Quiet place of study with a view of St Peter's
Next March, Stefan Heid will publish a 1,100-page account of the history of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society from its beginnings in the 1880s to the end of the Second World War with Herder Verlag.
Salvatorian Father and General Archivist Josef Brauchle has donated two books about the founder of the order, Johann Baptist Jordan, to the library of Campo Santo Teutonico, which he published in 2021 and 2024.
The latest publication by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society, in the supplement series of the "Römische Quartalschrift", is by Richard Pfannmüller, a retired secondary school teacher and lecturer in Medieval Latin at Ludwig Maximilian University of Würzburg.
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).
Father Pius Engelbert, former abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Gerleve and for a long time professor of church history in Rome, writes about the new book by Teresa Lohr "Die Kirche Santa Maria della Pietà am Campo Santo Teutonico zwischen Historismus und Zweitem Vatikanischen Konzil":
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.
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).
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.
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.
Stefan Rebenich writes about the ancient historian Klaus Martin Girardet from Saarbrücken: like every ancient historian of his generation, he was "lastingly influenced by the equally stringent and differentiated reconstruction of Constantine the Great's religious policy, which he presented in numerous publications. His combination of philological precision and historical interpretation was - and still is - trend-setting" (p. 169 note 1). Now a Festschrift "Ecclesia victrix" has appeared in honour of Girardet, edited by Karen Aydin, Christine van Hoof and Lukas Mathieu.
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