Call of Papers for Franciscan Institute Proposed Session(s)

"Bonaventure as a Reader of Albertus"

International Medieval Congress

Leeds, 1-4 July, 2024

The Franciscan Institute of St. Bonaventure University, New York, invites submissions to a proposed session(s) on "Bonaventure, as a Reader of Albertus Magnus" building upon previously held sessions at Villanova University‘s, Patristics, Medieval, Renaissance Conference, and at Kalamazoo's International Medieval Congress.

The sharp distinction between the legacy of the Franciscan and Dominican theologians and philosophers at the University of Paris has been cast as originating in two mendicant intellectual communities. The bifurcation has obscured the mendi

cants' close scholastic interactions, which suggest instead that they initially operated as one textual community, as evidenced by Bonaventure‘s reliance on Albert's Commentary of the Sentences as a model for his own and Albert's own absorption of Alexander of Hales. The propose session(s) invite submissions that examine:

1. the narrower topic of Bonaventure as a reader of Albert

2. the wider topic of Franciscan and Dominican interaction at Paris both in terms of shared text, arguments, and sources

3. and historical context of constitution of their respective houses of study and classroom practices at the University of Paris in the 13th century

The session also encourages contributions to take into account the various crises which the scholastic members of both mendicant orders faced, from the introduction and censure of Aristotle in the curriculum, the doctrinal condemnations of the 1240s, and even the disputes over the mendicants' place in the university. Please submit proposals to 100-300 words for 20–minutes papers by September 15 to:

ltogni@sbu.edu

Luke Togni, Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University