Coordinators:
Adinel C. Dincă is a researcher at the Romanian Academy, Institute of History of Cluj Napoca; interested in medieval Latin Palaeography and Diplomacy; teaching activity at the Faculty of History, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. He obtained a PhD in 2008 in the field of Medieval History at Babeș-Bolyai University. Doctoral and post doctoral studies at: Institut für österreichsche Geschichtsforschung, Vienna University; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main; Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg; Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa, Oldenbourg. Researcher since 2001 at ‘George Bariţiu’ Institute of History, Romanian Academy, involved in editing the Documenta Romaniae Historica. C. Transilvania series of charters regarding the medieval history of Transylvania. Associate professor since 2002 at the Faculty of History, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Teaching areas: Latin Palaeography and Diplomatic, Medieval History of Transylvania, Medieval State, Society and Culture; part of tribunals for Masters and PhD ceremonies, evaluation committees. Co-founder and director of “TRANS.SCRIPT. The Centre for Diplomatic and Medieval Documentary Palaeography”, Cluj-Napoca, coordinating its main objectives: teaching, research and cooperation, providing an up-to-date approach to the study of palaeography and of the disciplines that support the unmediated analysis of written historical sources [ts.centre.ubbcluj.ro/; www.facebook.com/trans.script/]. Author of over 50 books and studies on medieval Transylvanian literacy and church history; author of exhibition catalogues [https://ubbcluj.academia.edu/AdinelDinca]. Received funding from science organizations in Romania and Germany, coordinated 3 grants with national and international funding and collaborated in 9 other projects. Associate editor of two Romanian scientific publications, issued by the Romanian Academy and „Lucian Blaga” Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca.
Web: http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro/personal/Adinel_Dinca.html;
http://www.history-cluj.ro/Istorie/Ro/startIstorie_structura.htm
Monica Brînzei (PhD, École Pratique des Hautes Études, 2008; and Habilitation, University of Babeș-Bolyai, 2016) is specializing in late medieval philosophy and intellectual history, she was the PI of the ERC starting grant THESIS (2012-2018) related to lectures on the Sentences. She is currently heading the editions of the Sentences commentaries of the Cistercian James of Eltville and of Pierre d’Ailly. She is a co-director of the Brepols collection ‘Studia Sententiarum’.
Team members
Alexandra Baneu is a Research Assistant at the “Sextil Pușcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca. In 2016 she defended her thesis, under the supervision of professor Alexander Baumgarten, at the “Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, on the use that Pelbartus of Themeswar makes of Scotist sources in his Rosarium. At present, she is also working alongside a group of young scholars coordinated by dr. Monica Brînzei, on the critical edition of James of Eltville’s commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard and on the critical edition and commentary of the texts that can be found in the manuscript Basel A-X-44, a witness of the teachings of the first professors of the Viennese University of theology, within the framework of the RISE project (PN-III-P4-ID- PCCF-2016-0064: “The Rise of an Intellectual Elite in Central Europe: Making Professors at the University of Vienna, 1389-1450). In the past, she has collaborated with the same group within the framework of the ERC – THESIS Project no 313339, transcribing the first book of John of Baconthorpe’s commentary on the Sentences for the THESIS Corpus.
Cristian Baumgarten is a PhD holder in the Philology – Latin Literature (Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca). He holds a MA in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and a BA in Classical Philology. He studied Philosophy (Pontifical Gregorian University and San Anselmo College – Rome). He teaches Ancient Greek Literature and other related disciplines at Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Letters Faculty, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures. His main area of interest covers Classical and Hellenistic Greek religion and literature and Latin Christian Literature.
Luciana Cioca is a PhD student at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca. She is working with a group of researchers coordinated by Dr. Monica Brînzei on the critical edition of James of Eltville’s commentary on the Sentences. She has completed two diplomatic transcriptions of Sentences commentaries: Alphonsus Vargas (http://scta.lombardpress.org/vargascommentary) and Dionysius de Montina (http://thesis-project.ro/dionysiusdemontina/texts.html). She has also translated the medieval treatise ‘Secretum Secretorum’ into Romanian (Secretul Secretelor, Polirom 2018). She is currently preparing an edition of Johannes de Wasia’s Prologue to the Sentences commentary, as part of Dr. Monica Brînzei’s THESIS project, and editions and studies of 13th and 14th century vesperial questions, as part of her PhD project.
Daniel Coman holds a bachelor’s degree in Theology from the Theological Pentecostal Institute from Bucharest (2009) and a master’s in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy from the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj (2014). Since 2014 he has been working on his PhD at Babeș-Bolyai regarding Anselm’s influence on medieval logic and philosophical theology (The reception of Anselm of Canterbury in the Commentaries on Sentences of the latter half of the 14th century). He has translated into Romanian and commented the anonymous tractate known as Liber XXIV philosophorum (Ratio et Revelatio, 2015) and also contributed to the collective translation of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae IIa IIae into Romanian, assisting with qq. 111 through 120.
Paula Cotoi is a PhD student, and has successfully studied history at Babeș-Bolyai University. Her MA paper (Those Last Days, Reflections on an Apocalyptical Text from the 18th Century of Transylvania, Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Historia, 2015) met unanimous acclaim. The interest in the history of the church in the Middle Ages continues at the same University in Cluj, with a doctoral program entitled: Predication in medieval Transylvania. A repertoire of printed texts. In recent years, she presented various papers at conferences and published articles on topics related to the collections of sermons in Transylvania and Central Europe around 1500. From 2017 she holds the position of scientific secretary of TRANS.SCRIPT, Centre for Diplomatic and Documentary Palaeography.
Ioana Curuţ is a graduate of Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, with a Master’s degree in Medieval Philosophy, after completing a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the same University. Currently, she is pursuing a BA degree in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University of Bucharest, in parallel with her PhD thesis on “Philosophy, Theology and Anti-Judaism at the University of Vienna in the XVth Century. The Case of Thomas Ebendorfer”.
Iulian-Mihai Damian is lecturer of Classics at the Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters. Classicist, he went on to specialise in History and Cultural Studies, and wrote a doctoral dissertation in medieval studies. He continued his specialisation in Italy, Suisse Confederation and UK. From 2007 to 2017 he worked as scientific secretary and librarian to the Romanian Academy in Rome. From 2012 teaches Latin at the Department of Classics at the University of Cluj-Napoca. His publications include the book John Capistran and the Latter Crusade (Cluj-Napoca 2011), the critical edition of the Strategicon adversum Turcos of Lampugnino Birago (Rome 2017), as well as two dozen academic articles, book chapters and reviews on the political and ecclesiastical history of the 15th Century, Medieval and Renaissance written culture.
Lavinia Grijac is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, with a thesis on the perception of Roman history in Augustine’s De Civitate Dei and medieval Augustinian tradition. She is a graduate of the DEEM (Diplôme Européen d’Etudes Médiévales) program in Rome. She holds a master’s degree in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and a BA degree in Philosophy from the same university. She is also a graphic artist, specializing in book illustration and graphic design, with a BA degree from the Art and Design University, Cluj-Napoca.
Edit Anna Lukács is a researcher working on late medieval philosophy with a focus on the academic traditions at Oxford and Vienna. She is especially interested in the metaphysics of free will, divine omniscience and the connection of theology and logic. During 2018-2019 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, completing a monograph on these topics with the tentative title Divine Knowledge, the Bible, and the Sentences at the University of Vienna (1384-ca. 1420). For RISE, Edit A. Lukács will work on Henry of Langenstein.
Mihai Maga has a PhD in Philosophy on Marsilius of Padua’s Political Philosophy. He is a lecturer at Babes-Bolyai University where he teaches Medieval Political Philosophy, Digital Humanities and History of Medieval Science. He published several critical editions, translations of medieval Latin texts into Romanian, studies and articles on Marsilius of Padua, Boethius of Dacia, Thomas Aquinas, and late medieval Central European university discourses.
Andrei Marinca graduated from the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca) and received a master’s degree in Medieval Philosophy from the same University. While pursuing his PhD degree at Babeș-Bolyai University on “Debates on Atomism in the Natural Philosophy of the XIVth Century”, he is also studying Arabic and Islamic culture at the University of Bucharest (BA).
Mădălina-Gabriela Pantea is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Premodern and Romanian Philosophy, from Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca. Her dissertation follows the reception of Augustine in the 14th century, in the texts of the 3rd distinction from the Sentences commentaries of Iohannes de Mirecuria, Godescalc de Nepomuk, Iacobus de Altavilla and Conrad de Ebrach. Her main interests include also: the matter of time and Trinity in Augustine’s thought, the development of Iohannes de Mirecuria’s condemnation and the history of the book. Selected publications: “Johannes von Mirecourt” in Biographia Cisterciensis, January 2017, “Augustine’s use of the verses 1, 1 and 1, 14 from the Gospel of John in the first two books of On the Trinity” in Studia Philosophia UBB, 2018 (forthcoming), “Johannes de Mirecuria” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (forthcoming).
Isabela Stoian is a graduate of the University of Bucharest, with a BA degree in Classical Philology and three MA degrees in Biblical Exegesis and Hermeneutics, Translation Studies and Medieval Studies. She is a graduate of the DEEM (Diplôme Européen d’Etudes Médiévales) program in Rome. She is currently a PhD student of University of Bucharest (tutor Prof. Florica Bechet) with cotutelle at University of Fribourg, Switzerland (tutor Prof. Karin Schlapbach), where she also works as assistante diplômée. Her doctoral thesis has in view the elaboration of a modern critical edition of Alcuin’s Ars grammatica.