Hieronymus noster, the international symposium on the 1600th anniversary of death of Jerome, will take place in Ljubljana on October 24th–26th, 2019, at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. It is being organised by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; the Universities of Ljubljana, Zagreb, Graz, and Warsaw; Central European University (CEU); International Network of Excellence “Europa Renascens”; DANUBIUS Project (Université de Lille); and the Institut des Sources chrétiennes.
The symposium is under the honorary patronage of Mr Borut Pahor, the President of the Republic of Slovenia.
Wednesday, October 23
17.00
Registration and Opening Ceremony
Atrium of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2
Thursday, October 24
Session 1
8.30 – 9.30
Plenary Lectures
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Laurence Mellerin: Hieronymian studies at the Institut des Sources Chretiennes
Jože Krašovec: The Development of St Jerome’s Views on the Translation and Interpretation of the Holy Bible
Session 2
Section A
Thursday 9.45 – 11.15
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Theology 1
Chair: Danuta Schanzer
Thomas Clemmons: Jerome’s Early Understanding of Society and the Church
Michael A. Ennis: “Test All Things” – Jerome’s Theory and Practice with Suspicious Theologians
Philip Polcar: Unciales Litterae and the pauperes Christi: The Economics of Jerome’s Ecclesiastical Influence
Section B
Thursday 9.45 – 11.15
Small Hall ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome’s Exegesis 1
Chair: Samo Skralovnik
Sergio Zincone: L’interpretazione delle parabole evangeliche nel Commento di Girolamo al Vangelo secondo Matteo
Miklos Istvan Foldvary: The Horns of Moyses
Laszlo Takacs: St. Jerome and the Allegorical Interpretation of Exodus
Jacobus Koos Kritzinger: The interpretation of ‘The Parable of the Prodigal Son’ by two Latin patristic authors, St Jerome and Petrus Chrysologus
Section C
Thursday 9.45 – 11.15
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Translating Holy Scripture
Chair: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
Jean-Marie Auwers: Jerome cite-t-il ses propres traductions du Cantique des cantiques?
Tiziano F. Ottobrini: Hebraica ueritas e filologia ispirata: Girolamo e la traduzione biblica come traduzione dello Spirito
Krisztian Fenyves: From the “Veritas Graeca” to the “Veritas Hebraica” (in St.Jerome’s Commentaries)
Edoardo Bona: Alla ricerca della Verita: il testo originale come Veritas
Coffee Break
11.15 – 11.30
Session 3
Section A
Thursday 11.30 – 13.00
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Theology 2
Chair: David Movrin
Peter Scheck: Benedict XV, Jerome and the Perennial Validity of Spiritus Paraclitus
Judith Marie Gentle: Ecce Virgo Concipiet: The Enduring Theological Significance of De perpetua virginitate beatae Mariae adversus Helvidium
Rebecca Keller: Jerome, Vigilantius, and the Cults of the Saints
Section B
Thursday 11.30 – 13.00
Small Hall ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome’s Exegesis 2
Chair: Samo Skralovnik
Milena Joksimović: Adulter Vs. Moechus: Jerome’s Use of Terms for Adultery in Vulgata
Anna Persig: Jerome as the reviser of the Vulgate Epistles: status quaestionis and New Approaches
Alisa Kunitz-Dick: Jerome’s Commentary on Malachi: A Comparative Approach
Section C
Thursday 11.30 – 13.00
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Slovenian Section
Chair: Rajko Bratož
Rafko Valenčič: Kje si, Stridon?
Metod Benedik: Emonska Cerkev v Hieronimovem času, njena notranja moč
Gregor Sraka: Hieronimovi stiki z Ilirikom v času njegovega prebivanja na Vzhodu (375–420)
Lunch Break
13.00 – 15.00
Session 4
Section A
Thursday 15.00 – 16.45
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Monastic Theology
Chair: Jan Ciglenečki
Danuta Shanzer: Jerome’s Demons: Demonizations vs. Demonology
David Movrin: Holy Aemulatio: Jerome’s Efforts to Outdo the Life of Antony
Philip Marshall: Claustration in Jerome’s Advice to young women
Jordina Sales-Carbonell: Jerome and the Western Monasticism: Asceticism, Evergetism and Orthodoxy within the Late Fourth Century Hispania
Section B
Thursday 15.00 – 16.45
Small Hall ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4
Epistolography 1
Chair: Alenka Cedilnik
Emmanuelle Mantel: La lettre de consolation chez saint Jerome
Gina Derhard: Metaphors of Conversion to Asceticism in Jerome’s Letters
Giovanna Martino: La regola educativa di S. Gerolamo: esempi di una institutio christiana nell’Epistolario geronimiano (Epp. 107 e 128)
Emanuela Colombi: Fasting and Food: Dietary Prescriptions in Jerome’s Letters
Section C
Thursday 15.00 – 16.45
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome and the Classics 1
Chair: Marko Marinčič
Matej Hriberšek: Christian Ciceronian and His Zeal for Antiquity – Ancient Pagan Writers in the Saint Jerome’s Opus
Isabella D’Auria: Note di approfondimento sulle teorie geronimiane relative a “traduzione” e “parafrasi”
Miran Sajovic SDB: Aliquid de Latinitate Hieronymiana
Felix Seibert: Interpretatio Christiana? Zur Funktion der Vergilzitate in den Briefen des Hieronymus
Coffee Break
16.45 – 17.00
Session 5
Section A
Thursday 17.00 – 18.30
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Monasticism
Chair: Jan Dominik Bogataj
Jan Ciglenečki, Nena Bobovnik: Blue Deserts: Jerome and the Origins of Insular Monasticism on the Adriatic
Florence Bret: Fondation et transmission dans la Vita Pauli et la Vita Hilarionis
Jiři Šubrt: Historia castitatis. Jerome´s Life of Malchus as a Novelistic parable
Fernando Monzon: Punti di coincidenza della Vita Malchi (VM) di San Girolamo con la Tradizione umanistica in quanto trasmissione letteraria, sapienziale e pedagogica
Section B
Thursday 17.00 – 18.30
Small Hall ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4
Epistolography 2
Chair: Miran Sajovic
Angela Zielinski Kinney: In Sickness and in Health: Illness and Injury in Jerome’s Correspondence
Willum Westenholz: Must an Epistle be Epistolary? Jerome as a Case-Study
Amy Oh: City and Wilderness in the Letters of Jerome
Giorgia Grandi: La vita postuma di San Girolamo: Aspetti della sua fortuna nel novecento
Section C
Thursday 17.00 – 18.30
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome and the Classics 2
Chair: Matej Hriberšek
Marko Marinčič: An Exegete and a Poetess Facing Virgil: Some Backgrounds to Jerome‘s Criticism of the Christian Centos
Ines Ivić: From Private to Popular Devotion: The Humanist Formation of the Cult of Saint Jerome as the National Saint in the 15th Century Dalmatia
Anja Božič: Movere through St Jerome: Pier Paolo Vergerio’s Eighth Sermon in praise of St Jerome
Friday, October 25
Session 6
Section A
Friday 8.30 – 10.30
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Aquileia
Chair: Rajko Bratož
Lukas J. Dorfbauer: Jerome’s Use of the Gospel Commentary by Fortunatianus of Aquileia
Alessio Peršič: Due (o tre) “rustici” a confronto: Sulpicio Severo (con Martino) e Gerolamo
Maurizio Girolami: Hieronymus magister, amicus et frater: Girolamo visto da Rufino di Concordia
Miran Špelič OFM: Victorinus noster: Jerome of Stridon and Victorinus of Poetovio – Compatriots
Section B
Friday 8.30 – 10.30
Atrium of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2
Reception of Jerome 1
Chair: Aleš Maver
Christopher M. Blunda: Between Jerome and Gennadius: Marcellinus Comes’ Chronicon s. a. 392 in Codex Parisinus BN Lat. 12161
Klaus Kronert: Jerome et les elements de structure des chroniques universelles du Moyen Age
Deri Balaz: Jerome as the Most Important Source of Saint Gerard’s Deliberatio for Patristic Exegesis
Pierre Chambert-Protat: Jerome in Carolingian Lyon: Medieval Reception and Philological Contributions
Andrea Radošević: The Reception of St. Jerome in Late Medieval Sermon Collection
Section C
Friday 8.30 – 10.30
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome and Art
Chair: Rafko Valenčič
Irena Avsenik Nabergoj: Saint Jerome’s Critique of the Literary Qualities of the Holy Bible
Milena Mileva Blažić: Hieronim in pravljični tip ATU 156: Trn izdrt iz šape
Reiner Sorries: Der Heilige Hieronymus in der islamischen Kunst
Leon Debevec: Arhitektura Hieronimovih cerkva na Slovenskem
Coffee Break
10.30 – 10.45
Session 7
Section A
Friday 10.45 – 12.15
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Jerome and Theology 3
Chair: Andrew Cain
Anto Barišić: A Review of Jerome´s Relation to Origen in the Light of the Second Vatican Council and Post-Conciliar Theology
Jan Dominik Bogataj OFM: Jerome’s Interpretation of the Transfiguration in the Light of Some Recent Patristic Discoveries
Leszek Misiarczyk: Impassibilitas et impeccantia: Jerome’s misunderstanding of ἀπαθεία in Evagrius Ponticus
Norbert Widok: Theological Concepts of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Teaching of Jerome of Stridon
Section B
Friday 10.45 – 12.15
Atrium of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2
Reception of Jerome 2
Chair: Giulio Malavasi
Agnes Korondi: Saint Jerome, a Model and an Author for Late Medieval Hungarian-Speaking Nuns
Levente Pap: Hieronymus’s Reception in an Early 18th Century Hungarian Historical Work
Javier de Prado Garcia: Reading the Faith on a Mission. Hieronymus’Citations in Early Modern Missionary Works
Filomena Giannotti: Saint Jerome’s Postumous Life: Aspects of his Reception in the 20th Century
Ivica Čairović: Jerome of Stridon and his Work in Serbian Theological-Historical Literature in the Second Half of the 20th and Early 21st Century
Section C
Friday 10.45 – 12.15
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome and Liturgy
Chair: Matjaž Celarc
Silvio Košćak: St. Jerome in expositio missae of Amalar of Metz (775–850) and William Durand (1230–1296)
Ivan Botica, Kristijan Kuhar: St. Jerome in the Heritage and Tradition of the Roman liturgy on the Croatian Church Slavonic Language
Nikolaj Aracki Rosenfeld OCist: Evhološka besedila na čast svetemu Hieronimu ter variabilnost njihovih prevodov
Coffee Break
12.15 – 12.30
Friday 12.30
Excursion: »Ubicating Jerome’s Stridonae«
Saturday, October 26
Session 8
Section A
Saturday 8.30 – 10.30
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
History and Archaeology
Chair: Alenka Cedilnik
Dominic Moreau: Hieronymus Illyricianus: Les correspondants et autres relations de Jerome de Stridon dans la peninsule balkanique: une contribution a la Prosopographie chretienne du Bas-Empire
Rajko Bratož: Hieronim kot zgodovinar svoje dobe: njegovi pogledi na krizne pojave in zaton rimskega cesarstva
Bernarda Županek: Late Roman Emona: Understanding the Transformation of the City
Andrej Gaspari: Cemetery of the Early Christian Community at Emona, Ljubljana: Preliminary Observations from the 2017–2018 Archaeological Research at the Gosposvetska cesta Site
Craig H. Caldwell III: In mea patria rusticitatis vernacula: Jerome and Illyricum in Late Antiquity
Section B
Saturday 8.30 – 10.30
Atrium of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2
Jerome and Heresiology
Chair: Rebecca Keller
Carles Buenacasa Perez: Le role du donatisme dans l’heresiologie de Jerome
Raul Villegas Marin: Jerome’s Contribution to the Making of the Pelagian Heresy: a Reassessment
Mieczysław Celestyn Paczkowski: San Girolamo e il presunto millenarismo di Apollinare di Laodicea
Katarina Palsson: The Rhetorical Function of Women in Jerome’s Heresiology
Section C
Saturday 8.30 – 10.30
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Jerome and Croatian Culture
Chair: Rafko Valenčič
Josip Bratulić: Sveti Jeronim u hrvatskoj kulturi
Marko Medved: Sv. Jeronim u hrvatskoj crkvenoj povijesti i historiografiji – s posebnim osvrtom na njegov kult na širem području Rijeke
Vesna Badurina Stipčević: La vita e la traslazione di San Girolamo nei testi croatoglagolitici
Ana Mihaljević, Milan Mihaljević: St. Jerome’s Homilies on Luke’s Gospel in Croatian Glagolitic Breviaries
Petra Stankovska: Homilije sv. Hieronima v srednjeveškem cerkvenoslovanskem prevodu
Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.00
Session 9
Section A
Saturday 11.00 – 12.30
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Origen and Augustine
Chair: Miran Špelič
Thomas P. Scheck: Jerome’s Origenistic Exegesis of Romans 9 (Epistle 120.10 to Hedibia)
Vito Limone, Guilio Malavasi: Esegesi anti-origeniane nel commento a Geremia di Gerolamo
Lucian Dincă: La correspondence entre Jerome et Augustin: l’interpretation de Ga 2,11–14
Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri: Entre Jerome et Augustin: correspondance croisee
Section B
Saturday 11.00 – 12.30
Atrium of ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2
Varia 1
Chair: Matjaž Celarc
Andrea Svobodova: St. Jerome and Old Czech Bible
Antonio Davila Perez: St. Jerome vs. Santes Pagnino in the Reception and Inquisitorial Process of the Polyglot Bible of Antwerp (1568–1577)
Marie Rebeille-Borgella: La diffusion de la revision hieronymienne des traductions bibliques dans les livres liturgiques latins (Ve-XIIe siecle): l’exemple des petits prophetes
Section C
Saturday 11.00 – 12.30
Prešeren Hall SAZU, Novi trg 4
Varia 2
Chair: David Movrin
Aleš Maver: Podoba prvih dveh stoletij krščanstva v Znamenitih možeh in njen vpliv na srednji in novi vek
Javier A. Domingo, Luigi Finocchietti: San Girolamo a Roma: Ipotesi storiche e archeologiche
Hrvoje Gračanin: Jerome‘s Illyricum
Mirja Jarak: Early Christian Painting and Sculpture in Illyricum During the Second Half of the 4th and Early 5th Century
Lunch Break
12.30 – 15.00
Session 10
All Sections
Academy Hall SAZU, Novi trg 3
Saturday 15.00 – 16.15
Concluding Plenary Lectures
Heinrich Schlange-Schoningen: Hieronymus und Rufinus: Freundschaft und Theologie in der Spatantike
Andrew Cain: Why did Jerome Comment on Paul? An Etiological Investigation of His Commentaries on the Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon
16.30
Conclusion
David Movrin
17.00
Roman Emona (Walking Tour)
Organizing Committee
Pablo Argárate, Institute of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Orthodox Church and Patrology, Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz
Jan Dominik Bogataj OFM, Victorinianum Patristic Institute, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, secretary
Rajko Bratož, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Alenka Cedilnik, History Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Antonio Dávila Pérez, Department of Classical Philology, University of Cádiz – International Network Europa Renascens
Laurence Mellerin, Institut des Sources chrétiennes (HISOMA-UMR 5189 research centre)
Dominic Moreau, DANUBIUS Project (Université de Lille/HALMA-UMR 8164 research centre)
David Movrin, Department of Classical Philology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Elżbieta M. Olechowska, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
Katalin Szende, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna
Marjeta Šašel Kos, Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
Miran Špelič OFM, Victorinianum Patristic Institute, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana
Rafko Valenčič, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana