O'Donnell Lecture: Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann

The Centre for Medieval Studies and the Journal of Medieval Latin present the Annual O'Donnell Lecture with the University of Zurich's Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Petrus Alfonsi, A 12th-Century Spanish Polymath and Christian Convert: An Intellectual Profile.

Hosted by Greti Dinkova-Bruun, the O'Donnell Lecture will be presented both in person and virtually via Zoom. A reception in the Great Hall will follow the lecture.

The J.R. O’Donnell Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1992 to honour the memory of Rev. Prof. J.R. O’Donnell, who passed away in 1988. O’Donnell was a Basilian priest educated at the University of Toronto and the École des Chartes. From the 1930s to his retirement in 1971 he taught Medieval Latin, palaeography, and the edition of texts at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and in the Classics Department at the University of Toronto. His rigorous teaching standards were carried over into his scholarship. His book Nine Mediaeval Thinkers and his articles on Calcidius, Alcuin, Bernard Silvestris and Coluccio Salutati are cited as authoritative contributions to this day. The series is intended to commemorate O’Donnell’s wide interests that embraced philology, the classical tradition, and medieval philosophy and theology. It is also meant to give prominence to the general field of Medieval Latin Studies. Registration is required.