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After seven years of waiting, the proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Christian Archaeology, which took place in Utrecht-Nijmegen in 2018, are now available on the market. The Dutch publisher Peeters, which oversaw the volumes, is responsible for this. The theme of the congress was: ‘Frontiers: The Transformation and Christianisation of the Roman Empire between Centre and Periphery’. The four volumes cost a total of 421 euros.

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The inexhaustible wealth of Latin prose provides a constant source of inspiration for creating excellent titles for commemorative publications. The editors of the commemorative publication dedicated to the great Augustine scholar Hubertus R. Drobner naturally conjured up an ‘Augustine’ that even Pope Leo XIV would have enjoyed: Amate scientiam, sed anteponite caritatem.

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The papers presented at the conference on "Martyrdom in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages", which took place at the RIGG in February 2019, have been published by Aschendforff Verlag in the series "Koinonia - Oriens" as a 57th volume. The volume is edited by Peter Bruns (Bamberg), Thomas Kremer (Eichstätt) and Andreas Weckwerth (Eichstätt) and contains 18 essays (here the content).

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Waltrudis Hoffmann and Barbara Pfeffer, who have been offering courses on art and music in Rome for years, have published a marvellous book about the piano virtuoso, composer and writer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in Rome and Tivoli, probably as a rich harvest of their experiences. Liszt lived in the Eternal City from 1861.

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The successful author of travel guides Stefan Gödde has published a Polyglot Rome Guide after his visit to Rome. In it, he not only gives a very detailed account of the Campo Santo Teutonico with a long interview with Rector Dr Hans-Peter Fischer, but also mentions the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (pp. 57-61).

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Uwe Michael Lang from the London Oratory, a profound connoisseur of Roman liturgical history, since 2012 is the editor of the liturgical journal "Antiphon", which has been in existence for 25 years, since 2012. Since 2017, "Antiphon" has been distributed by the Catholic University of America Publishing House on behalf of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, which hosts an annual liturgical conference at Notre Dame University.

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After ten years of intensive research, Philippe Nuss, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strasbourg, has published an exemplary study on St. Abbess Odilia, which he has brought to RIGG. Nuss' research focuses on hagiography of the early Middle Ages. According to her medieval vita, Odilia lived around 700. Nuss researches the spread of the cult from the 8th to the 12th century on the basis of all manuscripts of the vita and on the basis of calendars. The "German" Pope Leo IX (1049-1054) proves to be the driving force of the Odilia cult.

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