John of Marignolli and the Historiographical Project of Charles IV, "The First Decades of the Prague University: Transforming Intellectual Space in 14th-c. Central Europe", Centre of Medieval Studies of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, November 6th-7th 2014 (original) (raw)
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Jahrbuch fuW r Antike und Christentum,-. Edited by Ernst Dassmann and others. Pp. incl. illsj pull-out plan and plates. Mu$ nster Westfalen : Aschendorff, . DM . ; The present volume of the Jahrbuch fuW r Antike und Christentum provides an insight into the recovery of the study of late antiquity and historical theology after the war as a combined discipline, and its continued vigour on the continent under the leadership of Ernst Dassmann at Bonn. Two chapters are devoted to the origins of the publication of the first volume of the Reallexikon fuW r Antike und Christentum in , overcoming appalling difficulties, and the lively correspondence between its first editor, Theodor Klauser, and Jan Waszink that preceded this event. Today their successors have amply justified their vision. On the historical side, Georg Scho$ llgen seeks to correct what he sees as neglect by scholars of the church constitutions of the second, third and fourth centuries, such as the DidacheT and the Apostolic Constitutions. Cannot these throw light on actual conditions prevailing in their Churches or regions of origin at least, on some of the problems that exercised them ? Klaus Rosen's lecture at the annual meeting of the Franz Do$ lger Institute traces the religious development of the Emperor Julian from childhood wonder at the brilliance of the sun's rays to devoted worshipper of King Helios. His second contribution, however, on the Acta of the martyr Crispina, executed at Theveste on December , adds little to Paul Monceaux's views in Histoire litteT raire de l'Afrique chreT tienne, iii. - (Paris ). The second part of the Acta are almost certainly a Donatist compilation, not surprisingly in view of the importance of Theveste and its great pilgrimage church in the life of that movement. Elsewhere, Ulrich Eigler examines evidence for stylistic borrowing in Sidonius Apollinaris's account of his journey to Rome from the poet Horace's report of a similar journey to the capital more than four centuries before. Karin Alt devotes a lengthy study to Hippolytus of Rome's first and sixth books of the Refutatio in which he blames, without due understanding, Plato and Pythagoras as the inspiration of all existing heresies. Archaeology is represented by Sebastian Ristow's detailed examination of the evidence for an early episcopal complex below Cologne cathedral. He concludes, however, that nothing of that nature can be established with certainty before the mid sixth century, though a baptismal church and associated Christian structures may have existed nearby. Detailed scholarly reviews, not least Winrich Lo$ hr's assessment of Gerd Lu$ demann's Ketzer : die andere Seite des fruW hen Christentums conclude a volume which, as usual, maintains the highest standards of production and illustration.
Simon Burton, Matthew Banes (eds.), Reformation and Education, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 2021
In the multifaceted debate leading to the establishment of the Formula concordiae, a huge topic within the theologians was that of the ‘conformity’ in the reception of the doctrine of the two fathers of the Reformation. My aim here is to sketch two lutheran reactions to the so-called Consensus Dresdensis, in the attempt to highlight an always more ‘codified’ approach to a typical polemical argument: the one of the theologians of Jena, representing the very last contribution of the Duchy of Saxony in the dispute over the Wittenberg Christology, and a similar standpoint stated by the Stuttgart preacher Lucas Osiander. The Jenaer contribution, significantly entitled Fallstricke, written by Wigand, Heshusen and Kirchner, focuses on the lack of clarity of the text: general descriptions, mention of ‘reformed’ theological standpoints which had been already criticised on Calvinist side, ‘Zwinglian’ glosses to the Nicaenum presented as primary sources in an “Exemplar in der Bibliotheca zu Basel”, the assumption of the Wittenberger Katechismus as direct consequence of Luther´s Kleiner Katechismus, excerpts of the Confessio Augustana and its Apology quoted only in Melanchthon´s ambiguous revision, ... This should be intended as a political strategy, falsifying both the lutheran and the reformed standpoint. And to the Wittenberger statement that “Lutherus [...]/ sol einem in ein Büchlein geschrieben haben/ [...] das von der allenthalbenheit/ [...] nicht sol disputirt werden” Osiander replies for the very first time with philological, objective arguments, simply asking all scholars of his time to examine whether the style is more likely to be attributed to Melanchthon or Luther. The necessity of a certain loyalty to Luther’s ‘clear’ doctrine as opposed to the unreliable variety within Melanchthon’s standpoint over time, shaping a very clear confessional identity, seems so to achieve a proper ‘scholarly’ form, beside the unavoidable theological-political arguments. The paper (firstly presented at the RefoRC Conference 2018) provides an anthology of sources both in German and in English translation as appendix. I am aware of some typos in the text, but I have not received any final draft so far (or the copy of the book) so far.
ERC-n° 771589: « Nicholas of Dinkelsbühl and the University of Vienna on the Eve of the Reformation
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019
on the Eve of the Reformation A few years ago, the members of a search committee-two Austrian Byzantinists from the University of Vienna, a French medievalist, and an American-were sitting in a Syrian restaurant in Cyprus, discussing the Crusades in Modern Greek, when the conversation shifted to how certain professors in some Greek universities had been accustomed to sitting and reading their own textbooks aloud to their classes, year after year after year. One of the Austrians turned to the American and said (we translate): "Ever hear of Thomas Ebendorfer? He was a big guy in the Faculty of Theology at Vienna, several times the rector, in the first half of the fifteenth century. All he did in his lectures was read his own commentaries on Scripture over and over again every year!" From a modern standpoint, the early University of Vienna has been taking a beating recently. The latest research, including our own, has shown that, in the fifteenth century, instruction at Vienna seems to have consisted of the repeated reading of a standard text of recent composition or compilation, often with very little variation. 1 Knowing the basics of Viennese doctrine throughout the period often simply requires knowing this standard text, be it in ethics, logic, or biblical studies. This was the case with systematic theology as well, and the American in the conversation noted above was quite familiar with Thomas Ebendorfer's lack of originality. Yet this modern perspective does not approximate the late-medieval view of the new university, or of the practice of recycling old material. In 1391, Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, traditionally considered the queen of universities, wrote a brief question entitled Pro unione Ecclesiae wherein he showed himself to be quite secure in the continuing prominence and even dominance of the University of Paris within the European intellectual landscape. For this reason, he remarked that it was in his university that one might find the "most famous doctors": "In no other college are there doctors as famous as those who are in the University of Paris, especially in theology." 2 Gerson was doubtless unaware that to the east of France, at that exact moment in 1391, Henry of Langenstein (ca. 1325-1397), a famous German theologian educated at Paris, was expressing the opposite opinion when he asked the following rhetorical question in a letter addressed to Duke Ruprecht of Bavaria: "Why is it that the universities of France are breaking up, that the sun of wisdom is eclipsed there? Learning
Two anonymous sermons from manuscript Ms 434 in Leipzig University Library
Graeco-Latina Brunensia, 2016
This article presents an edition of two sermons with the incipits Ingredere, benedicte Domini and Posuit Deus hominem which have been preserved at the end of manuscript Ms 434 in Leipzig University Library. Although previous research considered both texts as belonging to Peter of Zittau's collection Sermones de principalibus festis, preserved as part of the same manuscript, an analysis of the manuscript and the texts of both sermons supports the conclusion that these sermons were in fact written by an unknown member of the Zbraslav monastery in the second half of the 14th century. Keywords sermon; Cistercian writing; Zbraslav monastery; Peter of Zittau * This article was written as part of the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) project no. 16-09491S-Edice kázání Petra Žitavského (Edition of the Sermons of Peter of Zittau). 1 A brief overview of the literary activities of the monks at the Zbraslav monastery is given in Charvátová (2002: pp. 246-250). The Chronica Aulae regiae has been published in several editions (most recently Emler 1884); a new publication of the text-edited by