Colloque – Cités in extremis. Les textes classiques fragmentaires transmis par les auctores de la fin de l’Antiquité

L’université de Strasbourg organise un colloque international d’études grecques et latines du lundi 1er mercredi 3 juin 2026 à la Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences sociales et des Humanités d’Alsace (MISHA).

Programme :

Lundi 1er juin 2026

14h-14h25 – Accueil par Frédéric CHAPOT et Claudio FELISI (université de Strasbourg)

  • 14h30-15h15 – Filippomaria PONTANI (université de Venise) – « Le pasteur à la voix impérissable » : sur quelques citations de l’Hésiode fragmentaire chez les auteurs de l’antiquité tardive
    La fortune d’Hésiode, poète “théologien”, dans l’Antiquité tardive reste un champ de recherche encore ouvert. La transmission des poèmes dits “mineurs” a perduré jusqu’à la fin de l’époque impériale, mais de façon de plus en plus limitée. On examinera quelques exemples de deux types de tradition indirecte. Pour la tradition doxographique, on reviendra sur Clément d’Alexandrie, l’auteur chrétien qui cite le plus de fragments hésiodiques. Les fr. 303, 308 et 362 (M.-W.), dont la place et l’authenticité ont été longuement discutées, ainsi que les fr. 1, 5-6 (Origène) et 51 (Athénagore) posent la question centrale de l’accès des auteurs chrétiens à Hésiode : lecture directe ou connaissance médiatisée par des “recueils orientés” ? Pour la tradition érudite, on étudiera le fr. 266a (Tryphon), récemment réédité avec une nouvelle évaluation du texte et de sa place dans le Mariage de Keyx, poème hésiodique auquel on a aussi rattaché le kenning du très douteux fr. 337.
  • 15h20-16h05 – Anika NICOLOSI (université de Parme) – Archiloco di Paro negli autori pagani di III-IV secolo: conservazione, trasmissione e (re)interpretazione del testo
    Archiloco di Paro è autore spesso presente nelle citazioni di Ateneo di Naucrati († post 223); la consonanza dei temi giambici con gli argomenti trattati fanno del Pario un autore prediletto del Naucratita. Tuttavia, un riesame critico della presenza del giambografo negli scritti degli autori tra III e IV secolo d.C. mostra come Archiloco fosse autore ancora ben noto e spesso citato. Il presente contributo, dunque, vuole essere un quadro d’insieme sulla presenza della memoria di Archiloco di Paro negli autori di questo periodo con particolare riferimento a Eliano (†235), Filostrato (†247), Giuliano (†363) e Libanio (†394).

16h05-16h40 – Pause

  • 16h45-17h30 – Camillo NERI (université de Bologne) – Saffo, l’eros, i Latini, i Cristiani
    Il contributo affronta un’immagine biografica – costruita sulla scena comica attica del V sec. a.C., perfezionatasi nella poesia latina, soprattutto ovidiana, e recepita con affettata indignazione dai Cristiani – che allontana la comprensione dei testi, trasforma la fortuna in sfortuna, e talora produce… mostri.

Mardi 2 juin 2026 

  • 9h30-10h15 – Virginia MASTELLARI (université de Pavie) – Ridendo castigat mores? I commediografi greci nell’opera di Clemente Alessandrino
    L’intervento esamina le attestazioni degli autori della Commedia Nuova in Clemente Alessandrino e la loro funzione nel progetto culturale della sua opera. Tali citazioni non sono ornamentali o puramente erudite, ma integrate in un discorso morale e pedagogico, come strumenti utili a denunciare vizi e disordini dei costumi, dunque a educare il cristiano. La relazione mostrerà come Clemente operi una selezione mirata dei passi comici, privilegiando sentenze, immagini e temi compatibili con la morale cristiana, e li declini ai propri scopi; si proporrà inoltre una valutazione del testo, delle varianti e delle modalità di trasmissione. Ne emerge che la commedia greca, pur appartenendo alla cultura pagana, viene assorbita da Clemente in una linea di continuità tra paideia ellenica e paideia cristiana.
  • 10h20-11h05 – Francesco LUPI (université de Venise) – Sulla sopravvivenza di Ione di Chio drammaturgo in Ateneo: qualche appunto
    Diversamente che per i tre tragici maggiori, Il numero di frammenti drammatici di Ione di Chio preservati dalla tradizione antologico-gnomologica è ridottissimo. Per contro, gli escerti ioniani veicolati dai Deipnosofisti rappresentano una frazione (relativamente) cospicua e fanno di Ateneo la fonte più generosa di questo corpus. Dopo aver presentato i principali vettori dei lacerti drammatici del poeta, si fornirà qualche rilievo su distribuzione e funzioni del corpusculum tramandato dal Naucratita, e sul ruolo giocato da quest’ultimo (o dalle sue fonti) nella trasmissione di tali frammenti e nella loro valutazione da parte della critica. Infine, si analizzerà più puntualmente una selezione di frammenti, proponendo qualche contributo di ordine testuale ed esegetico.

11h05-11h3 – Pause 

  • 11h30-12h15 – Lucía RODRÍGUEZ-NORIEGA GUILLÉN (université de Oviedo) – Le traité Sur les poissons de Dorion (IIe s. av. J.-C.) chez Athénée
    Le but de la conférence est d’analyser les problèmes que pose la reconstitution du traité Περὶ ἰχθύων de Dorion, dans la mesure où notre connaissance de son contenu est inévitablement conditionnée par les intérêts d’Athénée lorsqu’il le cite, puisque les quelque trente-cinq fragments de l’œuvre n’ont été transmis que par les Deipnosophistes.
  • 14h30-15h15 – Claudio FELISI (université de Strasbourg) – Les collections de textes grecs classiques à Rome au IIIe siècle : un chapitre à reconsidérer de l’histoire des textes fragmentaires conservés ?
    Trois auteurs grecs actifs à Rome au IIIe siècle comptent parmi les principaux transmetteurs de textes grecs fragmentaires autrement perdus : le rhéteur Élien (ca. 200-230), le néoplatonicien Porphyre (ca. 260-300) et son élève Jamblique (ca. 275-310). Si l’on admet généralement qu’Élien compile surtout des citations de seconde main, Porphyre et Jamblique sont à l’origine de trois “sauvetages in extremis” remarquables : le Traité de l’Anonyme de Jamblique (vers -400), le Protreptique d’Aristote (vers -350) et le Peri eusebeias de Théophraste (vers -300), traités dont ils citent de nombreux et longs passages de première main. Cet ensemble sera mis en perspective avec les éclairages fournis par Galien (De indolentia, redécouvert en 2005) sur les collections de livres grecs à Rome avant et après l’incendie de 192. On pourra ainsi formuler plusieurs hypothèses sur l’histoire de la conservation et de la lecture des textes philosophiques grecs d’époque classique dans la Rome tardo-impériale.
  • 15h20-16h05 – Angeliki BOIKOU (Sorbonne Université) – “Cités in extremis” dans les Saturnales : Callimaque, Pacuvius et l’étymologie de camillus
    L’analyse étymologique du nom de l’héroïne Camilla (Sat. 3,8,5-7) éclaire le modus operandi de Macrobe dans les Saturnales. Mettant en valeur le savoir pontifical de Virgile, Macrobe rapproche le nomen du terme sacré camillus, ‘serviteur des dieux’, puis en soutient l’origine étrusque et cite les autorités de Callimaque (frg. 723 Pf.), de Pacuvius (frg. 144c TrRF) et du glossographe Statius Tullianus. Ce passage s’inscrit dans une longue tradition linguistique et antiquaire, amorcée dès Varron et trouvant des parallèles plus ou moins étroits dans de nombreuses sources grecques et latines, de nature exégétique, lexicographique et antiquaire. On examinera la réception des extraits poétiques de Callimaque et de Pacuvius chez Macrobe, les sources gréco-latines parallèles et les autres attestations des deux poètes fragmentaires dans les Saturnales, en montrant l’importance du contexte de transmission des extraits littéraires et des doctrines savantes pour l’étude des textes fragmentaires.

16h05-16h40 – Pause 

  • 16h45-17h30 – Concetta LONGOBARDI (université de Naples – Federico II) – Igino nei Saturnali di Macrobio
    Sotto il nome di Gaio Giulio Igino, liberto di Augusto e prefetto della Biblioteca Palatina secondo la testimonianza di Svetonio (gramm. 20), sono giunte per tradizione manoscritta le Fabulae nonché gli Astronomica. Alcuni testi imperiali e tardoantichi, però, riportano sotto il suo nome una varietà di opere molto più ampia: De origine et situ urbium Italicarum; De familiis Troianis; De proprietatibus deorum; De dis penatis; De apibus; De agri cultura. L’intervento cercherà di definire con maggiore chiarezza il profilo di Igino, sia biografico che intellettuale, attraverso l’analisi puntuale delle sue citazioni nei Saturnali di Macrobio.

Mercredi 3 juin 2026 

  • 9h30-10h15 – Pietro PODOLAK (université de Venise) – Frammenti di classici greci e latini in Arnobio
    Tra i frammenti di opere greche e latine conservati in Arnobio, ci concentreremo su quelli che attingeva di seconda mano ad altri testi e la cui selezione e distribuzione nell’Adversus nationes si spiegano con la loro disponibilità nella fonte diretta. La presenza di alcune fonti primarie sembra legata al milieu dei retori africani (cf. la passione per il lessico e la letteratura arcaica di Frontone e Apuleio) e a quello degli autori cristiani africani (cf. le Antiquitates di Varrone, presenti in Tertulliano e Agostino), mentre l’utilizzo di fonti greche (Clemente Alessandrino e fonti neoplatoniche) sembra un tratto peculiare di Arnobio. Laddove una verifica è possibile su una fonte intermedia conservata (Ennio e Evemero via Cicerone e/o Clemente Alessandrino), il trattamento dei segmenti di testo citati mostra l’insidiosa abitudine di Arnobio a contaminare o arricchire i frammenti con fonti diverse, e ciò dovrebbe suggerire all’editore la massima prudenza nel “ritagliare” frammenti dal retore africano.
  • 10h20-11h05 – Frédéric CHAPOT (université de Strasbourg) – Lactance et le traitement de la citation : enquête sur la pratique des citations composites
    Si certaines des nombreuses citations d’auteurs classiques chez Lactance ont une fonction essentiellement ornementale, beaucoup d’autres ont une visée nettement argumentative (consolider la foi chrétienne par le témoignage des auteurs classiques ou, au contraire, moquer les cultes traditionnels, contester les propos des philosophes ou dénoncer les représentations païennes). Dans ce contexte, nous nous proposons de rechercher si Lactance pratique la “citation composite”, qui inclut deux ou plusieurs passages fusionnés et présentés comme s’il ne s’agissait que d’un seul. Cette enquête devrait permettre de contribuer à cerner les modes de lecture de Lactance et le statut accordé aux textes des auteurs classiques par rapport au traitement de la Bible par les auteurs chrétiens.

11h05-11h30 – Pause 

  • 11h30-12h15 – Jérémy DELMULLE (CNRS-IRHT) – Pacatus lecteur de première main des œuvres perdues des historiens républicains ?
    Alors que la bibliographie tend à voir dans les panégyriques tardifs des œuvres de circonstance où les rappels des événements historiques passeraient par le recours à des recueils d’anecdotes morales ou exemplaires (cf. Valère-Maxime), une lecture fouillée du panégyrique de Théodose prononcé par le Gaulois Pacatus en 389 montre qu’il est possible de détecter des emprunts sans doute directs à des textes historiques perdus depuis, comme les Historiae de Salluste et la dixième décade de Tite-Live.
  • 12h15-12h30 – Conclusion par Claudio FELISI et Jérémy DELMULLE

Informations pratiques :

Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences sociales et des Humanités d’Alsace | MISHA
5 allée du Général Rouvillois
67000 Strasbourg cedex

Du 1 Juin 2026 au 3 Juin 2026

Pour lien visio-conférence, contacter :  jeremy.delmulle@irht.cnrs.fr

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Colloque – Border Crossings and Interaction: Latin and the Vernacular in Late Medieval Theology and Piety (1300–1500)

Border Crossings and Interaction: Latin and the Vernacular in Late Medieval Theology and Piety (1300–1500). Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology, June 18-20, 2026, University of Muenster (Westphalia, Germany)

In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die Erforschung des Verhältnisses zwischen Latein und den Volkssprachen im späten Mittelalter immer mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen, etwa im Hinblick auf das Verhältnis von lateinischer und deutscher Sprache in unterschiedlichen Textgattungen zwischen 1100 und 1500. Auch volkssprachliche Erbauungsliteratur und Predigten sowie Bibelübersetzungen wurden in den sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen der Mediävistik erforscht und ediert. Vor diesem Hintergrund möchte die IGTM-Tagung 2026 sich in spezifisch theologischer Perspektive des Verhältnisses von Latein und Volkssprachen im Spätmittelalter (1300–1500) annehmen. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf wissenschaftlichen und populär(wissenschaftlich)en theologischen Texten des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts in der Interaktion von Latein und Volkssprache: Als Teil des gelehrten Diskurses sind theologische Schriften in der Regel in lateinischer Sprache verfasst und entstehen im universitären wie monastischen Kontext. Mit der wachsenden Bedeutung der nicht-lateinkundigen Laien und ihrer Forderung nach Teilhabe werden ab dem 14. Jahrhundert theologische Traktate in Volkssprache übersetzt, und für Laien werden volkssprachliche theologisch-katechetische und erbauliche Texte verfasst. Die Tagung möchte solche lateinischen und volkssprachlichen Texte näher betrachten, wenn möglich, unter Berücksichtigung des Verhältnisses von Ursprungstext und Übersetzung/Übertragung, die darin greifbare Theologie/Philosophie und Frömmigkeitsaspekte erhellen und nach angemessenen Kategorisierungen suchen.

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Programme :

Donnerstag 18. Juni – Thursday, June 18, 2026

15.00 Begrüßung / Welcome Address

15.30 Volker Leppin: Das Sakrament verstehen. Eucharistie in volkssprachlichen Texten des späten Mittelalters

16.00 Eva Schaten: Volkssprachliche Irrtümer in lateinischen Irrtumslisten

17.00 Görge Hasselhoff: „Die meister sprechent“ – Lateinischer Bibeltext und Pariser Theologie in Meister Eckharts Predigten

17.30 Luciano Micali: Latin as an Instrument of Theological Control in the Thought of Jean Gerson

18.00 Dorota Rojszczak-Robińska: From Scholastic Treatise to Vernacular Narrative: Medieval Latin Theology in Old Polish Apocrypha

19.00 Empfang – Conference Reception

Freitag, 19. Juni – Friday, June 19, 2026

9.00 Earl Jeffrey Richards: Jean Gerson and Christine de Pizan on the Immaculate Conception: The Mariological Challenges for a Vernacular Female Author

9.30 Constant Mews: A Dominican critique of the Immaculate Conception from the time of Gerson and Christine de Pizan and its patristic sources

10.30 Fabian Andre: Die Unbefleckte Empfängnis in lateinischer und deutscher Literatur um 1500

10.30 Markus Bürscher: Deutschsprachige Professurkunden des Benediktinerstifts Seitenstetten – zu Funktion und Bedeutung der Volkssprache im monastischen Kontext

11.00 Philipp Stenzig: Lateinische und niederdeutsche Fassungen des ‘Officium parvum de beata Maria virgine’

11.00 Richard Norton: Why did Nicholas Love (died c. 1424) Choose to Write in the Vernacular? The Role of Imagination, Memory and Prayer in the Transmission of his The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ

11.30 Mitgliederversammlung – General Assembly of the IGTM

15.30 Charles Caspers: Praying in two languages: A Consideration of the Prayer Behavior of Clergy, Religious, and Laity in the Late Medieval Low Countries

16.00 Barbara Müller: Von der theologischen Autorin zur Heiligen. Texte von und über Birgitta von Schweden in den spätmittelalterlichen Andachtsbüchern aus dem Hamburger Beginenkonvent bei St. Jacobi

17.00 Jan Klok: Das religiöse Leben in ‚niederländischen‘ Sammelhandschriften

17.30 Ingo Klitzsch: Religiös-pädagogische Verdichtung und Erbauung zwischen Volkssprache und Latein in der Devotio Moderna: Das Exercitium devotum von Johannes Kessel

18.00 Conference Dinner

Samstag, 20. Juni – Saturday, June 20, 2026

9.30 Ulrike Treusch: Fließende Übergänge zwischen Latein und Volksprache? Thomas Peuntners (1390-1439) Beichtbüchlein

10.00 Detlev Kraack: Der Kodex des Franziskaners Lütke Namens (1497-1574): Übersetzung (Gerson, Thomas von Kempen, Heinrich Seuse) und Neuschöpfung geistlicher Lektüre

10.45 Maria Theresa Weidinger: Metamorphe Gottesbotschaften? Lateinische und volkssprachliche Himmelsbriefe

10.45 Alexander Heindel / Michael Lebzelter: Latin and Vernacular in narrative contexts. Germanistic and theological in-sights on transfers of language in religious short stories

11.15 Christian Strunk: Der Ruf des Adlers. Johanneische Stimmwelten in der Apokalypse Heinrichs von Hesler

11.15 Svenja Sophie Krause: Sibilla hait gesprochen. Weibliche Prophetie in einem Lied des Spätmittelalters

11.45 Abschluss-Diskussion – Final Discussion

12.30 Ende der Konferenz – End of the conference

Kontakt

Ingo Klitzsch: ingo.klitzsch@uni-muenster.de
Ulrike Treusch: treusch@fthgiessen.de

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Journée d’étude – Journée du module doctoral Cultures et Sociétés du Moyen Âge

UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles
Salle des Examens, 2e étage

Boulevard du Jardin botanique, 43
1000 Bruxelles
(entrée par le hall principal et suivre les grands escaliers)

Conférence inaugurale

10h30 : Sylvie Joye, Professeur à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Actualité des Lois barbares

Présentations des doctorantes et doctorants 

11h30 : Matthias Rozein (Université de Liège/FNRS-UR Transitions), Renforcer un pouvoir royal en difficulté. Le recours à l’autorité pontificale dans l’entourage des rois carolingiens autour de 900

12h15 : François Hermand (Université Catholique de Louvain/FNRS- INCAL/Institut RSCS), Réformer par l’écrit. Production manuscrite, circulation des textes et culture de l’écrit dans la réforme monastique de Gérard de Brogne (Xe siècle)

13h00-14h45 : Lunch des participants (offert si inscription préalable)

14h45 :Marceau Brootcorne (Université de Namur, PRAME), Repenser les « textes à reliques » : pour une nouvelle approche typologique, historique et codicologique du « genre » entre Escaut et Meuse (XIe-XIIe siècle)

15h30 :  Perrine Stennier (ULiège- UR Transitions), La pénalisation des crimes de guerres commis par les combattants : de l’Italie pontificale à la guerre civile franco-bourguignonne (1417-1455)

16h15 : Clôture des travaux


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Conférence – Andreas Malm, « The Political Ecology of Charlemagne – Or, What, if Anything, is Special about Capitalism? »

Lecture by Prof. Andreas Malm (Lund University): « The Political Ecology of Charlemagne – Or, What, if Anything, is Special about Capitalism? »

To celebrate its two years of existence, SHOC has the pleasure to welcome Prof. Andreas Malm for an exceptional lecture on the longue durée history of capitalism and its environmental underpinnings.

Practical information

19 May 2026, 6 to 8 PM
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene, Building I, Room I.0.01. Click here for the campus

Free attendance, mandatory registration via this form.

Abstract

Ecological Marxists have long contended that capitalism is unique for its internal compulsion to degrade the environment, indeed that it is the only mode of production with such a drive. But is that true? Capitalism cannot be understood without contrast cases and comparison with pre-capitalist modes. In this lecture, the focus will be on one turning-point in the environmental history of Europe: the rise of the Carolingian empire in the eighth century. Reversing four centuries of a high degree of wildness in the landscapes of the continent and autonomy for its communities, the empire set off a first pulse of deforestation. Only by clearing land from woods and marshes could it be used to produce surplus for the lords. Mass violence was required for this spurt in environmental degradation – indeed,

genocide was a constitutive part of it. Studying the political ecology of the Carolingian empire might give a deeper understanding of the drivers of ecological destruction, the role of Europe in world history and the specificities of the capitalist mode of production.

About the speaker

Andreas Malm (b. 1977) is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His writings have reached reach far beyond the confines of academia, turning him into a prominent voice in ecomarxism, environmental activism and anti-fascism. A prolific author, Malm has published nine books with Verso, ranging from handbooks (Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future, 2023) to thoroughly researched historical enquiries (Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, 2016). How to Blow up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (2021), which defended sabotage as a legitimate form of climate activism, found a wide audience and stirred multiple controversies. It was adapted into a feature film by Daniel Goldhaber

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Publication – Fabrizio Amerini, « Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects »

Thought, in a sense, transforms the world. When we think of a particular thing – Charlie the dog, for example – we always think of it in a universal way: as a dog. Through this act of thinking, Charlie comes to exist in our mind and becomes the dog that is the object of our thought. Explaining how our act of thinking relates to and transforms the reality around us is often considered the hallmark of the modern age. Yet the Middle Ages offer illuminating examples of speculation on the human mind and how it functions. This book explores the views on mental acts, concepts and objects of the mind of two of the most eminent Dominican authors of the late Middle Ages: Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis, one of his closest followers. By putting Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis directly in conversation with each other Amerini proposes a new interpretative framework for understanding their philosophy of mind and traces the origins of modern accounts of the intentionality of the mind.

Fabrizio Amerini is Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Parma. He has conducted extensive research on late medieval logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

Introduction Universities, jubilees, and transnational ties
Introduction
The first university jubilees
Writing university history
Histories of Leuven University
The university in a transnational landscape
Leuven University from 1425 to 2025

Chapter 1 The transnational character of the early university
Introduction
Medieval universities before 1500
University, religion, and politics
The foundation of Leuven University
The recruitment of professors
Determining the geographical background of the early staff
The geographical background of professors in church law
The geographical background of professors in civil law
The geographical background of professors in medicine
The geographical background of professors in theology
The geographical background of professors in the arts
Determining the educational background of the early staff
The educational background of professors in church law
The educational background of professors in civil law
The educational background of professors in medicine
The educational background of professors in theology
The educational background of professors in the arts
A life after Leuven?
Conclusion: becoming self-sufficient

Chapter 2 Humanist entanglements
Introduction
Vives and Erasmus: Leuven’s early humanist luminaries
The networks of Vives and Erasmus
Humanism in Leuven before 1517
The foundation of the Collegium Trilingue
The (trans)national teaching staff of the Trilingue
A typical humanist: the research-minded traveler Campensis
A typical humanist: the printing endeavors of Rutgerus Rescius
A typical humanist: Petrus Nannius’s correspondence network
European students at the Trilingue
Trilingue students in Europe: the linguist Clenardus
Trilingue students in Europe: the diplomat Busbequius
Trilingue students in Europe: the anatomist Vesalius
An example worth following
Conclusion: a merging of university and humanist networks

Chapter 3 On the frontlines of faith
Introduction
Counter-Reformation and higher education in the seventeenth century
Leuven and the Irish college network
Irish history from Leuven
Irish Catholicism in Leuven
The precarious position of Catholicism in the northern Low Countries
Jesuits vs. Dutch secular clergy
Jesuits and the Leuven Augustinian tradition
Jesuits and Jansenists
St. Anthony’s, Pulcheria, and Alticollense
Toward the founding of an American College
The accomplishments of the American College
Leuven as an example of Catholicism and scholarship
Latin America in Leuven
Over four centuries of mission colleges

Chapter 4 Collections as transnational spaces
Leuven’s first central library
Catholic patristics and ecumenical medicine?
Collections, teaching, and research in the nineteenth century
The university collections in the mid-nineteenth century
The roots of the botanical garden
The botanical garden’s transnational branches
The birth of the zoological collection
Van Beneden’s transnational paleontological networks
The genesis of the Biblical Museum
A network of scholarly clergymen
The destruction of the library
International collaboration toward a new library
Reassembling the lost collection
The construction of a brand-new library
University collections and transnational networks

Chapter 5 The colonial involvement of Leuven University
Universities and colonialism
The first colonial programs at Belgian universities
A Catholic colonial student movement
Collecting the colony
After the First World War
First steps into the colony
The early expansion of FOMULAC: 1926-1931
The rapid expansion of FOMULAC: 1931-1945
Agricultural education in the Congo
Toward a university: University Centre Lovanium
The founding of a full university: Lovanium Kimwenza
Lovanium and Leuven University after Congolese independence
Leuven and Congo: a retrospective

Chapter 6 Research institutes as transnational hubs
The rise of research institutes
The Higher Institute of Philosophy
The laboratory for experimental psychology
The founding of the Husserl Archives
The growth of the Husserl Archives
Penicillin and the prelude to the Rega Institute
Polio vaccines and the founding of the Rega Institute
Developing viral treatments at the Rega Institute
Bananas come to Belgium
Banana research, conservation, and distribution in Leuven
The KU Leuven Institutes of the twenty-first century
Conclusion: research institutes between 1938 and 2025

Epilogue
Uniqueness and typicality
Change and continuity
Recent transnational developments
The merits and promise of transnational university histories

Notes

Fabrizio Amerini, Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on Concepts and Intentional Objects, Louvain, Leuven University Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 206 p. (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – Series 1

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Colloque – Les juifs en Champagne au Moyen Âge. Enjeux et héritages d’une présence pluriséculaire

Jeudi 21 mai 2026 – 09:30 -17:30
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme
Sous la direction scientifique de Claire Soussen (Centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne Université)

Les juifs semblent avoir été bien plus présents dans les campagnes qu’on ne l’a longtemps pensé. Et en ville, loin de vivre en vase-clos derrière les murs de leurs quartiers, ils échangeaient de manière quotidienne avec leurs contemporains non-juifs dont ils partageaient la langue, les conditions et les modes d’existence, ou dans le cadre des échanges intellectuels et commerciaux qui animaient cet espace ouvert aux circulations européennes qu’était le comté de Champagne au Moyen Âge. 

Les aspects matériels, économiques et politiques de la présence des juifs en Champagne et leur inscription dans le monde médiéval seront examinés à travers la relecture de sources connues au prisme de questionnements renouvelés, à la faveur de documents inédits ou de témoignages matériels, tel que le miqveh découvert à Châlons-en-Champagne.

En partenariat avec la Nouvelle Gallia Judaica, équipe de recherche du Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM, UMR 8584), et le Centre Roland Mousnier, UMR 8596, Sorbonne Université 

Source : Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme

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Appel à contribution – Bridging Boundaries. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environmental History of the Low Countries

(31-03-2026) Announcement and call for papers for the international conference ‘Bridging Boundaries. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environmental History of the Low Countries’ (Ghent, 3 – 4 December 2026)

We are pleased to announce the organization of an interdisciplinary conference on environmental history on 3-4 December 2026 in Gent (Belgium). It is the result of a joint collaboration between researchers working on the medieval and (early) modern Low Countries and the Roman Society Research Center. The conference wants to encourage the exchange of recent research, ongoing projects, and current debates between scholars working in different disciplines, including environmental history, environmental archaeology, historical ecology, and historical geography. It invites contributions that study environmental change in the Low Countries (defined as the regions located between the North Sea and the Rhine) from Antiquity to modern times. Contributions that cross boundaries between different disciplines (inter-, multi-, or transdisciplinary research) are particularly welcome.

The two-day program will include plenary sessions where senior and junior scholars, postdocs and PhD students will present current research and state-of-field overviews (clusters of 20-minute presentations, 10-minute Q&As).). If you would like to present your research at the conference, please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and short biography to dr. Sander Govaerts (sander.govaerts@ugent.be ) and dr. Stefan Meysman (stefan.meysman@ugent.be ) by Friday 29 May 2026. All topics and fields regarding the environmental history of the Low Countries are welcome, including, but not limited to, water management, food production, landscapes, climate, pollution, relationships between humans and other animals, and biodiversity.

Organizing committee: prof. dr. Maïka De Keyzer, dr. Sander Govaerts, dr. Stefan Meysman, prof. dr. Thijs Lambrecht, prof. dr. Tim Soens en prof. dr. Christophe Verbruggen

Source : Universiteit Gent

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Publication – « Aqua et terra. Interactions of Aristotelian Elements in Medieval and Early Modern Thought », éd. Marco Signori

Aqua et terra. Interactions of Aristotelian Elements in Medieval and Early Modern Thought, éd. Marco Signori, Florence, Edizioni del Galluzzo–SISMEL, 2026 ; 1 vol., V–247 p. (Micrologus Library, 135). ISBN : 978-88-9290-481-1. Prix : € 46,00.

M. Signori, The Elements of a Finite Universe. As an Introduction

C. Fitzpatrick Murtha, Grounds for Dispute. Avicenna and Other Rational (Land) Animals on Terra firma

M. Signori, Elemental Transformations and Divine Providence. Efficient and Final Causes of the Emergence of Dry Land in Some Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Texts

L. Valletta, Il problema della terra emersa nel Commento a Giobbe di Rolando da Cremona. Esegesi biblica, filosofia naturale e lotta all’eterodossia

A. Panzica, Acqua e terra: un equilibrio difficile? Problemi fisici, geologici e cosmologici nei commenti latini ai Meteorologica di Aristotele

A. G. Chisena, «Questa terra è fissa e non si gira, e […] col mare è centro del cielo». Acqua e terra nel Convivio e nella produzione filosofica ed enciclopedica fra Duecento e Trecento

Z. G. Baranski, La Questio de aqua et terra di Dante è una questio?

L. Burzelli, Nei dintorni della Quaestio de aqua et terra. Il dibattito sul luogo degli elementi nel primo Rinascimento.

Index of Names and Places.

Index of Manuscripts

Source : SISMEL

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Publication – Lluís Nicolau d’Olwer, « Pierre Abélard. Un humaniste du XIIe siècle »

Cette étude sur l’humanisme d’Abélard est un ouvrage ambitieux, structuré et soigneusement écrit, mais, plus qu’une étude philosophique, c’est une biographie intellectuelle. Son but : découvrir des détails qui révèleraient des traits de caractère du personnage étudié ; chercher l’homme encore plus que le penseur.

Table des matières : ici

Informations pratiques :

Lluís Nicolau d’Olwer, Pierre Abélard. Un humaniste du XIIe siècle, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2026 ; 1 vol., 508 p. (Histoire culturelle, 32). ISBN : 978-2-406-20214-1. Prix : € 29,00.

Source : Classiques Garnier

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Appel à contribution – Refutations, Rivalries and Revenge. Polemics in the Premodern Islamic World (ca. 800–1500)

28.01.2027 – 30.01.2027
Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The international conference « Refutations, Rivalries and Revenge. Polemics in the Premodern Islamic World (ca. 800–1500) » aims at an in-depth understanding of polemics in their specific premodern configurations, along with the forms, functions, reasons and developments of polemics in the premodern Islamic World. Approaching polemics and the inherent complexities from an interdisciplinary point of view, both polemics in texts and polemical practices will be studied.

Polemics appear constantly in all epochs, from Antiquity to our modern times. During all historical periods, criticism and competition, disputes and disagreements, reproval and reprisals indicate conflictual interactions up to violent encounters. However, polemics are far more than mere attacks: They reveal social complexities and have social functions. They are important contributions to discourses, they have always determined the intellectual, religious and political developments of an epoch.

These are the initial points of the international conference « Refutations, Rivalries and Revenge. Polemics in the Premodern Islamic World (ca. 800–1500) ». The conference aims at an in-depth understanding of polemics in their specific premodern configurations, along with the forms, functions, reasons and developments of polemics in the premodern Islamic World. Approaching polemics and the inherent complexities from an interdisciplinary point of view, both polemics in texts and polemical practices will be studied. Drawing on a range of academic disciplines, especially Islamic Studies and History, Mediterranean Studies and Literary Studies, the conference calls for papers that deal with affronts, badmouthing, criticism, disputes and disagreement, invectives, reproval and, evidently, with revenge, rivalries and refutations from regions of the Islamic West and the Islamic East. Case studies from other contexts and conflictual interreligious encounters (e. g. in Central Europe or on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages) are highly welcome as the conference will reflect on polemics also from a comparative perspective.

While addressing different levels and dimensions of polemics, the key topics and objectives of the conference are:

Authors of polemics, texts and contexts
Polemics appear in a broad spectrum of texts. Therefore, they are not to be understood as a specific genre. Case studies that engage with and contextualise polemics in historiography, literary works (adab, including poetry), legal treatises, philosophical works and, of course, refutations (radd literature) are of interest. Who were the authors of the polemics? When, why and in which social and intellectual contexts were the polemics and refutations written?

Addressees and target groups of polemics, reasons and purposes
Who were the addressees of the polemics? That also means: What do we know about the directionalities, about the purported and the actual audience? Against whom or which groups were the polemics directed and why? Of interest are case studies from within Sunni and Shiʿi contexts, from conflictual Sunni-Shiʿi encounters, but also interreligious polemics, for example Muslim scholars writing against Christians and Jews, or vice versa.

Levels of polemics at the interplay between politics, religion and scholarly careers
Which function did polemics fulfil within scholarly, political or religious rivalries? Why and how did scholars polemicize against rulers or dynasties? In how far did scholars ridicule other scholars, engage in badmouthing? What was the purpose of polemics within scholarly establishments?

Practices, positions, performances and temporalities of polemics
Polemics do not only appear in texts, but also as practices. What are the practices of polemics? What are the temporalities of polemics? How are polemics and acts of revenge placed during conflictual encounters?

Methodological framework and polemics as a concept
The conference aims also at establishing a methodological framework and to conceptualize polemics as a category from a historical point of view. How do the case studies contribute to a conceptualisation of polemics?

The conference is organized by Dr. Nadine El-Hussein and Prof. Dr. Mohammad Gharaibeh (Chair of Islamic Intellectual History, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology) and will take place at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, from 28–30 January 2027.

Please note that English will be the language of the conference. The conference is intended for a maximum of 25 participants, and the presentations are scheduled to last 20 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for the discussion. The organizing project will pay for travel and accommodation costs, according to German research fund regulations, for those researchers whose papers will have been selected.

Please submit the title and abstract of your paper (250–max. 500 words) with a short academic CV (including up to five relevant publications) to Dr. Nadine El-Hussein (nadine.el-hussein@hu-berlin.de) by 30 June 2026. The acceptance of papers will be announced by the end of July 2026.

The conference proceedings will be published in a collective volume. Please submit the first draft of your contribution by 31 May 2027 to Dr. Nadine El-Hussein (nadine.el-hussein@hu-berlin.de). Details on the formal guidelines and standards will be provided in due course.

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