Book launch of Studia Patristica LIII-LXX: papers of the 2011 Oxford conference

The Directors of the 16^th International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford, 2011) are delighted that the papers there presented are now published in Studia Patristica volumes LIII – LXX. Thanks to the hard work and efficiency of Peeters Publishers, and of all the co-editors, contributors and peer reviewers, this major undertaking has been completed in under two years from the time of the conference.

Peeters offered the possibility of publishing workshop papers in separate fascicles, and the first 9 volumes, co-edited with the workshop convenors, take up this offer. In the other volumes, papers are grouped by topic as in previous years. The Table of Contents covers all the volumes.

There will be a celebratory book launch, Studia Patristica and Patristic Studies, at Christ Church, Oxford, on Saturday October 19^th 2013, 4-7 p.m. Speakers (tbc) will consider how SP reflects change and continuity in patristic studies.      

Thirteenth International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa

The call for papers for the Thirteenth  International Colloquium on Gregory
of Nyssa is now open. The congress will be held in Rome at the Pontifical
University of the Holy Cross from 17 to 20 September 2014. It will be
focused on the In Canticum canticorum. All practical information can be
found through the conference website:
www.gregoryofnyssa.org
Proposals are due by the end of May 2014. Contact persons: Giulio Maspero
(maspero@pusc.it) and Miguel Brugarolas (mbrugarolas@unav.es).

Remembering Gerald Bonner who died on 22 May 2013

The Directors of the Oxford Conference, meeting on 2 July 2013, remembered with gratitude and affection Gerald Bonner, Reader Emeritus at Durham University (UK) and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of America. He contributed to patristic studies both by his own publications, which included the classic St Augustine of Hippo: life and controversies (1963, rev.ed. 1986), and through his prompt and kindly encouragement of fellow-scholars. He attended the Conference for many years, and it was a sadness that his health did not allow him to be there in 2011. There will be many appreciations of his work: meanwhile, his colleagues at Durham have posted a brief account of his life by his family https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/about/news/?itemno=18120 

The Proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011 have appeared

Authors and readers will be pleased to read that I was informed today by the Publisher Peeters, Leuven, that volumes 53 to 70 of Studia Patristica have appeared publishing the proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011.

First of all I have to thank all contributors who so diligently worked on their papers, did all the revisions, we exchanged over 2,000 emails, send back and forth various versions, but, as it seems, finally we made it.
Thanks also to the fellow directors and all those who have peer reviewed the hundreds of abstracts, the papers, have organized and taken part in the conference, and
thanks also to the publisher, most particularly Mr. Peeters himself with his personal interest and support, and also Dr Bert Verrept who has spend hours on hours to make this enterprise happening. Without their constant support, this publishing venture could not have been achieved. I also thank my family who have supported me in getting the papers published.

So, let us hope that we enjoy reading the results and benefit from our joint endeavour,

yours Markus

International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011 - volumes to appear in short

Dear participants and contributors,

you will hopefully be pleased to read that the volumes of the last International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2011, are being printed, as I write, and should be out in the next weeks - I will let you know when I have the printed volumes on the table.
It is a big relief to see the 18 volumes finished (amongst them are special volumes on a whole range of topics) and hope that you will like to see the vitality that Patristic Studies from around the globe has. More about the series soon.

Open Call for Authors for a Handbook on Latin Patristic Sermons in Brill series A New History of the Sermon

Leuven, May 2013.

 

Open Call for Authors for a  Handbook on Latin Patristic Sermons in Brill series A New History of the Sermon.

 

To all who might be interested,

 

Patristic sermons have enjoyed a particular academic interest during the last decades. Several aspects of this genre have been explored through a variety of methodologies. More than a few conferences, articles, and monographs have been devoted to this topic. In collaboration with Brill’s series, A New History of the Sermon (http://www.brill.com/publications/new-history-sermon), the Research Departments of Latin Literature (Arts Faculty) and History of Church and Theology (Theology Faculty) of the University of Leuven (Belgium) will compose a handbook on Latin Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences (working title).

 

In this volume we would like to bring together an up-to-date state of the art of the study of the sermons of Latin Patristic authors. The intention of this handbook is to outline the available sources, the approaches and methodologies appropriate in handling them, the research issues that arise in the study of the sermons, and to offer an overview of how these issues have been dealt with, leaving room for disagreement. The aim of this volume is not so much to compile a new narrative history, but to provide a graduate-level synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship, with balanced and general accounts. The contributions should avoid being limited to an abstract-theoretical presentation. The authors are encouraged to illustrate their overview/analysis with concrete textual examples, and if possible to add a case study/case studies. The contributions are not primarily intended for specialists, but should explain and show through examples the discussed subject for non-specialist scholars. The purpose of the volume is to allow graduate students and scholars versed in one area of the study of sermons but interested in another to find here the tools to further develop their knowledge. A provisional table of contents is added below.

 

The scholars who have already agreed to write a contribution for this volume include Pauline Allen, François Dolbeau, Bronwen Neil, Maureen Tilley.

 

Contributions should be written in English [Brill insists that the English of the contributions be thoroughly checked before submission] and be limited to ca. 7.000  words (including footnotes). The deadline for the submission of manuscripts would be 1 June 2014.

 

You may find the table of contents, provisional instructions, and available topics (indicated with an asterisk *), here below. If you are interested in writing a contribution on one of these topics, we would like to invite you to contact us, and send us (before 1 July 2013) your CV and a short abstract of how precisely you would like to deal with the subject of the chapter of your choice (indicating also preliminary thoughts on a possible case study/possible case studies you would like to develop).

 

Please, do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions or suggestions.

 

If you are interested in participating in this project, please send an email to:

latinpatristicsermons@arts.kuleuven.be

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Dr. Anthony Dupont                                                              Prof. Dr. Gert Partoens

Dra. Shari Boodts                                                                   Prof. Dr. Johan Leemans

 

 

 

Latin Preaching in the Patristic Era: Sermons, Preachers, Audiences

Provisional table of contents and Preliminary Instructions

Introduction (by the editors)

Part I: Text, Context and History

1.      Manuscripts and transmission

2.      History of liturgy, sermons as a form of liturgy

3.      Exegetical study

4.      Visual Arts and Iconography

Part II: Sermons: Delivering, Listening and Reading

1.      Historical-critical approach of sermons

2.      Rhetorics – Style – Linguistics

3.      Impact – Influence – Identity

Part III: Latin Patristic Preachers

Each separate contribution (devoted to one specific patristic author, or to a specific group of authors), should treat (to a greater or lesser extent) each of the following parts:

1.      Sources and (history of the) corpus: where can we find these sermons today, what is their place within the oeuvre of the discussed author, do we have chronological information?

2.      How did the patristic author himself think about preaching in general and his own sermons in particular?

3.      What is the content, style, aim, target group of the sermons?

4.      Survey of the state of the art of the research into these sermons during the last decades. What is the importance of studying these sermons (in general and more specific in relation to the rest of the oeuvre of the specific author)?

5.      Pseudo-tradition: inauthentic sermons ascribed to the discussed author(s). (only when applicable)

6.      Concise bibliography

a.       Critical editions, translations, …

b.      Studies.

The authors of the volume are encouraged to illustrate their analysis with concrete textual examples.

Ambrosius

Augustine (+ ps.-tradition)

*Caesarius of Arles

Gregorius Magnus

*Jerome/Hiëronymus (+ ps.-tradition)

Leo Magnus

*Maximus of Turin (+ ps.-tradition)

Arian sermons (Maximinus)

*Petrus Chrysologus (+ ps.-tradition)

*Zeno, Chromatius, Gaudentius

Gallic preachers (Valerianus)

North-African preachers (Donatists)

Preaching in Spain (Priscillianus)

*Latin translations of Greek sermons

 

Epilogue (by the editors, or by an established protagonist in the study of (Latin) Patristic Sermons)

 

 

Call for Papers - Society of Biblical Literature 2013 annual meeting (Baltimore, MD: 11/23/2013-11/26/2013)

The Art and Religions in Antiquity program unit welcomes paper proposals on the art and material culture of any ancient religious tradition and encourages papers that address the use of art and material culture in service of religion. Every paper proposal will be considered.

The Art and Religions of Antiquity section especially seeks paper proposals that address:
1) "The Art of Pilgrimage in the Ancient World": For this session, we seek papers that address the practice and materiality of pilgrimage. The Art and Religions in Antiquity program unit is pleased to announce that Dr. Gary Vikan will respond to the contributions presented in this session. Dr. Vikan recently stepped down from the Directorship of the Walters Art Museum, which he held since 1994 after serving as the museum's Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Medieval Art since 1985. Before coming to the Walters, Dr. Vikan was Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.

2) "Art and Religion at the Walters Museum, Baltimore MD (http://thewalters.org<http://thewalters.org/>)": For this session, we seek papers that address the Walters Museum's permanent collections (with a particularly strong collection of illuminated manuscripts) or visiting exhibits (Jacob Lawrence's Genesis Series; Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum).

3) A third session will consist of invited papers to review The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World edited by Michele R. Salzman and William Adler.

All abstracts should be submitted through the SBL website (www.sbl-site.org<http://www.sbl-site.org/>). The Art and Religions of Antiquity section will consider all proposals.