C. Colt Anderson
is a church historian and theologian. His research focuses on the intersection between the communication of the gospel, the attempts to reform the Church, and the importance of an eschatological perspective for Christian life. He has served as the academic dean of the Washington Theological Union and at the Graduate School of Religion at Fordham University. He is the recipient of a Book Award from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada for Great Catholic Reformers: From Gregory the Great to Dorothy Day. His most recent book was a collaborative effort with David Elcott, Tobias Cremer and Volker Haarmann: Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy (Notre Dame, 2021).
Marco Bartoli
is professor of medieval history at the Università LUMSA di Roma. His research interests generally center on historical and religious studies during the High and Later Middle Ages. In addition to his numerous articles, he is the author of the first modern scholarly biography on Chiara d’Assisi (Rome, 1989) [Engl. trans.: Clare of Assisi, trans. Sister Frances Teresa (Quincy, Ill: The Franciscan Press, 1993). He is also editor of several texts of Peter of John Olivi: La caduta di Gerusalemme: il Commento al libro delle Lamentazioni (Rome, 1991) and the Quaestiones de Romano pontifice (Grottaferatta [Rome], 2002). He also contributed to the collaborative project: The Prayed Francis. Liturgical Vitae and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (St. Bonaventure, NY: FIP, 2019).
Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M.
received his Ph.D. in medieval history at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne) under the tutelage of André Vauchez (1991). After several years in undergraduate education, he joined the faculty of the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University (1999) as historian and then served as director of the Institute and dean of its School of Franciscan Studies (2003–2011). After ten years as an independent scholar in Washington D.C., he returned to St. Bonaventure University as Scholar-in-Residence. He is a prolific author on the early Franciscan movement and its sources during the 13th and early 14th centuries. Among his many publications, he is the author of a collection of essays: The Early Franciscan Movement (1205–1239): History, Sources and Hermeneutics (Spoleto, 2009); and of a monograph to be published in 2023: Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions (London: Reaktion Books).
is director of research at CNRS (Paris) and emeritus director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études/Section des sciences religieuses (Paris). After publishing works on liturgical drama in the Middle Ages and on the intellectual relationships between Jews and Christians in the medieval West, he focused his attention on the Christian exegesis of the Bible in the medieval West. Among his numerous publications are: L’exégèse chrétienne de la Bible en Occident médiéval, XIIe–XIVe siècles (Paris, 1999); Interpréter la Bible au Moyen Age (Paris, 2009); Lire la Bible au moyen âge. Essais d’herméneutique médiévale (Geneva, 2009); Dominique et ses frères: lecteurs de la Bible au XIIIe siècle = Supplément aux Cahiers Évangile, n° 177 (2016); and, with Sophie Delmas and Marcel Durrer, François et ses frères: lecteurs de la Bible au XIIIe siècle = Supplément aux Cahiers Évangile, n° 169 (2014). He also directs, with Matthieu Arnold and Annie Noblesse-Rocher, the series “Études d’histoire de l’exégèse” (of which 19 volumes have thus far appeared).
Alberto Forni
Born in Rome in 1953, Alberto Forni graduated in 1976 in humanities from the University La Sapienza of Rome with a thesis on Jacques de Vitry, supervised by Girolamo Arnaldi and Raoul Manselli. In 1976–1977, he attended the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici in Naples and, in 1980–1981, he collaborated with the Italian Committee of the ‘Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi’ in the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo in Rome. From 1982 to 2006 he was a civil servant in the Chamber of Deputies. He is the author of essays on medieval preaching, the history of historiography, the 19th-century idea of medieval Rome among German historians (Ferdinand Gregorovius, Alfred von Reumont) as well as of the Benedictine of Monte Cassino, Luigi Tosti (1811–1897). He has been investigating the relationship between Dante and Peter of John Olivi since 1995 (www.danteolivi.com).
Fortunato Iozzelli
is Professor of Church History, Codicology and Medieval Biblical Exegesis at the Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome. He has served as a member of the Collegium S. Bonaventure-Frati Editori di Quaracchi (1983–2010) and as the director of the review Studi Francescani (2007–2016). He works in the area of Religious History, both in the Medieval and Modern eras. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and the books: Roma religiosa all’inizio del Novecento (Rome, 1985); Odo da Châteauroux. Politica e religione nei sermoni inediti (Padua, 1994); Giuseppe Bernardo Döbbing ofm, vescovo di Nepi e Sutri (1900–1916) tra riforme e nazionalismi (Padua, 2007); and the critical editions of Iuncta Bevegnatis, Legenda de vita et miraculis beatae Margaritae de Cortona (Grottaferrata [Rome], 1997) and Petrus Iohannis Olivi, Lectura super Lucam et Lectura super Marcum (Grottaferrata [Rome], 2010).
is the former President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and Ministerium of New York Professor of Church History, emeritus, of the United Lutheran Seminary in Pennsylvania. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Munich (1989) in medieval history and the history of biblical interpretation. He is the co-editor, along with Ian Levy and Thomas Ryan, of David Burr’s volume, The Book of Revelation, in the five-volume series The Bible in Medieval Tradition (Eerdmans, 2019).
Robert E. Lerner
is professor emeritus of History and Ritzma Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He specializes in the religious and intellectual history of Western Europe in the Middle Ages, with a special emphasis upon medieval apocalyptic texts. Among his numerous publications in this area is The Feast of Abraham: Medieval Millenarians and the Jews (Philadelphia, 2001). He is currently working on the fortunes of a family of German Jews in the first half of the 20th century. His Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages has been in print since 1972 and his most recent book is Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton, 2017).
Warren Lewis
studied at Abilene Christian University, Harvard Divinity School, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto) and, for the doctorate, at the Universität in Tübingen. His entire career has been devoted to the study of and then the critical edition of the Lectura super Apocalypsim of Peter of John Olivi. The Latin edition was published as: Petrus Iohannis Olivi, Lectura super Apocalipsim, ed. W. Lewis (St. Bonaventure, NY, 2015). While completing the Latin critical edition, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame and the Harvard Divinity School. A companion to the critical edition of the Lectura will be its English translation awaiting publication by Franciscan Institute Publications at St. Bonaventure University.
Michele Lodone
is an assistant professor of medieval history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He studied at the Scuola Normale of Pisa and the EHESS of Paris, and was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at the Universities of Venice and Chicago. His work deals with late medieval and early modern cultural history, focusing mainly on religious dissent, prophecy and the relation between religion and society. His most recent book is: I segni della fine. Storia di un predicatore nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Rome, 2021).
is Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Olivi and the Interpretation of Matthew in the High Middle Ages (Notre Dame, 2003). More recently, he has written: The Passions of Christ in High-Medieval Thought: An Essay on Christological Development (Oxford, 2007); Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews (New Haven, 2008); and Medieval Christianity: A New History (New Haven, 2015).
Antonio Montefusco
is Assistant Professor of Medieval Philology at the University Ca’Foscari of Venice. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and PI of an ERC Starting Grant dealing with the issue of medieval translation. He has published books on Franciscan History, Dante and medieval bilingualism. Of particular note are: Iacopone nell’Umbria del Due-Trecento: un’alternativa francescana (Rome, 2006); and Arctissima paupertas: le Meditationes vitae Christi et la letteratura francescana (Spoleto, 2021).
Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Lecturer in History and a Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the application of ‘Social Network Analysis’ to the study of religious dissidence in the Middle Ages and explores the role of women in the transmission of alternative religious ideas. She was a Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer in the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2021–22) and is the co-editor of Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion and Persecution in the Middle Ages (2022)
Dabney G. Park
is an adjunct professor of modern languages at the University of Miami. After a long and successful sojourn in the business world, Dr. Park, a former student of Charles T. Davis at Tulane University, returned to the academy over the last decade. His major scholarly focus has been on Dante and the Franciscans. He has published a number of articles in Dante Studies, Franciscan Studies and Annali d’Italia.
Sylvain Piron
is director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and editor of the on-line journal, Oliviana. He is an eminent specialist on the life and works of Peter of John Olivi and, more generally, on Franciscan dissidence in the 13th and 14th centuries, with particular emphasis on the figure of John of Rupescissa. Among his numerous publications are: Pierre de Jean Olivi, Traitée des contrats, ed., trans. and commentaries S. Piron (Paris, 2012) [Engl. trans.: Peter of John Olivi, A Treatise on Contracts, trans. R. Thornton (St. Bonaventure, NY, 2016)]; and Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e i Francescani Spirituali (Milan, 2021).
is full professor of the History of Christianity at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. Throughout his distinguished career, he has been invited to numerous universities and scholarly entities as an invited lecturer and fellow. He has been a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (since 2021). He is also a member of the International Committee for the critical edition of the Opera omnia of Joachim of Fiore and director of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Internazionale di Studi Gioachimiti. Among his numerous monographs and textual editions can be noted: Storia ed escatologia in Ubertino da Casale (Milan, 1980); Angelo Clareno: dai Poveri Eremiti ai Fraticelli (Rome, 1990); Il tempo dell’Apocalisse: vita di Gioacchino da Fiore (Rome, 2004); and most recently, Dante in conclave: la lettera ai cardinali (Milan, 2021). He is also the editor and translator, with Marco Rizzi, of the 3-volume collection of texts: L’Anticristo (Rome – Milan, 2005–19).
Marco Rainini
is a member of the order of Friars Preacher. He holds PhDs in the History of Christianity (Padua) and Theology (Bologna) and is associated professor of Church History at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) His research is generally focused on the Church and Christianity in the High Middle Ages and, in particular, on symbolic theology and apocalypticism. Among his many innovative publications as author are: Disegni dei tempi. Il «Liber Figurarum» e la teologia figurativa di Gioacchino da Fiore (Rome, 2006); Corrado di Hirsau e il «Dialogus de cruce». Per la ricostruzione del profilo di un autore monastico del XII secolo (Florence, 2014); and, as editor, Ordinare il mondo. Diagrammi e simboli nelle pergamene di Vercelli, eds T. Leonardi and M. Rainini (Milan, 2018).
Paolo Vian
Born in Rome in 1957, Paolo Vian graduated in humanities from the Università La Sapienza of Rome in 1979 with a thesis on the manuscript tradition of the Lectura super Apocalipsim of Peter of John Olivi (with a transcription of Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ms. Lat. 713), supervised by Raoul Manselli and Edith Pásztor. In 1980–83, he collaborated with the Italian Committee of the