Spirituality, Reform, and Humanism in Medieval Universities II
Sponsoring Organization(s)
American Cusanus Society; Jean Gerson Society
Organizer Name
Christopher M. Bellitto
Organizer Affiliation
Kean Univ.
Presider Name
Michael Edward Moore
Presider Affiliation
Univ. of Iowa
Paper Title 1
Studying the Ecclesia Graecorum in the Middle Ages (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Century)
Presenter 1 Name
Andrea Riedl
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. Wien
Paper Title 2
Deferral, Failure, and Reform in Gerson's De consolatione theologiae
Presenter 2 Name
Matthew Vanderpoel
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Chicago
Paper Title 3
Can the Head of the Church Be Removed? Jean Gerson and the Papacy
Presenter 3 Name
Thomas M. Izbicki
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Rutgers Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2019 1:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 205
Description
In the wake of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, we take a renewed look at the medieval ethos out of which Luther—and reformers after him—emerged, especially from the setting of medieval universities across Europe. Those universities, in turn, had benefited from the increased contact with Islamic, Jewish, and eastern Greek thought after the Crusades and through attempts to unite the papacy within Roman Catholicism as well as with the Greek east. To explore this context, this is the second of three sessions linking together aspects of medieval reform that are typically separated: spirituality, institutional reform, and humanistic studies in form and content. Donald F. Duclow
Spirituality, Reform, and Humanism in Medieval Universities II
Bernhard 205
In the wake of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, we take a renewed look at the medieval ethos out of which Luther—and reformers after him—emerged, especially from the setting of medieval universities across Europe. Those universities, in turn, had benefited from the increased contact with Islamic, Jewish, and eastern Greek thought after the Crusades and through attempts to unite the papacy within Roman Catholicism as well as with the Greek east. To explore this context, this is the second of three sessions linking together aspects of medieval reform that are typically separated: spirituality, institutional reform, and humanistic studies in form and content. Donald F. Duclow