After Augustine. A Survey of His Reception from 430 to 2000 (Postgrad @ St. Andrews)
To mark the biological birthday of Augustine, the project "After Augustine. A Survey of His Reception from 430 to 2000" hosts a one-day Postgraduate Conference at St Andrews University (Swallowgate 11) on November 13, 2006, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust:Augustine and His Readers
Organizers: Karla Pollmann, Carmen Cvetkovic, and Jochen Schultheiss.
EVERYBODY WELCOME
Programme
9 h 30 Coffee and Tea
10 h 00 Welcome (Pollmann)
10 h 30 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Mark Edwards, Oxford: "Augustine, the Donatists and
the English Reformation."
I. Augustine's Implied Readers
Chair: Cvetkovic
11 h 30 Jochen Schultheiss, Bamberg: "Augustine and his implied Readers:
a Reconsideration of the Style of the Confessiones."
12 h 00 Oscar Bernaus Griñó, Barcelona/Berlin: "Augustine and His
Hearers: an Essay on the Pragmatics of the Preaching in Late
Antiquity.”
12 h 30 Paula Rose, Amsterdam: “Linguistic means to analyse the structure
of De cura pro mortuis gerenda.”
13 h 00 lunch
II. Reading Augustine in Context
Chair: Schultheiss
14 h 30 L.A. Schumacher, Edinburgh: “Knowledge by Illumination: St.
Augustine’s Theological Epistemology.”
15 h 00 Simone Adam, Freiburg im Breisgau: "Re-Editing St Augustine's
De Beata Vita: Aspects of the Manuscript Tradition."
15 h 30 Michael Sloan, St Andrews: “The Programme of Augustine’s De doctrina christiana in Sedulius Scottus’ commentaries”
16 h 00 Coffee and Tea
III. Augustine's Vagarious Readers
Chair: Sloan
16 h 30 Carmen Cvetkovic, St Andrews: “Augustine and Richard of Saint
Victor on Active and Contemplative Life.”
17 h 00 Alex Lee, Edinburgh: “Petrarch as a Reader of the Young
Augustine: A New Look at the Secretum.”
17 h 30 Andrew Harvey, Birmingham: “Jeremy Taylor: Rethinking the
Doctrine of Original Sin in 17th Century England.”
(For further information please write to Professor Pollmann, at kfp@st-and.ac.uk, or Carmen Cvetkoic, at cac589@st-and.ac.uk)
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