New Publications on the History of Councils

I Domenicani e i Concili. This monographic issue of Memorie Domenicane 53-54 (2022-2023), edited by Luciano Cinelli / Pierantonio Piatti, Nerbini: Firenze 2025, 510 pp., allows us to appreciate the contribution made by the Dominicans to the life of the Church, gathered in some of its most important and solemn assemblies that orient its earthly pilgrimage towards the heavenly Jerusalem. From the 4th Lateran Council onwards, the Dominicans have always been an active part of the Church's conciliar meetings. In the volume, the authors therefore dwell on the Councils of Lyons, Pisa, Constance and Florence, emphasising each time the Dominicans' contribution to reflection, first, and reception, later. There are also in-depth studies on the Inquisition and the idea of conciliarism, ending with the Dominicans' positions at the Second Vatican Council and on the whole ecclesiology of the 20th century (from the publisher's description).


New Publications on the History of Councils

Published Annales Historiae Conciliorum 53/1 (2023)

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Ulrich Horst OP † (06.04.1931 - 09.12.2024)

The Ludwig-Maximilian-University / Munich and the Dominican Convent of Hamburg have announced the death of Prof. Dr Ulrich Horst OP on 9 December at the University Hospital Bad Homburg/Saar at the age of 93. The internationally recognised professor and researcher dedicated a large part of his carefully documented research to the topic of ‘Pope - Council - Infallibility’ ("Papst – Konzil – Unfehlbarkeit" the title of his habilitation thesis from 1978 and also his last major publication, the volume of essays entitled ‘Päpstliche Unfehlbarkeit wider konziliare Superiorität? Studies on the history of an [ecclesiological] antagonism from the 15th to the 19th century’ in 2016). R.I.P.
A shortlist of his publications (from the perspective of conciliar history) can be found on the website of Konziliengeschichte; here the obituary of the Dominican Convent Hamburg.

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New Publications on the History of Councils

The 2nd volume has been published in the series “Studien zur Geschichte von Konzilien – Studies on the History of Councils”: José María Díaz Dorronsoro, The Second Vatican Council and the Media. The Holy See and the Challenge of Information Management during the Last Ecumenical Council, Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2024. VII and 489 pages. Here the table of contents and further publishing information.


Conference on the Council of Pavia-Siena (1423-1424)

A conference on the Council of Pavia-Siena will take place in Siena from 10-12 September. This is the follow-up conference to the congress that last year honoured the first part of the synod (Pavia, April - June 1423). The lectures in Siena are dedicated to the second part of the council (Siena, July 1423 - March 1424). They will take place in Santa Maria della Scala and in the Archivio dello Stato. Here is the programme.

 

Entry in the online lexicon of Councils: Papiense-Senense / Pavia-Siena (A. Frenken)


Gabriel Adriányi (31 March 1935 - 10 August 2024)

The emeritus professor of medieval and modern church history in Bonn, including church history of Eastern Europe (1976-2000), died in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) on 10 August at the age of 89 after a short illness. The Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn and the Roman Institute of the Görres Society pay tribute to his achievements. Adriányi was associated with the research proyect "Konziliengeschichte" together with his academic teacher Bernhard Stasiewski, who had also supervised his habilitation thesis "Ungarn und das I. Vatikanum" (Hungary and Vatican I), in 1975, from the very beginning, as his contributions to the AHC and his lectures at the symposia on conciliar history show (most recently he was able to participate in Rome in 2018 and give a lecture on: "Die letzten zehn Diözesansynoden Ungarns [1993-1999] und die Minderheitenpastoral" - ‘The last ten diocesan synods of Hungary [1993-1999] and the pastoral care of minorities’). The conference that he himself organised for the Society for Conciliar History Research in Esztergom from 16-20 September 2010 is unforgettable. Prof. Gabriel Adriányi was buried on 22 August in the crypt of the parish church of St. Margaret (Szent Margit) in Veszprém. R.I.P.


New Publications on the History of Councils

Published Annales Historiae Conciliorum 52/2 (2022)

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