New member of the RIGG: Juan David Montejo

Juan David Montejo (Bogotá, Colombia - * 1999) is currently taking part in a diploma programme for medieval studies in Rome, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Mediévales (FIDEM). After studying philosophy and Latin philology in Cologne, he is completing a master's degree in medieval and renaissance studies in Munich, specialising in medieval Latin philology and medieval philosophy.

Despite his focus on medieval studies, Montejo follows the well-known dictum of Ernst Robert Curtius: ‘You cannot understand the Middle Ages if you only research the Middle Ages’, and therefore endeavours to never lose sight of his engagement with antiquity and modern times. He is particularly interested in the reception of classical literature in the 12th century - for example the exploration of Ovid in the Tegernsee monastery or the Timaeus speculation of the so-called School of Chartres. Another focus of his research is the Christian doctrinal and controversial poetry of late antiquity. An essay on the literary representation of the heretic in the dogmatic poems of Prudentius and Gregory of Nazianzus is currently in preparation.

Publications:

„Olivis vermeintlich zweifache Metaphysik“, in: Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 65 (2023), S. 89-97.

in press:

„Hermeneutik des Verdachts im Mittelalter? – Die vier hermeneutischen Prinzipien in De perlegendis philosophorum libris des Petrus Johannis Olivi“, in: Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 72 (2025).

„Der streitbare und der umstrittene Dominikaner: Heinrich Denifle als philosophischer Kritiker der Eckhartʼschen Metaphysik“, in: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 86, 3 (2024).

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