INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Church, Society and Monasticism
May 31 - June 3, 2006
(Wednesday to Saturday)
Monastery of S. Anselmo, Rome
http://www.santanselmo.org/symposium2006/program.htm

Wednesday, May 31 - 18.00 Opening Session
18.00 Opening Session/Apertura dei lavori
18.15 Greeting of the Rector/Saluto del Rettore
19.15 Vespers/Vespri
19.40 Buffet supper/Cena

Section A - Western Monasticism
Thursday, June 1-st

Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)
9.00-10.00 M. SHERIDAN (L), Mapping the Intellectual Genome of Early
Christian Monasticism
10.00-11.00 E. LÓPEZ-TELLO GARCÍA (C), Pulchro omnia uniuntur: Monacato,
arte y sociedad en el medievo
J. C. ELVIRA (C), "Visioni Attuali sulla Vita Monastica (Montserrat 1966)"
40 años después
A. SIMON (C), Caritatis pace et amoris veritate. L'esperienza di Dio
nell'Epistolario
di sant'Anselmo. Una spiritualità non codificata e personalizzata
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 M. CARPINELLO (L), Il monachesimo femminile nella storia e oggi:
nuove prospettive di ricerca

Afternoon/Pomeriggio (15.30-19.00)
15.30-16.30 J.-A. PIQUÉ (L), La musica ed il canto nei monasteri: lode a Dio
ed accoglienza/dialogo con gli uomini
16.30-17.30 M. DELL'OMO (L), Montecassino nell'alto medioevo tra nazionalità
e universalità
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 M. SÁGHY (C), Asceticism and Power in Fourth-Century Gaul
C. Ó CLABAIGH (C), English Monks and their Irish Lands
R. GOODRICH (C), Aristocrats and Slaves: The Problem of Status in Early
Monastic Rules

Friday, June 2-nd
Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)

9.00-10.00 L.-M. GANTIER (L), Le pape et l'évêque dans l'ecclésiologie
monastique d'Abbon de Fleury (vers 950-1004)
10.00-11.00 S. MAZZOLINI (C), La Chiesa comunione interpella la vita
monastica
M.B. ZORZI (C), La vita monastica a 40 anni dal Concilio. Valutando il
post-concilio: istanze accolte e disattese, prospettive (di genere) e sfide.
M. PFEIFER (C), La violenza s'infiltra anche nei monasteri? Un approccio
bibliografico
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 G. COLLINS (L), The Protestant critique of Monasticism in a
Changed Context

Afternoon/Pomeriggio (15.30-19.00)
15.30-16.30 B. ECKERSTORFER (L), The Challenge of Postmodernity to
Monasticism
16.30-17.30 R. ALCIATI (C), Il "De vita contemplativa" di Pomerio: un
confronto tra
monaci e vescovi all'inizio del VI secolo
P. R. MARTINES (C), La meditatio fidei chez S.Anselme de Cantorbery
L. MATÉ SODORNIL (C), La Congregación de San Benito de Valladolid y la
ongregación Inglesa (S. XVII)
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 G. PETERS (L), The Place of Monasticism in the Thought of Donald
Bloesch

Saturday, June 3-rd
Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)

9.00-10.00 J. DRISCOLL (L), The Merton-Milosz Correspondence, Monasticism
and Society in Dialogue.
10.00-11.00 R. KING CERLING (C), The Role of Children in Late Medieval
Monastic Development
H. A . LUCKMAN (C), To Be Another Christ:" Monasticism and the Spirituality
of Early Medieval Europe"
S. ROUBACH (C), Monastic Reform and Apocalypse: The Case of Richard of St.
Vannes
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 J. K. ATAOGUZ (L), The Apostolic Commissioning of the Monks at
Müstair (Graubünden, Switzerland)

Section B - Oriental Monasticism
Thursday, June 1-st

Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)
9.00-10.00 B. BITTON-ASHKELONY (L), Monastic leadership and Ecclesiastical
Politics in Fifth and Sixth Century Palestine: the Case of Gaza and the
Judean Desert
10.00-11.00 B. CROSTINI (C), The interaction between the monastery of St
John Stoudios and the Byzantine court according to the evidence of
eleventh-century illuminated manuscripts.
D. HOMBERGEN (C), Dorotheus of Gaza and the Second Origenist Controversy
E. LANNE (C), Rinascita monastica ed impatto sociale. Il monastero di San
Macario nel Deserto di Scete (Egitto)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 A. RENTEL (L), The Liturgy of the Great Church on the Eve of
Destruction: the Prevalence of the Monastic Rite at the End of the Byzantine
Empire

Afternoon/Pomeriggio (15.30-19.00)
15.30-16.30 A. CASIDAY (L), Evagrius engaged: Some aspects of the pastoral
dimensions of Evagrius' correspondence
16.30-17.30 O. G. ULIYANOV (L), The Influence of the Monasticism of Mount
Athos on the Liturgical Reform Movement in the Late Byzantine World
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 H. GOLDFUS (C), Burial in the Churches of the Negev Desert:
Where Society meets Church and Monasticism
B. DEGORSKI (C), Leone Magno e Gregorio Magno nel Pratum Spirituale di
Giovanni Mosco
A. PAPAYIANNI (C), The reaction of the Greek Orthodox monastic community to
the attempts for the reunification of the two Churches in the Empire of
Nicaea (1204-1261)

Friday, June 2-nd
Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)

9.00-10.00 F. FATTI (L), Eustazio di Sebaste. Filosofia e ascesi nella Tarda
antichità
10.00-11.00 J. PERSOON (L), The Influence of Monastic Spirituality on the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 A. MAINARDI (L), La riforma possibile. Lo star?estvo come
fenomeno monastico, sociale e culturale in Russia nel XIX secolo
Afternoon/Pomeriggio (15.30-19.00)
15.30-16.30 L. DYSINGER (L), Early Monastic Exegesis: The Basis of Spiritual
Direction and Spiritual Exercise
16.30-17.30 P. KOSTOFSKA (L), Piety and Patronage: Layman Joannikios or
Abbot Akakios and the Foundation of the Monastery of St. Nicholas at
Manastir
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 P. ARGÁRATE (L), Pre/Protomonasticism in the Syrian Liber
Graduum and its understanding of the Church

Section C - RB
Thursday, June 1-st

Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)
9.00-10.00 A. BÖCKMANN (L), Questioning RB: Structure and Interpretation,
Structure and Redaction of RB
10.00-11.00 L. R. CERLING (C), Language as Sacred Gift: Lessons from The
Rule
J. C. SEYNNAEVE (C), Elliptical constructions in the Rule of Saint Benedict
D. TREDGET (C), "Idleness is the enemy of the soul" (RB 48) "With what
activity shall we fill our leisure?" (Aristotle)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 S. VANTROYS (L), L´heure est venue: présent et Présence à la
lumière de la RB

Afternoon/Pomeriggio (15.30-19.00)
15.30-16.30 T. G. KARDONG (L), Fraternity in the Rule of Benedict
16.30-17.30 L. NATALI (L), RB: tradizione o innovazione? Il nodo sciolto: un
desiderio e una volontà liberati
17.30-18.00 Coffee break
18.00-19.00 B. SAWICKI (C), Monasticism as the space of encounter between
theology and aesthetics - an example: the Rule of Saint Benedict and the
music of F. Chopin

Friday, June 2-nd
Morning/Mattina (9.00-12.30)

9.00-10.00 K. ZELZER (L), Von Cassiodor zu Alkuin: ein antikes
Bildungsprogramm in monastischer Tradition
10.00-11.00 M. ZELZER (L), Benedikt und Columba - zwei Klostergründer des 6.
Jh
11.00-11.30 Coffee break