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Alexandra Baneu

- UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

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Note-taking and Notebooks as Channels of Medieval Academic Dissemination across Europe Call name: EC - H2020
H2020-231092-948152 2021 - 2025

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

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Note-taking and Notebooks as Channels of Medieval Academic Dissemination across Europe Call name: P 3 - SP 3.6 - Premierea participării în Orizont 2020
PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-2020-0030 2021 - 2023

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: https://nota-erc.com/extra-funding/project-pn-iii-p3-3-6-h2020-2020-0030/

Abstract:

The sum of money requested will be used to extend the activities of the ERC NOTA project. The PI will use this money so as to consolidate the institutional capacity to take part in new competitions launched within the next research and innovation program of the CE. The following expenses have been foreseen: 1. The acquisition of necessary materials for the research initiated in the ERC project; 2. Hiring additional staff to help the PI with organizing the corpus of the project; 3. Organizing extra research trips (besides those already foreseen in the ERC Grant).

Melancholy in Medieval Europe (1100-1400). Depression, Creativity, and Philosophy of Nature. Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea tinerelor echipe independente
PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1080 2021 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/fam/melancholy/

Abstract:

Melancholy holds a particular popularity as a topic among modern research. Despite this general interest, little has been written about melancholy in the Middle Ages, especially in comparison to the research attention it gets in Antiquity, Renaissance, early modern times, 18th-century German Romantics and so forth. Whatever was the cultural or historical reason for this omission, it is certainly not due to the lack of material. The present project proposal addresses melancholy from a interdisciplinary perspective of history of philosophy, medicine, religion, arts. Thus, the project aims at filling up this major gap in the cultural history, and render it comprehensible to the modern reader.

The project aims at scholarly results (monograph with a renowned international publisher; peer'reviewed articles workshops and summer school) as well as at a broader public. Thus, cooperation with museums (visualisation of melancholy in the Middle Ages), external specialists (with the team of prof. Thomas Fuchs, psychiatry, Heidelberg), and church parishes is going to be sought and established.

Melancholy raises some of the most relevant philosophical issues, like the body-mind problem, social bias in philosophy, cultural prejudices and how to reflect on them.

The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: Making Professors at the University of Vienna, 1389-1450 Call name: P 4 - Proiecte Complexe de Cercetare de Frontieră
PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0064 2018 - 2022

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO); ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: https://rise-ubb.com/

Abstract:

The aim of the RISE project is to provide access to a unique body of material that I discovered recently in the collection of the library of the University of Basel (originally from the medieval Dominican convent of Basel) and that will shed new light on the foundation of the Faculty of Theology at the medieval University of Vienna. The Faculty of Theology at Vienna played a crucial role in the development of academic teaching in Eastern Europe in the fifteenth century; it is intimately linked to Romanian intellectual history since some of the university’s first students came from Transylvania. The goal of project RISE will be achieved by identifying, editing, and analyzing some previously unexplored texts conserved in the library of the University of Basel. Based on this material, the RISE project will produce the first comprehensive study of the ideas and academic exercises of the first professors of the Faculty of Theology from the medieval University of Vienna. Project RISE will attribute to various authors some hitherto neglected texts, open new perspectives on authors whose works were thought lost, and illuminate the academic system from which these writings derive. Conducting and developing an investigation using an interdisciplinary methodology (palaeography, codicology, history of texts and of medieval libraries, transfer of knowledge, medieval philosophy and theology), the RISE project promises to change considerably the present view of the origin of teaching in Vienna. This project will offer an opportunity to a Romanian research team to make a significant contribution to international scholarship.

DOCTRINES, IDEAS, MANUSCRIPTS. NEW RESEARCH TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF THE RECEPTION OF LIBER DE CAUSIS IN THE WESTERN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY (XIII-XVth c.) Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0058 2011 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: Universitatea Babes-Bolyai

Project partners: Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (RO)

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Project website: http://decausis.schole.ro/

Abstract:

Ce projet de recherche a comme but la transversalité des savoirs et des méthodes, et il combine philosophie, codicologie et histoire des institutions. Nous apporterons des éléments neufs sur la réception du Liber de causis et plus largement sur l'héritage du néoplatonisme grec et arabe dans le monde latin. Le premier objectif est de fournir un répertoire de tous les commentaires latins au Liber de causis écrits du XIIIe au XVe siècles et conservés dans divers fonds des bibliothèques européennes; ce répertoire sera un instrument de travail rigoureux et précis qui ouvrira des nouvelles champs de recherche sur la réception médiévale du néoplatonisme. Le deuxième objectif est d'éditer et étudier plusieurs commentaires inédits: celui d'Adam de Bocfeld, de Pierre d’Auvergne, de Simon de Faversham et d'autres textes anonymes. Le troisième objectif est l'étude doctrinale d'un thème central de Liber de causis: tout ce que la cause secondaire peut accomplir est effectué d’une manière plus noble par la cause première. Les médiévaux ont vu dans cette thèse une explication rationnelle du miracle eucharistique qui se réalise par l’intervention directe de Dieu dans le monde. Etudier les interprétations de ce problème dans divers commentaires au Liber de causis permet d’éclaircir un thème ontologique dont les conséquences doctrinales sont de taille. Un autre objectif est la création en Roumanie d’une école de paléographie selon les critères de la compétitivité scientifique internationale.

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN CISTERCIAN COMMENTARIES ON THE SENTENCES. THE IMPACT OF THE CISTERCIAN COMMUNITY ON THE UNIVERSITY DURING THE XIVth CENTUR Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2012 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0272 2013 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: http://www.jacobusdealtavilla.ro/

Abstract:

The main objective of this project is the pioneering study of several unpublished commentaries on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard containing the most successful philosophical and theological texts composed by Cistercian theologians from 1300 to 1400. All the texts under consideration share three characteristics: their philosophical subject, their theological character, and a wide manuscript dissemination. As these texts have seldom attracted the attention of scholars, further work is needed in this area (1) to shed new light on the relationship between theological themes (in the Cistercian order) and the philosophical teaching in the medieval Universities; (2) to underline more clearly the substantial part of these texts in the very important European tradition of commentaries on the Sentences; and (3) to draw attention to some authors who are crucial for the further understanding of fourteenth century scholastic thought, but who have been ignored only because their texts are still in manuscripts. My aim is to locate and inspect as many manuscripts as possible related to the Cistercian tradition, most of them preserved in German libraries. By means of these texts and manuscripts I will establish when and where they were produced and whether they where copied and knew in other European intellectual centers; therefore I will establish, for the first time, a network of knowledge transfer between universities across Europe at the end of the Middle Ages.

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