Bartomeu Xiberta O. Carm. (1897-1967) is the author of a magisterial body of work in medieval studies that still represents a pioneering approach to the scholastic heritage of the Carmelite Order. Around 139 commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard composed by Carmelites in universities and priories all over Europe survive. Many of them deserve to be further integrated into the canon of medieval thought, because they represent a rich corpus to explore in order to assess the role of the Carmelites on the global stage of the Middle Ages. This workshop aims to invite scholars to share their expertise and experience with texts produced by Carmelite authors. The goal is to praise Xiberta’s contribution, to highlight medieval Carmelite intellectual production, to identify the most preeminent authors, and to depict the doctrinal tendencies of these Carmelite scholastics.
The Thesis-Debate Projects hosted by Institute de recherche et d’histoire des textes (Paris) in collaboration with Institutum Carmelitanum (Rome) are jointly preparing to host a workshop on Medieval Carmelite Scholastics.
Scholars and researchers interested in presenting papers at the workshop are requested to submit their proposals for adjudication, consisting of titles and abstracts (maximum 600 words) by no later than 30 October, 2022, to one of the following email addresses:
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Dates: Thursday, 27th – Saturday, 29th April 2023
Location: Centro Internazionale S. Alberto, Via Sforza Pallavicini, 10, 00193, Rome, Italy.
Language: Workshop proceedings shall be in English.
Publication: Edizioni Carmelitane will publish a volume of the workshop presentations.
The workshop also seeks to commemorate Bartomeu Xiberta, O.Carm.’s contribution to the field and will commence with a keynote contribution on this theme.
The THESIS project, headed by Dr Monica Brinzei, is a venture that seeks to study the corpus of medieval commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences composed in Paris and elsewhere between 1350-1450: http://www.thesis-project.ro/en/corpus.html
The Institutum Carmelitanum, established in 1951 under the aegis of the General Curia, is the major academic entity at the service of the Carmelite Order and has, as its main objective, the pursuit and propagation of Carmelite Research. It consists of core members and members invited on account of expertise, scholarly research and publications on a range of Carmelite topics. Publications of the Institutum include: the Vacare Deo series; Textus et Studia Historica Carmelitana; and Carmelus, a biannual review which incorporates the Bibliographia Carmelitana Annualis in each second issue.
