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Cathedral Chapters in the Middle Ages – A Comparison of Germany and Italy
Prof. Dr Enno Bünz, Professor of Saxon and Comparative Regional History at the Department of History, University of Leipzig, and Dr Jörg Voigt, Medieval History Officer at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society, are organising an international conference on medieval cathedral chapters.
Prof. Dr Holger A. Klein from Columbia University in New York, a specialist in Byzantine art and art history, will speak on 30 May on the topic: ‘Constantinople, Rome and Venice – Cities, Relics and the Vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem’.
Location: Campo Santo Teutonico (Pope Benedict XVI Hall)
Start: 6.00 pm
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Prof. Dr Jutta Dresken-Weiland (Regensburg) will speak on ‘The relief-carved ciborium columns of San Marco in Venice: the largest pictorial cycle of the early Christian period’.
Our large and very successful conference ‘Popes and Paraments’ will be published in full in the near future. In the meantime, a highly readable interview by Christian Hecht has been published (unfortunately subject to a fee). However, Maja Gilewski's conference report on HSozKult is freely accessible.
Topic: "Wissenschaft in Rom: Die Gründung der Görres-Gesellschaft vor 150 Jahren und ihr Römisches Institut".
Location: Campo Santo Teutonico (Aula Pope Benedict XVI)
Beginning: 6 pm
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The next Görres lecture on 28 February will be given by Yvonne Maria Werner from Lund. The topic is: ‘A priest's life between Rome and Copenhagen: the Danish “Camposantiner” Peter Schindler (1892-1967) and his commitment to the Catholic mission in Denmark’ (in German).
Dr Tamara Scheer, private lecturer at the Institute for Eastern European History at the University of Vienna, will speak on the topic: ‘Linguistic diversity in the Roman Catholic Church in Austria-Hungary’. The focus will be on the 19th/20th century, with particular attention to ecclesiastical institutions.
On 21 November, the Fondazione Vaticana Joseph Ratzinger/Benedetto XVI, in collaboration with the RIGG, will present the autobiographical volume of Ratzinger's collected works and another Ratzinger biography at the Campo Santo Teutonico.
On 29–30 January 2026, the Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology at the University of Innsbruck, the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome and the RIGG are hosting a symposium on linguistic diversity in the late Habsburg Empire. Church institutions such as seminaries, parishes and religious orders play a special role in the question of national and practical implications. The main organiser is PD Dr Tamara Scheer (Vienna).
Topic: "Lasst den Muezzin auf dem Minarett!" - Friedrich II. und der Islam (mit einem Exkurs über die Religiosität des staufischen Kaisers)".
The German-Italian medievalist Prof. Dr. Hubert Houben (Lecce) has published numerous works on the Italian Middle Ages, including the booklet Die Normannen (The Normans), published by Beck-Verlag for a general audience. He is a member of the National Academy ‘dei Lincei’ in Rome, Italy's most prestigious academy.
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