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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 Cusanus Society Newsletter AMERICAN CUSANIUS SOCIETY'S SESSIONS IN KALAMAZOO IN MAY 2005 The following program, which the American Cusanus THE 2005 MORIMICHI WATANABE Society submitted to the Organizing Committee of the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, was LECTURE accepted. The Congress is scheduled to meet at Western DEDICATED TO OTTO GRUNDLER Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Ml, May 5-8, 2005. 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 Thursday, May 5: 1:30-3:00 p.m. during the 40th International Congress on Medieval Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Studies at Kalamazoo as follows: Session: 65 NICHOLAS OF CUSA I: Rhetoric and Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005: 5:15 p.m. Theology: Cases of Gerson and Cusanus Place: Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Organizer. Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University of Organizer. Peter J. Casarella America Presider: Peter J. Casarella Presider: Karfried Froehlich, Princeton Theological Speaker: Marcia L. Colish, Yale University Seminary Title: Resonances of Stoicism in High Medieval Speakers: David Zachariah Flanagin, Saint Mary's Thought: Adiaphora, Synderesis, and College of California Conscience "Godspeak: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Theology of Jean Gerson" Clyde Lee Miiier, SUNY- Stony Brook "Two Christmas Sermons: Jean Gerson and Prof. Marcia Colish Nicholas of Cusa on Verbum Caro Factum L. Est'" Prof. Golish kindly sent her curriculum vitae to the Editor, and it is presented below. Thursday, May 5: 3:30-5:00 p.m. ***** Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Marcia L. Golish Session 124: NICHOLAS OF CUSA II: Cusanus Research 80 Seaview Terrace #29, Guilford, CT 06437 as Critical Scholarship and Politics: The Tel. and fax: 203-458-2418 Legacy of Raymond Klibansky on the E-mail: [email protected] Occasion of His 1OOth Birthday Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University Education: C.W. Post Campus B.A., Magna cum laude, Smith College, 1958 Presider: Morimichi Watanabe . M.A.. Yale University (History), 1959 Speakers: Hans Gerhard Senger, Heidelberger Ph.D., Yale University (History), 1965 Akademie der Wissenschaften D.H.L. (hon.). Grinnell College, 1999 "Raymond Klibansky - the Centenarian: His Contributions to Modem Cusanus Research" Employment: Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University 1962-63: Instructor of History, Skidmore College of America 1963-65: Instructor of History, Oberlin College • 'The Doorkeeper of Modernity': The 1965-69: Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin Legacies of R. Haubst, G. Santinello and E. College Colo mer" 1966-67: Lecturer in History, Case Western Reserve University Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 --------------- American Cusanus Society Newsletter 1969-75: Associate Professor of His+:· :y, Oberlin Books: College The Mirror c · Language: A Stud in the Medieval Theory 1975-2001 : Professor of History, Ob .11n College of Kno ~ ·tledge (New Haver., Yale University 1973-7 4, 1978-81 , 1985-86: Department Chairman Press, 1968), xviii, 404 pp .; second revised 1985-2001: Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, edition (Lincoln and London , University of Oberlin College Nebraska Press, 1983), xvii , 399 pp . 2003: Visiting Professor of Religious Studies and The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle History, Yale University Ages. I: Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature. 2004-2005: Lecturer in History, Yale University Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 34, ed. Heiko A Oberman (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985), Grants. Awards. Fellowships: xi, 446 pp. Paperback reimpression with Phi Beta Kappa, 1958 addenda and corrigenda (Leiden, E.J. Brill, Hazel Edgerly Prize, Smith College, 1958 1990), xii, 459 pp. Samuel S. Fels Fellowship, Yale University, 1961-62 The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Grants for research and travel , Oberlin College, 196;), Ages, II: Stoicism in Latin Christian Thought 1966, 1972. 1974, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1985, Through the Sixth Century, Studies in the History 1989, 1998 of Christian Thought, 35 , P-d . Heiko A. Obennan Research Status Appointment, Oberlin College, 1968- (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985), X'. 336 pp. Paperback 69, 1989-90, 1999-2000 reimpression with addend<· : .~ rid corrigenda National Endowment for the Humanities, Yonger (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1990), X: 342 pp . Scholar Fellowship, 1968-69, Senior Fellowship, Peter Lombard, 2 vols ., Brill's Studies in Intellectual 1981-82 History, 41, ed. A.J. Vanderjagt (Leiden, E.J. Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, 1968-69 Brill, 1994), xi, 893 pp. ACLS Travel Grants, 1974, 1987 Medieval Foundations of the We stem Intellectual Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Tradition, 400-1400, The Yale Intellectual History University of Wisconsin, 197 4-75 of the West (New Haven and London, Yale Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981 -82 University Press, 1997), xiii, 386 pp. Second Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, fall term 1982 printing, 1998. Paperback edition, 1999. Italian Visiting Scholar, Weston School of Theology, fall term translation: La cultura de/ medioevo (400-1400), 1982 trans. Elisabetta Gallo, le vie della civitta Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for (Bologna, Societa editrice ii Mulino, 2001), 595 Advanced Study, 1986-87 pp. 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 December 2004 2 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Essays Published Separately: "Seneca's Apocolocyntosis as a Possible Ssource for Remapping Scholasticism. The Etienne Gilson Series. Erasmus' Julius Exclusus." Renaissance 21 (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Quarterly, 29 (Autum 1976): 361-68. Studies, 2000), 21 pp. "Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince.· Catholic and Intellectual: Conjunction or Disjunction? Sixteenth-Century Journal, 9(Winter1978): 81- Marianist Award Lecture (Dayton, University of 93. Reprinted in Great Political Thinkers: Dayton, 2000), 22 pp. Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Articles and Chapters in Composite Publications: 1997), 2: 205-17. "The Mime of God: Vives on the Nature of Man," "St. Augustine's Rhetoric of Silence Revisited," Journal of the History of Ideas, 23 (January Augustinian Studies, 9 (1978): 15-24. 1962): 3-20. Reprinted in Race, Gender and "Pauline Theology and Stoic Philosophy: An Historical Class: Early Modem Ideas of Humanity, ed . Study," Journal of the American Academy of Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Rochester, University Religion, 47, Supplement (March 1979): B 1-21. of Rochester Press, 1992), pp. 321-38. "The Stoic Hypothetical Syllogisms and Their Trans "A Twelfth-Century Problem," Apollo, 87, m.s. 77 (July mission in the Latin West in the Early Middle 1968): 36-41. Ages," Res Publica Utterarum, 2 (1979): 19-26. "Eleventh-Century Grammar in the Thought of St. "Three Notes on the Relationship Between Writing and Anselm," Arts liberaux et philosophie, Actes du Teaching History," The History Teacher, 13 1vme congres international de philosophie (August 1980): 543-60 (with Harold D. Woodman medievale, Montreal, 27 aoOt-2 septembre 1967 and Mildred Alpern). (MontreaVParis, lnstitut d'Etudes Medievales/J. "Historical Writing Then and Now: Against Exegesis," Vrin, 1969), pp. 785-95. Book Forum, 5 (1980): 270-78. "The Idea of Liberty in Machiavelli," Journal of the "Cosmetic Theology: The Transformation of a Stoic History ofldeas, 32 (July 1971): 323-50. Theme," Assays, 1 (1981): 3-14. Reprinted in Renaissance Essays, 2, ed. William "John the Scot's Christology and Soteriology in J. Connell, Library of the History of Ideas, 1O Relation to His Greek Sources," Downside (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, Review, 100(April1982}: 138-51. 1993), pp. 180-207; Great Political Thinkers: "The Stoic Theory of Verbal Signification and the Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris Problem of Lies and False Statements from (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Antiquity to St. Anselm,· Archeo/ogie du signe, 1997), 2: 559-86. ed. Lucie Brind'Amour and Eugene Vance "Peter of Bruys, Henry of Lausanne, and the Fa9ade of (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval St-Gilles," Traditio, 28 (1972): 451-60. Studies, 1983), pp. 17-43. "The Roman Law of Persons and Roman History: A "St. Anselm's Philosophy of Language Reconsidered," Case for an Interdisciplinary Approach," Anselm Studies, 1, ed. Gillian R. Evans (London, American