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ERC-THESIS Project team
Monica BRINZEI - Principal Investigator
Research Interests:
Professional Experience:
Since 2006 actively involved in different projects (Répertoire des Maîtres, BAMAT, Carnotensia, Glossaire du latin philosophique) of the Latin Section, CNRS-IRHT, Paris
2004-2008 - PhD in Medieval Philosophy. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
2003-2004 - Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A) in History of Philosophy, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
2002-2003 - MA in Medieval Philosophy. Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-Paris I
1999-2002 - Licence in Medieval Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University-Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Scientific Affiliations and Professional Membership
since 2014 director of the collection Studia Sententiarum, Brepols
since 2014 member in the bord of the collection Biblioteca Medievala, Polirom (Romania)
since 2013 member in the bord of the revue The Catholic Philosophy (South Korea)
since 2013 elected membership of Young Academy of Europe (2013-2018)
since 2013 CNCS project IDEI PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0272 (2013-2016)
since 2012 PI of the ERC-THESIS starting grant (2012-2017)
since 2010 chair of the Section 1360-1400 on the SIEPM-project on the New Stegmüller
since 2009 member of FIDEM (Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Médiévales)
since 2006 honorary fellow of the Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes (Paris).
since 2004 member of SIEPM (Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale).
Primary Fellowships:
Heckerman Research Stipend (Minnesota: June-July 2012)
Fellowship from Boston College (Boston: October 2011)
SIEMP Stipend for the International Colloquium (Palermo: 2007, Nijmegen: 2009, Lodz: 2011)
FIDEM Stipend for the International Colloquium (Palermo: 2009)
Goethe Institute Bonn, Fellowships from Humboldt Foundation (Bonn: October 2010-February 2011)
Warburg Institut, London (London: May-July 2010)
University Paris IV Sorbonne (Paris: 2009-2011)
Fellowship from Madison University (Madison: November 2005)
Erasmus Fellowship in Paris (Paris: 2002-2003)
Summer School at The University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg: September 2002)
University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (1999-2002)
Hubert ALISADE
He has studied Christian Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck (Mag. phil. fac. Theol. 2011) and currently prepares a PhD thesis which will include a critical edition and doctrinal study of William de la Mare's Correctorium fratris Thomae. At the Innsbruck Digitisation and Digital Preservation group he collaborates in the transScriptorium project (EU FP7 no 600707)
His main contribution to THESIS is the edition of the Prologue of Angelus de Dobelin's Sentences Commentary.
Claire ANGOTTI - Université de Reims
She is ‘Maître de conférence’, teaching Medieval History (University of Reims), and is one of the few specialists from France on the tradition of Sentences commentaries. Her PhD will be published soon and it is intitled « Lectiones Sententiarum. Étude de manuscrits de la bibliothèque du collège de Sorbonne : la formation des étudiants en théologie à l’Université de Paris à partir des annotations et des commentaires sur le Livre des Sentences de Pierre Lombard (XIIIe-XVe siècles) ». She worked as an associated researcher in the ‘Département de manuscrits’ of the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, studying and getting familiarized with the collection of the Sentences’s manuscripts contained in this library. As a results of her pioneering research, she published online the ‘Catalogue des exemplaires du Livre des Sentences du fonds Sorbonne (BnF, Département des Manuscrits)’ (http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/cdc.html); with codicological descriptions of the Sentences’s manuscripts from the Library of Sorbonne. Selected bibliography:
- La lectio des Sentences au collège de Sorbonne, Brepols, Bibliologia, 600 pp. (forthcoming)
- « Présence d’un enseignement au sein du collège de Sorbonne : collationes, lectiones, disputationes (XIIIe- XVe siècle) ; bilan et hypothèses », in Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales, 18 (2009), pp. 89-111.
- « Les débuts du Livre des Sentences comme manuel de théologie à l’Université de Paris », in Université, Église, Culture : L’Université Catholique au Moyen-Âge » à la Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, les 11-14 mai 2005, Hurtubise P. (ed.), 2007, pp. 57-124.
- « Étienne Langton, commentateur des Sentences de Pierre Lombard », in Étienne Langton prédicateur, bibliste et théologien, Bataillon, L.-J., Bériou, N., Dahan, G., Quinto, R. (ed.), pp. 487-523.
Alexander BAUMGARTEN - University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
He has been studing Medieval Philosophy for about 17 years in Romania, during which time he has been in contact with the international community, having scholarships at the University of Geneva (with Alain de Libera) and at the Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (invited by Alain Boureau). He teaches History of Medieval Philosophy at the Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca and he is the author of 6 volumes of studies and medieval exegeses and is responsible for 13 volumes of translations of important medieval texts from Latin into Romanian. Through his pioneering research he is introducing medieval studies to Romania. Selected bibliography (publications other than in Romanian)
Luciana CIOCA
She finished The Faculty of History and Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca and continued with an MA degree in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy. She is currently working in the CNCS Project Research Grant PN-II-ID6PCE-2012-4-0272, “Philosophy and Theology in Cistercian Commentaries on the Sentences. The Impact of the Cistercian Community on the University in Paris during the XIVth Century.” Her contribution to THESIS is the transcription of Johannes de Wasia’s Prologue of the Sentences Commentary.
Ioana CURUT
She is a graduate of Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca with a master’s degree in Medieval Philosophy, after completing a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the same University. Currently, she is pursuing a BA degree in Hebrew and Jewish studies at University of Bucharest, in parallel with her PhD thesis on Viennese Sentences commentaries from the XVth century. Her main contribution to the THESIS project is the critical edition of Thomas of Ebendorfer’s Prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences. She has published the first Romanian translation of Liber de pomo and is contributing to the complete Romanian translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica (IIa IIae, qq. 5-8), ed. Alexander Baumgarten, Polirom, Iaşi, 2016, forthcoming. She is also working in the CNCS Project Research Grant PN-II-ID6PCE-2012-4-0272, “Philosophy and Theology in Cistercian Commentaries on the Sentences. The Impact of the Cistercian Community on the University in Paris during the XIVth Century.” Selected bibliography:
- Pseudo-Aristotle, Liber de pomo et morte (Cartea despre măr şi moarte), Romanian translation, notes and introductory study by Ioana Curuţ, Ratio et Revelatio, Oradea, 2016, 150 p. (publication of MA thesis)
- « Transferul terminologic: chora – hyle – silva – Silva/Yle », in Apostrof, XXIV, 8 (279), 2013, pp. 28-29.
William DUBA
He teaches a class, « Du manuscrit à l’édition critique : histoire de la transmission de la pensée philosophique du Moyen-Age », at the University of Fribourg and he is an international specialist in the field of the Sentences commentaries from the beginning of the fourteenth century. His research focuses specifically on the problem of the beatific vision. He has completed pioneering research about the manuscripts and the marginalias found in the Sentences. He is also a webmaster for a site dedicated to publishing the bibliography and philosophical writings of Peter of Candia (Pope Alexander V) and most notably his Commentary on the Sentences : http://www2.ucy.ac.cy/isa/Candia/index.htm He is also co-editor of Quodlibase, a database (EHESS-Paris) of theological quodlibeta (1250-1350). Selected bibliography:
- « Aristotle, Averroes and Peter Auriol’s commentary on the Sentences », in Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 12 (2001), pp. 549-572.
- The Beatific Vision in the Sentences Commenrary of Geraldus Odonis, in Vivarium 47/ 2-3 (2009) pp. 348-363.
- With Tiziana Suarez-Nani, E. Babey and Girard Etzkorn, Francisci de Marchia Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum (Reportatio), Leuven University Press, vol. 1, 2008; vol. 2, 2010; vol. 3.Ana IRIMESCU (2013-2015)
Doctor in Medieval Philosophy at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, 2015), her work focuses on medieval psychology of cognition, the history of sciences in the Middle Ages and topics related to epistemology in the XIVth century. Her main contributions to the THESIS project include (in addition to collection the biographical references for the corpus): the preparation of a critical edition of Andreas de Novocastro's Prologue to his Commentary on the Sentences, A Romanian translationof this prologue and an extendes Index of the authors who commented on the Senteces in European universities during the XIVth and the XVth century. She is also trained as a Clinical Psychologist at Paris 7 Denis Diderot University and has a Professional MAsters degree in Clinical Psychology (M2Pro) and a Research Masters degree in Clinical Psychology and Medicine. Selected bibliography:
- Mathaeus de Aquasparta, Întrebări despre cunoaştere, Ediţie îngrijită, Postfaţă şi Bibliografie de Ana Irimescu, Ed. Polirom, Iasi, 2010. (Romanian Translation with an Introductory Note and Bibliography of Matthew of Aquasparta's treatise Questiones decem de cognitione).
Mihai MAGA - University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
He teaches Medieval Philosophy at the University Babes-Bolyai from Cluj-Napoca and he is a member of the editorial board (secretary) for the international journal Chora – Revue d'études anciennes et médiévales (Paris-Cluj-Bucharest-Iasi) and co-editor of the Journal Schole from the University of Cluj (Romania). In parallel with his studies in Medieval Philosophy he works on how to invent a precise methodology in the process of electronically editing medieval texts in connection with the established standards of traditional printed editions. Selected bibliography (publications other than in Romanian).
Andrei Paul MARINCA
He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca) and received a master’s degree in Medieval Philosophy from the same University. While pursuing his PhD degree at Cluj University, he is also studying Arabic and Islamic culture at the University of Bucharest (BA). His contribution to THESIS is the critical edition of the Prologue of Jean Regis’ Sentences Commentary. He is also working in the CNCS Project Research Grant PN-II-ID6PCE-2012-4-0272, “Philosophy and Theology in Cistercian Commentaries on the Sentences. The Impact of the Cistercian Community on the University in Paris during the XIVth Century.” Selected bibluigraphy:
« Jacobus von Eltville », in Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography), Version vom .10.2104,URL: http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/wiki/Jacobus_von_Eltville
« The Concept of Truth at Anselm of Canterbury », in Anselm de Canterbury, De veritate/Despre adevăr, bilingual edition, translation by Cristian Bejan, notes and introductory study by Andrei Marinca, Ratio et Revelatio, Oradea, 2015.
translation: Toma din Aquino, Summa Theologica, IIa IIae, qq. 9-10, in Toma din Aquino, Summa Theologica, IIa IIae, (coord.) Alexander Baumgarten, Polirom, Iaşi, 2016, forthcoming.
Chris SCHABEL - IRHT-University of Chyprus
He is Associate Professor of Medieval History and the chair of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus and one of the first-class experts on the Sentences commentaries from 1300-1350. During the last 15 years of his research he expanded the frontiers of our knowledge on this field by exploring and editing an important number of neglected commentaries on the Sentences from the fourteenth century. A member of the Cyprus Fulbright Commission, he is also member of the bureau of the SIEPM and a member of the editorial board of some of the most important reviews in our field. Selected bibliography:
Publications during the project:
Chris Schabel, “Why Was the Filioque Formula Changed at the Second Council of Lyon?” in A. Bucossi and P. Podolak, eds., Contra Latinos et Adversus Graecos. The Separation between Rome and Constantinople from the Ninth to the Fifteenth Century (= Bibliothèque de Byzantion), Leuven: Peeters, 2019, pp. 359-370 [in press].
Chris Schabel, “James of Metz and William of Peter of Godin on the Procession of the Holy Spirit (and the Generation of the Son),” for a conference proceedings, 82pp. [in press].
Fritz Saaby Pedersen† with C. Philipp E. Nothaft and Christopher D. Schabel, “Astronomical and Cosmological Dubia in the Cistercian Pierre Ceffons’ In II Sententiarum, distinctio 1,” for Cahiers de l’Institute du moyen-âge grec et latin 88 (2019), pp. 1-56 [online].
Chris Schabel, “James of Metz’s Lectua on the Sentences,” in A.H. Pich and A. Speer, eds., Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Medieval Philosophical Thought. A Tribute to Kent Emery, Jr. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 125), Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 342-426.
Andrea Nannini and Chris Schabel, “Pierre Ceffons on Divine Simplicity, Part II: Mathematic Theology, Infinity, and the Body-Soul Problem in His In primum Sententiarum, distinctio 8, quaestio 2,” Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 85 (2018), pp. 309-365.
Chris Schabel, “Lucifer princeps tenebrarum... The Epistola Luciferi and Other Correspondence of the Cistercian Pierre Ceffons (fl. 1348-1353),” Vivarium 56 (2018), pp. 126-175.
Chris Schabel, “The Quaestiones libri Physicorum by Franciscus Marbres (alias Johannes Canonicus). Part II: Manuscripts, Printings and the Textual Tradition,” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 58 (2016), pp. 191-232.
Maria Sorokina and Chris Schabel, “Le feu brûlera-t-il l’étoupe ? Guiral Ot sur l’influence céleste à la fin des temps,” Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Age 83 (2016), pp. 211-250.
John W. Peck, SJ, and Chris Schabel, “James of Metz and the Dominican Tradition on the Eternity of the World, ca. 1300,” Medioevo 40 (2015), pp. 265-330.
Chris Schabel, “The Quaestiones libri Physicorum by Franciscus Marbres (alias Johannes Canonicus). Part I: Author, Text and Reception,” Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 57 (2015), pp. 171-255.
Chris Schabel, “Dominican Anti-Thomism: James of Metz’s Question on Divine Foreknowledge, with a Rebuttal from the Correctorium Iacobi Metensis,” Przegląd Tomistyczny 20 (2014), pp. 35-72.
Chris Schabel, “Cistercian University Theologians on the Filioque,” Archa Verbi 11 (2014), pp. 124-189 .
Chris Schabel, “John of Pouilly’s Quaestiones ordinariae de scientia Dei,” Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 81.2 (2014), pp. 237-272.
Chris Schabel and Fritz S. Pedersen“Miraculous,Natural, or Jewish Conspiracy? Pierre Ceffons’ Question on the Black Death, with Astrological Predictions by Gersonides and Jean de Murs/Firmin de Beauval' Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 81 (2014), pp. 137-179.
Elpida Lazari and Chris Schabel, “Cosmology and Theology in Gerard of Siena’s Question on the Empyrean Heaven,” Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales 81 (2014), pp. 95-135.John SLOTEMAKER - Fairfield University, USA
He is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. His research is focused on the development of trinitarian theology in the late medieval and early modern period. He has published studies on both medieval and early modern theology. He has recently completed (in press) a Companion to the Theology of John Mair, co-edited with Jeffrey C. Witt. He is also currently writing a book (with Jeffrey C. Witt) on the Dominican theologian Robert Holcot and is editing Pierre d'Ailly's Questiones super primum librum Sententiarum (with Monica Brinzei and Chris Schabel).
Selected publications:
-"Robert Holcot the Homilist: A Sermon Index for Cambridge, Peterhouse 210," Archa Verbi, forthcoming.
-“Henry of Gorkum’s Conclusiones super IV Libros Sententiarum: Studying the Lombard in the First Decades of the Fifteenth Century,” in Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Volume III, ed. Philipp Rosemann (Brill, 2015), pp. 145-173.
-“John Major’s (Mair) Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Scholastic Philosophy and Theology in the Early Sixteenth Century” with Severin V. Kitanov and Jeffrey C. Witt, in Mediaeval Commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: Volume III, ed. Philipp Rosemann (Brill, 2015), pp. 369-415.
-“John Duns Scotus and Henry Harclay on the Non-necessity of Opposed Relations,” The Thomist 77 (2013), pp. 419-451.
https://slotemaker.wordpress.com/resources/
http://www.fairfield.edu/lassochannel/academic/profile/index.lasso?id=1135
Ueli ZAHND- University of Basel
He is Assistant Professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Basel. He has specialized in the transitional period of the 15th and 16th centuries and has a particular interest in book IV of Lombard’s Sentences. His current research focuses on the reception of medieval philosophy and theology (with, among others, the Lombard’s Sentences) in early modern reformed scholasticism.
Selected publications:
- “Easy-Going Scholars Lecturing Secundum Alium? Notes on Some French Franciscan Sentences Commentaries of the Fifteenth Century,” in Philipp Rosemann, ed., Medieval Commentaries on the ‘Sentences’ of Peter Lombard III, Leiden: Brill, 2015, pp. 267-314.
- Wirksame Zeichen? Sakramentenlehre und Semiotik in der Scholastik des ausgehenden Mittelalters (Spätmittelalter – Humanismus – Reformation, 80), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, xviii + 642 pp.
- “Zwischen Verteidigung, Vermittlung und Adaption. Sentenzenkommentare des ausgehenden Mittelalters und die Frage nach der Wirksamkeit der Sakramente,” in Balázs Nemes and Achim Rabus, eds., Vermitteln – Übersetzen – Begegnen. Transferphänomene im europäischen Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 33-86.
ERC-THESIS Project news
Fourth Annual THESIS Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts, Cape Greco, Cyprus, 23-30 october 2017 [program]
-THESIS will held 2 sessions at XIV International Congress of the SIEPM: Homo-Natura-Mundus: Human Beings and their Relationships, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 24-28 July 2017
-During the XIV International Congress of the SIEPM: THESIS will launch the new publication of the collection Studia Sententiarum : http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503573274-1
-ERC accepted the request of an extension of 10 months for THESIS project
Third Annual THESIS Meeting for Reading Medieval Manuscripts, Coral Bay 19-26 November 2016
Linked Data and the Medieval Scholastic Tradition
International Workshop, Basel, August 17-19, 2016
See program: Linked Data and the Medieval Scholastic Tradition
THESIS project participated to the International Conference Habit in Medieval Philosophy, Paris, October 14-16, 2015
See program: https://www.academia.edu/11959858/International_Conference_Habit_in_Medieval_Philosophy_Paris_October_14-16_2015
Les principia sur les commentaire des Sentences : entre exercice institutionnel et réalité intellectuelle
23, 24 mars 2015; IRHT : Centre Félix-Grat
Organized by: Monica Brinzei (ERC-IRHT, Paris)
William O. Duba (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)
The most substantial requirement to become a master of theology at the medieval university was to have lectured on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. This course included inaugural lectures -- principia -- at the beginning of each of the four books. Yet these principia remain largely unknown. The goal of this workshop is to establish the scholarly understanding of principia, and through it, to better grasp the organization of medieval theological teaching through case studies. By clarifying the circumstances and content of this obligatory step in the careers of the sententiarii, this workshop intends to achieve a picture of the key characteristics of this exercise, the structure and style of principia, the principal actors and authors, and the doctrinal problems discussed in these debates and sermons, as well the relationship between an author's principia and his Sentences commentary.
Principia ou les leçons inaugurales qui précèdent la lecture des Sentences à la Faculté de Théologie demeurent encore un témoin inconnu de cette pratique universitaire. Le but de cet workshop est de mieux comprendre l'organisation de l'enseignement théologique médiéval à travers des études de cas des principia. L'intérêt est d'éclairer cette épreuve obligatoire imposée aux sententiarii en investiguant quelles sont les caractéristiques de cet exercice, quel est la structure et le style desprincipia, qui sont les acteurs principaux de ces débats universitaires et qui sont les auteurs qui nous ont laissé des principia, quelles sont les problèmes doctrinales abordés dans ces débats, quel est le rapport entre les principia et le commentaire desSentences d'un même auteur.
Contact: Monica BRINZEI, mbrinzei@gmail.com