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American Cusanus Society Newsletter

Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004

NICOLAI DE CUSA DE DOCTA IGNORANTIA

EDIDERUNT

ERNESTUS HOFFMANN

ET

RAYMUNDUS KLIBANSKY

LIPSIAE

IN AEDIBUS FELICIS MEINER

MCMXXXII

One of the First Two Volumes published in 1932 in

the Heidelberg Edition of Cusanus' Opera Omnia

American Cusanus Society Long Island University

C.W. Post Campus Brookville, New York 11548-1300


AMERICAN CUSANIUS SOCIETY'S SESSIONS IN KALAMAZOO IN MAY 2005

The following program, which the American Cusanus Society submitted to the Organizing Committee of the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, was accepted. The Congress is scheduled to meet at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Ml, May 5-8, 2005.

Thursday, May 5: 1 :30-3:00 p.m. Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge

Session: 65 NICHOLAS OF CUSA I: Rhetoric and Theology: Cases of Gerson and Cusanus

Organizer. Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University of America

Presider: Karfried Froehlich, Princeton Theological Seminary

Speakers: David Zachariah Flanagin, Saint Mary's College of California "Godspeak: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Theology of Jean Gerson" Clyde Lee Miiier, SUNY- Stony Brook "Two Christmas Sermons: Jean Gerson and Nicholas of Cusa on Verbum Caro Factum Est'"

Thursday, May 5: 3:30-5:00 p.m. Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge

Session 124: NICHOLAS OF CUSA II: Cusanus Research as Critical Scholarship and Politics: The Legacy of Raymond Klibansky on the Occasion of His 1 OOth Birthday

Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island UniversityC.W. Post Campus

Presider: Morimichi Watanabe . Speakers: Hans Gerhard Senger, Heidelberger

Akademie der Wissenschaften "Raymond Klibansky - the Centenarian: His Contributions to Modem Cusanus Research" Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University of America • 'The Doorkeeper of Modernity': The Legacies of R. Haubst, G. Santinello and E. Colo mer"

Volume XXI, Number 2

THE 2005 MORIMICHI WATANABE LECTURE

DEDICATED TO OTTO GRUNDLER

In accordance with the decision made by the Executive Committee of the Society in May 2002, the third lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe lecture series will be delivered during the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo as follows:

Date: Place: Organizer. Presider: Speaker: Title:

Thursday, May 5, 2005: 5:15 p.m. Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Peter J. Casarella Peter J. Casarella Marcia L. Colish, Yale University Resonances of Stoicism in High Medieval Thought: Adiaphora, Synderesis, and Conscience

Prof. Marcia L. Colish

Prof. Golish kindly sent her curriculum vitae to the Editor, and it is presented below.

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Marcia L. Golish 80 Seaview Terrace #29, Guilford, CT 06437 Tel. and fax: 203-458-2418 E-mail: [email protected]

Education: B.A., Magna cum laude, Smith College, 1958 M.A.. Yale University (History), 1959 Ph.D., Yale University (History), 1965 D.H.L. (hon.). Grinnell College, 1999

Employment: 1962-63: Instructor of History, Skidmore College 1963-65: Instructor of History, Oberlin College 1965-69: Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin

College 1966-67: Lecturer in History, Case Western Reserve

University

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter 1969-75: Associate Professor of His+ :·:y, Oberlin

College 1975-2001 : Professor of History, Ob .11n College 1973-7 4, 1978-81 , 1985-86: Department Chairman 1985-2001: Frederick B. Artz Professor of History,

Oberlin College 2003: Visiting Professor of Religious Studies and

History, Yale University 2004-2005: Lecturer in History, Yale University

Grants. Awards. Fellowships: Phi Beta Kappa, 1958 Hazel Edgerly Prize, Smith College, 1958 Samuel S. Fels Fellowship, Yale University, 1961-62 Grants for research and travel, Oberlin College, 196;),

1966, 1972. 1974, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1998

Research Status Appointment, Oberlin College, 1968-69, 1989-90, 1999-2000

National Endowment for the Humanities, Yonger Scholar Fellowship, 1968-69, Senior Fellowship, 1981-82

Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, 1968-69 ACLS Travel Grants, 1974, 1987 Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities,

University of Wisconsin, 197 4-75 Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981-82 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, fall term 1982 Visiting Scholar, Weston School of Theology, fall term

1982 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for

Advanced Study, 1986-87 Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, 1988-John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1989-90 Visiting Fellow, Yale University, 1989-90, 2001 -Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale Graduate School Alumni

Association, 1993 NEH Summer Seminar, "Late Antique and Medieval

Conceptions of Heaven," University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1994-95 Rockefeller Foundation Writing Residency, Villa

Serbelloni, Bellagio, 13 June-13 July, 1995 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America, 1998 for

Peter Lombard (Leiden, 1994) Travel Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1998 Gilson Lecturer, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval

Studies, Toronto, 2000 Marianist Award, University of Dayton, 2000

Publications

Volume XX.I , Number 2

Books: The Mirror c · Language: A Stud in the Medieval Theory

of Kno~·tledge (New Haver., Yale University Press, 1968), xviii, 404 pp.; second revised edition (Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 1983), xvii , 399 pp.

The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. I: Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 34, ed. Heiko A Oberman (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985), xi, 446 pp. Paperback reimpression with addenda and corrigenda (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1990), xii, 459 pp.

The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, II: Stoicism in Latin Christian Thought Through the Sixth Century, Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 35, P-d. Heiko A. Obennan (Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1985), X'. 336 pp. Paperback reimpression with addend<· :.~ rid corrigenda (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1990), X: 342 pp.

Peter Lombard, 2 vols., Brill 's Studies in Intellectual History, 41, ed. A.J. Vanderjagt (Leiden, E.J. Brill , 1994), xi, 893 pp.

Medieval Foundations of the We stem Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400, The Yale Intellectual History of the West (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997), xiii, 386 pp. Second printing, 1998. Paperback edition, 1999. Italian translation: La cultura de/ medioevo (400-1400), trans. Elisabetta Gallo, le vie della civitta (Bologna, Societa editrice ii Mulino, 2001), 595 pp.

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Essays Published Separately:

Remapping Scholasticism. The Etienne Gilson Series. 21 (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2000), 21 pp.

Catholic and Intellectual: Conjunction or Disjunction? Marianist Award Lecture (Dayton, University of Dayton, 2000), 22 pp.

Articles and Chapters in Composite Publications: "The Mime of God: Vives on the Nature of Man,"

Journal of the History of Ideas, 23 (January 1962): 3-20. Reprinted in Race, Gender and Class: Early Modem Ideas of Humanity, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 1992), pp. 321-38.

"A Twelfth-Century Problem," Apollo, 87, m.s. 77 (July 1968): 36-41.

"Eleventh-Century Grammar in the Thought of St. Anselm," Arts liberaux et philosophie, Actes du 1vme congres international de philosophie medievale, Montreal, 27 aoOt-2 septembre 1967 (MontreaVParis, lnstitut d'Etudes Medievales/J. Vrin, 1969), pp. 785-95.

"The Idea of Liberty in Machiavelli," Journal of the History ofldeas, 32 (July 1971): 323-50. Reprinted in Renaissance Essays, 2, ed. William J. Connell, Library of the History of Ideas, 1 O (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 1993), pp. 180-207; Great Political Thinkers: Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997), 2: 559-86.

"Peter of Bruys, Henry of Lausanne, and the Fa9ade of St-Gilles," Traditio, 28 (1972): 451-60.

"The Roman Law of Persons and Roman History: A Case for an Interdisciplinary Approach," American Journal of Jurisprudence, 19 (1974): 112-27.

"Medieval Allegory: A Historiographical Consideration," Clio, 4 (June 1975): 341-56. Reprinted in Dante: The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New York, Routledge, 2003), 4: 135-49.

"St. Thomas Aquinas in Historical Perspective: The Modem Period," Church History, 44 (December 1975): 433-49.

"Avicenna's Theory of Efficient Causation and its Influence on St. Thomas Aquinas," Tommaso d'Aquino nel suo settimo centenario. Atti del congresso internazionale, Roma-Napoli, 17-24 aprile 1974, I: Tommaso d'Aquino nella storia de/ pensiero (Napoli, Edizioni Domenicane ltaliane, 1975), pp. 296-306.


"Seneca's Apocolocyntosis as a Possible Ssource for Erasmus' Julius Exclusus." Renaissance Quarterly, 29 (Autum 1976): 361-68.

"Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli 's Prince.· Sixteenth-Century Journal, 9(Winter1978): 81-93. Reprinted in Great Political Thinkers: Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997), 2: 205-17.

"St. Augustine's Rhetoric of Silence Revisited," Augustinian Studies, 9 (1978): 15-24.

"Pauline Theology and Stoic Philosophy: An Historical Study," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 47, Supplement (March 1979): B 1-21.

"The Stoic Hypothetical Syllogisms and Their Transmission in the Latin West in the Early Middle Ages," Res Publica Utterarum, 2 (1979): 19-26.

"Three Notes on the Relationship Between Writing and Teaching History," The History Teacher, 13 (August 1980): 543-60 (with Harold D. Woodman and Mildred Alpern).

"Historical Writing Then and Now: Against Exegesis," Book Forum, 5 (1980): 270-78.

"Cosmetic Theology: The Transformation of a Stoic Theme," Assays, 1 (1981): 3-14.

"John the Scot's Christology and Soteriology in Relation to His Greek Sources," Downside Review, 100(April1982}: 138-51.

"The Stoic Theory of Verbal Signification and the Problem of Lies and False Statements from Antiquity to St. Anselm,· Archeo/ogie du signe, ed. Lucie Brind'Amour and Eugene Vance (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1983), pp. 17-43.

"St. Anselm's Philosophy of Language Reconsidered," Anselm Studies, 1, ed. Gillian R. Evans (London, Kraus International, 1983), pp. 113-23.

"Carolingian Debates over Nihil and Tenebrae: A Study in Theological Method," Speculum, 59 (October 1984): 757-95.

"Teaching and Leaming Theology in Medieval Paris," Schools of Thought in the Christian Tradition, ed. Patrick Henry (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1984), pp. 106-24.

"Another Look at the School of Laon," Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age, 53 (1986): 7-22.

"Gilbert, the Early Porretans, and Peter Lombard:

December 2004

Semantics and Theology," Gilbert de Poitiers et ses contemporaines: Aux origines de la logica modemorum, ed. Jean Jolivet and Alain de Libera (Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1987), pp. 229-50.

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter "Systematic Theology and Theological Renewal in the

Twelfth Century," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 18 (Fall 1988): 135-56.

"Augustine's Use and Abuse of Tyconius," A Conflict of Christian Henneneutics in Roman Africa: Tyconius and Augustine, ed. Wilhelm Wuellner (Berkeley, Center for Hermeneutical Studies, 1989), pp. 42-48.

"Early Porretan Theology," Recherches de theologie ancienne et medievale, 46 (1989): 58-79.

"Cicero, Ambrose, and Stoic Ethics: Transmission or Transformation?" The Classics in the Middle Ages, ed. Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 69 (Binghamton, SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 95-112.

"Mathematics, the Monad, and John the Scot's Conception of Nihil," Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy, Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy, Helsinki, 24-29August1987 (Helsinki, Publications of the Luther-Agricola Society, 1990), 2: 455-67.

"Quae hodie locum non habent: Scholastic Theologians Reflect on Their Authorities," Proceedings of the PMR Conference, 15, ed. Phillip Pulsiano (Villanova, Augustinian Historical Institute, 1991), pp. 1-17.

"The Neoplatonic Tradition: The Contribution of Marius Victorinus, • The Neoplatonic Tradition: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Themes, ed. Arjo Vanderjagt and Detlev Pazold (Koln, Jurgen Dinter, 1991), pp. 57-74.

"From sacra pagina to theologia: Peter Lombard as an Exegete of Romans," Medieval Perspectives, 6 (1991): 1-19.

"Die Neoplatoonse traditie: Die bijdrage van Marius Victorinus," Philosophen in actie, ed. Theo A.F. Kuipers (Delft, Eburon, 1992), pp. 223-39 (trans. Lodi Nauta).

"Peter Lombard and Abelard: The Opinio Nominalium and Divine Transcendence," Vivarium, 30 (May 1992): 139-56.

"Psalterium Scholasticorum: Peter Lombard and the Development of Scholastic Psalms Exegesis," Speculum, 67 (July 1992): 531-48. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism, 72 (2005).

"Stoicism and the New Testament: An Essay in Historiography,· Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt, ed. Wolfgang Hasse (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1992), II: 26: 1, pp. 334-79.


"Peter Lombard as an Exegete of St. Paul,· Ad litteram: Authoritative Texts and Their Medieval Readers, ed. Mark 0. Jordan and Kent Emery, Jr. (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), pp. 71-92.

"Habitus Revisited: A Reply to Cary Nederman,· Traditio, 48 (1993): 77-92.

"Intellectual History," The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press. 1994), pp. 190-203.

"From the Sentence Collection to the Sentence Commentary and the Summa: Parisian Scholastic Theology, 1130-1215," Manuels, programmes de cours et techniques d'enseignement dans /es universites medievales, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Louvain-la-Neuve, lnstitut d'Etudes Medievales, 1994), pp. 9-29.

"The Development of Lombardian Theology, 1160-1215," Centres ofLeaming and Location in PreModem Europe and the Near East, ed. Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1995), pp. 207-16.

"Medieval Europe: Church and Intellectual History," American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd ed., ed. Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (New York, Oxford University Press, 1995), 1: 621-24, 675-703 (Section editor).

"Early Scholastic Angelology," Recherches de theologie ancienne et mMievale, 62 (1995): 80-109.

"Christological Nihilianism in the Second HaH of the Twelfth Century," Recherches de theologie ancienne et medievale, 63 (1996): 136-45.

a The Virtuous Pagan: Dante and the Christian Tradition," The Unbounded Community: Papers in Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaros/av Pelikan, ed. Willam Caferro and Duncan G. Fisher (New York, Garland, 1996), pp. 43-91 .

"The Sentence Collection and the Education of Professional Theologians in the Twelfth Century," The Intellectual Climate of the Early University. Essays in Honor of Otto Griindler, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Studies in Medieval Culture, 39 (Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 1997), pp. 1-26.

"Peter Lombard," Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London, Routledge, 1998), 5: 821-22.

"Machiavelli's Art of War. A Reconsideration,• Renaissance Quarterly, 51 (Winter 1998): 1151-68. Reprinted in De Re Militari: The Society for Military History, 2003 (www.deremilitari@org).

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter "Re-envisioning the Middle Ages: A View from Intellec

tual History," The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Opportunities for Research, ed. Roger Dahood, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 2 (Turnhout, Brepols, 1998), pp. 19-26.

"Ex utroque et in utroque: Promissa mundo gaudia, electrum, and the Sequence," The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages, ed. Nancy van Deusen (Binghamton, SUNY Press, 1999), pp. 105-39 (with Nancy van Deusen).

"Peter Lombard," Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes (Nashville, Abingdon, 1999), 2: 273-74.

"Republicanism, Religion, and Machiavelli's Savonarolan Moment," Journal of the History of Ideas 60(October1999): 597-616.

"Introduction" Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, vol. 3: Philosophy and the Arts, ed. Helen Damico (New York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000), pp. 3-12.

"Peter Lombard," The Medieval Theologians, ed. G.R. Evans (Oxford, Blackwell, 2001), pp. 168-83.

"Peter Lombard and Philosophy," Issues in Medieval Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Richard C. Dales, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Wissenshaftliche Abhandlungen, 62: 2 (Ottawa, The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2001), pp. 121-29.

"Why the Portiana?: Reflections on the Milanese Basilica Crisis of 386," Journal of Early Christian Studies 10 (2002): 361-72.

"'Discipline' and 'Science' in Peter Lombard," "Scientia" und "disciplina": Wissenstheorie und Wissenschaftspraxis im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert, ed. Rainer Berndt, Mathias Lutz-Bachmann, and Ralf M.W. Stammberger (Berlin, Akademie Verlag, 2002), pp. 175-86.

"Interpretation and Authority in Early Scholasticism," On Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the Sacred, ed. Andrew D. Weiner and Leonard V. Kaplan= Graven Images 5 (2002): 215-21.

"Haskins' Renaissance Seventy Years Later: Beyond Anti-Burckhardtianism," Hankins Society Journal 11 (1998 [2003]): 1-15.

"Die Bedeutung der Vater tor das Kirchenverstandnis des Petrus Lombardus," Vater der Kirche: Ekklesiales Denken von den Anfangen bis in die Neuzeit. Festschrift Josef Sieben SJ zum 70. Geburstag, ed. Johannes Arnold et al. (Paderborn, Ferdinand Schoningh, 2004), pp. 669-86 (trans. Ralf M. W. Stammberger).


"Authority and Interpretation in Scholastic Theology," Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation: The Foundational Character of Authoritative Sources in the History of Christianity and Judaism, Judith Frishman et al. (Leiden, Brill , 2004), pp. 369-86.

"When Does the Middle Ages End?: Reflections of An Intellectual Historian," Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, ed. Aslasdair A. MacDonald and Michael W. Twomey (Leuven, Peeters, 2004), pp. 213-23.

Also some 60 reviews in scholarly journals.

Activities as a Consultant and Referee: Journal of the History of Ideas, Contributing Editor,

1985-90; Editorial Board Member, 1989-; Board of Directors, 1998 -; Forkosch Book Prize Commettee, 1995-98

Editorial Board Member, Assays, 1979-96 Editorial Board Member, American Historical Review,

1991-94 Editorial Board Member, Brill's Studies in Intellectual

History, 1986-Editorial Advisory Board Member, Dallas Library of

Medieval Latin Text-Translations, 1999-Editorial consultant and referee:

W.W. Norton & Company, 1973; SixteenthCentury Journal, 1975; John Wiley & Sons, 1981; Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society, 1983; State University of New York Press, 1983, 1989, 1990; University Presses of Florida, 1986; Hackett Publishers, 1987, 1991; University of California Press, 1988; University of Chicago Press, 1988; Princeton University Press, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998; Yale University Press, 1997, 1998; Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1988; Traditio, 1989; Viator, 1989, 1998; Speculum, 1990, 2001; University of Notre Dame Press, 1991 , 1992; Columbia University Press, 1992; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 1997; Journal of Early Christian Studies, 1994, 2001, 2002; University of Illinois Press, 1995; Journal of Religion, 1996; Church History, 1998; Renaissance Quarterly, 1998, 1999, 2000; Blackwell's, 1998; Oxford University Press, 1998, 2000, 2004; Liturgical Press, 1999; Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2001; Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2005; Brepols, 2003; E.J. Brill, 2003; Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Co-Editor, Garland Medieval Casebooks, 1998 - .

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Served as a member of vis::ing committees, as an external evaluator, external referee for many colleges and universities (over 30 colleges and universities); Served as a referee for various scholarly organizations.

Professional Associations and Activities: Served as a member of various committees for: American Historical Association; Medieval Academy of America; Midwest Medieval Conference; Medieval Association of Midwest; Renaissance Society of America; Central Renaissance Conference; American Association of University Professors; Societe Internationale pour l'Etude de Philosophie Medievale; International Society for the Classical Tradition; Ohio Humanities Council.

AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY BUSINESS MEETING

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005 Time: 6:00 p.m. -Place: Valley 111, Stinson Lounge

For further information on the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, contact:

Prof. Paul E. Szannach, Director Medieval Institute, 104E Walwood Hall Western Michigan University 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Ml 49008-5432 Phone: 269-387-8745 FAX: 269-387-8750 e-mail: [email protected]

(n.b.: Only one "s" in the address) WWW: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress

AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY ANNUAL BANQUET

The annual banquet of the Society will be held as indicated below:

Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Topic:

Thursday, May 5, 2005 7:30 p.m. Black Swan Restaurant, Kalamazoo, Ml. Prof. Peter I. Casarella Homo Cosrnographus: Reflections on a Global Cusan Journey


HISTORY OF THE ~TANABE LECTURES

Although this lecture sen ~ Has established in 2002, we had had a number of distinguished scholars who delivered their addresses before the Business Meetings of the Society in preceding years. They were sometimes referred to as the "Business Meeting Lectures." Listed below are both the "Business Meeting Lectures" and the "M. Watanabe Lectures."

Names and Titles of the Previous Speakers

May 6, 1995: Prof. Donald Duclow: "Nicholas of Cusa's Dialogue on World Religions: A Student Response Approach." (Newsletter, XII, 1, 1995, pp. 29-32).

May 10, 1996: Prof. Antony Black: "Genres of Political Thought on Europe and the Middle East· (Newsletter, XIII, 1, 1996, p. 2).

1997: No lecture. May 8, 1998: Prof. Heiko A. Oberman: "Some Notes on

the Mystery of the Fifteenth Century: Reflections on the End of the Beginning." (Newsletter, XV, 1-2. 1998, p. 2).

May 7, 1999: Prof. Charles Lohr: "What I Have Learned About Medieval Philosophy through the Study of Ramon Lull." (Newsletter, XVI, 1. 1999, p. 5).

May 4, 2000: Prof. Donald R. Kelley: "The Hunt for Wisdom (De Venatione Sapientiae)." (Newsletter, XII, 1, p. 2).

May 3, 2001: Prof. Francis Oakley: "KINGSHIP: The History and Significance of an Idea." (Newsletter, XIII, 1, pp. 52-57).

May 2, 2002: A Tribute to Heiko A. Oberman (1930-2001) (Newsletter, XIX, 1, p. 1 ). Speakers: Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. lzbicki. Morimichi Watanabe and S<Y.re from the audience

Speakers and Titles of the Watanabe Lectures

May 8, 2003: The First Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Professor John Monfasani: "What's in a Name? Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modem: A Reconsideration." (Newsletter, XX, 1, pp. 1-2).

May 6, 2004: The Second Morimichi Watanabe Lecture Professor William Courtenay:

December 2004

"Approaches to the History of Medieval Philosophy." (Newsletter, XX!, 1, pp. 2-6).

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VISIT THE AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY WEB SITE!

http ://library. jhu. edu/departments/rsc/izbicki/cusa nus. html

Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki, our Special Advisor, is also our computer expert. He has been disseminating bibliographical and other useful information on Cusanus studies through his media. He has also designed the Society's web site. Please visit it and take advantage of information available there!

CONTRIBUTORS

The American Cusanus Society acknowledges the following generous contributors from January, 2004 to December 31, 2004. Thank you very much!


Mr. Shiro Abe Prof. Ellen L. Babinsky

Prof. Albert R. Baca Prof. Christopher M. Bellitto Prof. James A. Biechler

Prof. H. Lawrence Bond

Prof. Elizabeth Brient Prof. Charles H. Cannan Prof. Peter J. Casarella Prof. Gerald Christianson Prof. William J. Courtenay Prof. Donald F. Duclow Prof. Louis Dupre Prof. Dr. Walter Andreas Euler Mr. Ken A. Grant Prof. Jeremiah Hackett Prof. Karsten Harries Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Prof. Jasper Hopkins Prof. Vittorio H0sle Prof. L. F. Hundersmarck Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki Prof. Stephen E. Leahy Prof. Ian C, Levy Prof. Dr. Charles Lohr PhDr. Jozef Matula Prof. Bernard McGinn Prof. Clyde Lee Miller Prof. Thomas E. Morrissey Prof. Cary J. Nedennan Prof. Jean-Marie Nicolle Prof. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. Dr. Cynthia M. Pyle Profs. George S. & Louise B. Robbert Dr. Hans Gerhard Senger Dr. Takashi Shogimen Prof. Michael A. Soupios Prof. Joachim W. Stieber Prof. Phillip H. Stump Prof. Donald D. Sullivan Rev. Kristine Suna-Koro Prof. Brian Tierney M. Hubert Vallet Prof. Morimichi Watanabe Tsugumichi Watanabe, Esq. Prof. Pauline M. Watts

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THE GEITYSBURG cot FERENCE October 8·10, 200'

Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg, PA

Historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with its beautiful rural setting and color-filled autumn days was the site of a conference once again sponsored by the International Seminar on Pre-Reformation Theology of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary and the American Cusanus Society from October 8to10, 2004. This was the ninth in a series that began nearly 20 years ago and has led to a number of publications. With one exception - the celebration of the sixth centenary of Nicholas of Cusa at the Cathoiic University of America in 2001 - all were held in Gettysburg.

The topic, "Reform and Obedience: The Authority of Church, Council and Pope from the Great Schism to the Council of Trent," proved to be of exceptional relevance to current issues in church and society, but had a more personal significance as well. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of Brian Tierney's epoch-making work, Foundations of the Conciliar Theory (1955). Participants considered the contributions of "the Tierney generation· to the issue of how the Great Schism and the conciliar crisis caused theologians, jurists and humanists to rethink accepted concepts of church government, to balance the need for reform with the need to preserve order in the visible institution and reaffirm its legitimacy.

In particular conference members asked how Nicholas of Gusa and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) contributed to the debate. Both men at first embraced the Council of Basel, and for it Cusanus prepared the "most mature" (Tierney) of all conciliar theories, The Catholic Concordance, in which he balanced consent with hierarchy and embraced wide-spread reform. Yet both Nicholas and Aeneas left Basel and had to rethink their ideas in relation to their concepts of the church, while still preserving an interest in reform.

The Conference committee (Peter Casarella, Christopher Bellitto, Emily O'Brien, Thomas lzbicki, and Gerald Christianson) agreed that the conference exceeded expectations. It brought together the largest attendance thus far, over forty registrants from the greatest variety of nations, including France, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Canada. A select number of plenary lectures were given in memory of F. Edward Cranz (Francis Oakley, "The Conciliar Heritage and the Politics of Oblivion"), the Seminary's founder, Samuel Simon

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Schmucker (Giuseppe Alberigo, "The Conciliar Church," introduced and read in his absence by Alberto Menoni), and Arthur Carl Piepkom (Brian Tierney, "Reflections on Foundations of the Conciliar Theoryj . The Conference was made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the Piepkom Fund, chaired by Father Richard John Neuhaus.

In addition, special emphasis was given to balancing presentations by established scholars with papers from younger scholars, or scholars who had not participated earlier. This helped uncover a number of new friends in the fields of conciliar and Cusan studies from around the world. These more formal presentations were followed by working sessions that discussed fresh translations of works by Aeneas and Cusanus (most translated by Thomas M. lzbicki and appearing in English for the first time). This creative mix encouraged a high degree of participation and a broad spectrum of opinion and insights.

Two ecumenical services (one with commemorations of departed friends in the Society; the other a eucharist using the Taize liturgy with a sermon by Cusanus) were accompanied for the first time this year by an earty Sunday Mass led by Father Louis Pascoe, S.J. A battlefield tour instructed participants in the fine art of marching into battle, especially when modem transportation failed to arrive on time, and a candellight banquet allowed for relaxation and entertainment.

David McGonagle of Catholic University of America Press also attended and discussed the possibility of a book related to the conference theme, The Church, Councils, and Reform, which, if accepted by the Press, will appear in early 2007. Tentative plans are also under way for a tenth conference in October, 2006.

Gerald Christianson

[It was through the combined, tremendous efforts of the members of the Conference committee, Gerald Christianson (chair), Thomas M. lzbicki, Peter J. Casarella, Christopher M. Bellitto and Emily O'Brien, that th':'. conference on "Reform and Obedience" held in October was, by common consensus, a tremendous success. The number of memos distributed and discussed among the committee members was, to say the least, tremendous. Many distinguished speakers, both

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter American and foreign, made it a scholarly, stimulating and even enjoyable meeting to attend. We regret very much that Prof. Giovanni Alberigo of the University of Bologna, one of the leading scholars in the field of conciliar studies, was not able to participate in the conference because of health reasons. We thank Prof. Dr. Alberto Belloni , Vice President of the lstituto per la scienze religiose in Bologna, which is headed by Prof. Alberigo, for his able contribution to the conference in place of the institute's President. We were especially honored to have as a speaker Prof. Brian Tierney, whose historic book, Foundations of the Conciliar Theory ( 1955), we especially remembered and honored at the conference] (Editor).

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Brian Tierney (Both photos courtesy of Friedrich Pukelsheim)


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REFORM AND OBEDIENCE: The Authority of Church, Council, and Pope from the Great Schism to the Council of Trent

Anticipating the 50th Anniversary of Brian Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory

Sponsored by International Seminar on Pre-Reformation Theology,

Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

in cooperation with The American Cusanus Society

Thursday, October 7 (for early arrivals) 5:30 p.m. Social hour for early anivals Singmaster Center

Appalachian Brewing Company

7:15 p.m. Supper (optional)

Friday, October 8 8:00-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Sing master

Meet at Singmaster Center

Beekman Commons, Valentine Hall

10:30-11 :30a.m. Brief walk on historic Seminary Ridge

1 :00 p.m. Registration

3:00 p.m.

3:45p.m. 4:00 p.m.

5:15 p.m. 6:15 p.m. 7:45p.m.

9:00p.m.

Refreshments in adjoining Coffee Shop

Public Lecture I Councils and the Constitutional Heritage

Valentine Auditorium Chair: Dean Robin Steinke,


The F. Edward Cranz Lecture: "The Conciliar Heritage and the Politics of Oblivion' Francis Oakley, Williams College

Refreshments Public bcture 11 Councils in the Catholic

and Protestant Traditions Valentine Auditorium

Chair: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

"Lessons from Ancient Christianity: Participation in the Early Church'

Christopher M. Bellito, Kean University

"Conciliar Protestantism' Gunther Gassmann, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary

and The World Council of Churches

Social Hour Singmaster Center Dinner Refectory Public Lecture Ill Councils and Conciliar Theory

Valentine Auditorium Chair. Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University,

and President, American Cusanus Society

The Arthur Carl Piepkom Lecture: "Reflections on Foundations of the Conciliar Theory' Brian Tierney, Cornell University

Social Hour Singmaster Center

Saturday, October 9 7:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Service of Prayer with Chapel

CommemoraUons Philip Krey,

9:00a.m.

10:30a.m. 11:00 a.m.

12:15 p.m. 1:30p.m.

2:45 p.m.

5:30 p.m.

7:00p.m.

Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary

Session I Cusanus and Library Lecture Conciliarism Room

Chair: Thomas Monissey, State Univerity of New YOIK, Fredonia

"The Electoral System of Nicholas of Cusa' Friedrich Pukelsheim, Augsburg University

(Gennany)

Working session led by Donald Duciow, Gwynedd-Mercy College

On Nicholas of Cusa, Against the Amadeists; Aeneas Sytvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), The Dialogue concerning Conciliar Matters

Coffee Session II The Conciliar Church Library Lecture

Room Chair. Louis Pascoe, SJ, Fordham University

The Samuel Simon Schmucker Lecture: "Chiesa conciliare!The Conciliar Church'

Giuseppe Alberigo, University of Bologna (in absentia)

Response: Peter Casarella, Catholic University of America

Lunch Session Ill The Conciliar Image Chair. Joachim Stieber, Smith College

"Pius II and the Emerging Historiography of the Councils'

Emily O'Brien, Harvard University

Working Session, led by Thomas lzbicki, Johns Hopkins University

On Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), Letter on the Coronation of Felix V (1440); Commentary on the Proceedings of Basel (1450) (selection); Commentaries (selection)

Free time

Battlefield tours

General: Mr. Gary Ratay, Ba!Uefield Guide Specialized: Colonel lzbick.i Bridges the

Hermeneutical Gap

Social Hour Singmaster Center Business meeting of the American Cusanus Society Morimichi Watanabe, President

Candlelight Banquet Refectory

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9:00 p.m.

Entertainment: "The Gospel Song Tradition' American Song with Wayne Hill, baritone; Timothy Braband, pianist; Herman G.

Stuempfle, host

Social Hour

Sunday,October10 7:30 a.m. Breakfast 8:15 a.m. Ecumenical Service Chapel

Presider: Gunther Gassmann

9:15a.m.

10:30 a.m. 11:00a.m.

12:15 p.m.

Homily: Nicholas cardinal Cusanus (a.k.a. Lawrence Hundersmark, Pace University)

(Schedule of other services available)

Session IV: Faith and Spirit in Council and Cusanus

Chair: Clyde Lee Miller, State University of New York

'The Holy Spirit and the Council of Basel" Natasha Tlnteroff, The Sorbonne, Paris

'The Concept of Faith in Sermon 21 ' Agnieszka Kijewska, catholic University of Lublin

Discussion of Nicholas of Cusa, Sermon 21: Entering into the House

Coffee Session V: New Directions in Conciliar and

and Cusan Studies Chair: Paul Sigmund, Princeton University

"Three Ways to Read the Decree Haec sancta' Michie! Decaluwe, University of Gent

'Conciliarism at the Local Level: Florence's Clerical Corporation in the Early Fifteenth Century." David S. Peterson, Washington and Lee

University aose

Departures begin at 12:15 p.m.

12:45 p.m. Lunch at 1776 Dobbin House Tavern (optional)

List of Participants

Bellitto, Christopher Kean Univ., History Dept. , Union,

Brown, Harvey NJ Dept. of Poli. Sci. , U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada

Casarella, Peter J. The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, D.C.

Christianson, Gerald Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary,

Collinge, William J. Corless, Roger J. Crump, Eric

Gettysburg, PA Gettysburg, PA Benicia, CA Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, PA

Dahmus, John Dept. of History, Stephen F. Austin State Univ., TX

Decaluwe, Michiel University of Gent, Gent, Belgium Duclow, Donald Gwynedd-Mercy College,

Philadelphia, PA Flanagin, D. Zach Religious Studies Dept., St. Mary's

College of California, Morga, CA Gassman, Gunther Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary,

Gettysburg, PA Hallonsten, Gosta School of Theology & Religious

Studies, The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC

Halstead, John Ithaca, NY Hudson, Nancy Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ Hundersmarck, Lawrence Pace Univ., White Plains, NY Hyland, William P. Humanities, St. Norbert College,

DePere, WI lzbicki, Thomas Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins

Univ., Baltimore, MD Kijewska, Agnieszka Catholic Univ. of Lublin, Lublin,

Poland Kirnon, William M. Herndon, VA Krey, Philip Lutheran Theological Seminary at

Philadelphia, PA Lundell, William History Dept., Mount Allison Univ.,

Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada McGonagle, David J. The Catholic University of America

Press, Washington, DC Melloni, Alberto lstituto per la scienze religiose,

Bologna, Italy Miller, Clyde Lee Dept. of Phil., SUNY at Stony

Brook, Stony Brook, NY Morrissey, Thomas E. SUNY College at Fredonia,

Fredonia, NY Morrissey, Gerda Fredonia, NY Oakley, Francis C. Williams College, Williamstown, MA O'Brien, Emily Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA Pascoe, Louis B., S.J. Fordham University, Bronx, NY Pavlac, Brian A. History Dept., Kings College,

Wilkes Barre, PA Peterson, David Washington and Lee University Pukelsheim, Friedrich Inst. Math., Univ. Augsburg,

Augsburg, Germany Sigmund, Paul E. Dept. of Politics, Princeton Univ.,

Princeton, NJ Steinke, Robin Dean, Gettysburg Lutheran

Seminary, Gettysburg, PA Stieber, Joachim Dept. of History, Smith College,

Northampton, MA Strobert, Nelson Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary,

Gettysburg, PA Tierney, Brian Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Tierney, Helen Ithaca, NY Tinterroff, Natacha The Sorbonne, Paris, France Vallet, Hubert Belgium Walker, Craig Redlands, CA Watanabe, Morimichi Long Island Univ., C.W. Post

Campus, Brookville, NY Watanabe, Kiyomi SUNY Downstate Medical Center,

Brooklyn, NY

REPORT ON THE BUSINESS MEETING October 9, 2004 at 5:30 pm

During the Society's conference at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, a business meeting took place on Friday, October 8, 2004 in the Singmaster Center.

The meeting began at 5:20pm, when the Society's President, M. Watanabe asked for a moment of silence in memory of Giovanni Santinello and Otto Grundler. He then extended the Society's welcome to the many conference participants from abroad. The Minutes and Treasurer's Report from the May 6 Business Meeting were approved as published in the Newsletter(July, 2004). M. Watanabe reported receipt of the first royalties check for Introducing Nicholas of Gusa; as Paulist Press' Academic Editor and the book's co-editor, C. Bellitto arranged for the Society to receive royalties. M. Watanabe also noted Long Island University's increased support of his work on behalf of the Society; in addition to release time, he has received a stipend. Members unanimously approved L. Miller's motion that the Secretary write a letter thanking the University for this new financial support.

For Kalamazoo in 2005, the Society will sponsor two sessions: one organized by P. Casarella on Cusanus and Gerson, and the other honoring Raymond Klibansky's 1001h birthday. Marcia Colish has agreed to deliver the Morimichi Watanabe Lecture.

P. Casarella represented the Society at the Cusanus conference in Buenos Aires in June. This October there are conferences relevant to Cusanus studies in Reichnau and Florence, as well as the Cusanus-Gesellschaft symposium in Trier. T. lzbicki will be organizing three sessions on Cusanus for the Renaissance Society's meeting in Cambridge in spring, 2005.

P. Casarella reported that the publication board of the Catholic University of America Press has approved publication of the proceedings from the Society's 2001 conference. T. lzbicki discussed publishing the


proceedings froff the Gettysburg conference and related papers; he is alsc oreparing a volume of translations, Nicholas of Gusa on the Church and Reform. G. Christianson and D. Crowner have received permission to translate E. Meuthen's Nikolaus von Kues: Skizze einer Biographie (7th edition).

The meeting adjourned at 6:15pm.

Respectfully submitted,

<f1 .,_l/Jf!>_w~ Donald F. Duclow Secretary

THE AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY'S MEETING AT THE RENAISSANCE

SOCIETY OF AMERICA CAMBRIDGE, UK 7.9 APRIL, 2005

Friday, April 8, 2005. 9:00-10:30 A.M. Room: Clare College, Neild Room Panel Title: Platonic Influences in Nicholas of Cusa and

His Contemporaries Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society Organizer: Thomas M. lzbicki, The Johns Hopkins

University Chair: Arjo J. Vanderjagt. University of Groningen Presenter: Charles H. Cannan. State University of

New York, Buffalo Paper Title: Alberti and Gusa: Modes of Renaissance

Vision Abstract: Alberti's treatise On Painting is credited with

favoring naturalistic determinism in art. This paper relates Alberti's concept of space to a Platonic Christian tradition of vision with visual recognition of nature as a starting point for higher perceptions. Alberti's theory of perspectival vision is similar to what Nicholas of Cusa did in De visione dei and De possest. Cusa integrated temporal knowledge and contemplation of things eternal, knowledge of the wortd revealing more about God. Further, Alberti's emblematic "Winged Eye· adds to our understanding of his notion of vision and is epistemologically dose to Cusa's development of the ascent of sight in De

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter apice theoriae. Alberti, like Gusa, was seeking God through exploration of experience in this world , a task that necessitates a cooperative relationship between sight of the eyes and of the mind.

Presenter: Mathieu van der Meer. Rijks Universiteit Groningen

Paper Title: Nicholas of Gusa ad fontes: The Impact of Trebizond's Translation of Plato's Parmenides on Nicholas of Cusa's Later Philosophy.

Abstract: Around 1459, George of Trebizond finished his translation of Plato's Parmenides on the insistence of Nicholas of Cusa. This work became available to the Latin West for the first time since antiquity. Cusanus was the first to use it. Most of his knowledge of Plato had been mediated by Proclus's commentary on Plato's Paramenides. Thanks to Trebizond's translation, Cusanus was able to differentiate between Proclus's thinking and Plato's, as is demonstrated in De non aliud and De venatione sapientiae. This paper shows that, in his last years, Nicholas shifted accents in his philosophy. We shall see if there is a correlation between Nicholas of Cusa's posse philosophy in these years and his reading of Plato's Parmenides. Cusanus' glosses in the manuscript of Trebizond's translation will lend support in this matter.

Presenter: Daniel P. O'Connell. Universitat Trier, lnstitut filr Cusanus-Forschung.

Paper Title: The Influence of Proclus upon Cusa's Christology in De docta ignorantia.

Abstract: This paper addresses Nicholas of Gusa's interpretation of the incarnation in De docta ignorantia. Its tasks are three: first, to show what the notion of "middle kinds" is in Cusanus's theology of the incarnation and where it originated in the writings of Produs (esp. his Stoicheiosis Theologike): second, to show how the notion of "middle kinds" can help to resolve the objection of Jasper Hopkins that Cusanus's explanation of the incarnation is flawed: third, I will show that Cusanus had read Proclus when he wrote book 3 of De docta ignorantia. In light of this reading the current notions of the influence of Proclus on Cusanus in his early works need to be reconsidered.


Friday, April 8, 2005. 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Room: Queens' College, Bowett Room Panel Title: The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in the

Renaissance Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society Organizer: Thomas M. lzbicki. Johns Hopkins

University Chair: John Monfasani. State UnWersity of New

York, Albany Presenter: Thomas M. lzbicki, Johns Hopikns

University Paper Title: The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in Tudor

and Stuart England. Abstract: The reception of Cusanus in England mosUy

has been studied through English translations. This paper uses database searches to establish the use of Cusanus' texts, both political and speculative, by Tudor and Stuart intellectuals. Figures as different as John Jewel and John Dee are found citing "Cardinal Cusanus." In some cases, the exact edition employed that of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples, can be identified.

Presenter: Paul Richard Blum, Loyola College Paper Title: Nicholas of Cusa in Petrus Bungus's

Numerorum Mysteria (1599). Abstract: In his Numerorum Mysteria, Petrus Bungus

(Pietro Bongo, d. 1601) expressly intended to prove the compatibility of Pythagorean numerology with Christian doctrine. This work, contemporary with Giordano Bruno and John Dee, has the characteristics of late-Renaissance syncretism and preBaroque encyclopedism. The author despised Scholastic rationalizing and believed in the power of authorities on the mystic and symbolic meaning of numbers. Nicholas Cusanus plays an important role as a source, especially for the first four cardinal numbers. One aspect is surprising: his sermons are far more often quoted than De docta ignorantia or texts. Bungus's appropriation of Cusanus not only helps understatnding of his syncretistic approach to theology and philosophy; it also sheds light on Cusanus's philosophical theology as it was perceived in the later Renaissance.

Presenter: Jacob Vance, The Johns Hopkins University Paper ntle: Cusanus in Sixteen Century French

Christian Humanism

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Abstract: This talk examines a set cif '.'lhilosophical and

theological questions for :h French Catholic Reformers (Lef:- d'Etaples, Guillaume Bri90net, and ~· 1arles de Bovelles in particular) turned to Nicholas of Cusa's works between 1494-1540. It considers in which of Cusa's works they sought their answers, and how their questions led them to adopt or reject various theses set forth in those texts. The purpose is to consider which aspects of their dialogue with Cusa's thought can be said to have been shaped by the historical and cultural circumstances of the French Prereform Movement.

Saturday, April 9, 2005. 2:00 -3:30 P.M. Room: Sigwick Avenue, Lecture Block #8 Panel Title: Reading Cusanus with Clyde Lee Miller. Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society Organizer and Chair: Thomas lzbicki, The Johns

Hopkins University Discussants: Clyde Lee Miller, State University of New

York, Stony Brook Hugh Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State University Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University of America

Panel Abstract: Clyde Lee Miller's recent book Reading Cusanus offers a fresh look at Nicholas of Gusa, particularly his use of metaphor and dialectic. Miller provides critical reading of six major speculative works by Cusanus: Docta ignorantia (1440), De coniecturis (1442-43) , ldiota de mente (1450), De visione Dei (1453), De Ii non a/iud (1461), and De venatione sapientiae (1463) . All of these readings underline Neoplatonic elements in Cusanus's thought, and not the Scholastic or even Kantian approaches sometimes taken to them. Two Cusanus scholars will offer their assessments of the book. The author will respond.

OTHER SOCIETIES' MEETINGS, PAST AND FUTURE

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THE TOWN AND GOWN LECTURE 2005 The L .;ion ' >r Late Medieval

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"A Matter of Matter: Two Cases of Blood Cult in Fifteenth-Century Germany"

by CAROLINE WALKER BYNUM

Professor of Western Eur:)pean Middle Ages Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

[Prof. Bynum will discuss two very different pilgrimage sites in fifteenth-century northern Germany: the host miracle at Wilsnack (1383) and the anti-Jewish host desecration libel of Sternberg (1492).]

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INTERNATIONALES WISSENSCHAFTLICHES

CUSANUS-DOPPEL-SYMPOSION Die Sermones des Nikolaus von Kues

Symposions-Teil I 2004 {Do.21-Sa.23.10)

Thema: Merkmale der cusanischen Predigten und ihre Stellung innerhalb der mittelalterlichen Predigtkultur

· Tagungsort: Theologische Fakultat Trier, Promotionsaula, Jesuitenstr. 13

Ferderer: Cusanus-Gesellsch"'ft, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Geburtshaus des Nikolaus von Kues

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Di., 05.10. 19.30 Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmrath (Berlin)/ Prof. Dr. Heribert Muller (Frankfurt a.M) Einruhrung in das Tagungsthema

20.00 Prof. Dr. Herfried Munkler (Benin) Konziliarismus und politische Theorie

Mi., 06.10. 9.00 Prof. Dr. Thomas PrDgl (Notre Dame, IN) Modelle konziliarer Kontroverstheologie: Juan de Torquemada und Johannes von Ragusa

11.00 Dr. Petra Weigel (Jena) Reform als Paradigma: Konzilien und Bettelorden

15.00 Prof. Dr. Hans-Jorg Gilomen (Zurich) Konziliare Burokratie und Korporation -Strukturelle und prosopographische Aspekte

17.00 Priv.Doz. Dr. Thomas Rathmann (Benin) Beobachtung ohne Beobachter. Der schwierige Umgang mit dem historischen Ereignis am Beispiel des Konstanzer

Do., 07.10 9.00 Priv.Doz. Dr. Claudius Sieber-Lehmann (Basel) Basel als Konzilsort und Kornrnunikationsform

11.00 Prof. Dr. GrantiSek Smahel (Prag) Die vier Prager Artikel: Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Hussiten auf dem Basler Konzil

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Prof. Dr. Helmut Maurer (Konstanz) Das Kanstanzer Konzil als Stadtisches Ereignis

Fr., 08.10 9.00 Prof. Dr. Werner Maleczek (Wien) Zusammenfassung

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PROF. RAYMOND KLIBANSKY Will Celebrate his 100·,,·, Birthday This Year

Prof. Raymond Klibansky, the pioneer of the modern Cusanus studies, will be 100 years old on October 15, 2005. As noted above, we shall dedicate to him one of our sessions at the American Cusanus Society meetings in Kalamazoo, Michigan in May of this year. With the kind support of Dr. Martin Thurner of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat and of the Grabmann-lnstitut in Munich, we are able to present below his discussion and description of the scholarly life and contributions of Prof. Klibansky during his long and illustrious career.

It was in 1932, as is shown in the cover page of this issue, that Ernst Hoffmann and Raymond Klibansky published Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia and Apologia doctae ignorantiae, thereby initiating the so-called Heidelberg edition of the Opera omnia of Nicholas of Gusa. It is memorable that in this important year of Prof. Klibansky's 1 ooth birthday, the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaten, as is shown below, is to hold a special symposium to mark the completion of the Opera omnia.

References

Meiner, Felix. "Die Cusanus -Ausgabe," dated 18, Mai 1945. (6-page memorandum given to the Editor by Herr Richard Meiner.)

Meiner, Richard. "Besprechung mit Herrn Prof. Klibansky in Bemkastel-Kues am 12. August 1964." (1-page memo, dated 18.8.64, also given to the Editor by Herr Richard Meiner.)

Beierwaltes, Werner. "Die Cusanus-Ausgabe. Nicolai de Gusa Opera Omnia. lussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heide/bergensis ad codicum fidem edita.," Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften filr 1987(Heidelberg 1988): 101-106.

Eckert, Willehad Paul. "Der Stand der Cusanus-Edition," Schweizer Rundschau 63, 7/8 (1964): 443-448.

Gadarner, Hans-Georg. "Das Cusanus-Unternehrnen der Heidelberger Akadernie derWissenschaften," RupertoCaro/a Mitteilungen 6, 15/16 (Dezember 1954): 78-79.

Grabmann, Martin. "Nicolai de Cusa Opera omnia iussu et auctoritate Academiae Utterarurn Heidelbergensis ad

codicum fidem edita. I. De docta ignorantia ediderunt Ernestus Hoffmann et Raymundus Klibansky; II. Apologia doct&e ignoranti&e edidit Raymundus Klibansky. Leipzig, Felix Meiner, 1932." Deutsche Litteraturzeitung. Dritte Folge, 4, 15 (9. April 1933): cols. 685-691 .

Groffier, Ethel and Michel Paradis, eds. The Notion of Tolerance and Human Rights. Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky. Carlton University Press, 1991. [Distributed by Oxford University Press, Canada, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada.) xv, 174 pp. (Bibliography of Raymond Klibansky, pp. 165-174.)

Klibansky, Raymond and H.J. Paton, eds. Philosophy & History, essays presented to Emst Cassirer. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1975. xii, 363 pp. (Originally published in 1963 by Harper & Row, New York.)

Mussgnug, Dorothee. Die vertriebenen Heidelberger Dozenten. Zur Geschichte der Ruprecht-Karfs-Universitat nach 1933. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsver1ag, 1988. 300 pp.

SantineHo, Giovanni. "Cusano: Edizioni, Studi e lncontri nel 1982," Studia Patavina - Rivista di Scienze religiose XXX, 1 (1983): 77-85.

Senger, Hans Gemard. "Die Nikolaus von Kues - Ausgabe als Beispiel einer historisch-kritischen Edition," Zeitschrift tur philosophische Forschung 38, 1 (Januar-Marz 1984): 73-83.

Watanabe, Morimichi. "The Origins of Modem Cusanus Research in Germany and the Foundation of the Heidelberg Opera omnia," in M. Watanabe, Nicholas of Gusa in Search of God and Wisdom, ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. lzbicki (Leiden, 1991), pp. 17-42; also published in M. Watanabe, Concord and Reform: Nicholas of Gusa and Legal and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Thomas M. lzbicki and Gerald Christianson (Aldershot, 2001), pp. 35-58.

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften



Raymond Klibansky

Raymond Klibansky A medievalist keeping his finger

on the pulse of the century By

Martin Thurner Grabmann-lnstitut

Universiat Munchen

"I believe that Dr. Klibansky, even if he's still quite young, is one of the four or five greatest academics in the world of medieval philosophy." That is what no less a person than Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) said about his 27-year-old colleague Raymond Klibansky back in 1933.1

Astonishingly, not only is Gilson's statement confirmed by Klibansky's personal development, but it should also be extended to a number of fields beyond the immediate context of medievalism. Klibansky's versatility regarding his scientific work and his eventful biography is unique among the great medievalists of the 2Qlh century. Klibansky always connects his individual medievalist interests with actively taking part in

1 The statement was found in a letter of recommendation to the Academic Assistance Council, whose documents are today kept at the Bibliotheca Bodleiana in Oxford; quoted from: Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert. Gesprache mn Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franszosischen von Petra Willim. Frankfurt am Main, lnsel, 2001, p. 100.

the cultural life of his time and he continuously reacts to and reflects on the historical and political development of the 2Qlh century. The following text briefly describes the most important stages of his life and work during which he has always kept his finger on the pulse of the century.2

Raymond Klibansky was born on 15October1905 in Paris. He was the son of a German vintner family of Jewish descent. Klibansky's ability to easily blend into various cultures was already put to the test in his ear1y teens. AJ. the outbreak of World War One in 1914, his family had to flee from Paris to Frankfurt. He went to school at the "Odenwaldschule" near Heidelberg. The school was famous for its positive attitude towards pedagogical reform. At the Odenwaldschule Klibansky went to the same class as Klaus Mann ( 1906-1949), the first son of Thomas Mann. In 1921 Klibansky began his studies of philosophy and philology at the University of Heidelberg. Back then the world of philosophy was dominated by the debate on the right stand on Kantian tradition between the Neokantian Heinrich Rickert ( 1863-1936) and the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969). Klibansky took part in Jaspers' seminars, where, among others, he met Golo Mann (1909-1994). What Klibansky particular1y liked about Jaspers was his sophisticated way of leading philosophical dialogues. However, Jaspers' publications on the history of philosophy that focus on medieval writers, were not meant to earn Klibansky's unanimous assent. Being a critical historian Klibansky regarded Jaspers' book on Nicolaus Cusanus that was published in 1962, as nothing but "monumental cotton" as he said literally in a conversation with Kurt Flasch.3

Klibansky's particular interest in medievalism already became apparent in the ear1y stages of his studies. The same is true of the specific interest of his research on the Middle Ages. In 1928 his doctoral study ended with the completion of his doctoral thesis on the School of Chartres. However, the political situation became increasingly worse for Jewish academics and preventded him from publishing his dissertation. later on Klibansky wrote two essays in

2 As regards biographical information I refer to: Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert, loc. cit In addition I refer to personal information from Mrs Professor Ethel GroffierKlibansky (Monlr8al), for which I want to express my deepest gratitude.

3 Quoted from: Kurt Flasch, Laudatio auf den Preistrager Raymond Klibansky. In: Ver1eihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlasslich der Preisiibergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 12-22, here: p. 14.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter which he explained why he considered the School of Chartres to be of major importance.4 One of the most significant members of this school, Bernhard of Chartres (t ca 1130), once said that academics were dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants. For him the giants were the important figures of ancient philosophy. Compared to them, the modem philosophers appeared like dwarfs. The deeper implication of Bernhard's comparison was of course that the dwarfs could see as far as or even farther than the giants when they were standing on their shoulders. Bernhard sought to express that the thinking of his time could make progress if it built up on the achievements of ancient philosophy. Klibansky derived a major theme of his medievalist research from the way the medieval philosophers saw themselves. It was the question whether ancient philosophy persisted in the Middle Ages. Wrth his dissertation Klibansky had already laid the foundations for his research.

Klibansky extended the question whether ancient thinking persisted and whether it was sensible to strictly separate historical eras. In his search for an answer to this he concentrated on the scholars of the Renaissance and of the modem age already in the early stages of his work. Significantly his first publication appeared in a book that described the philosophical premises of Klibansky's interests in this matter. In 1927 Klibansky published Carolus Bovillus' (t 1553) Uber de sapiente. It was located in the appendix of Ernst Cassirer's (1874-1945) book The lndividi.:al and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. It was not just that Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms strongly influenced Klibansky's research. His personal relation to Cassirer itself also had a decisive effect on Klibansky's future life.5 In 1926 Cassirer invited Klibansky to visit him at his house in Hamburg. He introduced him to Aby Warburg (1866-1929), who allowed Klibansky to use his famous library. It was just there where he met the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) and the codicologist Fritz Saxl (1890-1948). As a result

4 Compare Raymond Klibansky, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. In: lsis 26 (1936}, pp. 147-149; and: Raymond Klibansky, The School of Chartres. In: M. Clagett, G. Post, R. Reynolds (edd.), Twelfth-Century Europe and the Foundations of Modem Society. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966, pp. 3-14.

5 Compare Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerungen an Ernst Cassirer. Raymond Klibansky im Gesprach mi! Thomas GOiier. In: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie [no no.] 1999, issue 2, pp. 275-288. Raymond Klibansky, Die Grenzen des akademischen Lebens sprengen. Ein Gesprach uber Ernst Cassirer und die Bibliothek Warburg. In: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift rur europaisches Oenken 50 (1996), pp. 274-277.

of this encounter Klibansky's probably most famous book came into being, the study Saturn and Melancholy with the subtitle Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion and Art.

In this book that was not published until 1964, which was more than 30 years after it was actually written, the interests of Aby Warburg and the philosophical method of Ernst Cassirer lead to a fruitful synthesis. Warburg took great interest in those powers of the mind that, apart from rationality, determine the human being, such as magic and astrology. With his idea of the symbolic forms Cassirer connected the various fields of cultural history like philosophy, science, myth, religion and art with one another. Besides that choosing melancholy as a field of research can be attributed to certain ideas of individual geniuses from the late Romantic period. These ideas had lived on, especially among the people around the German poet Stefan George (1868--1933). During the time of his studies in Heidelberg, Klibansky also was amongst George's circle of acquaintances.6 While the art historian Panofsky was working on a monograph about Albrecht Durer's copperplate engraving Melancholia I, Klibansky pointed out to him the great variety of interpretations of the idea of melancholy in the history of philosophy. Later on he picked up that argument in a long chapter of a book with the same title. Here the starting point was the ancient idea of the "quattuor humores", the four body fluids that corresponded to the cosmic elements and periods. They determined the type of character of each individual human being depending on how they were combined. The book also contains a large section on how the ancient idea of melancholy was seen in the Middle Ages and how it developed further back then. KUbansky describes that the theory of the four temperaments became widely known especially due to Arabian medicine and the work of medieval scholars such as Constantius Africanus (ca 1015- ca 1087) and Albertus Magnus (1193· 1280). In addition Klibansky brings out how the attitude towards melancholy changed in the Middle Ages. In the ancient wortd there was a clear difference between natural positive melancholy on the one hand and pathological melancholy on the other hand. As described in Plato's Phaidros this was due to the differentiation between divine delusion and delusion as a mental illness. Some medieval writers, however, claim that melancholy is nothing but a negative state of mind. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), for example, says that melancholy means punishment for the

s Compare Raymond Klibansky, Aus dem Heidelberger Geistesleben. Autobiographische Anmeri<ungen. In: Heidelberg. Geschichte und Gestalt Heidelberg, Winter, 1996, pp. 270-282.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Fall. However, in the Middle Ages there also existed new theoretical approaches on the understanding of melancholy. As an example Klibansky refers to the theory about a melancholy of love, an amor heroicus, which was expounded by the Catalan scholar Arnold of Villanova (ca 1235-1311 /13). It had been inspired by Latin translations of Avicenna. New stimuli concerning the idea of melancholy in the Middle Ages also came from the influence of Arabian astrological literature. In the field of astrology melancholy was connected with Saturn. According to Neoplatonic tradition and for example Dante's Paradiso, Saturn is the planet of devout contemplation. The result of this connection was the idea of a unity between melancholy and ingeniousness. Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino ( 1433-1499) was one of the first to embody a pinnacle of this idea. The reason why the ideas of melancholy in the Middle Ages are of fundamental importance to Klibansky's work is that they are prime examples for how variable the understanding of melancholy truly is.

The question whether there is persistence in the development of ideas in European philosophy became a dominant issue for further large-scale medievalist research projects that Klibansky started in Heidelberg near the end of the 1920s. Here Klibansky's main goal was to understand the characteristic way the Germans think that became manifest in Hegel's dialectic. According to Klibansky, German philosophy is dominated by a characteristical tendency towards rationality and pushing forward to areas of the mind that go beyond rationality. Klibansky tried to understand this particular characteristic better by considering the historical context of a specific German tradition of thinking, which he put down to Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) and Meister Eckhart (ca 1260- ca 1328).

Klibansky's interest in Cusanus is connected with the general rediscovery of this particular philosopher as of the late 19th century. Apart from the scholars of the Catholic TObinger School around Johann Adam Mohler ( 1796-1838) it were primarily the Neokantians, who showed interest in Cusanus again. They were looking for answers to questions on epistemology and the philosophy of the mind. What the philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) from Marburg particularly liked about Cusanus was how he developed his philosophy. Cusanus took mathematical as well as scientific models as a basis. In his work Ernst Cassirer, who was a pupil of Cohen at Marburg, further concentrated on these aspects. In his book The Problem of Knowledge in Modem Philosophy and Science that he published in 1906, Cassirer focuses on Cusanus in the entire first chapter. Cohen had already concentrated on publishing new editions of Cusanus' works. These books were brought out by the publishing

house Meiner as a part of its 'Philosophische Bibliothek' (particular line of books). After Cohen's death, the idea of a new edition on Cusanus' collected works was taken up by Ernst Hoffmann (1880-1952), one of Cassirer's pupils and Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg. Hoffmann is known to carry out studies on the history of Platonism in the Middle Ages and he was Klibansky's supervisor while he finished his doctoral thesis about the School of Chartres in 1928. Klibansky took part in one of Hoffmann's seminars about Cusanus in 1927.7 It was the same year that Cassirer's book The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy was published. It contained an excerpt of Cusanus' ldiota de mente. Klibansky pointed out to Cassirer that this particular excerpt was based on an uncritical volume of the 16th century. It was the Parisian Cusanus edition by Faber Stapulensis ( 1455-1537) of 1514, which was newly reprinted by Henricus Petri (1441-1511) at Basel in 1565. In his discussion with Cassirer, Klibansky emphasised that it was highly necessary to publish a historically critical Cusanus edition and that such an edition should be based on all preserved manuscripts available. For this purpose Klibansky analysed each handwritten document inside and outside of the Cusanus library at St. Nikolaus Hospital in Kues that he could find. During a visit to Hamburg, he presented to Cassirer his conception of a critical Cusanus edition. They sent this conception to Hans von Schubert (1859-1931), who was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Heidelberg and president of the 'Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften' (Heidelberg Academy of Science). Schubert realised how important the project was and arranged for the academy's decision to publish the Cusanus edition. For this purpose a special commission called the (still existing} Cusanus Commission was installed. In the beginning, the commission's members were Klibansky, Ernst Hoffmann and the Neokantian Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936). Since 1928 Klibansky had been employed by the academy as academic specialist for the Cusanus edition.a

7 In a personal letter (July 25, 2003) to the author Prof. Morimichi Watanabe (New York) wrote: "Another fact I wish to mention in this connection is that one of my teachers at Columbia University was Professor Paul Oskar Kristeller, who was a student of Ernst Hoffmann both at his Gymnasium in Berlin and later at Heidelberg University. Klibansky and KristeUer were Hoffrnann's students at Heidelberg and became 'rivals' later as scholars in the good sense of the word. I believe that we can also call them 'giants', the kind, I am afraid, we are not going to see in the future. I was privileged to know them both and had them simultaneously as members of the Advisory Board of our Society until Prof. Kristeller died in 1999."

8 Regarding the history of the Cusanus edition at the academy of Heidelberg compare primarily: various writers, (no title, Reports


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Not only did Klibansky significar' '-, infiuence the olanning of the Cusanus edition, but he alsc oerv1sed the ·' ctual structuring of the individual volur Klibansky found it especially important to include a source directory and extra information on the consequences of Cusanus' work apart from the main discussion. In this way Klibansky could refute Ernst Hoffmann's opinion that there was no connection between medieval Platonism and Cusanus. He proved that there existed a direct continuity and reception between the Platonism taught at the School of Chartres and Cusanus. Before the first volume of the critical Cusanus edition came out, Klibansky and Hoffmann released two of Cusanus' texts as separate publications. These texts were meant to help in understanding Cusanus' main wori<. In 1929 the sermon Dies sanctificatus of Christmas 1439 was published in the Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie. Its comparison to the Docta ignorantia, which was finished in 1440, is quite revealing. Apart from that, Klibansky published a text on Cusanus' view of the universe that was attached to a study by Hoffmann in 1930. The study was on the same topic. Only two years later, the first and second volume of the Cusanus edition could be presented. The first one was the Apologia doctae ignorantiae, which was published by Klibansky alone. The second one was the Docta ignorantia, which Klibansky and Hoffmann published together. The initial plan was to limit the edition to Cusanus' philosophical essays and his texts concerning state policy. The entire edition was to comprise

on the progress of the Cusanus edrtion at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften). In: Sitzungsgeschichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte. Heidelberg, Winter, 1927-28: p. VII , VIII, X, XIII-XVIII. 1928-29: p. VI, XI, XVI-XVII. 1929-30: p. IV, VII, XI, XIII, XVIII, XXl-XXIV. 1930-31: p. X, XV-XVI. 1931-32: p. XVII, XIV-XVI. 1932-33: p. VI, VIII, xv. 1933-34: p. Ill, X-XI. 1935-36: p. V-VI, XVI. As well as: Morimichi Watanabe, The Origins of modem Cusanus Research in Germany and the Establishment of the Heidelberg Opera omnia. In: Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. lzbicki, Nicholas of Cusa in Search of God and Wisdom. Leiden et al., Brill, 1991, pp. 17-42. In addition: Thea Hoffmann, Wie die Cusanus-Ausgabe begann. In: Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 5 (1965), pp. 164-165. Werner Beierwaltes, (no title). In: Ceterum censeo ... Bemerkungen zu Aufgabe und Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard Meiner.zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Mainer, 1983, pp. 26-30. Karl Bormann, (no title). In: ibd., 31-34. Hans Gerhard Senger, Die kritische Edition der Werke des Nikolaus von Kues. In: Akademie-Joumal. Mitteilungsblatt der Konferenz der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften 2195 (1996), pp. 5-10. Id., Die Nikolaus-von-Kues-Ausgabe als Beispiel einer historisch-krrtischen Edition. In: Zeitschrift fiir Philosophische Forschung 38/1 (1984), pp. 73-83.

14 volumes altogether and was scheduled to be completed in 1939. The first two volumes were enthusiastically welcomed by famous medievalists and no less a person than Martin Grabmann ( 1875-1949) expressly emphasised Klibansky's work in a review.s Other critical editions about medieval scholars, such as Albertus Magnus and Johannes Duns Scots, were explicitly planned and structured following the example set by Klibansky's Heidelberg Cusanus edition.

The fact that Klibansky started a second collected works project, aside from the Cusanus edition, shows Klibansky's enormous wori<ing power and initiative during his time in Heidelberg. In 1932 Klibansky wori<ed out a plan for a critical edition on the Latin writings by Meister Eckhart comprising 17 fascicles. In this project Klibansky intended to work together with the Historical Institute of the Dominicans Santa Sabina in Rome. At that time the head of the institute was the wellknown Eckhart specialist Gabriel TMry (1891-1959) from France. Klibansky's interest in Eckhart had the same reason as his interest in Cusanus. Klibansky believed that Meister Eckhart's image of the spari< of the soul, which is a direct part of God, anticipated the Hegelian idea of dialectically going beyond rationality concept of freedom resulting from it. But it was already during its creation process that the Eckhart project turned out to be much more complicated than the Cusanus edition.

As the political climate of the 1930s deteriorated in Germany, Meister Eckhart's theories were taken up for the sake of ideology. In his book The Myth of the 2CJh Century the National Socialist ideologist Alfred Rosenberg ( 1893-1946) devoted an extensive chapter to Meister Eckhart. There he built up Eckhart and claimed that he was the reincarnation of Odin, the centre of Aryan philosophy. With his northern thinking Eckhart had been the major figure in Germanic philosophy. That was the moment Klibansky realised what happened. Eckhart's legacy was only vulnerable to distortion because Eckhart's sermons and tracts in German were the only original source and could only be found in unreliable volumes. Eckhart's Latin works, however, were largely unknown. Klibansky pointed out that Meister Eckhart's traditional German texts could only be understood properly if the reader knows the speculative Latin works. However, it was only possible to comprehend these Latin manuscripts, if they are seen in the context of their creation at the Universities of Paris and Cologne. Using the Latin works Klibansky demonstrated that it were Arabian and Jewish

9 Martin Grabmann, review of: Nioolai de Cusa Opera omnia. In: Deutsche Lrteraturzeitung, Dritte Folge, 4. Jahrgang, Heft 15 (9. April 193:, Sp. 685-692.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter scholars, such as Maimonides (1135-1204), who inspired Eckhart. But this did certainly not fit into the picture of their "German Master" that the National Socialists projected. As a consequence it did not take long until Klibansky had to face vehement opposition. His critics complained that the project was solely carried out by Jewish and foreign academics.

Shortly after Klibansky published the first fascicle, the Latin sermon on the Lord's Prayer, at the publishing house Meiner in Leipzig in 1934, he had to face competition. The 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft' (German Research Society) started to work on a competing edition with the publishing house Kohlhammer (Stuttgart) in 1936. Aside from the Latin manuscripts, this version was planned to contain the texts in German. The head of the project was the Protestant ecclesiastical historian Erich Seeberg ( 1888-1945). While Josef Koch (1885-1967) became responsible for the Latin texts, Josef Quint (1898-1976) was in charge of the German part. Seeberg had virtually adapted the National Socialist projection of Eckhart and started inveighing against Klibansky's edition in an impertinent way.10 He achieved that all Eckhart manuscripts located in German libraries were no longer available to the competing editors. Klibansky neither wanted nor could continue his work under such circumstances. He therefore resigned from his post as chief of the edition at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Aside from the sermon on the Lord's Prayer only two further fascicles had been published. The first was the prologues of the Opus tripartitum. It was edited by the Benedictine Hildebrand Bascour (1900-1990)11 from Belgium and published in 1935. The second was Parisian Questions and Prologues edited by the French Dominican Antoine Dondaine (1898-1987) and published in 1936. It contained commentary by Klibansky in Latin. The difficulties that Klibansky's edition had to face became more fierce as Josef Koch identified a number of mistakes in it and listed them in the Zeitschrift fur

io Erich Seaberg, Eckhartiana I. In: Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschichte 56 (1937), pp. 87-105. Id .. Die verlorene Handschrift. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte 8 (1937), pp. 386-397. In addition: Ingeborg Degenhardt, Studien zum Wandel des Eckhartbildes (= Studien zur Problemgeschichte der antiken und mittelalterlichen Philosophie 3). Leiden, Brill , 1976, pp. 294-297. Karl Albert, (no title). In: Ceterum censeo ... Bernerkungen zu Aufgabe und Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp. 23-25.

11 Regarding Bascour's cooperation with Klibansky also compare: Roland Hissette, In memoriam H. Bascour. In: Bulletin de philosophie medievale (Edita par la SIEPM) 32 (1990), p. 241.

Kirchengeschichte in 1936.12 The Eckhart edition from Stuttgart also contained the sermon on the Lord's Prayer and the Parisian Questions and Prologues. This clearly shows that there was a strong competition between the two editions.

Klibansky carried out the Eckhart edition project under the worst possible personal circumstances. In 1933 the pressure exercised by the National Socialist rule made Klibansky emigrate via the Netherlands to London where he became Honorary Lecturer at King's College. In addition, the library of Warburg employed him. He had arranged the library's move from Hamburg to London as early as the beginning of the National Socialist rule. During the confusions of World War Two Klibansky continued his research work, but he also worked for the British Intelligence. Most likely it was his influence that prevented the Allies from bombarding St. Nikolaus Hospital in Kues with its precious collections of Cusanus' handwritten manuscripts.

In spite of the unfavourable times Klibansky took the initiative and started another innovative edition, namely the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. In his research on German dialectical thinking he went from Hegel back to Cusanus and Eckhart. As a result of his research on these philosophers Klibansky discovered that, in fact, Platonism had strongly influenced their philosophy. In connection with this Klibansky made an amazing find in the library of Cusanus as early as 1927. In the Latin translation by Cusanus of Proklos· commentary on Plato's Parrnenides. Klibansky found a text that was missing in the widely spread Greek edition.13 That was why he actually recognised the true meaning of the medieval translations for the history of both Platonism and dialectical thinking. However, these translations had not yet been presented in a coherent critical edition. After intense research work that Klibansky expounds in his book The Continufty of the Platonic Tradition during the Middle Ages, released in London in 1939, he started to plan such an edition. Soon Klibansky realised that he ought to include the Arabian propagators of Platonic thinking from the Middle Ages in an individual section called Plato Arabus. The first two fascicles of the corpus, which was released at the Warburg Institute in London, contained those two dialogues by Plato that had been fully translated in the 12th century already. It was the

12 Josef Koch, Kritische Bernerkungen zu Hildebrand Bascours neuer Ausgabe der Eckhart-Prologe. In: Zeitschrifl fur Kirchengeschichte 55 (1936), pp. 264-285.

13 Raymond Klibansky, Ein Proklos-Fund und seine Bedeutung. (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928129, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 5. Abhandlung). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Menon, released in 1940, and the Phaidon, released in 1950. Publishing Plato's vital text for the Middle Ages, the Timaios, and the commentaries on it was a primary issue. Although this dialogue by Plato in the version of Chalcidius from the 4t~ century was not fully translated, it had great influence on the development of a rational cosmology in the Middle Ages. This influence contributed to the development of modem natural science.

Klibansky's research on Apuleius (2nd century) is also connected with the question whether the Platonic tradition persists. In 1993 he published a complete directory of the entire handwritten philosophical work of Apuleius together with Frank Regen. Referring to marginal notes that he found in the Apuleius documents he concluded how Platonic ideas were put across to Petrarca (1304-1374), Cusanus and Ficino. With his research on Platonic tradition in LatinArabian medieval times Klibansky tried to explain how Plato's ideas had stayed alive in the history of European thinking, although his dialogues had not been available in the Greek original. Since Klibansky's research work, the rather confusing structure of epochs, namely the Aristotle Middle Ages on the one hand and the Platonic Middle Ages on the other hand, has finally become obsolete.

What is most intriguing about Klibansky's biography is the fact that not only did he witness the pinnacle of GermanJewish academic culture and its bloody suppression by the National Socialists, but he also took part in rebuilding the world in the post-war period. In 1946 Klibansky followed a call to the English-speaking McGill University in Montreal. From 1947 he lectured for 21 years as Permanent Guest Professor at the local French-speaking university. He worked closely together with the medievalist Benoit Lacroix (*1915), the head of the local Albertus Magnus Institute for Medieval Studies.14

Aside from the medievalist research Klibansky's philosophical interests were dominated by his experiences of dictatorship and world wars. As a consequence he planned to publish a number of texts that would proclaim tolerance and dialogue on a philosophical basis. He thought about texts like John Locke's (1632-1704) A Letter Concerning Tolerance or Asoka's famous Indian Edicts from the 3rd century, which demanded freedom of worship for the first time ever. Klibansky's research on tolerance is also strongly connected with medievalist interests. Cusanus' dialogue On

14 Raymond Klibansky, Rencontres avec Benoit Lacroix. In: Dits et gestes de Benoit Lacroix. Montreal, Editions du Noroit I Fondation Aibert~e-Grand, 1995, pp. 143-145.

Peaceful Unity of Faith that was published by Klibansky and Hildebrand Bascour in 1956, already contains central aspects of the idea of tolerance. Klibansky succeeded in proving that, among others, even Lessing ( 1729-1781) knew this text. Thus he concluded thai rt influenced the ideas of tolerance during the Enlightenment.1s

When he was president of the International Institute of Philosophy (1966-1969), Klibansky actively supported the worldwide dialogue between cultures and philosophies. In this position he published a number of companion volumes on the contemporary situation of philosophy worldwide. He also published a few multilingual dictionaries and encyclopaedias that were meant to make communication between philosophers from different countries easier.16

Looking back at Raymond Klibansky's life - now almost lasting a whole century - we can finally state: seldom if ever did someone transform the shocking events of our contemporary history into highly positive commitment in a dialectical way as Klibansky has been doing in his entire life.

Chronological table about Raymond Klibansky's life and work

1905 Raymond Klibansky is born on 15 October in Paris as the son of a German vintner.

1914 At the beginning of World War One Klibansky's family emigrates from Paris to Frankfurt

1921 Klibansky starts studying philosophy and philology in Heidelberg (with Karl Jaspers). Klibansky was a member of Stefan George's (Friedrich Gundolf) circle of acquaintances and frequented the house of Max Weber's widow.

1924 On Jaspers' recommendation Klibansky becomes assistant to the sociologist Ferdinand TOnnies in Kiel.

1s Also Compare with Lessing: Raymond Klibansky, Rede zum Lessingpreis der Stadt Hamburg. In: Verleihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlasslich der Preisiibergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 23-32.

1s Regarding Klibansky's project on a multilingual dictionary of philosophical terms also compare: Richard McKean, The meaning of Justice and the Relations among Traditions of Thought. In: Contribution au projet d'un Dictionnaire international des T ennes fondamentaux de la Philosophie et de la Pensee politique realise sous les auspices du Conseil international de Philosophie et des Sciences humaines avec !'aide de !'UNESCO. Released in: Revue internationale de phUosophie 11/41 (1957), pp. 253-267.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter 1926 Upon invitation by Ernst Cassirer Klibansky moves from

Heidelberg to Hamburg where he stays at Cassirer's place. Together with Hans Saxl and Erwin Panofsky he works on Saturn and Melancholy at the Warburg library.

1927 Klibansky's first scienctific publication is an attachment to Cassirer's book The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. It is an edition of Carolus Bovillus' De sapiente. In Kues Klibansky discovers the Latin translation of an ending of Proklos' commentary on Parmenides that had been unknown up to then. He presents a plan for a critical edition of the works of Nikolaus Cusanus to the Heidelberg Academy of Science and is given the task by Heinrich Rickert and Ernst Hoffmann. In 1932 Apologia doctae ignorantiae and De docta ignorantia is published.

1928 Klibansky earns his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg with Professor Ernst Hoffmann. He writes his doctoral thesis on the School of Chartres.

1928 Klibansky starts his work as scientific assistant at the Heidelberg Academy of Science. He begins his research for the Cusanus edition.

1931 Klibansky achieves habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with his thesis on Philosophy and History. He is appointed as 'Privatdozent.'17

1932 Klibansky is planning a critical edition of Meister Eckhart's Latin works (Magistri Eckardi Opera Latina) at the Heidelberg Academy of Science (publishing house Meiner, Leipzig). Superoratione dominica (ed . Klibansky 1934) and Parisian Questions and Prologues (ed. Dondaine 1936) is published. Due to political reasons the edition can no longer be continued.

1933 Klibansky emigrates from Heidelberg via the Netherlands to London. During the Second World War he works for the British intelligence division Political Warfare Executive.

1934 Klibansky is appointed Honorary Lecturer at King's College, London. Beginning his editorial work on the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi in Oxford (College Orie~ .

1936 Klibansky publishes a commemorative compilation for Cassirer. It is titled Philosophy and History.

1939 The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition is published at Warburg Institute in London.

1941 The first volume of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (co-production with Richard Hunt; eight volumes until 1968) is published.

1946 Klibansky is appointed as Professor at the Englishspeaking McGill University in Montreal.

11 Title of a lecturer who is not a professor and not a civil servant at a university.

1947 Klibansky starts to work as a Guest Lecturer at the Albertus Magnus Institute for Medieval Studies of the French-speaking University of Montreal.

1956 Editing Nikolaus Cusanus' De pace fidei (together with H. Bascour).

1957 Founding the line of books Philosophie et communaute mondiale with a number of multilingual editions containing original texts on the ideas of tolerance and world community, among others, John Locke's A Letter Concerning Tolerance (1964) and The Edicts of Asoka (1968).

1964 Saturn and Melancholy (English version) is published in London and New York almost thirty years after it was written.

1966 Until 1969 Klibansky is president of the International Institute of Philosophy. In this capacity he publishes a number of companion volumes and multilingual dictionaries to support the worldwide development of philosophy: Philosophy in the Mid-Century (1958-59); Contemporary Philosophy(1968-71); La philosophie en Europe (1993); Glossaire des mot-clefs de la philosophie ( 1996)

1993 Klibansky is granted the Lessing Prize in Hamburg. 1995 Klibansky is granted the Honorary Doctorate at the

University of Bologna as well as the Nonino Pnze.

Bibliography {chronological order)

A) Texts by Klibansky1B

a) Editions and books

1a Regarding UUes unUI 1991 also compare: Bibliography of Raymond Klibansky. In: The NoUon of Tolerance and Human Rights. Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky. Edited by Ethel Groffier and Michel Paradis. Ottawa, Carteton University Press, 1991 , pp. 165-17 4 [the following biography from 1975 is adapted completely: Michael J. Whalley I Desiree Park, Bibliography of Raymond Klibansky. In: Methode et Philosophie de l'histoire. Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. Numero thematique de la Revue Internationale de Philosophie 19/111-112 (1975), pp. 167-174]. As well as: Georges Leroux, Hommage a Raymond Klibansky: De Nicolas de Cues aux entfants de Satume. -Bibliographie des lravaux de Raymond Klibansky. - Curria.ilum vitae. Paris, Gallimard, 1991. And: Bibliographie der Bucher und Aufsatze Raymond Klibanskys. In: Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahmundert. Gesprache mit Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franzosischen von Petra Willim. Frankfurt am Main, lnsel, 2001 , pp. 277-280. I would like to express my gratitude to Mrs Professor Ethel Groffier-Klibansky (Montreal) for her advice regarding publications after 1991 .


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American Cusanus Society Newsletter CAROLUS BOVILLUS: Uber de Sapiente. Einleitung und Edition

von R. Klibansky. Beilage zu Ernst Cassirer: lndividuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance. (=Studien der Bibliothek Warburg 10). Leipzig I Berlin, Teubner; 1927, pp. 299-458. Reprint: Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963 and 1994.

Ein Proklos-Fund und seine Bedeutung. (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928/29, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 5. Abhandlung). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929.

Cusanus-Texte I. 1. Predigten. ,,Dies Sanctificatus" vom Jahre 1439. Lateinisch und deutsch mit Erlauterungen hg. von E. Hoffmann und R. Klibansky. (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928/29. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 3. Abhandlung 1929). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929.

NICOLAI DE CUSA: Opera omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis edita). Vol. II: Apologia Doctae lgnorantiae (ed.). Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1932.

N1coLA1 DE CusA: Opera omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis edita). Vol. I: De Docta lgnorantia (mit Ernst Hoffmann). Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1932.

MAGISTRI ECKARD!: Opera Latina (auspiciis lnstituti S. Sabinae in Urbe ad codicum fidem edita). Fasc. I: Super oratione dominica. Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1934.

MAGISTRI ECKARD!: Opera Latina (auspiciis lnstituti S. Sabinae in Urbe ad codicum fidem edita). Fasc. XIII: Quaestiones Parisienses. Edidit Antonius Dondaine OP. Commentariorum de Eckardi Magisterio. Adiunxit Raymundus Klibansky. Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1936.

Philosophy and History. Essays in Honour of Ernst Cassirer. Edited with H.J. Paton. Oxford, Clarendon, 1936. Reprint, with enlarged bibliography: New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1963.

The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition. London, The Warburg Institute, 1939. Second edition: London 1950.

Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Auspiciis Academiae Britannicae edidit Raymundus Klibansky.

Plato Latinus I: Meno, lnterprete Henrico Aristippo. Ed. V. Kordeuder. Recognovit et praefatione instruxlt Carlotta Labowsky. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1940.

Plato Latinus II: Phaedo, lnterprete Henrico Aristippo. Ed. et praefatione instruxlt L. Minio-Paluello. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1950.

Plato Latinus Ill: Platonis Parmenides nee non Procli Commentarium in Parmenidem, pars adhuc inedita. Ediderunt, praefatione adnotationibusque illustraverunt Raymundus Klibansky et Carlotta Labowsky. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1953.

Plato Latinus IV: nmaeus, a Calcidio translatus commentarioque instructus. Ed. J.H. Waszink. Londonii et Leida, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1962.

Plato Arabus I: Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis. Edd. Paulus Kraus et Richardus Walzer. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1961 .

Plato Arabus II: Alfarabius de Platonis Philosophia. Ed. Franciscus Rosenthal et Richardus Walzer. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1943.

Plato Arabus Ill : Alfarabius Compendium legum Platonis. Ed. J.H. Waszink. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1952.

Reprint of Plato Latinus 1-111 and Plato Arabus 1-111: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus-Thomson, 1973. Second edition of Plato Latinus IV: Leiden, Brill , 1975.

Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies. Edited with R.W. Hunt, Oxford. Published so far.

Vol. I, 1 The Warburg Institute, University of London 1941 . Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1970.

Vol. I, 2 The Warburg Institute, University of London 1943. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1970.

Vol. II The Warburg Institute, University of London 1951 . Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1970.

Vol. Ill The Warburg Institute, University of London 1954.

Vol. IV The Warburg Institute, University of London 1958.

Vol. V The Warburg Institute, University of London 1961.

Vol. VI The Warburg Institute, University of London 1968.

Supplement Vol. I The Warburg Institute, University of London 1951 . Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1977.

Supplement Vol. II The Warburg Institute, University of London 1952.

Supplement Vol. Ill The Warburg Institute. University of London 1956. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1977.

Leibniz's Unknown Correspondence with English Scholars and Men of Letters. In: Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 1/1 . London, The Warburg Institute, 1941, pp. 133-147 and separately.

MUSSOLINI , BENITO: Memoirs 1942-1943 With documents Relating to the Period. Translated by Frances Lobb. Edited, with Commentary by R. Klibansky. London,

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1949. Reprint: New York, Fertig , 1975.

CROCE, BENEDETIO: Essays on the Moral and Political Problems of our Time . Selected by R. Klibansky. London, Allen & Unwin, 1949; New York, Macmillan, 1949. Reprint: New York, Collier Books, 1962.

New Letters of David Hume. Edited with E.C. Mossner. Oxford, Clarendon, 1954. Reprint: Oxford, 1969. New York, Garland, 1983.

Nelson Philosophical Texts. (General Editor). Published so far:

Vol. I

Vol. II

Vol. Ill

Vol IV

Vol. V

Vol. VI

Vol. VII

Vol. VIII

HUME, DAVID: Theory of Knowledge. Ed. by D.C. Vaiden-Thomson. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1951 . HUME, DAVID: Theory of Politics. Ed. by Frederick Watkins. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1951. BERKELEY, GEORGE: Philosophical Writings. Selected and edited by T.E. Jessop. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1952. ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES: Political Writings. Translated and edited by Frederic Watkins. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1953. PLATO: Socratic Dialogues. Translated and edited by W.D. Woodhead. With Introduction by G.C. Field. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1953. DESCARTES, RENE: Philosophical Writings. A Selection. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Geach. With Introduction by Alexandre Koyre. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1954. OcKAM, WILLIAM: Philosophical Writings. A Selection. Edited and translated by Philotheus BOhner OFM. Edinburgh, Nelson. 1957. DUNS Scorns, JOHANNES: Philosophical Writings. A Selection. Edited and translated by Allan Wolter OFM. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1962.

Reprint of Vol. VI : London, Nelson's University Paperback, The Open University, 1970. Reprints of parts of Vol. VII and VIII : Indianapolis & New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1964. Reprints of Vol. VII and VII I: Indianapolis I Cambridge, Hackett, 1990 and 1987.

NICOLAI DE CuSA: De pace fidei. Ediderunt commentariisque illustraverunt Raymundus Klibansky et Hildebrandus Bascour OSB. University of London, The Warburg Institute, 1956. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1977. Republished as: NICOLAI DE GUSA: Opera omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Utterarum

Heidelbergensis edita). Vol. VII. Hamburgi, Meiner, 1959. Second edition: ibid., 1970.

PLATO: Philebus and Epinomis. Translated by A.E. Taylor. Revised and edited by R. Klibansky (with the cooperation of G. Calogero). Edinburgh, Nelson, 1956. Reprint: Folkestone and London, Dawson, 1971.

LOCKE, JOHN: Ein Brief iiber Toleranz (Englisch-Deutsch). Obersetzt, eingeleitet und in Anmerkungen er1autert von Julius Ebbinghaus. (=La philosophie et la communaute mondiale 1 ). Mit einer Einffihrung zur Reihe .La philosophie et ta communaute mondiale" von R. Klibansky. Hamburg, Meiner, 1957.

Philosophy in the Mid-Century- La Philosophie au Milieu du Vingtieme Siecle. Edited with Introduction by Raymond Klibansky. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1958-59.

Vol. I Logic and Philosophy of Science. Vol. II Metaphysics and Analysis. Vol. Ill Values, History, Religion. Vol. IV History of Philosophy- Contemporary

Thought in Eastern Europe and Asia. Second edition: Vols. 1-111: Firenze 1961. Vol. IV: Firenze

1962. Third edition: Vol. I: Firenze 1967. Reprint of Vol. 1-IV:Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1976. PLATO: Sophist and Statesman. Translated by A.E Taylor.

Edited by R. Klibansky and E. Anscombe. Edinburgh, Nelson, 1961 . Reprint: Folkestone and London, Dawson of Pall Mall, 1971 .

LOCKE, JOHN: Lettera sulla Tolleranza. Testo latino e versione italiana. Premessa (pp. V-X) ed edizione del testo latino di Raymond Klibansky. (=Filosofia e Communita Mondiale 3). Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1961 . Premessa (Introduction) reprinted in: Pensatori Antichi e Moderni. Vol. 62. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1963.

LOCKE, JOHN: Carta sabre la tolerancia (Latin -Castellano). Traducci6n de A. Waismann. Pr61ogo de R. Klibansky. (=Filosofia y Comunidad Mundial. Serie dirigida por Raymond Klibansky). Montreal, Casalini, 1962.

LOCKE, JOHN: Ust o tolerancji (Latin and Polish). Introduction and edition of the Latin texts by Raymond Klibansky. (In the polish line of "Philosophy and World Community"). Warsaw, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1963.

Saturn and Melancholy. Studies in the History of Religion, Art, and Natural Philosophy. With E. Panofsky and F. Saxl. London, Nelson, 1964. New York, Basic Books, 1964. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1979. Italian: Satumo e la melanconia. Studi di storia della filosofia naturale, re/igione e arte. Traduzione di Renzo Federici. Torino, Einaudi, 1983. French: Saturn et la Melancolie. Etudes historiques et philosophiques: Nature, religion, medecine et art. Traduction de Fabienne Durand-Bogaert et Louis Evrard et Avant-


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Propos de Raymond f,i ibansky (pp 19). Paris, Gallimard, 1989. German: Saturn w Melancholie. Studien zur Geschichte der Naturphilosophie und Medizin, der Religion und der Kunst. Ubersetzt von Christa Buschendorf. Frankfurt, Suhrkamp, 1990. Spanish: Saturno y la rnelanco/ia. Estudios de historia de la filosofia de la naturaleza, la religion y el arte. Version espaliola de Maria Luisa Balseiro. Madrid, Alianza, 1991. Japonese: Tokyo, Shobunsha, 1991. Romanian: Saturn i melancolia. Studii de filosofie a naturii, religie i artti. Bucharest, Polirom, 2002.

LOCKE, JOHN: Lettre sur la Tolerance. Texte latin et traduction fran9aise. Edition critique et preface par Raymond Klibansky. Traduction et intnc.:Jction par Raymond Polin. I: Montreal, Casalini. 1 So4. II: Paris Presses Universitaires de France, 1965. Second edition: Paris 1967.

Introduction. In: Spinoza on Freedom of Thought (Japanese). (=Philosophy and World Community). Tokyo, Risosha, 1966.

Introduction. In: The Edicts of Asoka (Hebrew). The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, 1968.

LOCKE, JOHN: Epistola de Tolerantia-A Letter on Toleration. Latin text edited with a Preface by Raymond Klibansky. English translation with an introduction and notes by J.W. Gough. Oxford, Clarendon, 1968.

LOCKE, JOHN: Epistola de Tolerantia (Latin and Japanese). Introduction and edition of Latin text by Raymond Klibansky. Japanese translation by A Hirano. Tokyo, Asahi, 1970.

Contemporary Philosophy- La Philosophie Contemporaine. Edited with introductions by Raymond Klibansky. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1968-71.

Vol. I Logic and Foundations of Mathematics -Logique e• Fonciements des Mathematiques.

Vol. II Philosopr of Science - Philosophy des Sciences.

Vol. Ill Metaphysics. Phenomenology. Language and Structure. - Metaphysique. Phenomenologie. Langage et Strocture.

Vol. IV Ethics. Aesthetics. Philosophy of Law. R9/igion. Politics. Historical and Dialectical Matena ism. Philosophy in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. - Ethique. Esthetique. Droit. Religion. Politique. Materialisme historique et dialectique. La Philosophie en Europe Oriental, en Aste et en Amerique Latine.

The Significance of Mediaeval Philosophy Today. (Japanese). Tokyo, Keio University Press, 1972.

LOCKE, JOHN: Level a vallasi tiirelemrol. (Latin and Hungarian). Introduction and edition of Latin text by Raymond Klibansky. Hungarian translation of

introduction and text by Laszlo Matrai. Buda~·est , Akademiai Kiad6, 1973. Second edition:19C

NICOLAI DE GUSA: De docta ignorantia, Uber tert1us. Ed. Raymundus Klibansky. NIKOLAUS VON KUES: Die belehrte Unwissenheit, Buch Ill. Ubersetzt von H.G. Senger. Mit einem Anhang (pp. 205-236i Zur Geschichte der Oberlieferong der Docta ignorantia von Raymond Klibansky. (=Philosophische Bibliothek Meiner 264c. Nikolaus von Kues. Schriften in deutscher Ubersetzung, Heft 15c). Hamburg, Meiner, 1977.

The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition during the Middle Ages. With a new preface and four supplementary chapters. Together with Plato's Parmenides in the Middle t qes and the Renaissance. With a new introdu1 .:xy preface. Munchen, Kraus, 1981 and Milwooa, N.Y. /London I Nendeln (Liechtenstein) 1982.

NICOLAI DE CusA: Opera Omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Utterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita). Vol. XII: De venatione sapientiae. De apice theoriae. Ed. commentariisque illustraverunt Raymundus Klibansky et lohannes Gerhardus Senger. Hamburg, Meiner, 1982.

NICOLAI DE CuSA: Opera Omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita). Vol. V: ldiota de sapientia. ldiota de mente. Ed. alteram cur. R. Steiger. Duas appendices adiecit Raymundus Klibansky: I: De memoria librorum ldiotae. II: De dialogis Devera sapientia Francisco Petrarcae addictis. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp. Ll-LXXll. First edition: Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1937.

LOCKE, JOHN: Epistola de Tolerantia and a Second Letter concerning Toleration. (Hebraisch). Translation by Joram Bronowsky. Preface by Raymond Klibansky. Edited by J. Golomb. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, 1990.

Contemporary Philosophy. A new Survey. Edited by G. Fl0istad and R. Klibansky. Vol. VI: Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages. 2 Vol. Dordrecht I Boston I London, Kluwer, 1990.

Introduction. In: Philosophy in Europe. A collection of Surveys. Directed and edited by R. Klibansky and David Pears. Paris (Unesco), Gallimard, 1993.

Die Handschriften der Philosophischen Werke des Apuleius. With Frank Regen. (=Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse 3). G6ttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.

La philosophie en Europe. Ed. et introduction de R. Klibansky et D. Pears. Paris, Gallimard, 1993.

Bibliographie de la philosophie. Glossaire. - Bibliography of Philosophy. Glossary (English, German, Spanish, Italian). Paris, Vrin, 1996.

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Le Philosophe et la memoire du siec/e. Paris, Les Belles

Lettres, 1998. Montreal, Boreal, 2000. Spanish translation: Barcelona 1999. German translation: Erinnerung an ein Jahrtwndert. Gesprache mit Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franzosischen von Petra Willim. Frankfurt, lnsel, 2001 .

La pensee philosophique d'expression fram;aise au Canada. Le rayonnement du Quebec. Sous la direction de Raymond Klibansky et Josiane Boulad-Ayoub. Introduction de Raymond Klibansky. Quebec, Les presses de l'Universite Laval, 1998.

b) Essays and notes

NICOLAUS DE GUSA: Gedanken zur Kosmologie (Cod. Cusan. 211, fol. 55v). Textbeilage mit Einleitung in: E. Hoffmann, Das Universum des Cusanus. (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1929/30, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 3. Abhandlung; Cusanus-Studien 1 ). Heidelberg, Winter, 1930, pp. 41-45.

Art. Niccolo da Gusa (Cusano). ln: Enciclopedia ltaliana (di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti) . Vol. 24. Roma, lstituto della Enciclopedia ltaliana, 1934, pp. 761-763.

(no title, on a MS of Eriugenas "De divisione naturae" with marginal notes of Cusanus). In: Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 3. Folge, 6. Jahrgang, Heft 52 (1935), Sp. 2283.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. In: Isis. Quarterly of the International Academy of the History of Science 26 (1936), pp. 147-149.

De memoria librorum ldiotae. - De dialogis De vera sapientia Francisco Petrarcae addictis. In: Nicolai de Gusa: Opera Omnia (iussu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita). Vol. V: ldiota de sapientia. ldiota de mente. Ed. alteram cur. R. Steiger. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp. Ll-LXXll. First edition: Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1937.

The Philosophical Character of History. In: Philosophy and History. Essays in Honour of Ernst Cassirer. Edited with H.J. Paton. Oxford, Clarendon. 1936, pp. 233-337. Reprint, with enlarged bibliography: New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1963.

Letters of Hume. In: Times Litterary Supplement 38/1929 (21. Januar 1939), p. 41.

Rapports annuels sur le progres du Corpus Platonicum. In: Union Academique Internationale, Compte-rendu de la session annuelle. Bruxelles, Academie Royale de Belgique, 1953, 1958, 1959, 1961 , 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1971 , 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981 .

Plato 's Parmenides in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. University of London, The Warburg Institute, 1943.

Annual Report on the Corpus Platonicum. In : Proceedings of the British Academy, Lgndon, Vol. XXIV, 1938, p. 9; XXV, 1939, p 9; XXVll , 1941 , pp. 8-10; XXVlll , 1942, pp. 5-6; XXIX, 1943, pp. 5-6; XXX, 1944, pp. 6-7; XXXl, 1945, pp. 11 -12; XXXll , 1946, pp. 10-12; XXXlll, 1947, pp. 10-12; XXXIV, 1948, pp. 7-10; XXX.V, 1949, pp. 8-11 ; XX.XVI, 1950, pp. 9-10; XXX.Vll, 1951, pp. 8-9; XX.XVIII , 1952, pp 10-11 ; XXXIX, 1953, pp. 10-11 ; XL. 1954, p. 12; XU, 1955, pp. 11-12; XLll , 1956, pp. 13-14; XLlll, 1957, pp. 11-12; XLV, 1960, pp. 12-14; XLVlll, 1963, p. 14; XLIX, 1964, pp. 24-25; l , 1965, p. 23; LI, 1966, pp. 23-24; Lii, 1967, p. 25.

Report on the Progress of the Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. In: University of London. The Warburg Institute. Annual Report. London, 1940-41, p9; 1944-45, pp. 7-8; 1945-46, pp. 7-8; 1946-47, pp. 11-12; 1947-48, pp. 13-14; 1948-49, p. 14; 1949-50, p. 15; 1950-51 , pp. 14-15; 1951-52,p. 15; 1952-53, p. 12; 1953-54,p. 16; 1954-55, p. 14; 1955-56, pp. 12-13; 1956-57,p. 13; 1957-58, p. 13.

L'Epitre de Berenger de Poitiers contre /es Chartreux. In: Revue du Moyen Age Latin 2 (1946), pp. 314-316.

An lntemational Dictionary of the Basic Terms of Philosophy and Political Thought. In: Proceedings of the Third lnteramerican Congress of Philosophy, Mexico 1950. Published in Spanish: Un Diccionario Internacional de los T erminos Fundamentales de Fi/osofia y def Pensamiento Politico. Mexico 1950.

The Rock of Parmenides. Mediaeval Accounts of the Origins of Dialectic. In: Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, 1/2 (1943), pp. 171-186.

Copemic et Nicolas de Cues. In: Leonard de Vinci et !'esprit scientifique au xv1e siecle. Etudes publiees par le Centre National de la recherche scientifique. Paris, Presses Universitaires, 1953, pp. 225-235.

The School of Chartres. In: Twelfth-Century Europe and the Foundations of Modem Society. Ed. by M. Clagett et al. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1961, pp. 3-14. Paperback edition: 1966.

Peter Abailard and Bernard of Clairvaux. A letter by Abailard. In: Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 5 (1961), pp. 1-27 and separately.

Descartes. A Selected Bibliography. Reprint from: Descartes, Rene: Philosophical writings. (=Nelson Philosophical Texts 6). Edinburgh, Nelson, 1954, pp. XLIV-LIV. New, enlarged edition: 1970.

Bibliography of Ernst Cassirer's Writings. Wrth W. Solmitz. In: Philosophy and History. Essays in Honour of Ernst Cassirer. Edited with H.J. Paton. Oxford, Clarendon, 1936, pp. 339-346. Reprint, with enlarged bibliography: New York, Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Third, enlarged


American Cusanus Society Newsletter edition ed. by R. Klibansky. Separately: Bibliografia degli Scritti di Ernst Cassirer. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1966.

Bibliography of Philosophy - Bibliographie de la Philosophie. Vols. 1-XXXVlll. Under the direction of Raymond Klibansky. Paris, Vrin , 1954-1991.

Bibliography of Philosophy- Bibliographie de la Philosophie. Introduction. (lnstitut International de Philosophie). Paris, Vrin, 1954, Vol. I, pp. 9-12.

Nicholas of Cues. In: Philosophy in the Mid-Century. A Survey- La Philosophie au Milieu du Vingtieme Siecle. Chroniques. Edited with Introduction by Raymond Klibansky. Vol. IV: History of Philosophy - Contemporary Thought in Eastern Europe and Asia. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1959 (21962), pp. 88-93. Reprint in: Philosophy in the Mid-century. A Survey - La Philosophie au Milieu du Vingtieme Siecle. Chroniques edited by I par les soins de Raymond Klibansky. Montreal I Fiesole, Casalini, 1962, pp. 49-55, enlarged with an illustration: p. 54/55: De theol. compl., cap. 12; Bruxelles, Bibi. Royale, cod.11479-84, fol. 77'.

Gli Editti di Asoka. Premessa. (=Filosofia e Comunita Mondiale 1). Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1960.

Premessa. In: Sebastiano Castellione: Fede, Dubbio e Tolleranza. (=Filosofia e Comunita Mondiale 2). Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1960.

Introduction. In: Demonstration, Verification et Justification. Entretiens de l'lnstitut International de Philosophie, Liege 1967. Louvain & Paris, Nauwelaerts, 1968, pp. 5-13.

The Foundation of Rights. In: Le Fondement des Droits de l'Homme. Actes des Entretiens de l'Aquila. lnstitut International de Philosophie. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1966, pp. 204-206.

Summary and Discussions. In: Debats sur le Langage Theologique. Organises par le Centre International d'Etudes Humanistes et par l'lnstitut d'Etudes Philosophiques de Rome. Aux soins de Enrico Castelli. Paris, Aubier, 1969, pp. 26-30, 44-46, 49-51, 66-68, 83-84, 97-99, 115-116, 176-177, 179, 203, 209-210.

Discussions. In: Kierkegaard et la Philosophie Contemporaine. Entretiens de Copenhague. lnstitut International de Philosophie. Copenhagen (9-15 septembre 1966). In: Kierkegaard et la philosophie contemporaine. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 8 (1971 ).

II pensiero contemporaneo. In: II Sedicesimo 14-15 (1968), pp. 1-3.

Introduction. In: Nicolo Cusano agli inizi del mondo moclerno. Atti del Congresso lntemazionale in occasione del V centenario della morte di Nicolo Cusano. Bressanone 10-14 settembre 1954. (=Pubblicazioni della Facolta di Magistero dell'Universita di Padova 12). Firenze, Sansoni, 1970, p. 15.

Discussions. In: L'infallibilite. Son Aspect Philosophique et TMologique. Actes du Colloque organise par le Centre International d'Etudes Humanistes et par l'institut d'Etudes Philosophiques de Rome. Paris, Aubier, 1970, pp. 105f., 195f., 227f., 447f., 565f.

Contributions (Introductions, Discussions). In: Arts liberaux et philosophie au moyen age. Actes du quatrieme congres international de philosophie medievale. Universite de Montreal, Institute d'Etudes Medievales, 27 aoOt - 2 septembre 1967. Paris I Montreal, Vrin, 1969, pp. 30f., 119f., 148f., 151f., 155f., 1981., 259-262, 3011.

La Filosofia Contemporanea. In: II Sedicesimo 19 (1969), pp. 22-23.

Introduction. In: Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (ed.): The later Husserl and the Idea of Phenomenology. Papers and Debate of the International Phenomenological Conference held at the University of Water1oo, Canada, April 9- 14, 1969. (=Analecta Husserliana 2). Dordrecht, Reidel, 1972, pp. 18-20.

Oratio in initio conventus Societatis lntemationalis Studiis Philosophiae Medii Aevi Promovendis die V mensis Sept. anni MCMLXXll Matriti habita. In: Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale (Louvain) 14 (1972), pp. 186-188.

Discussion. In: El Peligro de la Libertad lntelectual. Mesa Redonda de la Unesco. Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico. Facultad de Filosofia y Letras. Mexico 1952, pp. 107, 115.

Introduction. In: Helmut Kohlenberger (ed.), Die Wirkungsgeschichte Anselms van Canterbury. Alden der ersten lntemationalen Anselm-Tagung Bad Wimpfen 13.-16.9.1970. (=Analecta Anselmiana IV/1). Frankfurt am Main, Minerva, 1975, pp. 19-22.

Discussion. In: Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa: The Initial Spontaneity. In: Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa (ed.): The Crisis of Culture. Steps to reopen the phenomenological Investigation of Man. Papers and Debate of the third International Conference held by the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society at Sir George Williams University and the University of Montreal, Montreal, March 26-30, 1974. (=Analecta Husserliana 5). Dordrecht I Boston, Reidel, 1976, pp. 1-50; Klibansky: pp. 39-43.

Zur Geschichte der Oberlieferung der Docta ignorantia. In: Nicolai de Cusa: De docta ignorantia, Uber tertius. Ed. Raymundus Klibansky. Nikolaus von Kues: Die belehrte Unwissenheit, Buch Ill. Obersetzt von H.G. Senger. (=Philosophische Bibliothek, Meiner 264c. Nikolaus von Kues. Schrif+.en in deutscher Obersetzung, Heft 15c). Hamburg, Meiner, 1977, pp. 205-236.

Neoplatonism and Christianity. In: Archivio di Filosofia 52 (1984), pp. 591-594.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Die Wirkungsgeschichte des Dialogs .De pace fidei". In: Der

Friede unter den Religionen nach Nikolaus van Kues . Akten des Symposions in Trier vom 13. bis 15. Oktober 1982. Hg. von Rudolf Haubst. (=Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der Cusanus-Gesellschaft 16). Mainz, Grunewald, 1984, pp. 113-25, 268.

Nicholas of Gusa (Cusanus): Bibliography. In: The Study of Spirituality. Ed. by C. Jones, G. Wainwright, E. Yamold SJ. Cambridge, University Press, 1986, pp. 325-327.

Cultures and Values in Historical Perspective. In: Cauchy, Venant (ed.): Philosophy and Culture. Proceedings of the XVll1h World Congress of Philosophy. Montreal, Editions du Beffroi I Editions Montmorency, 1986-1988, pp. 89-92.

Hidden Treasures at McGill: A Survey of Manuscripts and Historical Documents. In: Fontanus (Montreal) 11 (1989), pp. 65-96.

Raymond Klibansky, phi/osophe et historien. Entretien avec Yves Hersant et Alain de Ubera {=Archeobib/iographie Raymond Klibansky, second article]. In: Prefaces. Les idees et les sciences dans la bibliographie de la France 13 (Mai - juin 1989), pp. 132-142.

Adam of Ba/sham, called De Parvo Ponte. In: The Dictionary of National Biography. Missing Persons. Ed. by C. S. Nicholls. Oxford I New York, Oxford University Press, 1993-94, p. 4.

Jan Patotka. (Czech). In: Filozoficky casopis 30 (1991), p. 13.

L'Universite allemande dans Jes annees trente (notes autobiographiques). In Philosophiques 18 (1991), pp. 139-157.

Zur fiinfzigsten Wiederkehr der Pogromnacht. In: Trumah. Zeitschrift der Hochschule tor judische Studien Heidelberg 3 (1992), pp. 1-13.

Regagner Athenes a partird'Alexandrie. In: Alexandrie Ille siecle av. J.-C. Tousles savoirs du monde ou le reve d'universalite des Ptolemees. Dirige par C. Jacob et F. de Polignac. Paris, Autrement, 1992, pp. 231-245.

Jan Patotka. In: La Responsabilite I Responsability. Entretiens de Prague 1990. Praha 1990, pp. 17-35 (English). French: Profils de Jan Patocka. In: Hommages et documents reunis par H. Decleve. Bruxelles, Facultes Universitaires St. Louis, 1992, pp. 129-147.

Conversazione con Raymond Klibansky a cura di Francesco Barocel/i. In: Filosofia, scienza e astrologia nel Trecento europeo. A cura di Graziella Federici Vescovini. Padova, II Poligrafo, 1992, pp. 7-18.

La decouverte d'un texte inconnu de l'antiquite classique. In: Temoignages. Reflections on the Humanities. Ottawa, Federation canadienne des etudes humaines, 1993, pp. 41-58.

Rede zum Lessingpreis der Stadt Hamburg. In: Verteihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlafl.lich der Preisubergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 23-32.

Rencontres avec Benoit Lacroix. In: Dits et gestes de Benoit Lacroix, Montreal, Editions du Noroit I Fondation Albertle-Grand, 1995, pp 143-145.

Aus dem Heidelberger Geistesleben. Autobiographische Anmerl<ungen. In: Heidelberg. Geschichte und Gestalt. Heidelberg, Winter, 1996, pp. 270-282.

Die Grenzen des akademischen Lebens sprengen. Ein Gesprach iiber Ernst Cassirer und die Bibliothek Warburg. In: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift filr europaisches Denken 50 (1996), pp. 274-77.

Le awenture de/la malinconia. In: Dianoia (Bologna) 1 (1996), pp. 11-27.

Foreword. In: Jeff Mitscherling, Roman lngarden's Ontology and Aesthetics. Foreword by Raymond Klibansky. Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 1997.

Preface. In: Tolerance, pluralisme et histoire. Sous la direction de Paul Dumouchel et Bjame Melkevik. Paris, Harmattan, 1998, pp. 9-13.

Erinnenmgen an Emst Cassirer. Raymond Klibansky im Gesprach mit Thomas Goller. In: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie !no no.] 1999, Heft 2, pp. 275-288.

Erlebte Geschichte erzahlt 1994-1997. Michael Buselmeier im Gesprach mit Raymond Klibansky {und anderen]. Hrsg. von der Stadt Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2000, pp. 8-29.

Verzweifeln an der Welt. Und Raymond Klibansky kannte sie a/le. Ein Pladoyer fiir die Melancholie. (=Interview mit Raymond Klibansky von Andre Behr und Lars Reichardt). In: SUddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Beilage zu: Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 114 vom 18. Mai 2001, pp. 18-23. Reprint in: Behr, Andre und Reichardt, Lars: Lauter bitte! Dilsseldorf, My favourite book, 2001.

Le tresor de Kandahar. In: Librarium. Revue de fa Societe suisse des Bibliophiles - Zeitschrift der schweizerischen Bibliophilen Gesellschaft 1 (2002), pp. 38-40.

Adam of Ba/sham. In: New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, University Press, 2004 (in publication).

Adam of Wales. In: New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, University Press, 2004 (in publication).

Furthermore about 100 philosophical and historical Book Reviews in different papers and reviews.

B) Autobiographical information

Raymond Klibansky, phi/osophe et historien. Entretien avec Yves Hersant et Alain de Ubera {=Archeobibliographie

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Raymond Klibansky, second article}. In: Prefaces. Les idees et les sciences dans la bibliographie de la France 13 (Mai- juin 1989), pp. 132-142.

L'Universite allemande dans /es annees trente (notes autobiographiques). In Philosophiques 18 (1991), pp. 139-157.

Conversazione con Raymond Klibansky a cura di Francesco Barocelli. In: Filosofia, scienza e astrologia nel Trecento europeo. A cura di Graziella Federici Vescovini. Padova, II Poligrafo, 1992, pp. 7-18.

Rede zum Lessingpreis der Stadt Hamburg. In: Ver1eihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlaBlich der PreisObergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 23-32.

Rencontres avec Benoit Lacroix. In: Dits et gestes de Benoit Lacroix, Montreal, Editions du Noroit I Fondation Albertle-Grand, 1995, pp 143-145.

Die Grenzen des akademischen Lebens sprengen. Ein Gesprach iiber Ernst Cassirer und die Bibliothek Warburg. In: Merkur. Deutsche Zeitschrift tor europaisches Denken 50 (1996), pp. 274-277.

Aus dem Heidelberger Geistesleben. Autobiographische Anmerkungen. In: Heidelberg. Geschichte und Gestalt. Heidelberg, Winter, 1996, pp. 270-282.

Le Philosophe et la memoire du siecle. Tolerance, liberte et philosophie. Entretiens avec Georges Leroux. Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1998. Montreal, Bon~al, 2000. Spanish translation: Barcelona 1999. German translation: Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert. Gesprache mit Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franzosischen von Petra Willim. Frankfurt, lnsel, 2001.

Erinnerungen an Ernst Cassirer. Raymond Klibansky im Gesprach mft Thomas GOiier. In: Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie [no no.] 1999, Heft 2, pp. 275-288.

Erlebte Geschichte erzahlt 1994-1997. Michael Buselmeier im Gesprach mit Raymond Klibansky fund anderen]. Hrsg. von der Stadt Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2000, pp. 8-29.

Verzweifeln an der Welt. Und Raymond Klibansky kannte sie a/le. Ein P/adoyer fiir die Melancho/ie. (=Interview mit Raymond Klibansky von Andre Behr und Lars Reichardt). In: SOddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Beilage zu: SOddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 114 vom 18. Mai 2001, pp. 18-23. Reprint in: Behr, Andre und Reichardt, Lars: Lauter bitte! DOsseldorf, My favourite book, 2001 .

C) Commemorative publications for Klibansky

Methode et Philosophie de l'histoire. Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. Numero thematique de la Revue Internationale de Philosophie 29/111-112 ( 1975).

Reason, Action and Experience. Edited by Helmut Kohlenberger. Hamburg, Mainer, 1979.

Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. Montreal, Universite du Que bee a Montreal, 1991 .

LEROUX, GEORGES: Hommage a Raymond Klibansky: De Nicolas de Cues aux enfants de Satume. - Bibliographie des travaux de Raymond Klibansky. -Curriculum vitae. Paris, Gallimard, 1991 .

The Notion of Tolerance and Human Rights. Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky. Edited by Ethel Groffier and Michel Paradis. Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1991 .

Une philosophie dans l'histoire. Hommages a Raymond Klibansky. Edites par Bjame Melkevik et Jean-Marc Narbonne. Quebec. Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 2000.

Ricordo di Raymond Klibansky. In: Rivista di estetica XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 222-236. I: LE DoEUFF, MICHELE: Raymond Klibansky- Periplo di un filosofo illustre. (pp. 222-229). II: DE MANTICELLI, ROBERTA: Della nobilta de/lo Spirito. (pp. 230-232). Ill: LEONI, FEDERICO: Della melanco/ia nella storia. (pp. 233-236).

D) Literature on Klibansky

-VARIOUS WRITERS, (no title, Reports on the progress of the Cusanus edition at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften). In: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte. Heidelberg, Winter, 1927-28: p. VII, VIII, X, XIII-XVIII. 1928-29: p. VI, XI, XVI-XVII. 1929-30: p. IV, VII, XI, XIII, XVIII, XXlXXIV. 1930-31: p. X, XV-XVI. 1931-32: p. XVII, XIV-XVI. 1932-33: p. VI, VIII, XV. 1933-34: p. Ill, X-XI. 1935-36: p. V-VI, XVI.

- WATANABE, M.: Professor Raymond Klibansky to Speak at Kalamazoo in 1986. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter 11/2 (1985), pp. 2-3 und 11111 (1986). p. 1.

- WATANABE, M.: The Warburg Institute. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter 111/2 (1986), pp. 7-8.

- WATANABE, M.: Professor Raymond Klibansky lnteMewed in a French Publication [= Prefaces 13 (Mai - juin 1989)). In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vl/2 (1989), p. 5.

- WATANABE, M.: Mr. Richard Meiner, Publisher of Cusanus' Opera omnia and the Philosophische Bibliothek, Honored. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vl/2 (1989), pp. 15.

-WATANABE, M.: Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vlll/1 ( 1991 ), pp. 8-9.

-ALBERT, KARL: (no title, on Klibanskys Eckhart-Edition). In: Ceterum censeo ... Bemerkungen zu Aufgabe und


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp. 23-25.

-BEIERWALTES, WERNER: (no title, on the Cusanus-Edition of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) . In: Ceterum censeo ... Bemerkungen zu Aufgabe und Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp. 26-30.

-BOLTON, JOE: Where's Raymond? A review of"Le Philosophe et la memoire du siecle." In: The New Criterion 17 (January 1999), p. 78.

-BORMANN, KARL: (no tftle, on the Cusanus-Edffion of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) . In: Ceterum censeo ... , cit. , pp. 31-34.

-BOYCE, GRAY C.: Review of: Raymond Klibansky (ed.): Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 1/1. In: The American Historical Review 47/2 (1942), pp. 320-321.

-BUSNEL, FRANCOIS: Raymond Klibansky: le demier des geants. In: Voyage dans la litterature quebecoise (Supplement special Quebec). In: Magazine litteraire 374 (Mars 1999), pp. 100-120. On Klibansky: p. 113.

-DE MANTICELLI, ROBERTA: Della nobilta de/lo Spirito [=ricordo di Raymond Klibansky, second arlicle}. In: Rivista di estetica XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 230-232.

-DEGENHARDT, INGEBORG: Studien zum Wandel des Eckhartbildes (= Studien zur Problemgeschichte der antiken und mittelaltertichen Philosophie 3). Leiden, Brill, 1976, pp. 294-297.

-DIETZ, Luc: Das Jahrhunderl im Spiegel. Zurn 90. Geburlstag von Raymond Klibansky. In: Neue Zurcher Zeitung Nr. 235 vom 14./15. Oktober 1995, p. 34.

-FLASCH, KURT: Laudatio auf den Preistrager Raymond Klibansky. In: Verteihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlaP..lich der Preisubergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 12-22.

-GOLLER, THOMAS: Review of: Raymond Klibansky: Erinnerung an ein Jahrtiundert. Gesprache mit Georges Leroux. In: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 55/2 (2002), pp. 150-154.

-GRABMANN, MARTIN: Review of: Nicolai de Gusa Opera omnia, Vol. I und II. In: Deutsche Literaturzeitung, Dritte Folge, 4. Jahrgang, Heft 15 (9. April 1933), Sp. 685-692.

-HISSETIE, ROLAND: In memoriam H. Bascour. In: Bulletin de philosophie medievale (Edite par la SIEPM) 32 (1990), p. 241 .

-HOFFMANN, ERNST: (no title, Reporl on Klibansky's discovery of an unknown letter by Abaelard in cod. heidelbergensis 359, 8). In: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte. Heidelberg, Winter, 1930-31, p. IX.

-HOFFMANN, THEA: W!e die Cusanus-Ausgabe begann. In: Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der CusanusGesellschaft 5 (1965) , pp. 164-165.

-HUBER, MARGARETHA: Der Humanist. Raymond Klibansky plauderl mit Georges Leroux uber die alte Zeit. in: Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 192 vom 22. August 2001 , p. 16.

-KOCH, JOSEF: Kritische Bemerkungen zu Hildebrand Bascours neuer Ausgabe der Eckhart-Prologe. In: Zeitschrift fUr Kirchengeschichte 55 (1936), pp. 264-285.

-KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED- PANOFSKY, ERWIN: Briefwechsel 1941-1966. Ed. Volker Breidecker. Bertin, Akademie Verlag, 1996 (pp. 74, 104-106, 137, 161).

-LE DoEUFF' MICHELE: Raymond Klibansky- Periple d'un phi/osophe il/ustre [=Archeobibliographie Raymond Klibansky, first article}. In: Prefaces. Les iclees et les sciences dans la bibliographie de la France 13 (Maijuin 1989), pp. 125-131 . Italian, RaymondKlibanskyPeriplo di un filosofo illustre [=ricordo di Raymond Klibansky, first article]. In: Rivista di estetica XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 222-229.

-LEONI, FEDERICO: Della melancolia nella storia [=ricordo di Raymond Klibansky, third arlicle]. In: Rivista di estetica XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 233-236.

-LEROUX, GEORGES: Hommage a Raymond Klibansky: De Nicolas de Cues aux enfants de Satume. - Bibliographie des travaux de Raymond Klibansky. - Curriculum vitae. Paris, Gallimard, 1991 .

-MARROU, HENRl-IRENEE: Review of: R. Klibansky: The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition. London, The Warburg Institute, 1939. In: Revue du Moyen Age Latin 2 (1946), pp. 71-72.

-MCKEON, RICHARD: The meaning of Justice and the Relations among Traditions of Thought. In: Contribution au projet d'un Dictionnaire international des Termes fondamentaux de la Philosophie et de la Pensee politique realise sous Jes auspices du Conseil international de Philosophie et des Sciences humaines avec !'aide de !'UNESCO. Published in: Revue intemationale de philosophie 11141 (1957), pp. 253-267 [= on Klibansky's project of a multilingual dictionary of philosophical terms].

-MEYER, MARTIN: Die Macht des Wissens, das W!ssen der Macht. Der Philosoph Raymond Klibansky erzahlt aus seinem Leben. In: Neue Zurcher Zeitung Nr. 149 vom 30. Juni2001, p. 75.

-MEYER, THOMAS: Die Trennung zwischen Theorie und Praxis aufgeben. Der groBe Gelehrle Raymond Klibansky im Gesprach mff Georges Leroux. In: Frankfurter Rundschau Nr. 161vom14. Juli 2001, p. 20.

-MICHELS, KAREN: Ein scharfziingiger Mystiker. Den unheilvollen EinfluB Satums iiberwunden. Raymond


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Klibansky erhielt den Lessing-Preis. In : • 1nkfurter AllgemeineZeitung Nr.114vom 18. Mc: 194, p. N7.

-MUSSGNUG, DOROTHEE: Die vertriebenen He .Je/berger Dozenten. Zur Geschichte der Ruprecht-KarlsUniversitat nach 1933. Heidelberg, Winter, 1988. On Klibansky: pp. 40-43, 148f u.i:i.

-PIAIA, GREGORIO: Un'eccezionale testimonianza di filosofia e vita: L'autobiografia di Raymond Klibansky. In: Rivista di storia della filosofia 54/2 (2000), pp. 275-279.

-RAWLS, JOHN: Review of:Raymond Klibansky (ed.): Philosophy in the Mid-Century. A Survey. In: Philosophical Review 70/1 (1961) pp. 131-132.

-SANTINELLO, GIOVANNI: Art. Klibansky, Raymond. In: Enciclopedia filosofica. Centro di Studi Filosofici di Gallarate. Firenze, Sansoni, 1967. Vol. Ill, col. 1282-1283.

-SCHAFFRODT, PETRA: Juden an der Universitat Heidelberg. Dokumente aus sieben Jahrhunderten. Beiheft zur Ausstellung in Heidelberg (Universitatsbibliothek) vom 12.6.-31 .8.2002 und in Jerusalem vom 6.11.-31.12.2002. Heidelberg, Universitatsbibliothek, 2002.

-SEEBERG, ERICH: Eckhartiana I. In: Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte 56 (1937), pp. 87-105.

-SEEBERG, ERICH: Die verlorene Handschrift. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte 8 (1937), pp. 386-397.

-SENGER, HANS GERHARD: Die kritische Edition der Werl<e des Nikolaus von Kues. In: Akademie-Joumal. Mitteilungsblatt der Konferenz der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften 2/95 (1996), pp. 5-10.

-SENGER, HANS GERHARD: Die Nikolaus-von-Kues-Ausgabe a/s Beispiel einer historisch-kritischen Edition. In: Zeitschrift fiir Philosophische Forschung 38/1 (1984), pp. 73-83.

-THIMANN, MICHAEL: Es gibt Viele Buchseiten diesseits des Rubikons. Wiederentdeckung der verschollenen Bibliothek: Vor den Nazis [with help of Klibansky; addition M. Th.] gerettet, vor der Zerstreuung bewahrtdie Caesar-Sammlung Friedrich Gundo/fs in der Duke Univer.~· · ~ · von Durham. In: Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 184 vom 11. August2001, p. 14.

-WATANABE, MORIMICHI: The Origins of modem Cusanus Research in Germany and the Establishment of the Heidelberg "Opera omnia." In: Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. lzbicki, Nicholas of Cusa in Search of God and Wisdom. Leiden et al., Brill , 1991 , pp. 17-42.

Documentary film: -TOUGAS, ANNE-MARIE: Raymond Klibansky. De la philosophie

a la vie. Un Film de Anne-Marie Tougas. (51 minutes). Office national du Film du Canada, 2001 .

PROFESSOR BRIAN TIERNEY RECEIVES QUASTEN MEDAL FROM

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Prof. Tierney was selected as the 2003 recipient of the Catholic University of America's Johannes Quasten Medal for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in Religious Studies. This is the highest honor given by the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He accepted the award on October 14, 2004 and presented the lecture "Monks in a Changing Medieval World, 1100-1150 ."

***** HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER

WISSENSCHAFTEN HOLDS A SYMPOSIUM ON THE COMPLETION OF CUSANUS'

OPERA OMNIA Feb. 11-12, 2005

As announced at the business meeting of the American Cusanus Society last May (Newsletter, XXl, 1, July, 2004), the Heidelberger Akademie will end its support for the publication of Nicholas of Cusa's Opera omnia and Acta Cusana. Last December Prof. Dr. Peter Graf Kielmansegg, President of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, sent the Editor as President of the American Cusanus Society an invitation to attend a symposium on the occasion of the completion of the Heidelberg Edition of Cusanus' Opera omnia, to be held on February 11-12, 2005 in Heidelberg. Since the Editor cannot attend the symposium because of his academic schedule, it was decided that the Society should send Prof. Peter J. Casarella, Vice President of the Society, as its representative to the symposium.

. The Program Februar 11

16:99 Uhr Johann Sebastian Bach Sonate A-Dur

Begrlissung durch den Prasidenten des Akademie Peter Graf Kielmansegg

16:30 Uhr Dank und Gedenken Werner Beierwaltes Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Gesellschaft Giovanni Benedetto Platti Sonate e-moll


American Cusanus Society Newsletter 17:00 Uhr Die Cusanus-Ausgabe aus der Sicht des

Verlegers Manfred Meiner

17:30 Uhr Zur Geschichte des Edition der opera omnia des Nicolaus Cusanus Hans Gerhard Senger

Johann Joachim Quantz Sonate G-Dur

19:00 Uhr Empfang

Februar 12

9:30 Uhr Die Docta lgnorantia des Cusanus Kurt Flasch

Pause

11 :15 Uhr Die bleibende Relevanz des Erkenntnislehre des Kusaners Wolfhart Pannenberg

Mittag pause

14:30 Uhr Gotteserfahrung von Eckhart zu Cusanus Walter Haug

Pause

15:45 Uhr Die Musik des Cusanus-Zeit Peter GUike

16:45 Uhr Schlusswort Peter Graf Kielmansegg

Dr. Casarella's Greetings

Gru!?ibotschaft der American Cusanus Society

Sehr geehrter Prasident der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Herr Prof. Graf Kielmansegg!

Sehr geehrter Herr Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Kommission Prof. Dr. Beierwaltes!

Sehr geehrter Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Lentzen-Deis! Meine sehr verehrten Darnen und Herren!

Es ist mir eine groBe Ehre und ganz besondere Freude, die hohen Gaste im Namen der American Cusanus Society auf das Herzlichste zu begriiBen.

Im Besonderen mochte ich die Gru!!botschaft unseres Vorsitzenden, Prof. Dr. Morimichi Watanabe, der wegen Verpfiichtungen an seiner Universitat nicht kommen konnte, persbnlich iiberbringen. Prof. Watanabe hat mich darum gebeten, die enge Beziehung zwischen unserer Gesellschaft und der Familie des Verlegers der Opera Omnia zu erinnem. Dabei mbchte ich auch Herrn Manfred Meiner begrii!!en. Im Namen aller unserer Mitglieder mochte ich ihm fOr seine enge Zusammenarbeit als Verleger und seiner Familie fur den unme!!baren, mittlerweile schon sieben und siebzigjahrigen Beitrag zur Cusanus-Forschung danken.

lch freue mich, Oberbringer der guten Wiinsche der Mitglieder der American Cusanus Society zu sein, und dass ich die Ehre habe, diese hier zu vertreten. Lassen Sie mich aber noch einen Wunsch fiir dieses Symposium aussprechen: Wahrend wir uns hier an einem friihen Studienort des Nikolaus von Kues versammeln, um die gro~ Leistung des Abschlu!!es der kritischen Edition mitzufeiem, deren wechselvolle Geschichte zu erinnern, und den universalen Geist des Kardinals aus dem Moselgebiet in Betracht zu nehmen, mbgen wir auch bedenken, wie sehr sich die Cusanus-Forschung innerhalb der letzten Jahre weltweit ausgebreitet hat. Es bedurfte nicht erst der Vehemenz und lauten Worte der Globalisierung, um mittlerweile weltweit die enorrne und stille Kraft der Weisheit des cusanischen Denkens in z.B. Buenos Aires, Kalamazoo, Cambridge, Coimbra, Finland, und Tokyo zu erspiiren. Der Abschluss dieser glanzenden Edition verheisst daher unserer Mitarbeit in der Cusanus-Forschung nicht nur eine hoffnungsvolle Prasenz unter dieser Versammlung in dieser prachtigen und ausserst verdienstvollen Akademie der Wissenschaften, sondem auch eine hoffnungsvolle Zukunft in einer von einem zerbrechlichen Zusammenspiel von Gegensatzen gekennzeichneten Welt, in der wir heute zusammen leben.

~ IN MEMORIAM ~

Dean Loy Bilderbach 1932. 2004

Emeritus Professor Dean Loy Bilderbach at California State University Fresno, author of the stimulating, much discussed article, "Eugene IV and the First Dissolution of the Council of Basie," Church History 36 (1967): 245-261, passed away on July 4, 2004 in Fresno after a long battle with cancer. A celebration of the life of Dr. Bilderbach was held on Friday, August 20, at 6 p.m. in the Madden Library Solarium at Fresno State.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Dr. Bilderbach was born in Enid, Oklahoma on September 25, 1932, and spent his early years on a wheat farm, homesteaded by his grandparents. He began his studies at Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Ponca City and then received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington studying under Howard Kaminsky. He joined the faculty of the then Fresno State College in 1962 and retired after thirty-nine years. He was a specialist in medieval European history, particularly in Church history.

In 1976, Dr. Bilderbach was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Population Studies (IDESPO) of the National University in Hereda, Costa Rica and co-authored in 1979 "The Golden Door: International Migration. Mexico, and the United States," with the noted biologist and long-time friend, Prof. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University. As a result of this publication, he was called to Washington, D. C. to testify as an expert witness before Congress concerning pending immigration legislation. He later became an expert in Gothic and Romanesque architecture.

On the Council of Basel, Dr. Bilderbach wrote his Ph.D. Dissertation, The Membership of the Council of Basie (Washington 1966) (UMI 66-7868, Ann Arbor 1982) and "Proctorial Representation and Conciliar Support at the Council of Basie," in Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum (1969): 140-152, as well as the article mentioned at the beginning. His detailed studies in these publications were revealing and were cited frequently, for example, by Johannes Helmrath, Das Basler Konzil, 1431-1449: Forschungsstand und Probleme (Koln/Wien, 1987).

Dr. Bilderbach was above all a fine teacher and colleague. During his Fresno State career, he served on many faculty committees and as chair of the History Department in 2000 and directed numerous master's degree theses. He was a frequent speaker at academic and community meetings.

Otto Grundler 1928-2004

It was the late Prof. Otto Grlindler who, after taking over the directorship of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University in 1976, developed its annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, into the largest academic assemblage of medievalists in the world. In recent years the number of participants, from the U.S. and abroad, exceeded three thousand.

Born in Burbach, Germany on April 3. 1928, as the son of Wilhelm Griindler and Anna Low, he was educated in

Nordhorn, and first came to Michigan in 1950 to receive his bachelor's degree from Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Ml. He then received his master's degree from the University of Gottingen in Germany. After returning to the United States in 1953, the young scholar graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary with a Ph.D. in 1961 . His dissertation was on Girolamo Zauchi (1516-1590), who was an Italian Protestant reformer. The dissertation was published in 1965 as: Die Gotteslehre Girolamo Zauchis und ihre Bedeutung tor seine Lehre von der Pradestination. Dr. Grlindler served as a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Stillcoda, NJ for six years while he began his academic career as an instructor of German language and literature at Westminster Choir College, Princeton and a teaching fellow in history on Christian thought at Princeton University.

In 1971, he joined the faculty at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Ml in the newly founded Philosophy and Religion Department. Becoming Director of the Midieval Institute at WMU in 1976, he taught until his retirement in 1995. He died at his house in Kalamazoo on September 12, 2004. A memorial service was held at 11 :00 a.m. on Friday, September 24, at Kanley Chapel on the WMU campus.

Because the 4Qth International Congress on Medieval Studies this year will give its participants many opportunities to learn about and to reflect on Dr. Grlindler's contributions to medieval studies, we will focus our attention below on his support and help to our Society.

In the 1970's the Editor approached Director Grlindler with a proposal that the Congress invite a world-renown, senior scholar in Neoplatonism and Nicolaus Cusanus at Oxford as a plenary speaker for a future Congress. After listening to the Editor's explanations and justifications carefully, Dr. Grlindler asked resolutely: "How old is the man?" It was instantly clear that the Director was a man who had had and overcome many difficult situations and problems in running his Congress. In the 1980's, the number of participating organizations in the Congress increased. As a resulL the number of proposed sessions also exceeded the possible limit acceptable at the Congress. While explaining to the Editor these changes and the way in which the resultant problems might be resolved, Dr. Grlindler said he regretted that he had to cut the number of sessions, but then almost blurted out: "Not your group!" The Editor was profoundly grateful to him and still remembers the occasion very clearly.

On April 26, 2004, Prof. Peter Casarella of the Catholic University of America, Vice President of the American Cusanus Society, sent a letter of invitation to Dr. Grlindler to deliver the 2005 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture at the 40lh


American Cusanus Society Newsletter International Congress. Promptly, on May 6, the Society received his acceptance. We were told later that he was very pleased by the invitation. No doubt, that is the reason why he attended on the same day the 2004 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture delivered by Prof. William J. Courtenay at the 39lh International Congress.

II is clear that Dr. Grundler's colleagues and friends all think of him as a man of dedication, kindness and foresight. As John 8. Wickstrom of Kalamazoo College put it, he was "a gentleman of great kindness, open always to new ideas and new directions for medieval studies." He supported the American Cusanus Society strongly and continuously. We are very honored that we can dedicate our 2005 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture to Dr. Otto GrOndler with great respect and gratitude.

Agostino Sottili 1939. 2004

Prof. Dr. Phil. Agostino Sottili, Professor of History at the Catholic University of Torino, passed away unexpectedly on September 14, 2004 at the age of 65 as a result of heart operation. A dedicated scholar, a loving husband, and a dear father of three daughters, he is sorely missed by his family. But family members wrote clearly in the obituary the following: "Unruhig ist unser Herz, bis es ruht in Dir. (Augutinus)."

Prof. Sottili took special interest in the development of humanism in the Late Middle Ages, especially in Italy and Germany. The following books of his, Codici def Petrarca nelle Germania occidentale (Padova, 197-), Studenti tedeschi e umanesimo italiano nell'Universita di Padova durante ii Quattrocento (Padova, 1971), and Untversita e cultura: studi sui rapporti italo-tedeschi nell'eta dell'Umanesimo (Goldbach, 1993), clearly show where his main interests in ear1y years were. In recent years, he turned special attention to the University of Pavia and published many articles on the topic and others, such as "La Natio Germanica dell'Universitil di Pavia nella Storia dell'Umanesimo• in J.-J. Paquet llsewijn, ed., The Universities in the Late Middle Ages (Lowen, 1978), pp. 347-364. For his other publications, see Newsletter, XI, 2, 27; XII, 1, 26-27; XIII, 1, 26; XVIII, 1, 50; XIX, 1, 31; XIX, 2, 35-36; XX, 1, 30; XX, 2, 35; XXI, 1, 43.

The Editor had a chance to visit Prof. Sottili in Torino in 1978 and was received by him and Mrs. Sottili very cordially and graciously. It was very interesting and informative to visit his university with him. He was a real scholar and a gentleman. May his soul rest in peace!

Unruhis i:st uruer llcrz, bis cs ruht in Dir. (Augwti11u$)

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rneinen geliebtcn Mann, und unsercn guten Yater, der uncrwartet vcrstorben ist.

Sein Leben war gepriist von pers()nlichcr nc,cheidenheil und der Sorge fiir seine Familie.

Bei seiner akademischen Lchrtiitiglceit lag iltm die Motivation und FOrdcrung seiner Studcnten am Herzen. Er wird wts allcn fehlcnl

ln der Gewi£hcit dc$ Glaubcns, dass der Tod uns in die gC>ttliche Ewiglceit fiihrt und uns Antcil gibt am uncndUchcn Frieden, haben wlr von ihm Abschied scnommen.

Giuseppina Sottili geb. Mandorli Carla Sottili und]ean Luc Vanderschucren Valeria Sottili Llvia Sottili und Verwllndte

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APOLOGIES!

For various reasons, the Editor could not write an article on either "Cusanus' Contemporaries· or "Following His Steps· for this issue.

In the following, the list of all previously published articles on the topics is given in the hope that the readers may suggest to the Editor a new article to be written, or, better still, that someone may volunteer to contribute an article for the future issues of the Newsletter.

Lists of Articles in the Two Series that Appeared in the Past Issues

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Vinzenz von Aggsbach (ca. 1389-1464) Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) Govanni Andrea Bussi (1317-1475) Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460) More on Hymericus de Campo Giuliano Cesarini (1389?-1444) Eleanor of Scotland (1433-1480)

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(1397-1455; Pope 1447-1455) Johann Nider (Nieder, Nyder) 0.P. (c.1380-1438) Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Scotland Lodovico Pantano ( 1409-1439) John of Ragusa (1390/95-1443) Johannes Rode Juan de Segovia Monks of Tegemsee Juan de Torquemada (1388-1468) More on Torquemada T oscanelli and Columbus Nicholas of Cusa, Paolo Toscanelli and Japan Verena von Stuben (c. 1414-1472?) Janos Vitez (1408?-1472) Bernhard von Waging, 0.S.B. (c. 1400-1472)

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Reforming the Church Before Modernity: Patterns, Problems and Approaches. Ed. Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean University, and Louis I. Hamilton, Rutgers University. Willston, VT: Ashgate. 2005. 300 pp.

Nikolaus von Kues: Predlgten in deutscher Obersetzung. Eds. Walter Andreas Euler, Klaus Reinhardt and Harald Schwaetzer. lnstitut fur Cusanus-Forschung. Munster: Aschendorff Verlag.

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American Cusanus Society Newsletter Morals and Politics. By Vittorio Hosle, trans. Steven Rendall. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 991 pp.

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Church and Reform. Bishops, Theologians, and Canon Lawyers in the Thought of Pierre d'Ailly (1351-1420). By Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. [Studies in Medieval and Refonnation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas. Vol. CV.) Leiden/Boston: Brill. 2005.

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Chap1cr 1;.o. Bishops: Stauu, Olf1«. Authority.. .............. . ... 53 1. Prelates: Terminology, Evolution, Catqorios..... .. .... . ...... 53 2. Status: Apootolic Su...,raion .. . . . . .. .. . . .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. . . .. S5 3. Aposaolic Mis.ion and Au1hori1y ....... .. .... .................. 69

Chapen- Three. BilhOfi&: Puloral Reform, and 1be Apoocolic Ufc . .......... . ........... . ... .. ......................... . ....... .. . 93 1. Dirucmions of Rcforn1 Program • .. .. .. .. . .. . .. . .. .. .. . . .. .. .. . 93 2 . l\ulonil Reform and lhc Apo04uliddcal . • .. .. • • .. .. .. .. .. . . .. 95 3. Specilic Areas of Pasion! Reform .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . .. I 0'2

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DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS RECENTLY COMPLETED BY OUR YOUNG MEMBERS

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I. David Zachariah Flanagin: The Gathering Around the Word: The Biblical Roots of Conciliarism in Jean Gerson (The University of Chicago under Bernard McGinn, 2004).

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Ever since the work of Brian Tierney in the 1950s, tt has been commonly accepted that if one is looking for the roots of the conciliar theory, she should look to the canon law traditions of the earlier Middle Ages. While not rejecting the importance of juristic elements to conciliarism, this dissertation argues that they were neither the sole nor primary influence on the leading conciliarist at the Council of Constance, the Parisian chancellor, Jean Gerson (1363-1429). This honor belongs to Sacred Scripture. In the first half of the dissertation, I analyze the place of the Bible in Gerson's theology as a whole, concluding that it occupies a position of absolute authority, though nuanced in subtle ways. This is clear both from the chancellor's theory of Divine Law and Truth, in which Scripture occupies the two primary positions, and from the practical use the Bible as the main source of first principles for the theological enterprise. Although complicated by Gerson's complex theories of the literal sense and Church-guided interpretation, biblical primacy is nevertheless clear. The second hatt of the dissertation demonstrates how this scripturalism influenced the chancellor's conciliar theory. Through a chronological survey of his major ecclesiological treatises, I show how certain principia and exempla drawn from Holy \N.;t,

particularly the principle of ecclesiastical correc: . ·1 found in Mt 18: 15-18 and the example of Paul rebuking Feter in Galatians 2, formed the foundations of Gerson's scriptural version of the conciliar theory. An appendix on the practice of spiritual exegesis and translations of the chancellor's primary hermeneutical treatises round out the picture of Jean Gerson, Scriptural Reformer.

II. Emily O'Brien: The Anatomy of an Apology: the War against Conciliarism and the Politicization of Papal Authority in the "Commentarii" of Pope Pius II (1453-1464). (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University 2004).


American Cusanus Society Newsletter BOOK REVIEW

Martin Thurner, ed. Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Deutsch/and und ltalien. Beitrage eines deutsch· italienischen Symposiums in der Villa Vigoni. [Veroffentlichungen des Grabmann-lnstitutes zur Erforschung der Mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, Band 48.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. 691 pp.

By Thomas Prugl

University of Notre Dame

The Gennan-ltalian Symposium "Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Deutschland und ltalien", which was organized by the Grabmann-lnstitut of the University of Munich and took place at the Villa Vigoni, a small academic institution located at Lake Como in northern Italy, was one of the most remarkable scholarly activities during the Cusanus jubilee in 2001 . There, some 40 Gennan and Italian Cusanus scholars gathered to discuss the respective influences which Cusanus received from the two cultures. After the symposium had found widespread attention in journals and yearbooks, 19 the present volume, edited by Martin Thurner, the initiator and organizer of the conference, made the lectures available in print. Besides the papers delivered at the conference, the volume included a few more articles about the topic.

Vespasiano da Bisticci characterized the Cardinal in his Vite di uomini illustri def secolo XV, by saying: ''Tedesco di nazione ma non di costumi - A Gennan by birth, but not by customs." Martin Thurner took Vespasiano's dictum as title of his introduction, in which he briefly sketched the changing perception of Cusanus's genius suspended between Italian humanism and medieval Gennan mysticism over the past 500 years. There was never agreement about whether and to what extent these two poles in Cusanus were either reconciled or rather out of balance. Ernst Cassirer, whose studies from the

19 Johannes Helmrath, in: Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie Medievales 69 (2002) 215-224; ElisabethBlum, in: Freiburger Zeitschrift fiir Philosophie und Theologie 48 (2001) 209-216; Markus Krienke, in: Miinchener Theo/ogische Zeitschrift 52 (2001) 270-275; Idem, in: Rivista di Storia de/la Filosofia 57 (2002)253-256; Markus Riedenauer, in: Litterae Cusanae 1 (2001) 93-94; Paolo Arfe, in: Bollettino de/la Societa Filosofica ltaliana 174 (2001) 72-79; T. Perrone, in: Rivista de/la Filosofia Neoscolastica 93 (2001) 667-680; Christiane Schultz, in: Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch fiir Antike und Mitte/alter 6 (2001) 259-262. Furthermore, scholarly reports about the conference appeared in various newspapers in Germany and Southern Tyrol.

beginning of the 20th century marked the beginning of modern Cusanus scholarship, conceived of him as the first Italian humanist philosopher, who anticipated the modem philosophy of mind. Cassirer's view, which saw Cusanus as renaissance precursor of Hegel , drew much criticism because it lacked philological evidence which would indicate that Cusanus was attentively read and received by the beacons of Florentine and Milan humanism, such as Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Most famous in this concert was Eugenio Garin's voice, who reached the conclusion that Cusanus and Italian humanism represented two different worlds, alien to one another and unable to enter into a dialogue. It was to K. 0. Kristelle~s merit that he refuted Garin's verdict. He and his students, e.g. Pauline Moffit Watts and John Monfasani, were able to highlight Cusanus's originality by situating him within a well connected web of Italian humanist culture. So, contemporary scholarship is again far more inclined to acknowledge the continuity and mutual influence between Cusanus and Italian humanism. The studies assembled in this volume, in large part, mirror the ongoing debate, with some of them trying to offer new historical evidence for a more complex and vivid picture of Cusanus among the Italians.

Cesare Vasoli, in his brilliant opening lecture. depicted the world of Florentine Platonism, pointing out that Ficino remained largely unaffected by Cusanus's works and thought.20 Mocking "quaedam speculationes Nicolaii de Cuesii", Ficino mentioned Cusanus's name only once in a letter to Marcus Uranius. Pico della Mirandolo possessed at least one manuscript containing parts of De coniecturis. Despite the evidence that there was very little immediate or no contact between Cusanus and the star philosophers, some articles in the volume stressed that Cusanus's ideas reached those philosophical and humanist circles via certain mediators, who had firsthand knowledge of Cusanus and were themselves well rooted in the high society of Italian humanism. On this score Vasoli dedicated the larger part of his lecture to Paolo Pozzo Toscanefli and Pierleone da Spoleto, both doctors and mathematicians. Interested in humanist culture and thought from early on, both served as intermediaries between Medici Florence, Ficino and Cusanus. Toscanelli and Cusanus became friends already while studying in Padua. Pierleone da Spoleto, who was too young to meet Cusanus personally, held positions at the universities of Pisa and Padua and served as a doctor for Lorenzo de' Medici and was a close friend of Ficino and Pico. Pierleone, whose library was the object of a recent book by Maike Rotzoll, possessed at least 13 works of Cusanus, some even in doublets. Besides the mathematical writings, such as De circuli quadratura, De

20 Cesare Vasoli, "Niccolo Cusano e la cuttura umanistica fiorentina" {75-90).


American Cusanus Society Newsletter mathematicis comp/ementis, De geometricis transmutacionibus etc .. there were also copies of De concordantia catholica, De visione Dei and De pace fidei. Ms. Rotzoll's article in this volume21 published and examined the marginal notes of Pierleone on De pace fidei (in Vat. lat. 9425), on De visione Dei (Vat.lat. 11520) and on De concordantia catholica (Vat. lat. 5739). While the latter was glossed only superficially, the former two texts elicited long and frequent glosses from Pierleone testifying to his lively interest in Cusanus's theology.

Giuseppe Girgenti went a long way back, invoking the lateantique tradition of Neoplatonism, where the two beacons Porphyius and Jamblichus coined the two main neoplatc~ic currents after Plotinus. As Girgenti indicated in the title c ':S

paper, both must be seen as indirect sources for Cusanus. Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero, on the other hand, was looking for a more obvious parallel between Cusanus's and Ficino's Platonism, suggesting the motif of the "hunt for wisdom". While Cusanus's De venatione sapientiae is well known, Ficino alluded to the motif only in passing in his late Apologia.22 Ms. Tarabochia, however, did not claim a dependence between the two thinkers. Instead, she compared the respective understanding of spirit, amor and nexus in both authors, which revealed the different intentions of Cusanus and Ficino rather than a common ground. Such common ground, however, was obvious in the attempts of both authors to describe the idea of (natural} religion. Two papers addressed this theme at the conference. Walter Andreas Euler compared and explained the notion of religion in both Ficino and Cusanus.23 He found striking structural parallels in the idea of religio connata resp. religio communis in both authors. Particularly the assumption of a natural, though divinely instilled human desire to seek communion with God emerged as a common point of departure. The more specific question, however, of whether Ficino received this idea from Cusanus or of whether each of them took it from different sources remained unsolved. The paper by Paul Richard Blum addressed the specific problem of religious pluralism and a possible reconciliation among the religions not only in Cusanus, but also in Ficino, Pico delta Mirandola, Macchiavelli, Suarez and Campanella. In each of these thinkers he identified a particular model of religion, by

21 Maike Rotzoll, "'Un certo vesocovo da quelle parti .. .' Die Cusanus-Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Medici-Arztes Pierleone da Spoleto• (255-287). - See also Maike Rotzoll , Pierleone da Spoleto. Vita ed opere di un medico de/ Rinascimento (Florence 2000).

22 Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero, "Nicola Cusano e Marsilio Ficiono a caccia della sapienza• (481-509).

23 Walter Andreas Euler, "Das Religionsverstandnis von Cusanus und Ficino" (511-526).

which their respective authors tried to cope with the experience of Judaism and lslam.24

Harald Schwaetzer undertook a comparison of the anthropoiogies of Cusanus and Pico della Mirandola.25 The assumption that Pico could not have ignored Cusanus's writings presents the same problems that we have seen in applying this theory to Ficino. There was hardly any historical or philological evidence for Pico being influenced by Cusanus. Despite Kristeller having stressed the ideological differences between both, Eusebio Colomer tried to establish some historical links nonetheless. His intention received further support through the research of Kurt Flasch and Maike Rotzoll. Schwaetzer admitted in his article that, on the basis of the imago Dei metaphor. there is complete agreement between Pico and Cusanus about human autonomy: man is understood as freely determining himself. Schwaetzer, however, argued on purely philosophical-analytical ground that despite some similarities in their respective anthropologies, the way of thinking in both philosophers was radically opposed.

Another philosophical tradition that fascinated both Cusanus and Italian Renaissance philosophers was Hermetism, which received due attention in Paschale Arte's article.26 Rather than looking at the reception of Hermetism in Italian humanism, however, Arfe studied how Cusanus and before him Albert the Great received specific ideas from the Asclepius and how Hermetism shaped their understanding of the relationship between God and world and man. Arfe pointed out that, among other things, Cusa's dialectic between complicatio and explicatio owed much to his reading of the Asclepius.

It would be shortsighted to reduce the relations between Cusa and Italy to the sole question what impact Cusanus's thought had on Renaissance Platonism. Cusanus spent long and important periods of his life on Italian soil. From the earty days of his studies in Padua to his last years residing as a cardinal in Rome, he was exposed continuously to Italian culture and humanism. A few papers shed further light on these encounters. Hermann Schnarr's article may serve as an excellent survey, rich in details about the well known facts.27

Cusa's formation in both Heidelberg and Padua, his efforts to compete with the Italian philologists in finding new texts from

24 Paul Richard Blum, •salva fide et pace'. Religionsfriede von Cusanus bis CampaneUa" (527-554).

25 Harald Schwaetzer, "'Semen universale'. Die Anthropologie bei Nikolaus von Kues und Giovanni Pioo della Mirandola" (555-574).

26 Paschale Arfe, "Alberto Magno e Nicola Cusano interpreti dell'Asclepius" (129-151).

27 Hermann Schnarr, "Fruhe Beziehungen des Nikolaus von Kues zu itahenischen Humanisten" (187-213).


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Roman antiquity, and eventually his correspondence and scholarly exchange with Poggio Braciolini. Graziella Federici Vescovini depicted the University of Padua at the beginning of the 15rn century when Cusanus completed his legal studies there.2s In particular, she presented on a few Paduan artists engaging in physics and natural science such as Biagio Pelacani da Parma, Prosdocimo de' Beldomandis and Piere d'Abano, people who may have nurtured Cusanus's interests in mathematics and astronomy. Wilhelm Baum critically questioned the so-called humanist "friendship" between Enea Silvio Piccolomini and Cusanus, which has been invoked frequently and still remains a stereotype.29 Looking carefully at the correspondence between the two men, Baum offered a quite different picture (not always without polemical undertones). Although they appreciated each other, the relationship between Cusa and Enea was reserved rather than cordial. For Baum. Cusanus was a stubborn, politically not very well skilled parvenu, while Enea Silvio, sly and smart, understood to handle both people and problems much better than Cusanus and how to promote his case more successfully. At the end of his article, Baum provided a list of Enea's printed letters to Cusanus from 1449 to 1460, edited by Wolkan and in part recently by Baum himself. 30

Gregorio Piaia examined Cusanus's critique of the Donatio Constantini in the 3rd book of the Catholic Concordance.31

Building on the research of Domenico Maffei, Piaia emphasized that doubts about the donation had already emerged at the beginning of the 1 Stn century. An important figure in this context was Raffaele Fulgosio, who taught civil law at Padua from 1409 to 1427. He reported about a controversy at the Council of Constance, where he himself obviously defended the Donatio from a curialist standpoint. Cusanus, who might have heard Fulgosio's lectures at Padua, presented his doubts about the historicity of the story rather cautiously, in a way that Piaia labeled as ambiguous. According to him, Cusanus wanted to fly a kite, testing the reactions of both the curialists and the king. Basically, however, Cusanus did not intend to question the share of authority agreed upon by pope and king.

John Monfasani provided new and striking evidence that Cusanus had acquired a very good command of Greek, at

28 Graziella Federici Vescovini, "Cusanus und das wissenschaftliche Studium in Padua zu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts" (93-113).

29 Wilhelm Baum, "Nikolaus von Kues und Enea Silvio Piccolomini - eine Humanistenfreundschaft?" (315-337).

30 Nikolaus von Kues, Briefe und Dokumente zum Brixener Streit, hrsg. v. Wilhelm Baum und Raimund Senoner, Klagenfurt 2001.

Jt Gregorio Piaia, "Tra ii Fulgosio e ii Valla: La critica del Cusano alla 'Donatio'" (115-128).

least in the last years of his life.32 Repeating the results from the magisterial article which P. 0. Kristeller wrote for the conference in Brixen in 1964, Monfasani reported about Cusanus's early Greek encounters in Constantinople in 1437 and more importantly of his intellectual exchange wtth the circle of Bessarion in Rome. In 1458/59 Cusanus commissioned George of Trebizond to translate Plato's Parmenides. In the second part of his article Monfasani examined the numerous marginal and interlinear notes of the only existing manuscript of this translation (Voltera, Guarnacci 6201 ). finding that the cardinal's Greek "was good enough to make numerous improvements". In an extended appendix (225-252) Monfasani edited all the marginal notes of the Parmenides in MS Guarnacci 6201, specifying their author, the Latin words together with their Greek equivalents and an appreciation whether and how it changed or improved the translation. Four photographs convey a nice impression of Cusanus's editorial efforts.

The studies presented so far looked at the Italian side of Cusanus rather than searching for his German origins. So what about his German soul?33 Two studies in the volume investigated the influence of Meister Eckhart on Cusanus. Martin Thurner undertook it to retrieve a specific "philosophy of gift" in both authors. 34 Looking particularly at the awareness that being, understanding and mystical union are not products of human initiative but graciously conferred, Thurner characterized Meister Eckhart's explanation of the divine birth in the soul as a "philosophy of a gift". while in Cusanus the divine gift appeared predominantly in the cognitive recapitulation of God's self-manifestation. Thurner's approach is convincing because he developed the entire movement of Cusanus's philosophy from a consequently theological standpoint, i.e from the standpoint of God revealing himself to the mind. One could ask, however, to what extent such "philosophy of gift" differs from a traditionally understood "theology of grace" that encompasses also the cognitive powers of the soul? Walter Haug presented Cusanus's reception of Meister Eckhart (and his re-lecture) as a decisive step towards modernity.JS

J2 John Monfasani, "Nicholas of Gusa, the Byzantines, and the

Greek Language" (215-252). 33 The "German· heritage of Cusanus was also addressed at the

conference by Ruedi Imbach, who delivered a paper with the tide "Die Basler Schriften des Heymerich de Campo und der Anfang der Philosophie des Nikolaus von Kues". For some reason, however, lmbach's paper, which presented unpublished texts by Heymeric van der Velde, has not been induded into the present volume.

34 Martin Thurner, "Die Philosophie der Gabe bei Meister Eckhart und Nikolaus Cusanus" (153-184).

35 Walter Haug, "Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Meister Eckhart und


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Overcoming the ontology of Meister Eckhart, who had upheld a radical difference between the finite and infinite world, as well as the Meister's twofold knowledge (secular vs. mystical), Cusanus favored a philosophy that looked positively at the world . Knowledge is enabled by sense perception, but in the act of knowing, man imitates God and creates his world. Human knowledge is creative; art and products of art "flow out" from the mind. Haug discovered in these ideas an important precursor to-if not the source for-Cristofaro Landino, Giordano Bruno, and Aretino, who proudly presented themselves as "creative" poets who created their world by their art and who started the new type of the ingenious modern artist.

While creation and creativity was not necessarily one of Cusanus's most favorite topics, "learned ignorance" represented the apex of his early philosophical theology. Hans Gerhard Senger took up this theme in a brilliant way, comparing Cusanus's "learned ignorance" to three other models of philosophical critique of knowledge.36 Since Socrates's adage "Scio quod nescio," ignorance has been understood as a qualified form, even a habltus of knowledge ("Wissensform"). Before turning to Cusanus, Senger presented Petrarca's critique on contemporary Aristotelianism (De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia). Petrarca's presumed ignorance was a critique of the uncritically invoked authority of Aristotle a the universities in his time, a milieu he never belonged to. As an alternative and true form of knowledge Petrarca recommended his moral philosophy of the "bene vivere". Cusanus's De docta ignorantia, on the other hand, emerged from the tradition of Augustine and Bonaventure, where ignorance was not a moral, but a cognitive quality. As a third model, Senger introduced Heinrich Agrippa of Nettesheim (De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium), whose embittered critique of his colleagues at the University of Cologne reached even pathologic forms. Agrippa's radical skepticism allowed only for faith and revelation to provide reliable knowledge. The last example of ignorance as a metaphor of knowledge was Erasmus who developed a subtle irony and even sarcasm against the wisdom of his day (Laus stultitiae, 1511). For him, ignorance as voluntary silliness was ambivalent; it had a positive and a negative side, either as dumb blindness or as wise knowledge about someone's own limits. The cure for such ignorance, however, was the stultitia crucis, which solved the philosophical problem by a tum into religion. Cusanus's De docta ignorantia was also the object of Markus Enders's extended study, actually the longest in the whole volume.37 Through a

very close reading of the first book and the first four chapters of the second book of De docta ignorantia, Enders highlighted Cusanus's understanding of infinity ar.d the divine. Consequently he also examined the attack of Johannes Wenck on Cusanus's docta ignorantia who criticized Cusanus's coincidence of opposites from a Thomistic-Aristotelian standpoint. An examination of Cusanus' Apologia and De visione (chs. 13-16) completed and refined Cusanus's doctrine of divine infinity.

Most of the studies in this volume emphasized Cusanus's "modernity" and therefore preferred to compare him to later thinkers rather than conceiving of him as the endpoint of a long tradition. The perception of Cusanus on the threshold of a new epoch was also the topic of Mauro Falcionrs and Stephan Meier-Oeser's papers. The former reflected on Hans Blumenberg's thesis that Giordano Bruno, while relying on Cusanus's Trinitarian speculations, replaced the second person of the Trinity by his idea of infinite worlds in the divine mind as the medium for creation.38 By comparing the understanding of anima mundi in Cusanus and in Bruno and by an exegesis of Cusanus's complicatio-explicatio model, Falcioni confronted Blumenberg's "eclipse of the Son" in Bruno with an eclipse of the anima mundi in Cusanus. With a concise extract of his book on the reception of Cusanus from the 15111 to the 18111 century, Stephan Meier-Oeser focused on the two centers of humanism north of the Alps: Paris (Lefevre d'Etaples) and Vienna (Konrad Celtis).39 While the Germans on the Danube developed more interest in Cusanus's mathematical writings, the French, along with some Germans who maintained close contacts to the Parisian circle (e.g. Reuchlin, Agrippa, Eck), preferred his mystical theology. Despite the considerable familiarity of some French humarists with Cusanus's writings and thought (e.g. Gerard Rus ' ')I,

Charles de Bovelles, Alain de Varene), this interest did not develop into a real Cusanus "school" or a distinct "Cusanism" in the 16th century. Cusanus's impact on 16th century mathematics was also the object of Luciana de Bernart's article.4o She examined in great detail the discussions about the theories of the squaring of the circle both in Cusanus and in the 16th century. Cusanus enjoyed a high reputation among 16~ century European mathematicians, also because

Cusanus" {383441 ). 38 Mauro Falcioni, "Cusano e Bruno: Considerazioni al margine de

'Aspekte der Epochenschwelle'" {601-615). 39 Stephan Meier-Oeser, "Die Cusanus-Rezeption in deutschen

Renaissancehumanismus" (617-632). - See also Id,, Die Cristoforo Landino: Der Mensch als Schopfer und der Weg zu Prasenz des Vergessenens. Zur Rezeption der Philosophie des Gott" (577-600). Nicolaus Cusanus vom 15. bis zum18. Jahmundert (Munster:

36 Hans Gerhard Senger, "Nichtwissen als Wissensform. Aschendorff, 1989), Buchreihe der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 10. lgnoranzkompensationen von Petrarca bis Erasmus"(633-653). 40 Luciana de Bemart, "Cusano e l'archimedismo del rinascirnento.

37 Markus Enders, "Unendlichkeit und All-Einheit. Zurn lbridazioni teoriche, eredita contese, sperimentazioni e Unendlichkeitsgedanken in der philosophischenTheologie des polemiche nella matematica europea del xvii secolo" (339-381).


American Cusanus Society Newsletter his mathematical works had been available in print since 1488, while Archimedes's works appeared in print only 50 years later. Even after that time, Cusanus mediated much of medieval Archimedism into the ear1y modem period. De Bemart discussed the reactions to Cusanus's interpretation of Archimedes in Luca Pacioli, Regiomontanus (Johannes Muller), Buteus (Jean Borre!), Fabrizio Mordente, and others.

An unexpected aspect of Cusanus's thought was presented by Francesco Santi, who looked at the theory of music to which Cusanus briefly referred in De coniecturis 11, 2, where he used the example of halftones to illustrate his theory of conjectures.41 Cusanus's ideas on halftones never attracted particular scholarly interest, because he seemed to paraphrase a passage from Boethius's De institutione musica. Santi, however, put it within the context of a lively controversy about Boethius's explanation of halftones in the 1420s, a controversy in which Cusanus's teachers Pelacani and Beldomani played a prominent role. At that time scholars and musicians like Giovanni Legrense de Namur, Vittorino da Feltre, Barolomeo Ramos de' Pareja and William Dufay developed a new understanding of halftones, which ultimately carried a new theory of music in general. On this backdrop Cusanus's text in De coniecturis appears as an example that was rather modem in his time and testifies to his susceptibility to new developments during his college years. Santi also portrayed the vibrant culture of music and musical theories from the ear1y 1400s, not only in northern Italian universities, but also at the pontifical court of Nicholas V.

In the first years after Cusanus's death, his reputation owed much to the eulogy of Andrea de Bussi, his last secretary and a famous humanist himself, as Leandro Perini pointed out anew.42 Bussi inserted his praises of the cardinal in the dedicatory letter to the Opera of L. Apuleius, which appeared in print in 1469. He emphasized Cusanus's erudition as a historian rather than as a humanist, but also highlighted his merits as a mathematician and as an expert in Platonic philosophy. Bussi's panegyric was reprinted in the three earliest editions of Cusanus' works (Stra~burg 1488, Cortemaggiore 1502, and Paris 1512), each time, however, with slight alterations that stressed different qualities of the cardinal. In these prologues to his Opera, Cusanus's image changed from a Platonist to a defender of Aristotelianism, to a church reformer in the editions of the 16th century.

41 Francesco Santi, "Congetture su numero armonia e musica. Cusano e la trattatistica musicale italiana del suo tempo." (463-479).

42 Leandro Perini, "Niccolo da Cusano nello spechio delle sue edizioni" (289-301 ).

The volume "Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Oeutschland und ltalien" offers a refreshing orientation on the status of current scholarship on Cusanus and Humanism, Cusanus and Renaissance philosophy, as well as on the medieval roots of the cardinal's philosophical theology. Moreover, it broadens our knowledge about the multifaceted world in which Cusanus lived and actively engaged. In many aspects, these studies opened new horizons, questioning old prejudices and introducing new interpretations. The only area that did not receive due attention was Cusanus's first profession as a jurist and, closely connected, his ecclesiology. His legal expertise, acquired during his studies in Padua, provided the basis not only for his ecclesiology and political theory, but also for his actions as lawyer, papal legate, bishop and cardinal. Aldo Landi's paper about Cusanus as a reformer in Basel, fell short of grasping the complexity of Church reform discussed at Basel and Cusanus's role therein.43 - Short bios of the contributors and an index of persons conclude the volume, which must not be neglected by any serious scholar of the famous cardinal philosopher, who was "German by birth, but Italian by customs.•

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43 Aldo Landi, "Niccol6 Cusano, riformatore a Basilea" (305-313).



SE~ECTED RECE~T PUBLICATIONS We would be very pleased to receive »om members and friends offprints of their newly published articles about Cusanus and related topics, so that they may be listed in the series of publications in each issue of the newsletter. Naturally, we would also welcome new books and other publications by our members and friends.

The Editor wishes to thank sincerely those members and friends who have kindly sent him their recent publications. The following selections include books and articles by our members that are not direcHy related to Cusanus studies.

Some books that were already listed in the previous issues of the newsletter are included here again because they were recently reviewed in major scholarly journals. They are marked with an asterisk n The Editor wishes to emphasize that, thanks to the attention and care of our Special Advisor, Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki, important books have gone into the following list of publications.

PRIMARY SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS

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Nicolas de Cusa, Ace~a de la docta ignorancia. J. M. Machetta & C. D'Amico, trans. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2003-2004.

Nicolas de Cusa, Ace~a de la docta ignorancia. Vol.II: Lo maximo contracto o universo (edici6n bilingue), Jorge M. Machetta, Claudia D'Amico and Silvia Manzo, tr. Buenos Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2004. 158 pp.

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Others

Leon Battista Alberti. Momus. Eds. Virginia Brown and S. Knight. Trans. S. Knight. [The I Tatti Renaissance Library 8.] Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2003. X'IN, 407 pp. $29.95.

Thomas von Aquin. Commentar zum Trinitatstraktat des Boethius I. Lateinisch-Deutsch. [Herders Philosophische Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 3.] Freiburg: Herder, 2005. 288 pp. €37,-.

Giovanr.i Boccacio. Famous Women. Ed. and trans. Virginia Bro1.A.in :Tue I Tatti Renaissance Library. 1.] Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2003. XYN, 530 pp. $29.95


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Crispin, Gilbert. Religionsgesprache mit einem Juden und einem Heiden. Lateinisch-Deutsch. [Herders Philosophische Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 1.] Freiburg: Herder, 2005. 208 pp. €32,-.

The Letters of Gregory the Great. Trans. John R. C. Martyn. [Medieval Sources in Translation 40.] Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 3 vol., 2004. xxxiv, 996 pp. $95.00

Raimond Lullus, Opera Latina, 53: Tabula genera/is in mari in portu Tunicii in medio Septembris anno MCCXC/11 incepta et in ciuitate Neapolis in octauis Epiphaniae anno MCCXCIV ad finem perducta. Ed. Viola Tenge-Wolf. [Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 181 ; Raimundi Lulli Opera Latina, 27.] Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. pp. 204, 260. [BR: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005), 266-268 (J. N. Hillgarth).]

Giannozzo Manetti. Biographical Writings. Ed. & trans. Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl. [The I Tatti Renaissance Library 9.] Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xix, 330 pp.

Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology, Volume 4. (Books XI/XIV). Trans. Michael B. Allen, ed. James Hankins and William Bowen. [The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 13.] Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 384 pp. $29.95/£19.95.

lbn Sab'in. Die Sizilianischen Fragen. Arabisch-Deutsch. [Herders Philosophische Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 2.] Freiburg: Herder, 2005. 250 pp. Ca. €34.

John Duns Scotus. Quaestiones super libros de anima aristotelis. [B. loannis Duns Scoti Opera Philosophica, Vol. 5.] Eds. C. Bazan, K. Emery, R. Green, T. Noone, R. Plevano and A. Traver. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. 375 pp.$ 125.00.

REFERENCE BOOKS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Berkin, Carol and Betty Anderson. The History Handbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 192 pp.

Ruthven, Malise and Azim Manji. Historical Atlas of Islam. Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2004. 208 pp. $35.00.

Slack, Corliss K. Historical Dictionary of the Crusades. [Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest,

No. 25.] Lanham, MD and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. xxiv, 273 pp. $65.00. [BR: The Catholic Historical Review, XC, 4 (October, 2004) : 755-756 (Thomas E. Madden).]

Sullivan, Thomas O.S.B. Parisian Licentiates in Theology: A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register. Vol. 1: The Religious Orders. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 18.] Leiden: Brill, 2004. xii, 465 pp. $121.00. [BR: The Catholic Historical Review, XC, 4 (October 2004) 774-776 (James K. Farge, C.S.B.).]

Wegemer, Gerard B. and Stephen W. Smith, eds. A Thomas More Source Book. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. 427 pp. $34.95.

BOOKS

Nicholas of Cusa

Hoye, William J. Die mystische Theologie des Nicolaus Cusanus. [Forschungen zur europaischen Geistesgeschichte, Band 5.] Freiburg/Basel/Wien: Herder, 2004. 202 pp.

Kortenkamp, Gottfried. Die Urkunden des St. NikolausHospitals in Bemkastel-Kues an der Mosel. [Geschichte und Kultur des Trierer Landes 3.] Bernkastel-Kues: St. Nikolaus Hospital/Cusanusstift, [Sold by Trier: Kliomedia Verlag], 2004. 399 pp. €65,00.

Voss, Wolfgang. Dietrich von Erbach, Erzbishof von Mainz (1434-1459): Studien zur Reichs-, Kirchen- und Landespolitik sowie zu den erzbishOflichen Raten. Mainz: Selbstverlag der Gesellschaft fiir Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 2004.

Winkler, Norbert. Nikolaus von Kues. Hamburg/Dresden: Junius-Verlag, 2004. €13.50.

Others

Bailey, Michael D. Battling Demons, Witchcraft, Heresy and Reform in the Late Middle Ages. [Magic in History Series.] University Parle Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2003. xii, 200 pp. $ 65.00; $ 22.50. [BR: Church History, 73, 3 (Sept. 2004): 691-692 (Alberto Ferrerio).]

Bayer, Axel. Spa/tung der Christenheit: Das sogenannte morgenlandische Schisma von 1054. [Beihefte zum Archiv fGr Kulturgeschichte, 33.] Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna:


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Bohlau, 2002. vii , 274 pp. €29.90. [BR: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005): 182-184 (Thomas F. X. Noble).]

Beierwaltes, Werner. Platonismus und ldealismus. 2., durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage, 2004. [Philosophische Abhandlungen, Band 40.] Frankfurt/Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2004. xxx, 252, € 49.-.

Bisaha, Nancy. Creating East and West. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. ix, 309 pp.

Blum, Paul Richard. Philosophieren in der Renaissance. [UrsprOnge des Philosophierens, vol. 4.] Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2004. (Cusanus in chapters 8.2 and 9.2 and passim).

Belzoni, Lina. The Web of Images. Vernacular Preaching from its Origins to St. Bernardino da Siena. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. 238 pp. $104.95.

Bouchard, Constance Britain. "Every Valley shall be Exalted": The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2002. xci, 171 pp. $ 29.95. [BR: Church History, 73, 3 (Sept. 2004): 690-691 (Thomas E. Morrissey).]

Bouwsma, William J. The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. 304 pp. $36.00; $13.56.

Brunschwig, Jacques and Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, ed. A Guide to Greek Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 504 pp. $19.95/£12.95.

Bullough, Vern L. Universities, Medicine and Science in the Medieval West. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, 781 .] Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. xiii, 298 pp. $105.95. [Brief Note: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005): 359.]

Courtenary, William J. , ed. Rotuli Parisienses. Supplications to the Pope from the University of Paris. Vol. I: 1316-1349; Vol. II: 1352-1378. Eds., William J. Courtenay and Eric D. Goddard. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vols. 14 and 15.] Leiden: Brill, 2002, 2004. xiii, 551 pp. ; xi, 690 pp. €135.00; €157.00. [BR: The Catholic Historical Review, vol. XC, 4 (October, 2004): 770-772 (Gatz-Rudiger Tewes).]

De Libera, Alain. Denken im Mittelalter. Andreas Knop, trans. MOnchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003. 310 pp. € 39,90/sFr 69,40.

Furlan, Francesco. Studia a/bertiana: Lectures et Lecteurs de L. 8. Alberti. [Nova Humanistica.] Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2003. 336 pp. €32. [BR: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LVll , 4 (Winter 2004}: 1357-1358 (David Marsh).]

Frank, Simon L. Werke in acht Banden. Bd. 6: Die Rea/itat und der Mensch. Eine Metaphysik des menschlichen Seins. Stuttgart: Verlag Karl Alber, 2004. 416 pp. €44.-.

Geerlings, Wilhelm. Augustinus - Leben und Werk: eine bibliogrr..,hische EinfOrung. Paderbon: Schoningh, 2002. 212 p~

Gersh, S1 .iJhen and Bert Roest. eds. Medieval and Renaissance Humanism: Rhetoric, Representation and Reform. [Brill 's Studies in Intellectual History 115.] Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xvi, 309. pp. $117. [BR: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LVll, 4 (Winter 2004): 1451-1452 (William J. Kennedy).]

Griffith, Sidney H. The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. 338 pp. $111 .95.

Harrington, Michael. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Platonism. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.

Hillgarth, J.N. Spain and the Mediterranean in the later Middle Ages. Studies in Political and Intellectual History. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 318 pp. $105.95.

Holloway, Ross. Constantine and Rome. New Haven: Yale Unversity Press, 2004. 224 pp. $35.00

Hosle, Vittorio. Morals and Politics. Steven Rendall, trans. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xxi, 991 pp.

Hosle, Vittorio. Platon interpretieren. Paderborn: Schoningh, 2004. 164 pp.€ 29.90.

Hosle, Vittorio and Wolfgang Neuser, eds. Logik, Mathematik und Natur im objektiven ldealismus: Festschrift fur Dieter Wandschneider zum 65. Geburtstag. Wi.irzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 2004. 324 pp.

Jeck, Udo Reinhold. Platonia Orientalia. Aufdeckung einer philosophischen Tradition. Frankfurt/Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2004. 650 pp. € 98.-.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Kanzaki, Tadaaki and Yoshiaki Yauchi. Shudoin Bunka Nyumon. (Japanese translation of the book by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B., L'amour des lettres et le desir de dieu: Initiation aux auteurs monastiques du moyen age, edition corrigee. Paris: Les editions du Cerf, 1957). Tokyo: Chisen Shoin, 2004. 352 pp.+ 82 pp. ¥6800.

Kuttner, Stephan. Gratian and the Schools of Law, 1140-1234. Second Edition. Ed., Peter Landau. [Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS185.] Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. 440 pp. $122.95.

Luft, Sandra Rudnick. Vico's Uncanny Humanism. Reading the "New Science" between Modem and Postmodern. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. ix, 213 pp.

Lutz-Bachmann, M. and A. Fidora, eds. Juden, Christen und Muslime: Religionsdialoge im Mittelalter. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2004. 240 pp.

Macrides, R. , ed. Travel in the Byzantine World. [Papers from the Thirty-Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, April 2000.] Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002. 316 pp., $84.95.

McConnell, Michael W., Robert F. Cochran, Jr. and Angela C. Carmella, eds. Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001 . 544 pp. $40.00; $22.40.

Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii, 302 pp. $26. [BR: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LVll, 4 (Winter 2004): 1376-1378 (Christopher S. Celenza).]

Matusevich, Y. L'age d'orde la mystique franr;aise: de Jean Gerson (1363-1429) a Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples (1440?-1536). [The Golden Age of French Mysticism]. Paris-Milan: Editions Arche-Sarl, 2004.

Miethke, Jurgen and Lorenz Weinrich, tr. Quellen zur Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der grof3en Konzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts. Zweiter T eil: Die Konzilien von Pavia/Siena (1423124), Basel (1431-1449) und Fe"ara/Florenz (1438-1445). [FSGA, 38 b]. Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002. 510 pp. [BR: Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung, 31, Heft 2, 2004: 276-277 (Oliver Auge).]

Monfasani, John. Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies on Humanism and Philosophy in the 15th Century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. 350 pp. $111.95.

Nederman, Cary J. , ed. and trans. Political Thought in Early Fourteenth-Century England: Treatises by Walter of Milemete, William of Pagula, and William of Ockham. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 250: Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 10.] Tempe, AZ.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in Collaboration with Brepols, 2002. xiii. 209 pp. $30.00. [BR: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005): 288-289 (Craig Taylor).]

Paetzold, Heinz. Ernst Cassirer. 2nd. ed. Hamburg/ Dresden: Junius-Verlag, 2004. €11 .50.

Podlech, Stefan. Discretio: Zur Hermeneutik der Religiosen Erfahrung bei Dionysius dem Kartauser. [Analecta Cartusiana, 194.] Salzburg: lnstitut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Salzburg, 2002. xiii, 362 pp. [BR: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005): 298-300 (Brian Patrick McGuire).]

Pring-Mill, Robert. Der Mikrokosmos Ramon Lulls. Bne Einfuhrung in das mittela/ter/iche Weltbild. [Clavis Pansophiae.] Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann- holzboog, 2001 . xii, 141 pp. [BR: Zeitschrift fur Kirchengeschichte, 114, Band 2003. Heft 3, 423 (Klaus Fitschen).]

Reichling, Phillipp E. Rezeption als Meditation. Begleichende Untersuchung zur Betrachtung in Mystik und klassischer Moderne. [Artificium - Schriften zu Kunst, Kunstvermittlung und Denkmalpfiege 14.] Kunibert Bering, ed. Oberhausen: Athena Verlag, 2004. (A relevant chapter is "Die via paradoxa bei Nikolaus Cusanus und Josef Albers").

Rorem, Paul. Eriugena's Commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy. ST 150. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2005. xiv, 242 pp. $59.95.

Rubenstein, Richard. Aristotle's Children. How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages. Orlando: A Harvest Book Harcourt, Inc., 2004. ix, 368 pp.

Rudolph, Enno. Ernst Casirer im Kontext: Kulturphilosophie zwischen Metaphysik und Historismus. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. x, 277 pp.

Ruocco, Ilario, ed. II Platone latino. II Parmenide: Giorgio di Trebisonda e ii cardinale Cusano. [Academia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria": Studi 203.] Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2003. 108 pp. €15. [BR: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LVll, 4 (Winter 2004): 1360-1362 (John Monfasani).]


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Schadel, Erwin, ed. Johann Amos Comenius- Vordenker eines kreativen Friedens. [Deutsch-tschechisches Kol\oquiurn anlass\ich des 75. Geburtstages von Heinrich Beck.] [Scnriften zur Triadik und Ontodynamik, Band 24.] Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2005. 610 pp. € 97.50.

Skinner, Quentin. Niccolo Machiavelli. 4th edition. Hamburg/ Dresden: Junius-Verlag, 2004. €11.50.

Soupios. Michael A. The Song of Hellas. Athens: Klidarithmos, 2004. 408 pp.

Speck, Paul. Understanding Byzantium. Studies in Byzantine Historical Sources. Ed. Sarolta Takacs. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 316 pp. $105.95.

Van Engen, John. Religion in the History of the Medieval West. [Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS793.] Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. 340 pp. $105.95.

Van Riel, Gerd and Caroline Mace, eds. Platonic Ideas and Concept Fonnation in Ancient and Medieval Thought. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2004. xxv, 259 pp.

Voegelin, Eric. P/aton. [Band 6 of Ordnung und Geschichte.] Peter J. Opitz and Dietmar Herz. eds. Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002. 389 pp. €34.90.

Voegelin, Eric. Das okumenische Zeitalter - Die Legitimitat der Antike. [Band 8 of Ordnung und Geschichte.] Peter Opitz and Dietmar Harz, eds. Mi.inchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2004. 220 pp. € 25.90.

Von Martels, Zweder R. W. M. and Arjo J. Vanderjagt, eds. Pius II - "El Piu Expeditivo Pontifice": Selected Studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. x, 262 pp. $105.00. [BR: Renaissance Quarterly, vol. LVll, 4 (Winter 2004) 1358-1360 (Emily O'Brien).]

Winkler, Norbert. Meister Eckhart. Hamburg/Dresden: Junius-Verlag, 2004. €13.50.

ARTICLES

Nicholas of Cusa

Cortesi, Mariarosa. "La letteratura cristiana tra libri di Nicolo Cusano," in Mariarosa Cortesi, ed. Padri Greci e Latini a confronto (secoli XIII-XV). Atti del Convegno di studi della Societa Internationale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino

(SISMEL), Certos del Galluzzo. Firenze. 19-20 ottobre 2001. Firenze: Sismel , Edizioni del Galluzzo. 2004, pp. 113-132.

Elpert, Jan Bernd. ·conjectures for Tolerance. Nicholas of Cusa's Relevance in a Postmodern Age," Laurentianum 45 (2004): 567-597.

Floss. Pavel. ·cusanus und Bruno," in Toma Nejeschleba. Philosophy of Giordano Bruno/Die Philosophie von Giordano Bruno. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackeho v Olomouci, 2003, pp. 31-42.

Gutierrez, Raul. "Visio et armor Dei: Nicolas de Gusa y Juan de la Cruz," Mirabilia: revista de historia antiga e medieval 2 (2003): 205-217.

Halfwassen, Jens. "Nikolaus von Kues," in Christine AxtPiscalar and Joachim Ringleben, eds., Denker des Christentums. [UTB 2608]. Ti.ibingen: Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 2004, pp. 67-89.

Hudson, Nancy. "Theosis: A Soteriological Consequence of Nicholas of Cusa's Apophatic Anthropology," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 78, 3 (Summer 2004): 387-397.

Kijewska, Agnieszka. "Divine Non-Being in Eriugena and Cusanus," Philotheos: International Journal for Philosophy and Theology 2 (2002): 155-167.

Santi, Francesco. "I metodi della teologia e i Padri in Nicolo Cusano," in Mariarosa Cortesi and Claudio Leonardi, eds., Tradizioni patristiche nell'Umanesimo. Atti del Convegno a Firenze 1997, Florenz, 2000, pp. 193-210.

Schmidt-Biggenmann. "Wissen und Macht an der Schwelle zur Neuzelt. Ein Beispiel: Nikolaus von Kues," in Richard van DOimen/Sina Rauschenbach, eds., Macht des Wissens. Die Enstehung der modernen Wissengesellschaft, Koln/Weimar/Wien: Bohlau, 2004, pp. 13-38.

Senger, Hans Gerhard. "De ludo globi," in Circa 1500. Landesausstellung 2000 [Katalog zur Ausstellung]. Leonhard und Paola. Ein ungleiches Paar [Lienz, SchloB Bruck]- De ludo globi. Vom Spiel der Welt {Brixen, Hofburg Brixen] - An der Grenze des Reiches [Besenello, Castel Beseno, Italy, 2000] 314-317.

Senger, Hans Gerhard. "Coincidencia de Opuestos y Concordia. Los Caminos del pensamiento en Nicolas de Cusa,• Sociedad Castellano-Leonesa de Filosofia (2004): 85-106.


American Cusanus Society Newsletter Thurner, Martin. "'Cultura agri intellectualis' : Der gemeinsame Ursprung von Religion und Kultur riach Nikolaus von Kues," Jahrbuch filr Re/igionsphilosophie 3 (2004): 59-83.

Thurner, Martin. "Die Wahrheit als der Weg zum gottlichen Leben nach Nikolaus von Kues. Eine Studie anhand von, ' De aequalitate'." in J.A. Aertsen , ed., Herbst des Mittelalters? Fragen zur Bewertung des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. [33. Koiner Mediavistentagung vom 10.-13. September 2002] (Miscellanea Madievalia 31 ), Berlin/New York; 2004, pp. 406-432.

Thurner, Martin. "Die Sinnlichkeit als Selbstdarstellung des Geistes: die 'aenigmata' des Cusanus," in Recherches de Theo/ogie et Philosophie medievales 71 (2004): 372-391 .

Others

Hosle, Vittorio. "lnterreligious Dialogues during the Middle Ages and Early Modernity," in Alan M. Olson, David M. Steiner and Irina S. Tuuli, eds., Educating for Democracy, Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004, pp. 59-83.

Matula, Jozef. "lmmanente Ordnung und universaler Friede bei Johann Amos Comenius," in Erwin Schadel, ed., Johann Amos Comenius-Vordenker eines kreativen Friedens [Schriften zur Triadik und Ontodynamik Band 24.] , Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 387-399.

Nitschke, Peter. "Religi6se Verantwortung und rationale Sendung: Bewusstseinsformen abendlandischer ldentitat," in Martin Broking-Bortfelt and Martin Rothgangel, eds., Glaube und Denken. Jahrbuch der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft 17 (2004): 59-73. (Pp. 59-83: Cusanus).

Santing, Catrien. "Through the Looking Glass of Ulrich Pinder: the Impact of Humanism on the Career of a Nuremberg Town Physician Around 1500," in Stephen Gersh and Bert Roest, eds., Medieval and Renaissance Humanism, Rhetoric, Representation and Reform. [Brill's Studies in Intellectual history 115), Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003. pp. 203-225 (on Nicholas of Cusa, pp. 214-217).

The Electronic Resources on the Devotio moderna

Medieval Academy News: Spring 2005 reports on a new web site on music and the Devotie Modema:

<http://www. musicadevota. nl>



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