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. 

Book Prize: David Albertson

David Albertson has won a 2014 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise for his new book on Cusanus, Mathematical Theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the Legacy of Thierry of Chartres. The award is administered by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie at the University of Heidelberg.

You can read more here about Albertson's book and the Lautenschlaeger prize.

New volume of Cusanus edition

Dr. Hans Gerhard Senger reports that a new fascicle of the Cusanus edition will appear by the end of July 2014:

Nicolai de Cusa opera omnia, Vol. XV, Opuscula III, Fasc. 1: Opuscula ecclesiastica: De usu communionis – Epistulae ad Bohemos – Consilium. Ediderunt Stephanus Nottelmann et Iohannes Gerhardus Senger, Hamburgi 2014.

Two Exciting Cusanus Conferences in October 2014

Not one but two major Cusanus conferences are coming up in October 2014.

• The first is the American Cusanus Society's biennial Gettysburg Conference on the theme Nicholas of Cusa's Legacy in Renaissance and Reformation. Click here for more information about the conference.
• The second is the Institut für Cusanus-Forschungs's biennial symposium, this year in Rome, on the theme The Roman Years of Nicholas of Cusa. You can view their program here.