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This volume is the first to delve into Norway’s history of Christianization since 1973 when Fridtjov Birkeli published his book on the topic. For the first time in over thirty years, Dr Nordeide illuminates the change from non-Christian to Christian rituals by analysing archaeological resources from c. AD 560 to c. 1150/1200. This book both asserts and challenges previous hypotheses of the chronology of Christianization, as well as offering fascinating new versions of the Norway’s eventual conversion. As well as asserting that local history leads Norway along chronological lines typical of its peripheral location, the author argues that in some ways, Norway’s history of Christianity is best located within the history of central European regions even more than has ever been suggested before.

The impingement of monastery on marketplace provides the unifying theme for this collection of nine research papers. Separation from the world, for most members of religious orders in the Middle Ages, did not imply isolation from the rest of society but, rather, a new spirituality orientated relationship which took different forms in different times and circumstances. Three of the contributors are concerned with particular aspects of the intellectual activities of the religious orders in both university and cloister. Two others examine the traumatic effects of the enforced return to secular life of thousands of men and women religious in England when monastic life was brought to an abrupt end in 1540. An individual monk's pastoral role among the laity is explored and evaluated in one paper, while another reveals the extent to which a rural English nunnery was both rooted in the local community and dependent on foreign supervision. Problems encountered by the friars are discussed by two other contributors who, on the basis of their recent research, conclude that the hostility between Franciscans and Benedictines has been overstated and that some German Dominicans risked their reputations in their involvement with contemporary heterodox movements among the laity.

Throughout the medieval period, the popular classes were always reckoned as a potential force in society even though it was usually dangerous for them to articulate divergent social, political and religious opinions. Sources on medieval political and social life seem to show us a world of order, acquiescence and consent. Otherwise, they reveal a picture of bloodshed and violent strife. During times of intense conflict, however, the human tongue was always the most frequently used weapon, much more so than the sword or the dagger. The vox populi, though often difficultly retrievable in the sources, was a ubiquitous one within the realm of later medieval politics. The essays collected in this volume deal with such speech acts of political rebels, with political languages of the ‘popular classes’ in medieval society but also with the subversive twists to speech situations such as preaching, mockery and insults.

Jan Dumolyn is a senior lecturer in medieval history at Ghent University. He publishes on the socio-economic, political and cultural history of the urban world of the medieval Low Countries.

Jelle Haemers lectures medieval history at the University of Leuven. He has published widely on the social history of medieval politics and the urban history of the Low Countries.

Hipólito Rafael Oliva Herrer is professor of Medieval History in the University of Sevilla. He has published both on medieval peasantry and popular political culture, including the making of popular ideologies and forms of popular protest.

Vincent Challet is a senior lecturer at the University of Montpellier-III, and works on the political conscience of communities. He is also the scientific coordinator of the ANR “Thalamus” project which aims to produce a scientific edition of the chronicle and urban statutes of Montpellier in the Middle Ages.

On 11 May 1625 Charles I married Henrietta Maria, the youngest sister of Louis XIII of France. The match signalled Britain’s firm alignment with France against Habsburg Spain and promised well for future relations between the two countries. However, the union between a Protestant king and a Catholic princess was controversial from the start and the marriage celebrations were fraught with tensions. They were further disrupted by the sudden death of James I and an outbreak of the plague, which prevented large-scale public celebrations in London. The British weather also played its part. In fact, unlike other state occasions, the celebrations exposed weaknesses in the display of royal grandeur and national superiority. To a large extent they also failed to hide the tensions in the Stuart-Bourbon alliance. Instead they revealed the conflicting expectations of the two countries, each convinced of its own superiority and intent on furthering its own national interests. Less than two years later Britain was effectively in a state of war against France.

In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore for the first time the marriage celebrations of 1625, with a view to uncovering the differences and misunderstandings beneath the outward celebration of union and concord. By taking into account the ceremonial, political, religious and international dimensions of the event, the collection paints a rounded portrait of a union that would become personally successful, but complicated by the various tensions played out in the marriage celebrations and discussed here.

Contributors: R. Malcolm Smuts, Lucinda H. S. Dean, J. R. (Ronnie) Mulryne, Karen Britland, Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Erin Griffey, Margaret Shewring, Sara J. Wolfson, Sara Trevisan, Kevin Laam, Sydney Anglo, Margaret M. McGowan, John Peacock, Gordon Higgott, Ella Hawkins .

When a monk living at the beginning of the last millennium described Europe ‘cladding itself everywhere in a white mantle of churches’, he precipitated several questions for historians to answer. Was there a surge in church-building at the time? If so, what were the causes of this, and what were the purposes? Does it help to explain our understanding of Romanesque architecture and art? Was there a connection between the ‘white mantle of churches’ and the millennium? Did people believe the world was coming to an end?

The supposition of apocalyptic expectations at the time was until recently dismissed as romantic myth, but the arrival of our new millennium has brought a revival in interest in the dawn of the second millennium, and new evidence of millennial fears. Yet millennial studies and architectural history largely continue to follow separate, parallel paths. This book therefore aims to add the architectural evidence to the millennial debate, and to examine this formative period in relation to the evolution of Romanesque architecture and art. As our own millennium gets under way with continuing hesitancy between European aspiration and national identity, it is also of interest to compare our time with the Europe of a thousand years ago.

Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure throughout the intellectual and political centres of Europe during his own lifetime. His magnum opus, a sharply pointed dissection of the damage done to earthly political life by the incursions of the papacy and a plea for conciliar ecclesiology, was repeatedly condemned during the fourteenth century and in later years. Yet the treatise continued to be disseminated and received translation into several vernacular languages. During the Reformation, Marsilius and his Defensor Pacis enjoyed another round of acclamation and denunciation, depending upon one’s confession. In July 2003, a group comprising many of the world’s most renowned scholars of medieval political thought gathered for a ‘Marsilius of Padua World Congress’. The contents of the present volume represent a compendium of innovative scholarly contributions to the understanding of Marsilius, his life and times, and his lasting impact on Western thought. Included are chapters that reflect a range of recent, ground-breaking research by both senior scholars and the future leaders in the field. After a general survey of the current state of scholarship on Marsilius, the volume divides into three thematically organized sections, covering a variety of historical, textual, methodological, theological, and theoretical questions. In all of the essays, readers will discover the wealth and complexity of Marsilius’s thought as well as the startling range of approaches and methods of interpretation taken in the study of his work. The volume’s selection of authors is international in scope and represents the first interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration in the field of Marsilian studies to occur in the twenty-first century.

Roman wooden writing tablets, known in Latin as tabulae ceratae, have been found by archaeologists in various locations around the former capital of the civitas/municipium Tungrorum or Roman Tongeren (now the Belgian city of Tongeren-Borgloon). These rare and delicate finds are remarkable not only due to the excellent state of their preservation, but also because they are inscribed with the remnants of texts, once etched into an overlying wax layer, that can, to the discerning eye, still be deciphered. The tablets not only provide concrete information about religious, judicial and administrative practices, but they also enhance our understanding of the complex processes of Romanisation and Latinisation in the northwestern civitates and municipia of the Roman Empire.

Unearthed in the first half of the twentieth century, with a second group discovered in 2013, the Roman tablets housed in the Gallo-Roman Museum of Tongeren-Borgloon and in the city’s municipal heritage depository, became the object of an in-depth study by an international team of specialists piloted by the Gallo-Roman Museum. It is the results of this project that are presented here in this volume for the first time. The painstaking process of deciphering and interpreting the script marks and text fragments is explored via analysis of palaeography, philology and onomastics, along with key scientific techniques such as wax analysis, wood species identification, and script visualisation by Multi-Light Reflectance Imaging. Rich detail is also provided about other associated wooden finds that shed light on how and where the tablets were produced.

The result is a beautifully illustrated and insightful volume that introduces the lost world of Roman Tongeren and its writing tablets to professionals and the general public alike.

This book provides a detailed narrative history of the dynasty and confederation of the Yuezhi, whose migration from western China to the northern border of present-day Afghanistan resulted ultimately in the creation of the Kushan Empire. Although the Yuezhi have long been recognised as the probable ancestors of the Kushans, they have generally only been considered as a prelude to the principal subject of Kushan history, rather than as a significant and influential people in their own right. The evidence seemed limited and ambiguous, but is actually surprisingly extensive and detailed and certainly sufficient to compile a comprehensive chronological political history of the Yuezhi during the first millennium BCE. The book analyses textual, numismatic and archaeological evidence in an attempt to explain the probable origin of the Yuezhi, their relationship with several Chinese dynasties, their eventual military defeat and expulsion from the Gansu by the Xiongnu, their migration through the Ili Valley, Ferghana and Sogdia to northern Bactria, and their role in the conquest of the former Greco-Bactria state. All of these events were bound up with broader cultural and political developments in ancient Central Asia and show the extraordinary interconnectedness of the Eurasian historical processes. The domino-effect of the migration of the Yuezhi led to significant changes in the broader Eurasian polity.

In the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, the exploitation of landownership underwent drastic changes in various parts of Northwestern Europe. In these changes, the emergence of the lease plays a pivotal role. At the end of the Middle Ages, in a number of areas within the North Sea area, the greater part of available land was held at lease for relatively short terms. The competitive and contractual nature of such leasing has caused many to associate it with the emergence of capitalism in the countryside, seeing its rise as a key element in the transformation of the rural economy and society in the last millennium. In view of this, it is surprising that the emergence of leasing has received little systematic attention, particularly where its roots, its early development, its exact arrangements and the social and economic context of its emergence are concerned, let alone the regional and chronological differences in these elements. This volume aims to make a first step in exploring these issues.

Until the 19th century very large areas of Western Europe were subject to some degree to common rights, where individual users collectively managed resources such as pasture and wood which were central to the agrarian economy. Much scholarship has focused on the dissolution of these rights and the effects of the enclosure of common land on society and agricultural productivity. In contrast, this volume seeks to assess in a comparative framework the long-term management of the common lands and the relative success of strategies in providing the resources sought by the rural population. Chapters covering northern and southern England, France, the Netherlands, Flanders, Sweden and northern and southern Germany examine the institutional and legal framework of commoning, the resources available and their value, the sustainability of practices, and policies of inclusion and exclusion among the group of commoners. Building on the theoretical insights of recent works on commonly managed resources, this volume, the result of an international collaboration in the CORN network, provides a series of detailed historical studies and is the first major work to address this central aspect of the agrarian economy in a comparative European context.

These eleven essays, all centrally concerned with the intimate relationship between sound, religion, and society in the early modern world, present a sequence of test cases located in a wide variety of urban environments in Europe and the Americas. Written by an international cast of acclaimed historians and musicologists, they explore in depth the interrelated notions of conversion and confessionalisation in the shared belief that the early modern city was neither socially static nor religiously uniform. With its examples drawn from the Holy Roman Empire and the Southern Netherlands, the pluri-religious Mediterranean, and the colonial Americas both North and South, this book takes discussion of the urban soundscape, so often discussed in purely traditional terms of European institutional histories, to a new level of engagement with the concept of a totally immersive acoustic environment as conceptualised by R. Murray Schafer. From the Protestants of Douai, a bastion of the Catholic Reformation, to the bi-confessional city of Augsburg and seventeenth-century Farmington in Connecticut, where the indigenous Indian population fashioned a separate Christian entity, the intertwined religious, musical, and emotional lives of specifically grounded communities of early modern men and women are here vividly brought to life.

The title of this volume, “Theologica Minora”, may wrongly suggest that the essays contained herein purport an antiquarian interest in some minor theological quibbles within the vast ocean that is Byzantine theological literature. On the contrary, this volume illuminates texts and theological genres which have so far remained unexplored or underinvestigated by the vast majority of scholars. Whilst unlocking the as yet unknown troves of florilegia, religious poetry, and monastic kephalaia, this volume investigates the cultural background of these different endeavors and provides an image of Byzantine theological literature which repudiates the rigid narratives proposed to date.

Antonio Rigo is Professor of Byzantine Philology and Christianity at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari. His research focuses on religious life in Byzantium, with special emphasis on ascetical and mystical literature, heresiology, and theology during the Paleologan period.

This collection of essays represents the most comprehensive study to date on the anthology compiled by Stobaeus (5th c. AD). It covers topics such as excerpting as a cultural practice, issues pertaining to the ms. tradition, Stobaeus' use of his sources, his evidence on specific figures (Heraclitus, Theognis, Plato, the Cynics, Aristo of Chios, and Eudorus of Alexandria), as well as thematic treatments. The contributors to the volume are, in the order of the Table of Contents: David Konstan, Denis Michael Searby, Michele Curnis, Anna Lucia Di Lello-Finuoli, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Elena Gritti, Serge Mouraviev, Luigi Ferreri, Graziano Ranocchia, Pedro Pablo Fuentes González, Mauro Bonazzi, Sophie Van der Meeren, Sophie Aubert, Ilaria Ramelli, Emmanuele Vimercati, and Julie Giovacchini.

This edition presents English translations of the accounts of three important twelfth-century travellers to the Holy Land, the Anglo-Saxon Saewulf and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderic, based on the edition of the Latin texts. Saewulf travelled to the Holy Land soon after its capture by the First Crusade in 1099. His travelogue, framed by accounts of his outward sea journeys from southern Italy to Jaffa and back to Constantinople, describes the buildings and holy sites of Jerusalem and its surrounding countryside as they appeared in the early years of the Frankish kingdom, before the major building works that characterized the short century of Christian rule over the city were fully under way. In contrast, the two German descriptions give more detailed accounts of the transformation that the city and surrounding landscape had undergone and of the new churches and monasteries and their artistic programmes that had been created by the 1160s and 1170s. The translated texts are preceded by an introduction placing the texts in their historical context and are accompanied by brief explanatory notes with bibliographical indications for further information.

The source texts of this volume appeared in Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis as Peregrinationes tres (CC CM, 139), edited by R.B.C. Huygens. References to the corresponding pages of the Corpus Christianorum edition are provided in the margins of this translation.

This book focuses on three Italian cities in the early middle ages, Rome, Ravenna and Venice, and looks at them in a new light. The unifying element linking them was their common Byzantine past, since they remained in the sphere of imperial power after the creation of the Lombard kingdom in the late 6th century, up to 750. What happened to them when their links with the Byzantine Empire were almost entirely severed in the 8th century? Did they remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium in the 9th and 10th centuries in their political structures, social organisation, material culture, ideological frame of reference and representation of identity? Or did they become part of the next imperial powers of Italy, the Carolingian and the Ottonian empires? A workshop in Oxford in 2014 brought together an international group of specialists to discuss these questions in a comparative context; the excitement of their debates is captured in the discussion sections linking the papers in this volume. Early medieval Italy can be seen in a new way as a result.

This book is a conversation starter. The author is re-imagining the theological landscape of historical practices of dance in order to open up a space where further explorations can be made. This is done in a two step manner. First, the book uncovers the restrictions of earlier research on the topic of dance in and around churches. In the second step, Hellsten suggests a practice for how historical sources can be imagined in a new frame. Opening up a new field of previously neglected and much needed historical studies on Dance in the Christian churches of the Latin West this study aims at questioning old paradigms and opening new vistas rather than reinterpreting concrete liturgical manuscripts or scrutinizing all the details of the historical sources presented.

The Donner Institute for Research in Religion and Culture in Turku, Finland has awarded its Nordic Research Prize 2021 to Dr. theol. Laura Hellsten for her creative research widening our understanding of sacral dance in general and of the role of dance in the Christian church in particular.

Le programme de recherche international sur «Les élites dans le haut Moyen Âge occidental. Formation, identité, reproduction» (2002-2009) s’est donné pour objectif d’examiner dans une perspective comparative, à l’échelle européenne, les catégories sociales dominantes aussi bien laïques qu’ecclésiastiques, celles de la cour autant que celles des régions. Le sixième et dernier volume issu de ce projet fournit d’abord un bilan et une synthèse des travaux. Il associe par ailleurs à ces premiers acquis une analyse des concepts, de la perception et de la façon dont les élites se concevaient elles-mêmes. Il tente enfin de vérifier, sur la base de dossiers régionaux ou d’enquêtes sur des catégories particulières, dans quelle mesure la perception médiévale était en conformité avec les pratiques.L’étude du vocabulaire et des concepts relatifs aux élites du haut Moyen Âge s’est orientée autour du questionnement suivant: qu’est-ce qui, du point de vue moderne, relève des élites? Qui, du point de vue des contemporains, appartenait à ce(s) groupe(s) dominant(s)? Selon quels critères lexicaux et conceptuels définissait-on les élites? Par quels moyens se démarquaient-elles dans la perspective des contemporains et à leurs propres yeux? Établissait-on une hiérarchie entre les critères de distinction? Selon quels modèles théoriques étaient-ils distingués (et quel contenu donnait-on à ces modèles)? Dans quelle mesure les concepts actuels d’élites sont-ils applicables au haut Moyen Âge? Au registre des pratiques sociales, plusieurs études de cas permettent de saisir ce qui démarquait concrètement les élites par rapport au reste de la population, tout en se demandant dans quelle mesure cette réalité sociale correspondait aux représentations mentales des élites et si les concepts s’adaptaient à une réalité changeante, ou l’inverse. Plusieurs types d’élites sont envisagés, avec leurs particularités, leurs hiérarchies internes et leurs évolutions, enfin l’imbrication des groupes dominants entre eux.

The Medieval French text (9400 lines) known as Tiaudelet is here edited for the first time. It is a lively debate poem which translates Theodulus’s Ecloga and adds a lengthy commentary to each stanza. It was last investigated in 1915 when A. Parducci published five modest extracts. It is found in a manuscript which represents a sort of vernacular ‘Liber Catonianus’, offering classical texts which formed the basis of the educational curriculum in the arts in French translation. It debates the value of two traditions: the classical and biblical, with the educational aim of increasing knowledge of classical and Scriptural narratives. As an appendix to the edition is provided the text of the only other French translation of Theodulus, by Jean Le Fèvre, as represented by the unique copy in the National Library of Scotland, of the early print by Jan Brulelou of Bruges.

El interés por las formas literarias de la literatura médica ha ido creciendo progresivamente ya que atiende cada vez más a las formas de la literatura médica características de las distintas épocas, compartidas en su mayoría con otras ramas de la ciencia como la filosofía, la teología o el derecho. Pero faltaba una visión de conjunto de estos textos médicos desde el punto de vista literario. La tipología de esos tratados es un indicio revelador de su origen, finalidad, cultura del autor y demanda social. Este estudio pretende mostrar un panorama general de las formas literarias de los estudios médicos y sus medios de expresión. El estudio del comportamiento de los escritores médicos ante el hecho de escribir proporciona una dimensión, como complemento, de gran relieve para los estudios estrictamente doctrinales. El escritor es un hombre de su tiempo y, como tal, refleja sus usos y modos.

Enraízados en la tradición de la Antigüedad y siguiendo una distribución armónica de la medicina diaetetica, pharmaceutica y chirurgia, los géneros literarios de la literatura médica medieval, por influjo de la filosofía y teología escolásticas, conocieron una riqueza asombrosa de formas literarias, como summae, specula, compendia, practica, concordantiae, synonyma, disputationes, problemata, accessus, tacuina, secreta, consilia, etc., que afectaron también a la tipología de su lengua. El Renacimiento fue otra época de renovación en la que continúan algunos géneros de corte tradicional, otros decaen o se transforman, mientras que toman cuerpo otras actividades más filológicas a veces que doctrinales, como las ediciones o los comentarios críticos. Cada época revela los problemas con los que se enfrentaron los escritores médicos al intentar forjar unas formas literarias y una terminología basadas en unos conocimientos médicos -en muchos casos expresados originariamente en otra lengua- y darles la forma literaria que consideraban más apropiada para publicar sus logros.

Un estudio como éste puede ser útil para todos aquellos que desde el campo de la Filología, la Historia en general o de la Historia de la Ciencia y de la Medicina o de la cultura en particular, deseen adentrarse en la literatura médica.

Jean Lefèvre de Saint-Rémy (1396-1468) fut poursuivant d’armes dans les rangs anglais à la bataille d’Azincourt, héraut Charolais puis roi d’armes de l’ordre de la Toison d’or fondé par Philippe le Bon en 1430. L’œuvre historiographique qu’il rédige à la fin de sa vie s’inspire de la prestigieuse chronique d’Enguerrand de Monstrelet et mêle souvenirs personnels et interpolations de sources diverses, brossant un tableau voulu idéal de la cour de Bourgogne entre 1408 et 1436 et particulièrement du principat de Philippe le Bon, maître auquel ce serviteur doit tout. Les particularités de son récit posent le problème du héraut d’armes écrivant l’histoire, phénomène exceptionnel qui fut favorisé par l’émulation existante à la cour des ducs de Bourgogne, reconnue comme l’un des foyers les plus prolifiques en la matière au XV e siècle.

El concepto de tolerancia no es simple y admite una multiplicidad de comprensiones y matices que se han ido desarrollando y perfeccionando a lo largo de los siglos. No se trata, por eso mismo, de un término totalmente unívoco que haya mantenido la integridad de sus notas esenciales de un modo inalterado a través del tiempo sino que ha sido justamente el tiempo, el pensamiento y la práctica de las sociedades humanas los que han modelado un valor que, en la actualidad, es indiscutido. Es precisamente por este motivo que cada época histórica ha conocido diversas conceptualizaciones y prácticas de la tolerancia.

El Coloquio Anual de la FIDEM 2011, realizado en la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza) discutió acerca de la teoría y la práctica de la tolerancia durante la Edad Media, y son sus resultados los que se exponen en este volumen. Esta temática puede ser abordada desde dos ángulos diversos. Por un lado, la teoría del concepto, y es por eso que varios capítulos del libro se aplican a analizarla desde el punto de vista filosófico a través de las obras de una serie de importantes autores que abarcan varios siglos de pensamiento, desde la Patrística hasta la Edad Media tardía, incluyendo también a los representantes de la denominada “escolástica colonial”. Por otro lado, la práctica de la tolerancia durante el largo periodo medieval es también tenida en cuenta a través de diversas disciplinas interesadas en el medioevo, tales como la historia y la literatura.

How can historical sociolinguistic analyses of Medieval Greek aid in the interpretation of Medieval Greek texts? This is the main question addressed by the papers collected in this volume. Historical sociolinguistics (HSL) is a discipline that combines linguistic, social, historical, and philological sciences, and suggests that a language cannot be studied apart from its social dimension. Similarly, the study of a language in its social dimension is nothing else than the study of communication between members of a given speech community by the means of written texts, the shared “signs” used by authors to communicate with their audiences.

This volume is divided into two parts. In the first, Cuomo’s and Bentein’s papers aim to offer an overview of the discipline and examples of applied HSL. Valente’s, Bianconi’s, and Pérez-Martín’s papers show how the context of production and reception of Byzantine texts should be studied. These are followed by Horrocks’ study on some features of Atticized Medieval Greek. In the second part, the contributions by Telelis, Odorico, and Manolova focus on the context of reception of texts by Georgios Pachymeres, Theodoros Pediasimos, and Nikephoros Gregoras respectively.

This volume explores the relationships and interactions between medieval urban populations and their rural counterparts across north western Europe from the seventh to sixteenth centuries. This theme has become increasingly fragmented in recent decades, resulting in scholars being largely unaware of developments outside their own areas. The present volume brings together historians and archaeologists in order to highlight the varied ways in which town–country interactions can be considered, from perspectives that include economy, politics, natural environment, material culture, and settlement hierarchy. As a whole, the papers offer innovative interdisciplinary perspectives on the topic that create a new platform from which to understand more fully the complex, bilateral relationships in which both urban and rural spheres were able to influence and challenge each other. Contributions are wide-ranging, from the activities of elite, aristocratic groups in and around individual towns, to large-scale surveys covering wide areas. With coverage from the North Sea to the western Baltic, the book will be relevant to a range of disciplines including archaeology, history, and geography, and is aimed towards both advanced students and established scholars.

The contributions collected in this volume of Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia share a common focus on Saint Augustine's sermons on the New Testament and address a wide range of topics within this extended field of research. Several contributions deal with the transmission of these homilies, while others tackle questions concerning exegesis, rhetoric and theology. The foundation for this compilation was laid during the conference 'Ministerium sermonis. An International Colloquium on Saint Augustine's Sermons on the New Testament and their Reception' (September 15-17, 2011), hosted by the Academia Belgica in Rome (Italy).

The present volume may be considered a sequel to the book Ministerium sermonis. Philological, Historical and Theological Studies on Augustine's Sermones ad populum, which was published in 2009 as volume 53 of the series Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia and bundled the contributions to the first Ministerium sermonis colloquium of May 2008 (Leuven - Turnhout).

List of contributors: Andrea Bizzozero, Isabelle Bochet, Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, Shari Boodts, François Dolbeau, Hubertus R. Drobner, Anthony Dupont, Alicia Eelen, Wim François, Uta Heil, Pierre-Marie Hombert, Paul Mattei, Gert Partoens, Stanley P. Rosenberg, Paul van Geest, Joost van Neer, Clemens Weidmann, Jonathan Yates