University of Toronto Mississauga (Thursday May 5) - Caroline Brett,
University of Cambridge
Caroline Brett is a Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer in the
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic as well as Director of Studies
in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Bye-Fellow at the University of
Cambridge. She has published editions and translations of the Gesta
Sanctorum Rotonensium and Vita Conuuoionis (The Monks of Redon (Studies in
Celtic History X, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1989) and – with James
Carney – of De Viris Illustribus John Leland: De Viris Illustribus. On
Famous Men (Bodleian Library, Oxford/Pontifical Institute of Medieval
Studies, Toronto, 2010). Recently a focus of her research has been a
reconsideration of le Lives of Breton saints ‘Soldiers, saints and states?
The Breton migrations revisited’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 61
(Summer 2011), 1-56 ; ‘St Samson of Dol and St Paternus of Avranches’,
paper delivered at a Colloquy on the First Life of St Samson at the Eighth
Australian Conference of Celtic Studies, University of Sydney, 11-14 June
2013, publication planned in Studies in Celtic History series. The title of
her keynote lecture will be 'Monasteries, migration and models for the
early medieval Breton Church'.
University of Toronto St George (Friday May 6) - Bernard Ardura, Vatican
Bernard Ardura, chanoine régulier de l’Ordre de Prémontré, docteur en
théologie et docteur en histoire, est président du Comité pontifical des
sciences historiques et consulteur de la Congrégation pour les causes des
saints. Il est auteur de nombreux livres et articles sur l’histoire de
l’Église : Prémontrés. Histoire et Spiritualité, C.E.R.C.O.R. Travaux et
Recherches VII (Saint-Étienne : Publications de l’Université de
Saint-Étienne, 1995)/The Order of Prémontré: History and Spirituality,
trans. by Edward Hagman, ed. by Roman Vanasse (De Pere, Wisconsin: Paisa
Publishing Co., 2003) ; Abbayes, prieurés et monastères de l’ordre de
Prémontré en France des origines à nos jours: dictionnaire historique et
bibliographique (Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy; Pont-à-Mousson:
centre culturel des Prémntrés, 1993); La vérité vous rendra libres: le
bienheureux Pierre-Adrien Toulorge, prémontré, martyr de la vérité,
1757-1793 (Saint-Maur: Parole et silence, 2012).
