The Ladder of John of Sinai, KU Leuven, April 30, 2019
The Leuven team of the research project Longing for Perfection, in collaboration with LECTIO and its Laboratory for Text Editing, is organizing an international workshop which will focus on the study of the book of John Climacus. The objective of this workshop is to take stock of contemporary research on various philological aspects of the ascetic work of John Climacus, namely:
- the systematic description of the manuscript corpus of the book of the Scala;
- the preparation of a critical edition of the treatise, its scholia and commentaria;
- the in-depth study of the conceptions outlined in the Scala and their analysis in the ascetic context of Late Antiquity in Byzantium, as well as in the Syriac and Slavic worlds.
During the round table, workshop participants will have the opportunity to communicate the results of their study, to present their research projects and to consider collaborations that could contribute to the advancement of knowledge about the work of Climacus.
Since the last international conference dedicated to “John Climacus and Sinai”, organized in 2001 at the monastery of Bose (Italy), there have emerged new directions of paleographic and philological reviews of the Ladder. Developments in these areas will allow us to make more accurate conceptual syntheseand to better understand the role and reception of the ascetic book of the Ladder in monastic and sometimes secular circles.
Confirmed speakers: Elena Ene D-Vasilescu (Oxford), Father Justin (Sinai), Renaat Meesters (Gent/Leuven), Tatiana Popova (Aachen), Maxim Venetskov (Leuven)
Participation is free, but registration is required before April 15, 2019.