that the mendicant orders effected “the first artistic shifts of the Renaissance”(p.2). Simply by posing the question, the editors have given new prominence to the OESA, which the historical evidence so amply documents only to have been ignored in the historiography.
Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages
Augustinian Studies, 2015
This article investigates the new attitude toward the reception and use of Augustine in the early... more This article investigates the new attitude toward the reception and use of Augustine in the early thirteenth century as seen in the works of Helinand of Froidmont and Robert Grosseteste. Both scholars were products of the Twelfth Century Renaissance of Augustine, represented in Peter Lombard's Sentences, the Glossa Ordinaria, and Gratian's Decretum. Yet both Helinand and Grosseteste reconstructed Augustine's texts for their own purposes; they did not simply use Augustine as an authority. Detailed and thorough textual analysis reveals that the early thirteenth century was a high point in Augustine's reception, and one which effected a transformation of how Augustine's texts were used, a fact [has] often been obscured in the historiographical debates of the relationship between "Augustinianism" and "Aristotelianism." Moreover, in point to the importance of Helinand's world chronicle, his Chronicon, this article argues for the importance of compilations as a major source for the intellectual and textual history of the high Middle Ages. Thus, the thirteenth century appears as the bridge between the Augustinian Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, and that of the Fourteenth, making clear the need for further research and highlighting the importance of the early thirteenth century for a thorough understanding of the historical reception of Augustine. 1. See The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann et al., 3 vols.
The Heythrop Journal, 2016
Michael Psellos was an eleventh century Byzantine philosopher, statesman and rhetorician, and, fo... more Michael Psellos was an eleventh century Byzantine philosopher, statesman and rhetorician, and, for his time, a pivotal exponent of Platonic philosophy. Though he is primarily known for his Chronographia, he wrote voluminously. '493 titles and 515 letters survive', Papaioannou tells us (250). In Chicago, IL Michael Rhodes Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages.
... W58 2003 271'302-dc21 2002034472 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Witt... more ... W58 2003 271'302-dc21 2002034472 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Wittneben, Eva Luise: Bonagratia von Bergamo ... Im Münchner Exil konnte Bonagratia im Kreis Gleichgesinnter noch einmal auf hervorragende Art und Weise seine juristischen Kenntnisse ...
In Catechesis in the Later Middle Ages I , E.L. Saak presents the first edition and translation o... more In Catechesis in the Later Middle Ages I , E.L. Saak presents the first edition and translation of the Exposition of the Lord's Prayer by the fourteenth-century Augustinian hermit, Jordan of Quedlinburg (d. 1380), together with an introduction and textual commentary.
Journal article by Mickey L. Mattox; Theological Studies, 2004
High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. by Mickey... more High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. by Mickey L. Mattox HIGH WAY TO HEAVEN: THE AUGUSTINIAN PLATFORM BETWEEN REFORM AND REFORMATION, 1292-1524. By Erik L. Saak. Studies in Medieval and Reformat
Pardon for the aniconic poster.... Academia.edu spontaneously protects image rights (or fights ... more Pardon for the aniconic poster....
Academia.edu spontaneously protects image rights (or fights against idolatry, who knows).
PROGRAM
DECEMBER 7, 2017
9h30-10h – Registration and Coffee
10h-10h30 – Welcome and Greetings
Johannes BARTUSCHAT (UZH)
Elisa BRILLI (Toronto-UZH/FNS)
Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
10h30-12h – Session I: Augustine as a Moral and Political Auctoritas
Chair: Eric L. SAAK (Indiana University)
Fiammetta PAPI (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum in the Italian Duecento and Trecento
Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
Réactions italiennes à la condamnation augustinienne du suicide catonien (XIIIe-XIVe siècle)
12h-14h – Lunch break (reserved to speakers)
14h-16h15 – Session II: OESA’s Augustine
Chair: Delphine CARRON (UZH/FNS)
Pascale BERMON (CNRS)
Grégoire de Rimini et Augustin en Italie au XIVe siècle
Gianni PITTIGLIO (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Invenzioni, “furti” e modulazioni iconografiche nella propaganda eremitana
Xavier BIRON-OUELLET (UQAM – EHESS)
Simone Fidati da Cascia et la formation d'une communauté spirituelle en Toscane au XIVe siècle
16h15-17h – Coffee Break
17h-18h30 – Keynote conference
Chair: Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto – UZH/FNS)
Eric L. SAAK (Indiana University)
Augustine and Augustinianisms in the Fourteenth Century: Petrarch and Robert de Bardis
20h – Dinner (reserved to speakers)
DECEMBER 8, 2017
9h-10h30 – Session III: Dante’s Augustine(s)
Chair: Enrico FENZI (Genova)
Mira MOCAN (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Scrivere per immagini. Presenze agostiniane nella poesia italiana tra Due e Trecento
Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto – UZH/FNS)
Dante lecteur du De civitate Dei
10h30-11h – Coffee Break
11h-12h30 - Session IV: Petrarch’s Augustine(s)
Chair : Johannes BARTUSCHAT (UZH)
Luca MARCOZZI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Presenza di Agostino nei Fragmenta
Enrico FENZI (Genova)
Petrarca e l'invenzione dell'agostinismo politico
12h30-14h30 – Lunch break (reserved to speakers)
14h30-16h – Session V: Augustine and Civic Humanism
Chair: Luca MARCOZZI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Laurent BAGGIONI (Lyon III)
Salutati et Augustin. Le citoyen dans l’histoire
Elisa BRILLI (University of Toronto-UZH/FNS) & Lorenzo TANZINI (Università di Cagliari)
Commentare e tradurre il De civitate Dei all’alba dello Scisma
16h – Conclusions
20h – Dinner (reserved to speakers)
CONTACTS
Conveners:
Prof. Johannes Bartuschat : bartusch@rom.uzh.ch
Prof. Elisa Brilli : elisa.brilli@utoronto.ca
Dr. Delphine Carron : delphine.carronfaivre@uzh.ch
Administrative staff:
Mme Rosa Pittorino segrlettit@rom.uzh.ch
Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages
A Companion to James of Viterbo, 2018
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, 2016
When Martin Luther entered the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine in July of 1505, he entered a wo... more When Martin Luther entered the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine in July of 1505, he entered a world that had been shaped by the diverse and varied monastic culture of the later Middle Ages. Luther became a new man in Christ by donning his monastic habit and very quickly rose to positions of responsibility within the order, first as a doctor of theology and then as district vicar. As professor of the Bible at Wittenberg, Luther was also the pastor of the parish church and, in this context, initiated a pastoral concern with the practice and theology of indulgences that was to set off what has become known as the Reformation. His critique was that of a late medieval Augustinian Hermit. Yet Luther had not been inculcated with the theological or spiritual traditions of his order. Consequently, his early theological development was conditioned by the Franciscan tradition (e.g., Ockham) more than by the Augustinian, even as he eagerly studied the works of Augustine himself. Nevertheless, ...
Preface Note on the Citation of Sources List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction I. Author II. T... more Preface Note on the Citation of Sources List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction I. Author II. The Augustinians in the Later Middle Ages IIII. The Late Medieval Catechetical Endeavor IV. The Lord's Prayer in Late Medieval Religion V. Jordan's Exposition VI. Editing Jordan's Expositio: Text and Translation Text and Translation Sigla and Abbreviations Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 Lecture 10 Exposition of the Tree of the Virtues and Vices Notes Notes on the Text Notes on the Work Bibliography Indices Index of Manuscripts Index of Biblical Citations Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors Index of Names and Places
Vessey/A Companion to Augustine, 2012
Church History and Religious Culture, 2006
This article traces the role of the desert fathers in the creation of the late medieval Augustini... more This article traces the role of the desert fathers in the creation of the late medieval Augustinian Myth. It argues that the major problem facing members of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine (OESA) was how to appropriate the tradition of the desert fathers and that of Augustine's monasticism for the tradition of the Order. In this light, special attention is given to the Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad fratres in eremo and the central importance of John Cassian and Paul of Thebes. Of particular importance are the works of Jordan of Quedlinburg, which shaped the identity of the OESA from the mid-fourteenth to the early sixteenth century. The desert fathers provided the model of the eremitical life, and thus Jordan "mythified" the desert fathers as he had Augustine himself. This was not an issue of historical identification, but of mythic creation in an attempt to provide the foundation of the late medieval OESA.
The Catholic Historical Review, 2008
This is an important book.The Order of Hermits of St. Augustine (OESA) has been overshadowed by t... more This is an important book.The Order of Hermits of St. Augustine (OESA) has been overshadowed by the Franciscan and Dominican Orders in the scholarship devoted to the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation, with the exception of the relationship between the Augustinian friars and Martin Luther. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to address this gap, and Bourdua and Dunlop have made a significant contribution.As Dunlop notes in her introductory chapter, the OESA “has received little attention from art historians, and yet it has a unique import for any rethinking of art and religious institutions in the premodern period” (p. 2). Following in the wake of Joseph C. Schnaubelt and Frederick Van Fleteren’s edited volume, Augustine in Iconography: History and Legend (New York, 1999), and Meredith Gill’s Augustine in the Italian Renaissance: Art and Philosophy from Petrarch to Michelangelo (Cambridge, 2005), Bourdua and Dunlop’s work proposes to focus on the OESA “to examine the ‘mendicant thesis’” (p. 2), which argues that the mendicant orders effected “the first artistic shifts of the Renaissance”(p.2). Simply by posing the question, the editors have given new prominence to the OESA, which the historical evidence so amply documents only to have been ignored in the historiography.
Luther and the Reformation of the Later Middle Ages
Augustinian Studies, 2015
This article investigates the new attitude toward the reception and use of Augustine in the early... more This article investigates the new attitude toward the reception and use of Augustine in the early thirteenth century as seen in the works of Helinand of Froidmont and Robert Grosseteste. Both scholars were products of the Twelfth Century Renaissance of Augustine, represented in Peter Lombard's Sentences, the Glossa Ordinaria, and Gratian's Decretum. Yet both Helinand and Grosseteste reconstructed Augustine's texts for their own purposes; they did not simply use Augustine as an authority. Detailed and thorough textual analysis reveals that the early thirteenth century was a high point in Augustine's reception, and one which effected a transformation of how Augustine's texts were used, a fact [has] often been obscured in the historiographical debates of the relationship between "Augustinianism" and "Aristotelianism." Moreover, in point to the importance of Helinand's world chronicle, his Chronicon, this article argues for the importance of compilations as a major source for the intellectual and textual history of the high Middle Ages. Thus, the thirteenth century appears as the bridge between the Augustinian Renaissance of the Twelfth Century, and that of the Fourteenth, making clear the need for further research and highlighting the importance of the early thirteenth century for a thorough understanding of the historical reception of Augustine. 1. See The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann et al., 3 vols.
The Heythrop Journal, 2016
Michael Psellos was an eleventh century Byzantine philosopher, statesman and rhetorician, and, fo... more Michael Psellos was an eleventh century Byzantine philosopher, statesman and rhetorician, and, for his time, a pivotal exponent of Platonic philosophy. Though he is primarily known for his Chronographia, he wrote voluminously. '493 titles and 515 letters survive', Papaioannou tells us (250). In Chicago, IL Michael Rhodes Constructing Antichrist: Paul, Biblical Commentary, and the Development of Doctrine in the Early Middle Ages.
... W58 2003 271'302-dc21 2002034472 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Witt... more ... W58 2003 271'302-dc21 2002034472 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Wittneben, Eva Luise: Bonagratia von Bergamo ... Im Münchner Exil konnte Bonagratia im Kreis Gleichgesinnter noch einmal auf hervorragende Art und Weise seine juristischen Kenntnisse ...
In Catechesis in the Later Middle Ages I , E.L. Saak presents the first edition and translation o... more In Catechesis in the Later Middle Ages I , E.L. Saak presents the first edition and translation of the Exposition of the Lord's Prayer by the fourteenth-century Augustinian hermit, Jordan of Quedlinburg (d. 1380), together with an introduction and textual commentary.
Journal article by Mickey L. Mattox; Theological Studies, 2004
High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. by Mickey... more High Way to Heaven: The Augustinian Platform between Reform and Reformation, 1292-1524. by Mickey L. Mattox HIGH WAY TO HEAVEN: THE AUGUSTINIAN PLATFORM BETWEEN REFORM AND REFORMATION, 1292-1524. By Erik L. Saak. Studies in Medieval and Reformat