LANFRANC AND HIS LEGACY 1010-2010 BISHOPS AND ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM IN NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE (11TH-12TH CENTURIES)

The Office Universitaire d'Etudes Normandes (OUEN) of the University of Caen is planning to hold a conference at Cerisy-la-Salle in Normandy to mark the millennium of Lanfranc's birth in late September or early October 2010, lasting three and a half days. The principal themes of the conference will be (1) ecclesiastical structures, administration and jurisdiction, (2) religious communities (including the liturgy, monastic customs and the development of new forms of regular life at the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries) and (3) ecclesiastical involvement in secular affairs. We are hoping to attract papers on individual figures, especially bishops, both contemporary with Lanfranc and from the twelfth century.

We would like to invite proposals for papers to be accompanied by abstracts of no more than 300 words by 1 January 2009. The final choice of contributions for the programme will be made by the organisers (Veronique Gazeau, Julia Barrow and Fabrice Delivre). Papers should last no longer than 30 minutes and should be delivered in French; the organisers will assist with corrections. We intend to publish the conference proceedings.

Accommodation costs for speakers will be defrayed by OUEN and the Centre International de Cerisy-la-Salle, which may also be able to make a contribution towards travel expenses, but speakers will be encouraged to apply to other sources of funding for travel if possible.

We would like to encourage postgraduate students to attend the
conference.

Proposals to and further information from:

Dr Julia Barrow,
School of History,
University of Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD,
UK

Julia.Barrow@nottingham.ac.uk

Rome Symposium

Details of the symposium to be held at San Anselmo in Rome from 21 to 22 April 2009 can be found here.

St Anselm's College, NH - 'Faith and Reason from Saint Anselm to Pope Benedict XVI'

Details of the call for papers and relevant forms for the Anselm conference to be held at St Anselm's College, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA, from 17 to 18 April 2009, can be found here.

List Closed - 76 papers accepted for conference

The organising committee for the Anselm 2009 conference at Canterbury has announced that the deadline for proposals has passed and the no further papers will be accepted for the conference. The response to the call for papers has been very encouraging and we can look forward to what will be a truly international conference in Canterbury next April.

Details of speakers and papers can be found here.

Keynote Speakers for Canterbury conference announced

They are:

Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford)
Paper Title: 'St. Anselm on the Goodness of God'

Professor Costante Marabelli (Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano)
Paper Title: ‘The Relation between Theory and Practice for Saint Anselm’

Professor Volker Leppin (Dekan, Theologische Fakultät, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Paper Title: ‘Praying and thinking with Anselm: The Tractatus de primo principio of John Duns Scotus’

Aosta Conference and Celebration

Dates for the 2009 Anselm Conference in Aosta, Italy have been amended.

The conference will run from 1 to 3 October.

The theme of the conference is to be:

Anselmo d’Aosta: scelte storiche e motivazioni teoretiche
St Anselm: his historical choices and their theory
Saint Anselme: ses choix dans l'histoire et leur motivations théorétiques.

There will also be a celebration of Saint Anselm in Aosta on 10 October 2009, at which there will be a launch of the Italian translation of the Memorials of St Anselm.

Announcement of Keynote Speaker

The Revd Dr Marilyn McCord Adams, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, has agreed to be one of the keynote speakers at next year's Canterbury conference. The title of her paper will be 'St. Anselm on the Goodness of God'.

Professor Adams is currently working on a book of the same title.