Quiet place of study with a view of St Peter's
This year, after 15 years of research (p. 97), the Munich pastoral theologian Prof. Dr Andreas Wollbold published a truly monumental work on early church celibacy with the Friedrich Pustet publishing house.
On behalf of the Gesellschaft für Konziliengeschichtsforschung, Johannes Grohe and Thomas Prügl have launched a new series published by Aschendorff, the first volume of which is opened in a worthy manner by Klaus Schatz with a compilation of his essays on the First Vatican Council (1869/70).
Lena Terlisten, a student of Ingo Herklotz (Marburg), has published, as 73rd supplement of the Roman Quarterly, her dissertation on "Reliquary strategies in Borromeo Milan. The translations of Giovanni Giacomo Castoldi (1595-1618)".
Milan is not only one of the most important economic centres in Italy today, but has also been of outstanding importance from an ecclesiastical perspective since the 3rd/4th century at the latest. Its rise began as an imperial residence city, then it was above all Bishop Ambrose (339 in Trier; † 397 in Milan) who made Milan the ecclesiastical centre of the whole of northern Italy, on a par with the Pope in Rome.
Innsbruck musicologist Dr Hildegard Herrmann-Schneider has published the results of years of archival research into church music in the baroque Cistercian monastery of Stams in Tyrol. The evidence dates back to the 14th century and continues into contemporary history.
The renowned medievalist Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, who has also lectured at the RIGG, has described the staging of the death and burial of popes in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in his famous book ‘The Body of the Pope’.
Jobst C. Knigge has published a new volume on ‘Germans in Rome after 1945’ in the ‘Studien zur Zeitgeschichte’ series published by Dr Kovac in Hamburg.
Mons. Federico Gallo, director of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan and member of the RIGG, has written a 100-page handbook on medieval documentary studies. It is the fruit of his diplomatics lessons at Notre Dame University in the USA.
Il libro perfetto sull'elezione papale è stato recentemente pubblicato dall'Istituto Romano della Società di Görres. In esso Kevin Hecken descrive la prassi delle elezioni papali nel XVII secolo, e ci si rende conto che i temi sono rimasti gli stessi fino ad oggi: speculazione prima del conclave - ansia durante il conclave - sorprese dopo il conclave.
The second double issue 2024 of the Römische Quartalschrift für Christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte (RQ) will be published in a few weeks.
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