Witnesses to a Controversial Pontificate: Texts and Manuscripts Associated with Pope John XXII
Papers inspired by the 2023 Rome Seminar of the Leonard E. Boyle Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies
Sponsored by the Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies
9:30am Continental Breakfast
10:00am Welcome and Introduction
10:15–11:15am Session I: Pope John XXII and his Manuscripts
“The Autograph Annotations of John XXII in Vatican Manuscripts Revisited”
Dr Stephen M. Metzger (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)
“The Pontifical Institute’s MS. Bergendal 1, Bernard Gui’s Gift to Pope John XXII”
Prof. M. Michèle Mulchahey (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto)
11:15–11:30am Coffee Break
11:30am–12:00pm Session I Roundtable
12:00–2:00pm Lunch
2:00–3:30pm Session II: Controversies and Polemics
“A Miscellaneous Volume in the Vatican Archives from the Time of John XXII”
Prof. Patrick Nold (State University of New York, Albany)
“Angevins and the Apostolic Poverty: Manuscripts of Robert the Wise and Francis of Meyronnes in the Papal Library”
Zi’ang Chen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
“Proiectus est draco ille: A Polemical Franciscan Tract against Pope John XXII”
Martina Maria Caragnano (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST)–University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
3:30–4:00pm Session II Roundtable
4:00–4:15pm Concluding Remarks
4:15–5:30pm Reception
Image: Vita Johannis XXII, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, MS Bergendal 1