New book on Cusanus and Islam

Congratulations to ACS members Ian Levy, Rita George-Tvrtković, and Donald Duclow for their recently published volume on Cusanus and Islam:

• Nicholas of Cusa and Islam: Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2014).

New book by Charles Carman

Congratulations to Charles H. Carman (University of Buffalo) on the publication of his new book:

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture (Ashgate 2014).

New Cusanus series from Mimesis

Prof. Gianluca Cuozzo (Turin) is editing a new series of books related to Cusanus studies with the renowned Italian publishing house, Mimesis. The series, Bibliotheca Cusana, includes two titles to date:

• Antonio Dall'igna and Damiano Roberi, eds., Cusano e Leibniz. Prospettive filosofiche (2013)
• Gianluca Cuozzo, Mystice videre. Esperienza religiosa e pensiero speculativo in Cusano (2012)

Radio program on Nicholas of Cusa

Deutschlandfunk (DLF) recently aired an entertaining two-part radio program on Nicholas's life and works.

• Part 1: Das Studium in Padua und die Anfänge des Humanismus
• Part 2: Das belehrte Nichtwissen und das unendliche Weltall

CFP for Contributions to a Panel on Cusanus and the Hussites

Sponsored by the American Cusanus Society

The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

May 14-17, 2015

The American Cusanus Society will sponsor a session entitled: Cusanus and the Hussites. The session commemorates the sixth centennial of the condemnation and burning of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance (burned July 6, 1415). Papers are solicited on the trial of Hus and his posthumous reputation, the negotiations of the Council of Basel with the Hussites, and the engagement of Nicholas of Cusa with these issues, as participant in the council and as papal legate for Germany.

Please send a title and a brief abstract to the attention of:

Dr. Thomas Izbicki

tizbicki@rci.rutgers.edu

Treasurer of the American Cusanus Society

Watanabe's Library Comes to Gettysburg

Dr. Kiyomi Koizumi Watanabe has donated the Cusanus volumes in Professor Morimichi Watanabe’s library to Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary. The holdings, which include a complete Opera omnia, will be added to the H. Lawrence Bond Collection obtained last year to form one of the most complete Cusanus libraries in North America. Gerald Christianson and Eric Crump served as collectors and transporters, and Dr. Koizumi generously contributed to the transportation costs. The Watanabe Collection will soon be available through OCLC’s WorldCat and will be dedicated at the next Gettysburg Conference on October 10-12, 2014.