Notes and Comments
Conferences, Meetings, Lectures
On October 13-14, 2006 the Thirty-Third Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscripts was held at the Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Among the panels of papers were "Outside the Book of Hours: Alternative Forms of Devotion in Manuscript Illumination ca. 1300," "The Bible in the Thirteenth Century: Beyond the Paris Bible," and "New Studies in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts." For more information, please consult http://www.slu.edu/ libraries/vfl/events.htm.
On October 19, 2006 a conference was held in the Aula des Schlosses of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster on the theme "The Return of Religions? Position Finding and Open-Minded Questions/Wiederkehr der Religionen? Standortbestimmung und Fragehorizonte." The speakers were drawn from the fields of church history, the press, television, law, business, politics, banking, and pastoral care. For more information, please see fboz.uni-muenster.de/mnkg/ .
On November 20-22, 2006 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan a series of lectures were presented by a group of prominent professors from France: Bernard Dompnier, "Per una storia culturale della pietà cattolica"; Louis Châtellier, "Cristianesimo e scienza nell'età moderna (XVI—inizio XIX secolo)"; and Nicole Lemaître, Bernard Dompnier, Daniel-Odon Hurel, and Jean-Louis Quantin, "Religione, cultura, società: il clero in epoca moderna."
On November 24-25, 2006 the Accademia di San Carlo held a Dies Academicus at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan on the theme "Milano borromaica, atelier culturale della Controriforma." Among the papers given were: "Produzione e circolazione delle edizioni bibliche" by Edoardo Barbieri; "La Bible dans le monachisme bénédictin en France à l'époque moderne" by Odon Hurel, "Filologia e teologia: i testi patristici nelle controversie religiose del XVI e XVII secolo" by Jean-Louis Quantin; "La tradizione teologica milanese tra Cinque e Seicento" by Franco Buzzi; "La formazione ecclesiastica dei seminari e dei collegi di istruzione" by Simona Negruzzo; "La formation des prêtres en France dans la première modernité (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)" by Nicole Lemaître; "Le modèle milanais et le monde rhénan" by Louis Châtellier; "La 'filosofia cristiana' di Valier e la scuola borromaica" by Marzia Giuliani; "Caratteri della predicazione in età federiciana" by Erminia Ardissino; "'Il Predicatore' di Francesco Panigarola" by Rita Bramante; "Cornelio Musso, vescovo e predicatore francescano [End Page 223] dell'età conciliare" by Maria Teresa Girardi; "La via 'devota.' Doni mistici e carisimi intorno a Isabella Berinzaga e Achille Gagliardi" by Sabrina Stroppa, "Letteratura devota tra Carlo e Federico" by Claudia di Filippo; and "'Chi sei tu?' Imparare ad essere cristiani: la produzione catechistica in età borromaica" by Miriam Turrini.
On November 27-29, 2006 an international conference was held in the Konuk Evi building at the "Aya Sofya" Hotel in Istanbul on the theme " Modes of Communication between Rome and Constantinople through the Centuries." Among the papers given were "The Roman Apocrisiarii at Constantinople" by Robert Markus; "The Concilium Quinisextum: A Case Study of Communication at the End of the Seventh Century" by Heinz Ohme; "The Correspondence between Hadrian and Tarasius" by Erich Lamberz; "Unity in Peril: The Issue of the Cyrilomethodian Mission" by Charalambos Papastathis; "The Communication of the Thrones in the Twelfth Century" by Constantine Pitsakis; "The Roman-Byzantine Relationship in the Register of Innocent III" by Werner Maleczek; "Modes of Communication in the Palaeologan Era" by Symeon Paschalidis; "Roman Initiatives for Contacts between Constantinople and Rome in the XIII and XIV Centuries" by Luca Pieralli; "The Orthodox Presence at the Councils of Constance and Pavia-Siena" by Walter Brandmüller; "The East Meets the West in Ferrara and Florence" by Evangelos Chrysos; "Modes of Dogmatic Discourse at Ferrara and Florence" by Alexandros Alexakis; "Contacts between the Two Thrones in the Early Ottoman Time" by Kreiton Chrysochoidis, and "Experiencing the Meetings of Popes and Patriarchs in Recent Times." For further information, please contact pcss@scienstor.va.
From November 29 to December 1, 2006 a conference was held in Rome sponsored by the German Historical...
