International Seminar on Patristics
Linked to the Monastic Landscapes project, we are organising this international seminar aimed especially at doctoral students researching ecclesiastical aspects in the period between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
The seminar will be attended by internationally renowned researchers, who will present aspects related to their most recent research on the monastic phenomenon in the West between the 4th and 7th centuries.
At the end of each session there will be a round table debate that will begin with the presentation of the doctoral thesis projects that are currently being carried out in different universities, at the proposal of the speakers and the organisation itself.
Programme
Wednesday, 3rd November
Presides: Mattia Chiriatti (Universidad de Granada)
15:00 – Seminar presentation
by the IP of the Monastic Landscapes Project – Marta Sancho Planas
15:15 – La informació literària sobre el primer monacat al NW de l’Àfrica romana (ss. IV-VI)
by Carles Buenacasa Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona)
15:55 – La moda monástica en la Hispania tardorromana: ¿Una cuestión aristocrática?
by Jordina Sales-Carbonell (Universitat de Barcelona)
16:35 Coffee break
16:55 – El cenobitismo femenino en la Hispania visigoda: un monacato subordinado
by Pablo de la Cruz Díaz (Universidad de Salamanca)
17:35 – El monacato hispano primitivo desde el punto de vista de un hispanista inglés
by Roger Collins (University of Edinburgh)
18:15 – Ongoing doctoral thesis
Presentation of ongoing doctoral thesis on early monasticism in the West. PhD candidates from all universities that are part of the project will present their research. Each student will have 10 minutes.
Keynote: Mattia Chiriatti (Universidad de Granada): Methods and strategies for the research of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval monastic sources.
18:45 – 19:30 – Final round table with all the speakers
Moderator: Xavier Costa Badia (Universitat de Barcelona
Thursday, 4th November
Presides: Carles Buenacasa Pérez (Universitat de Barcelona)
9:00 – Twenty-five years after Jenal’s Italia ascetica atque monastica. A reassessment.
by Roberto Alciati (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
9:40 – El desierto en la Côte d’Azur: El paisaje simbólico del monacato galo tardoantiguo en las fuentes literarias
by Raúl Villegas Marín (Universitat de Barcelona)
10:20 Coffee break
10:45 – A farewell to Iro-Frankish monasticism
by Albrecht Diem (Syracuse University)
11:20 – Monks and relics in the late antique West.
by Robert Wiśniewski (University of Warsaw)
12:55 – 13:00 Final round table with all the speakers
Moderator: Jordina Sales-Carbonell (Universitat de Barcelona)
13:15 – Concluding remarks
