Despite his importance in the history of the Carmelite Order, John Baconthorpe (c. 1290 – c. 1350) is still relatively unknown to modern scholars of medieval thought. Active in the Universities of Oxford, Paris, and Cambridge, Baconthorpe was later chosen by his order as a doctrinal guide, which resulted in multiple printings (from the late 15th to the mid-18th centuries) of his Parisian questions on I-III Sentences, a later version of his IV Sentences, and his Quodlibeta. Although only a handful of experts have delved into his works, whether in print or in manuscript, Baconthorpe’s intellectual project was ambitious and fascinating in the context of fourteenth-century philosophy and theology, with surviving commentaries on Matthew (in a Cambridge manuscript) and (in Paris, BnF, lat. 9540) on Augustine’s De Trinitate and De civitate Dei and on Anselm’s De incarnatione and Cur Deus homo. In his writings, the Doctor Resolutus employed an impressive variety of sources and engaged in dialogue with towering contemporary figures, such as Peter Auriol, Thomas Bradwardine, and some of his Carmelite confrères, while he was critically independent of the leading mendicants and seculars of previous generations, such as Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, Giles of Rome, Godfrey of Fontaines, and John Duns Scotus. In addition, Baconthorpe was sensitive to Averroes’s thinking but also to ideas from Jewish sources.
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Taking place: CISA, Rome, MAY 9-11 2024
THURSDAY 9 May 2024
16:00 – 17:30
16:00 – 16:30
WELCOME
16:30 – 17:00
Monica BRINZEI:
(IRHT, Paris)
Presentation of the Project
17:00 – 17:30
Stephen METZGER
(Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
The Manuscripts of John Baconthorpe in the Vatican Apostolic Library
FRIDAY, 10 May 2024
9:45 - 17:00
9:45 – 10:30
Christopher SCHABEL
(IRHT, ERC Debate n° 771589, Paris)
The Carmelite John Baconthorpe's Parisian Questions on the Sentences
10:30 – 11:15
Wouter GORIS
(Bonn University, Bonn)
Baconthorpe on the First Adequate Object of the Intellect
Coffee Break: 11:15 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:15
Maria SOROKINA
(IRHT, Paris)
John Baconthorpe on Celestial Causality: A Dialogue with Henry of Ghent
12:15 – 13:00
Monica BRINZEI
(IRHT, ERC Debate n° 771589, Paris)
Seduction, Blasphemy, Heresy and the Danger of Exercitatio Sophistica according to John Baconthorpe
LUNCH
14:30 – 15:15
Ioana CURUT
(Babes-Bolyai University, RABY-MSCA
Seal of Excellence Project, PNRR-III-C9-2022-I9, No° 760130, Cluj-Napoca)
Jewish Authorities in John of Baconthorpe's Questio determinata in Ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 16 523
15:15 – 16:00
Andrei MARINCA
(Babes-Bolyai University, ERC Nota n°948152, Cluj-Napoca)
John Baconthorpe and Avicenna
Coffee Break: 16:00 – 16:15
16:15-17:00
Sylvain ROUDAUT
(KU Leuven, Leuven)
John Baconthorpe on the Intension of Forms
SATURDAY 11 May 2024
10:00 - 15:45
10:00 – 10:45
Niccolò BONETTI
(Università degli Studi di Udine)
Essence and Being in Baconthorpe
Coffee Break: 11:00 – 11:15
11:15 – 12:00
Mădălina PANTEA
(Babes-Bolyai University, ERC Nota n°948152, Cluj-Napoca)
The Definition of Vestigium Trinitatis in John Baconthorpe’s Commentary on Augustine’s De Trinitate
LUNCH
14:00 – 14:45
Matteo ESU
(EPHE-PSL, LabEx-Hastec, Paris)
The Theologian’s Pigeon. Baconthorpe’s Discussion of a Feudal Matter in Quodlibet III, question 4
14:45 – 15:30
Alfredo STORCK
(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
Bartolomeu do Pilar and the Reception of Baconthorpe in Colonial Brazil
Coffee Break: 15:30 – 15:45
Conclusions
Organized by: Monica BRINZEI
Mario ALFARANO, O. Carm.
Giovanni GROSSO, O. Carm.
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