Early Franciscan Intellectual History Oxford Workshop Series
Sunday, April 15, 2018 (All day) to Tuesday, April 17, 2018 (All day)
Trinity College, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BH
Speakers: Mark Edwards (University of Oxford), Chrisophe Erismann (University of Vienna), Greti Dinkova-Bruun (University of Toronto), John Marenbon (Cambridge University), Catherine Kavanagh (Mary Immaculate College), Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame), Johannes Zachhuber (University of Oxford), Lydia Schumacher (King’s College London), Amos Bertolacci (Scuola Normale Pisa)
All are welcome at a series of workshops sponsored by the European Research Council funded project, ‘Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan thought (c. 1220-45)’, which is directed by Dr Lydia Schumacher, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and Visiting Fellow at All Soul’s College. The workshops will explore in depth the Summa Halensis, a collaboratively authored text by early Franciscan scholars, which laid down their intellectual tradition for the first time.
Speakers:
Mark Edwards(University of Oxford):The Dionysian Element in the Summa Halensis,
Chrisophe Erismann (University of Vienna) The Availability of Greek Texts in the Early 13th Century,
Greti Dinkova-Bruun(University of Toronto): Robert Grosseteste’s Quod homo minor mundus: Sources and Context,
John Marenbon(Cambridge University): Paganism in the Summa Halensis,
Catherine Kavanagh (Mary Immaculate College): John Scotus Eriugena and the Transmission of Greek Ideas to the Summa Halensis,
Richard Cross (University of Notre Dame): John of Damascus and the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Summa Halensis
Johannes Zachhuber(University of Oxford): The Use of the Eastern Christological Tradition in the Summa Halensis,
Lydia Schumacher (King’s College London): The Proofs for God’s Existence in the Summa Halensis,
Amos Bertolacci (Scuola Normale Pisa): Reading Aristotle with Avicenna in the Summa Halensis