Antonio Gerace

12/11/2020 – 12/11/2031. National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as associate professor (S.S.D. 11/A4 - Scienze del Libro e del Documento e Scienze Storico Religiose)

01/02/2024-31/01/2025. Fellow, Università degli Studi di Bologna (=UniBo), Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà. Titolo del progetto: The Renaissance Papacy’s Political Theology and Its Projects of Religious Reform (PRIN 2022 MUR: 2022BXT33X_002). P.I. Andrea Annese.

08/03/2021– 31/10/2023. Senior fellow, Fondazione per le scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Via san Vitale 114 – 40125, Bologna (Italia) [=FSciR [http://www.fscire.it] 

18/10/2018–31/12/2020. Junior fellow, FSciRe.

1/10/2017– 30/09/2018. Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven [=KU Leuven [https://theo.kuleuven.be/en] ]

Ph. D. in Religious Studies (2017), KU Leuven. Research project n° 3H130452: A Golden Age of Biblical Scholarship in Louvain and Douai (1550-1650). Thesis: Biblical Commentaries and Theology of Grace in Louvain’s ‘Golden’ Sixteenth Century. Supervisor: Wim François (KU Leuven) and Giuseppe Ruggieri (FSciRe).

MA in Philosphy (2013) Università degli Studi di Torino [https://www.unito.it/]. Thesis: Guglielmo da Ockham e gli infinita in actu. Supervisor: Amos Corbini

BA in Philosophy (2010) Università degli Studi di Torino. Thesis: Il concetto di guerra santa nel medioevo bizantino: Bisanzio fra crociata e jihad. Supervisor: Mario Gallina.

Other affiliations

01/09/2023 – ongoing. External collaborator of PID2022-140615NB-I00, Herejia y heresiografia en la era de confesionalizacion. Hacia una historia conceptual y una metaforologia del disenso (1522-1564). P.I. Maria José Vega Ramos (UAB).

1/10/2018–ongoing. Voluntary research associate, Church History and Theology Unit, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.

27/10/2017 – in corso. Member of the Codex Eyckensis Research Project, KU Leuven, in collaboration with the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) University of Birmingham.

1/10/2014–30/09/2019. Member of the GOA Project “The Crisis of Religion and the Problem of Roman Catholic Self-Definition”, KU Leuven, BOF/GOA/15/001 KU Leuven. P.I.: Terrence Merrigan.

1/10/2013–ongoing. Member of the Centre for the History of the Faculty of Theology at Louvai, KU Leuven. Coordinator: Wim François.

1. 1. “The Reception of the Arabic Canons of Nicaea in 17^th-century Rome, the Case of Al-Hasruni”. Rome in the Renaissance: Global Projections on Religious Identities and Dissent, John Cabot University, Roma, 5-6/04/2024.
   2. “Early Modern Theological Debates on Religious Tolerance in Time of War. The Case of Godfrey Hotton”, Freedom Interreligious Intercultural, FSciRe, Bologna, 4-6/09/2023.
   3. “The Council of Trent and the Creed”, REFORC, Leuven, 11-13/05/2023.
   4. “The Atlas of the Apostolic Creed”, EuARe, Bologna, 19–23/06/2022.
   5. “From Book to Image: Theology and Sixteenth-century Works-of-art in Southern Low Countries”. Profiling Saints, Understanding the Theological and Cultural Foundations of Catholic Hagiographical Models (1500s–1900s). Leuven 15–17/12/2021
   6. “Adam Sasbout et la vigne: l’exégèse d’Is. 5, 1-7 à Louvain au XVIe siècle”, XXIV Journée d’exégèse biblique: Isaïe 5, 1-7 – Le Chant de la vigne, Strasburgo, 25/11/2021 (su invito).
   7. “Guido of Monte Rochen’s Manipulus curatorum and its impact on the education of priests just before the Council of Trent”, EuARe Münster 30/08–2/09/2021
      
   8. “La giustificazione per fede, storia di un dibattito”, A Relação entre o Direito e a História nos estudos sobre Antiguidade e Medievo, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, 23-25/02/2021
   9. “Preaching against bad politicians and the ‘Heretic Queen’: the case of Thomas Stapleton”, LECTIO X: True Warriors? Negotiating dissent in the intellectual debate (c. 1100-1700), Leuven, 11–13/12/2019
   10. “The Development of the Ideology of the Seminary”, XX Jornadas de Trabajo de la Asociación Española de Bibliografía, Madrid, 27–28/11/2019.
   11. “Handbooks for Clergy and their Editorial Success in pre-Tridentine Church”, Intrecci di saperi. Educazione e cultura tra ebraismo, cristianesimo e islam (XIV–XIX sec.), Firenze, 02–04/10/ 2019.
   12. “Francis Lucas of Bruges (1548/49–1619): A Biblical Humanist in Saint Omer”, Premier colloque international de Saint-Omer, Saint Omer, 07–08/06/2019
   13. “Foretelling the Victory: 1570 Battista Nazari’s Discorso della futura e sperata vittoria contra il Turco”. REFORC IX. Bologna, 14–17/05/2019.
   14. “1547–1592. De la Vulgate de Louvain à la Vulgate Sixto-Clémentine”. Les travaux sur la traduction latine de la Bible. Troyes, 05–06/06/2018
   15. “Codex Eyckensis. A Significant Evangelarium from the 8^th Century: Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing”. EuARe. Bologna, 05–08/03/2018.
   16. “Thomas Stapleton and His Promptuaria: Sermons against the ‘Heretic’ Queen”. EASR, Leuven, 18–21/09/2017
   17. “The Concordia of Grace and Free Will as a Source of Discordia in the Post-Tridentine Catholic Church”. COST Action IS 1301 WG3: New Communities of Interpretation: Concordia discors “Unity”, “variety”, and the search for middle ground in intellectual and lay cultures of the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era. Leuven, 06–07/04/ 2017.
   18. “What is the Vulgate? Girolamo Seripando’s hand-notes on the Vulgate”. Renaissance Religions II: Modes and Meanings in History. Bologna, 09–10/06/2016
   19. “The Sins of the Minors: Adam Sasbout’s Homily before his Franciscan Confreres”. REFORC VI Copenaghen, 26–28/05/2016.
   20. “The reception of Erasmus in Leuven and Douai Biblical Scholars”. LECTIO: Authority Revisited. Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516. Leuven, 30/11–2/12/2015 (cf. infra § “Pubblicazioni. 3. Contributi in volumi collettanei”).
   21. “Doctrina Christiana ex Scripturis Exposita. Nicholas Tacitus Zegers and Franciscan Biblical Scholarship in Early Modern Leuven”. REFORC V. Crossing Borders: Transregional Reformations. Leuven, 07–09/05/2015.
   22. “Molina’s Influence in Douai and Leuven. The Case of Thomas Stapleton (1535–1598)”. Reformation Studies Colloquium. Cambridge, 10–12/09/2014 (cf. infra § “Pubblicazioni. 2. Articoli in riviste”).
   23. “Francis Lucas ‘of Bruges’ and Biblical Scholarship in Louvain”, REFORC IV Arts, Portraits and Representation in the Reformation Era. Bologna, 15–17/05/201.

1. Books

1. Un manuale per il clero. Il Manipulus curatorum e la sua diffusione fra XIV e XVII secolo (Bologna, Marietti, calendarizzato per autunno 2024).
2. Biblical Scholarship in Louvain in the ‘Golden’ Sixteenth Century, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht [=V&R], 201

1. “Il Manipulus curatorum di Guy de Montrochen: 250 anni di formazione sacerdotale in Europa. Parte II”, CrSt 43 (2022), 91–129.
2. “Guglielmo da Ockham e gli infinita in actu”, Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, 63 (2021) 193–242.
3. “Il Manipulus curatorum di Guy de Montrochen: 250 anni di formazione sacerdotale in Europa. Parte I”, CrSt 42 (2021), 61–86.
4. “Lovanio nel XVI secolo, tra agostinismo e molinismo”, CrSt 40 (2019), 545–563 (DOI: 10.17395/96080 [https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17395/96080] ).
5. [with Tamara Dominici] “Un libro per gli illetterati: il Trittico con l’Ultima Cena di Dieric Bouts”, Arte Cristiana 107/910 (2019), 46–55 (ISSN: 0004-3400).
6. [with Gert Gielis] “The Ambiguous Reception of the Doctrine of the Duplex Iustitia in Leuven (1544–1556)”. Augustiniana 68 (2018), 91–123 (ISSN: 0004-8003; DOI: 10.2143/AUG.68.1.3285185).
7. “Francis Lucas of Bruges’ Gospels Commentaries and the Controversy on Predestination, Grace and Free Will”. Annali di Storia dell’Esegesi 35 (2018), 187–213 (ISSN: 1120-4001).
8. “What is the Vulgate? Girolamo Seripando’s notes on the Vulgate”, Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 48/2 (2019), 440–462 (DOI:10.30965/25890433-04802007).
9. “La determinazione della legge di Dio. Il pensiero del nómos in Paolo di Tarso”. Philosophy Kitchen. Rivista di filosofia contemporanea 4 (2017), 91–103 (ISSN: 2385-1945 [https://philosophykitchen.com/2017/09/law-disorder-norma-eccezione-fondamentolaw-disorder-rule-exception-foundation-2/] ).
10. “Luis de Molina’s ‘middle knowledge’ Thomas Stapleton’s ‘antidote’ to John Calvin”. Reformation and Renaissance Review 18 (2016), 105–122 (DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2016.1191826).
11. “Francis Lucas ‘of Bruges’ and Textual Criticism of the Vulgate before and after the Sixto-Clementine (1592)”. Journal of Early Modern Christianity 3 (2016), 201–237 (DOI: 10.1515/jemc-2016-0008).
12. “Gli infiniti indivisibili secondo Enrico di Harclay”. Archivio Teologico Torinese 21 (2015), 125–142 (ISSN: 1591-2957).

1. “Concilium Hengroniae, 1655 – The Synod of Angrogna and the Waldensian Confession, 1655”, in A. Melloni (ed), Corpus Christianorum Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (CCCOGD), vol. 6/2: Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation, doc. 28, Turnhout: Brepols (accettato).
2. [with Jean-Pierre Delville] “Cornelius Jansenius van Gent, Bijbelwetenschapper in Leuven en bisschop van Gent (1510–1576)”, in W. François, L. Kenis, V. Soen (eds), Bisdommen, seminaries en de Leuvense theologische Faculteit (16de–20ste eeuw), Leuven: Peeters (accettato).
3. “Thomas Stapleton ed Elisabetta I: una relazione impossibile”, G. Claessens, F. Della Schiava, W. Druwé, W. François (eds), True Warriors? Negotiating Dissent in the Intellectual Debate, Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, 217-244 (ISBN 9782503607634).
4. “François Luc de Bruges (1548/49-1619): un humaniste biblique à Saint-Omer”, in C. Giry-Deloison, L. Baudoux-Rousseau, Les échanges humanistes dans les provinces du Nord pendant la Renaissance. Actes du Premier colloque international de Saint-Omer (Saint Omer, 7–8 juin 2019), Aire-sur-la-Lys: Atelier Galerie Éditions, 2023, 97-110 (ISBN 9782916601939).
5. [with Tamara Dominici] “From Book to Image: Molanus and the Netherlandish Holy Images”, in E. Rai, E. Frei (eds), Profiling Saints. Images of Modern Sanctity in a Global World, Göttingen: V&R, 2023, 151-188. (ISBN 9783666573569).
6. “The Council of Trent and the Sixto-Clementine edition”, in H. Houghton (ed), The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 292–304 (ISBN 9780190886097).
7. “The Reception of Erasmus’ New Testament in the Louvain Franciscan Study House: The Case of Nicholas Tacitus Zegers and Adam Sasbout”, in W. François, V. Soen, A. Dupont, A. A. Robiglio (eds), Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, 335-369 (ISBN: 978-2-503-59061-5; DOI: 10.1484/M.LECTIO-EB.5.121285).
8. “1547–1592: Dalla Vulgata Lovaniensis alla Sisto-Clementina”, in G. Dahan, A. Noblesse-Rocher (eds), La Vulgate au XVIe siècle. Les travaux sur la traduction latine de la Bible, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 221–238 (ISBN 9782503592794; DOI: 10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.5.121973).
9. [with Benedict D. Fischer, Wim François, Luke Murray] “The ‘Golden Age’ of Catholic Biblical Scholarship (1550–1650) and its Relation to Biblical Humanism”. J. M. Lange van Ravenswaay, H. Selderhuis (eds), Renaissance und Bibelhumanismus, Göttingen: V&R, 2020, 217–274 (ISBN: 9783525564790).
10. [with Wim François] “The Doctrine of Justification and the Rise of Pluralism in the Post-Tridentine Catholic Church”, in K. Boersma, H. Selderhuis (eds), More than Luther: The Reformation and the Rise of Pluralism in Europe. Göttingen: V&R, 2019, 15–44 (ISBN 9783525570968).
11. [with Wim François] “Trent and the Latin Vulgate: A Louvain Project?”, W. François, V. Soen (eds), The Council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545–1700), vol. 1: Between Trent, Rome and Wittenberg. Göttingen: V&R, 2018 131–174 (ISBN: 9783525551073).
12. “La giustificazione per fede. Storia di un dibattito”, in A. Melloni (ed), Lutero. Un cristiano e la sua eredità 1517–2017, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2017, 701–716 (ISBN: 9788815273185). Translations 
    1. “Rechtfertigung durch Glauben. Die Geschichte einer Auseinandersetzung”, in A. Melloni (ed), Ein Christ zwischen Reformen und Moderne (1517–2017), Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 775–792 (ISBN: 9783110501001; DOI: 10.1515/9783110498745-044).
    2. “Justification by Faith: A History of the Debate”, in A. Melloni (ed), Martin Luther: A Christian between Reforms and Modernity (1517–2017), Berlin: De Gruyter, 741–758 (ISBN: 9783110501018; DOI: 10.1515/9783110499025-044).
13. “Guglielmo di Alnwick e gli infinita in actu”, in M. Martorana, R. Pascual, V. Regoli (eds), Raccolta di saggi in onore di Marco Arosio, Roma: IfPress, 2015, 271–296 (ISBN: 9788867880652).

4. Entries

1. “La monarchia pontificia”, in Enciclopedia dell’Umanesimo e Rinascimento, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 2024, (accettato).
2. “Molinism in Renaissance Philosophy”, in M. Sgarbi (ed), Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Berlin: Springer, 2019 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1025-1).
3. “Predestination in Renaissance Philosophy”, in M. Sgarbi (ed), Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Berlin: Springer, 2019 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1037-1).
4. “Divine Foreknowledge in Renaissance Philosophy”, in M. Sgarbi (ed), Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Berlin: Springer, 2019 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_1007-1).
5. “Harlemius, professor, jezuïet en wetenschapper, en de Vulgata Lovaniensis (1570–1571)”, in J. Papy (ed), Erasmus’ droom: Het Leuvense Collegium Trilingue 1517–1797. Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling in de Leuvense Universiteitsbibliotheek, 18 oktober 2017 – 18 januari 2018, Leuven: Peeters, 2017, 441–442 (ISBN: 978-90-429-3559-4).
6. [with Wim François] “Cornelius Jansenius van Gent en het gebruik van het Hebreeuws in zijn Commentaar op de Evangeliënharmonie (1571/72)”, in J. Papy. (ed), Erasmus’ droom: Het Leuvense Collegium Trilingue 1517–1797. Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling in de Leuvense Universiteitsbibliotheek, 18 oktober 2017–18 januari 2018, Leuven: Peeter, 2017 437–439 (ISBN: 978-90-429-3559-4).
7. [with Wim François] . “Cornelius Jansenius van Gent en het gebruik van Hebreeuws in zijn Paraphrases in omnes Psalmos”, in J. Papy (ed), Erasmus’ droom: Het Leuvense Collegium Trilingue 1517–1797. Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling in de Leuvense Universiteitsbibliotheek, 18 oktober 2017 – 18 januari 2018, Leuven: Peeters, 2017, 439–441 (ISBN: 978-90-429-3559-4).

1. “W. François, A. den Hollander (eds), Vernacular Bible and Religious Reform in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era (BETL, 287), Leuven – Paris – Bristol: Peeters, 2017, 305 pp.” CrSt 41 (2020), 520–523.
2. “W. Scheepsma, G. van Vliet, G. Warnar (eds), Friends of God. Vernacular Literature and Religious Elites in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (1300–1500), Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018, 342 pp.” CrSt 40 (2019), 510–511.
3. “E. Gallo, Vescovi, clero e Ordine francescano nel secolo XIII. Benevolenza e conflitti nelle cronache di Giordano da Giano, Tommaso da Eccleston e Salimbene de Adam, Trapani, Il pozzo di Giacobbe, 2018, 198 pp.” CrSt 40 (2019), 502–504.
4. “G. Dahan, A. Noblesse-Rocher (eds), La Bible de 1500 à 1535 (Bibliothèque de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses, 181), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, 366 pp.”, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 95 (2019), 195–195.
5. “Benito Arias Montano, Correspondencia. Tomo I (1560–1570) Edición crítica, traducción, notas e índices de Juan Francisco Domínguez Domínguez, Madrid: Ediciones Clàsicas, 2017, 765 pp.” Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 81 (2019), 718–721.
6. “A. Villani (ed), Lire les Pères de l’Église entre la Renaissance et la Réforme, Parigi: Beauchesne, 2013, 117 pp.” Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 113 (2018), 188–189.
7. “G. Stucco, The Catholic Doctrine of Predestination. From Luther to Jansenius, Xlibris, 2014, 310 pp.” Augustiniana 66 (2017), 318–320.
8. “J. IJsewijn, Humanism in the Low Countries A Collection of Studies Selected and Edited by Gilbert Tournoy, Lovanio, Leuven University Press, 2015, 568 pp.” CrSt 37 (2016), 332–335.
9. “J.W. O’Malley, What Happened at the Council, Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013, 335 pp.” Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 61 (2014), 261–263.

1. “Il Manipulus Curatorum: fra censura e nuovo mondo”, in https://1521podcast.org/podcasts/ .
2. “Roman Catholic Self-Understanding during the ‘Golden Age’ of Catholic Biblical Scholarship (1550–1650)”, in [https://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/goa/goa-blog-page].