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First Christian Humanist - Lactantius in Late Antiquity and the Renaissance
| Location: | Minnesota, United States |
| Conference Begins: | 2000-03-03 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
1999-11-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
124839 |
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Not many authors important in their own time are catapulted into a sudden second success a thousand years later. Lactantius was a Christian apologist in the intellectual ferment of the court of Constantine the Great (306-37); his seven books of Divine Institutes eloquently commend Christianity to Romans with a classical education. From the time of Petrarch onwards he became the beau ideal of the Renaissance orator, commending the classics to a civilisation that was thoroughly Christian - the Divine Institutes was one of the first books ever printed in Italy (Subjaco, 1465).
A conference on The First Christian Humanist: Lactantius in Late
Antiquity and the Renaissance will be held on Friday and Saturday March
3rd-4th, 2000. It is being organised by Oliver Nicholson (University of Minnesota), Jackson Bryce (Carleton College) and Daniel Nodes (Hamline University), under the auspices of the Center for Mediaeval Studies at the University of Minnesota. Renaissance speakers will include Daniel Nodes (on Lactantius and Giles of Viterbo), David Rutherford from Central Michigan (on Lactantius and Antonio da Rho) and Letizia Panizza from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College in the University of London (on Lactantius as the model of the Christian orator in the Renaissance). There will be an ,evening lecture by T.D. Barnes, author inter alia of Constantine and Eusebius (Cambridge, Mass., 1981).
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Further details are to be had from the
Center for Mediaeval Studies,
202 Norris Hall,
172 Pillsbury Drive, SE
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Tel.612-626-0805
Fax 612-626-7735
Email: cmedst@tc.umn.edu
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