cistercian and monastic studies 2017 C O N F E R E N C E Western Michigan University Program and Schedule of Events In conjunction with the 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 11–14, 2017 Thursday, May 11 | Lee Honors College Lounge Friday, May 12 | Lee Honors College Lounge 10:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Monks and the World: Political and Economic Activities Monastic Lives Presider: Jean Truax, Independent Scholar Presider: Martha Krieg, Independent Scholar St. Bernard of Clairvaux and the Crusades The Wrong Side of History: Thomas Becket and Aelred of Rievaulx Ryszard Gron, Archdiocese of Chicago Jean A. Truax, Independent Scholar Saint George’s Abbey in Gratteri - Ninian and the Rod of Aaron The First Cistercian Settlement in the Kingdom of Sicily? Chad Turner, Saint Joseph’s College Francesco Capitummino, Independent Scholar Exemplum as History: The Worlds of a Cistercian Nun Katherine Richman, Laboure College 1:30 p.m. Spirituality in Monastic Life 1:30 p.m. Presider: Hugh Feiss, OSB Dubious Sources in Monastic History “The Word Runs Swiftly”: Presider: Anne Lester, University of Colorado-Boulder The Symbolism of “Running” in Bernard and William The First Life of Bernard: Can we trust it? Isaac Slater, OCSO Brian Patrick McGuire, Independent Scholar Early Symptoms of Humanism in Bernard’s de Deligendo Deo Popular Perceptions of Cistercians vs. Trappists in late 19th Century Austria Luke Anderson, O. Cist, St. Mary’s Monastery Alcuin Schachenmayr, O. Cist, Pontifical Athanaeum Benedict XVI. The “Paradise of Inner Pleasure”: Heiligenkreuz The “Monastery” in Medieval Monastic Spirituality Mortifera salutacio: Herbert of Torres’ Version of the Devil’s Letter Greg Peters, Biola University Stefano Mula, Middlebury College 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Monastic Theology and Sermons Teaching Monasticism (A Panel Discussion) Presider: Marsha Dutton, Ohio University Presider: Stefano Mula, Middlebury College Adapting the Monastic Threefold Way: A panel discussion with Virginia Blanton, University of Missouri–Kansas City; The Synthesis of Apophatic Darkness and Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri–Columbia; Colleen Maura McGrane, the Existential Dark Night in the Sermons of Johannes Tauler OSB, Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration; Alcuin Schachenmayr, Glenn E. Myers, Crown College Pontifical Athanaeum Benedict XVI. Heiligenkreuz; and Judith Sutera, OSB, The Theology of the Tree of Life in On the Apocalypse by Geoffrey of Auxerre Mount St. Scholastica. Paul E. Lockey, University of St. Thomas, Houston Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s Practical Christology in his Ascension Sermons Placid Morris, OSCO The Trinitarian Dimensions of Cistercian Eucharistic Theology Nathaniel Peters, Boston College 2 3 Saturday, May 13 | Fetzer 1040 Sunday, May 14 | Fetzer 1040 10:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Memory and Memory Aids in Twelfth-Century Cistercian Writing Elias Dietz, OCSO, Abbey of Gethsemani The Intersection of Material and Spiritual Culture in Medieval Monasticism Presider: Paul E. Lockey, St. Mary’s School of Theology, University of Memory and Mnemonic Devices in Bernard of Clairvaux’s St. Thomas, Houston and Aelred of Rievaulx’s Sermons Marvin Döbler , Ev. -luth. Landeskirche Hannovers Lessons from the Cloister? The Location of the Monastic School in Early Benedictine Monasticism The Formation of Historical Memory in the Works of Aelred of Rievaulx Matthew Ponesse, Ohio Dominican University Marsha L. Dutton, Ohio University; Marjory Lange, Western Oregon University Aquatic Spirituality: Multiformi Disponens Distinctione: Rhetorical Structure and Mnemonic The Aqua-culture and Spirituality in the Thought of the Early Cistercians Devices in Thomas the Cistercian’s Commentary on the Canticle Daniel Marcel La Corte, Saint Ambrose University Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Georg-August-University Göttingen Reading Aelred of Rievaulx’s Architectural Metaphors by the Letter 1:30 p.m. Jason Crow, Louisiana State University Pseudo-Bernard: The Writers, Works, and Readers 10:30 a.m. Presider: Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame Cistercian Abbeys of Brittany Major Questions in the Study of Pseudo-Bernard Works as Exemplified by Presider: K. Paul Evans, York University the Instructio sacerdotalis and the Tractatus de statu virtutum Elias Dietz, OCSO, Abbey of Gethsemani Les abbayes cisterciennes de Bretagne au XIIe siècle: Lieux de prières et sentinelles politique On Pseudo-Bernard’s Tractatus de praecipuis mysteriis nostrae religionis Joëlle Quaghebeur, University de Bretagne Sud-Lorient Joshua Lim, University of Notre Dame Acceptation et refus de la modernité stylistique dans l’architecture Pseudo-Bernard’s Tractatus de statu virtutum in Translation: cistercienne: L’ exemple de la Bretagne Composition, Content, and “Bernardine” Themes Yves Gallet, University Bordeaux Montaigne Breanna J. Nickel, University of Notre Dame 3:30 p.m. The Cistercian and Monastic Inspiration for the Reformation: On the Occasion of the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Luther’s Theses Presider: Marvin Döbler, Ev. -luth. Landeskirche Hannovers “Bernhardus ist uber alle Doctores in Ecclesia, wenn er predigt . .” (Martin Luther) Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, University of Greenland The Two Monasteries of Grimma and Their Impact on the Lutheran Reformation Rose Marie Tillisch, Strandmarkskirken “I here but follow the holy Bernard of Clairvaux in his book On Consideration” Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, Aarhus University The “Case” Fuerstenfeld (Campus Principum) and Luther’s Theses Klaus Wollenberg, Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften München 4 5 SCHEDULED EVENTS Thursday, May 11 Sunday, May 14 7:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. Daily Mass Sunday Mass Fetzer 1040 Fetzer 1005 5:15 p.m. 7:00 a.m. Daily Vespers Anglican (Episcopal)-Lutheran Fetzer 1040 Sunday Eucharist Fetzer 1040 Opening Reception Immediately after Vespers 5:30 p.m. Lee Honors College Collation Pick up at Valley III or Friday, May 12 meet at restaurant TBD 7:00 a.m. Daily Mass Fetzer 1040 5:15 p.m. Daily Vespers Fetzer 1040 Saturday, May 13 7:00 a.m. Daily Mass Fetzer 1040 5:15 p.m. Daily Vespers Fetzer 1040 7:00 p.m. Sunday Mass Fetzer 1040 7:00 p.m. Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, Western Michigan University Dinner with cash bar by invitation, advanced reservations required Bernhard Center, President’s Dining Room 6 7 PARTICIPANTS 2017 Gron, Ryszard Anderson, Luke Archdiocese of Chicago Mula, Stefano Tanaseanu-Döbler, Ilinca St. Mary’s Monastery [email protected] Middlebury College Georg-August-Universität Göttingen [email protected] [email protected] Astell, Anne Krieg, Martha University of Notre Dame Independent Scholar Myers, Glenn Truax, Jean [email protected] [email protected] Crown College Independent Scholar [email protected] [email protected] Blanton, Virginia La Corte, Daniel University of Missouri-Kansas City Saint Ambrose University Nickel, Breanna J. Turner, Chad [email protected] [email protected] University of Notre Dame St. Joseph’s College [email protected] [email protected] Capitummino, Francesco Lange, Marjory Independent Scholar Ohio University Peters, Greg Wollenberg, Klaus [email protected] & Western Oregon University Biola University University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] [email protected] Munich-Germany Crow, Jason [email protected] Louisiana State University Lester, Anne Peters, Nathaniel [email protected] University of Colorado- Boulder Boston College [email protected] [email protected] Dietz, Elias Abbey of Gethsemani Lim, Joshua Ponesse, Matthew [email protected] University of Notre Dame Ohio Dominican University [email protected] [email protected] Döbler, Marvin Ev.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers Lockey, Paul E. Quaghebeur, Joëlle [email protected] University of St. Thomas – Houston Université de Bretagne Sud-Lorient [email protected] [email protected] Dutton, Marsha Ohio University McGrane, Colleen Maura Richman, Katherine [email protected] Benedictine Sisters of Laboure College Perpetual Adoration [email protected] Evans, K. Paul [email protected] York University Rydstrøm-Poulsen, Aage [email protected] McGuire, Brian Patrick University of Greenland Independent Scholar [email protected] Feiss, Hugh [email protected] Monstery of the Ascension Schachenmayr, Alcuin [email protected] Morris, Placid Heiligenkreuz Abbey Abbey of New Clairvaux [email protected] Gallet, Yves [email protected] Université Bordeaux Montaigne Slater, Isaac [email protected] Abbey of the Genesee [email protected] Gregory, Rabia University of Missouri-Columbia Sutera, Judith [email protected] Mount St. Scholastica [email protected] 8 9 The 2018 Cistercian Studies Conference is planned for May 10–13, 2018. In conjunction with the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies Panel proposals must be submitted by June 1, 2017 Abstracts must be received by September 15, 2017 Proposals and abstracts should be sent via email to: [email protected] or mailed to: The Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, 111E Walwood Hall, Western Michigan University, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5432 Contact information Cistercian and Monastic Studies email address: [email protected] CCMS Blog: cistercianscholarship.wordpress.com Cover Details of: Caoursin, G., & Reger, J. (1496). Rhodiorum Historia. Ulm: Johannes Reger. Print 10 11 12.