Teaching and Preaching with the Patristic auctoritates - Meister Eckhart, bridging France and Germany, past and present – TEAPREA

We seek to determine whether Eckhart refers directly to the work of the Church Fathers or whether he draws his references from the Catena aurea and the Glossary...
From there, we establish, on the one hand, the Patristic Index and, on the other hand, we produce a monograph about quotation by Eckhart.

Ground work:
The second issue of the Eckhardianus Index: Meister Eckhart und seine Quellen II Die patristischen Quellen. Meister Eckhart. Lateinische und Deutsche Werke. Die lateinischen Werke VI, 7.-12. Lieferung[Stuttgart: Kohlhammer], is on track. A great deal of source identification work has already been done, but it will still take time to finalize, given the identification of some sources.

Analysis and methodology:
Proceedings of the conference in press: Marie-Anne Vannier (dir.), Maître Eckhart, lecteur des Pères de l'Église, Paris, Beauchesne, 2019

Monograph in preparation: Markus Vinzent (ed.), Eckhart on Love - Eckhart's Early Readers and their Appropriation of E. and his Sources', to be published in Eckhart : Texts and Studies, Peeters, Leeuven.

Dissemination :
The catalogue of the scientific exhibition will be published in the Eckhart series: Texts and Studies (Leuven), is in preparation.
Organ concert at Metz Cathedral, 16/5/2019.
«Master Eckhart: the word, addressed to all«, Publictionnaire (Online dictionary, available to all) publictionnaire.huma-num.fr/notice/eckhart-maitre/

Further development of the Index.
Production of the programmed monographs.

Index in process
Marie-Anne Vannier (dir.), Maître Eckhart, lecteur des Pères de l'Église, Paris, Beauchesne, 2019

Eckhart is a towering figure of the Middle Ages who in Teaching and Preaching with Patristic auctoritates joins Germany and France (Erfurt-Paris-Strasbourg-Cologne) bringing alive their common past. The experts on E.’s Latin exegetical works are French, on E.s German and Latin homilies German. However, E.’s Patristic sources have never systematically been explored. Through the exceptional cooperation of the French and German experts in TEAPREA, their constant interaction, combination of competences, giving access to resources, scattered in France and Germany, we will reveal the Patristic foundations of this important bridge builder. Interdisciplinarity, methodologies and the breadth of material make it a challenging, but fitting project to overcome borders of language, disciplines, cultures and academic styles. To make it work, clear tasks address the different French and German expertises. A core team of 2 PIs and 4 key members will regularly meet physically and electronically to monitor the project’s progress.
Following the model and previous experience of time needed when collecting E.s Biblical sources, the aims are to recover E.s Patristic sources, analyse those, and reflect methodologically upon the nature of them. Based on the 10 vols. of the critical edition of E.s works, we are able to collect the data of all of E.s Patristic sources, look at their nature and use, the core topics inspired by these, at sources in sources, how early readers read sources through E., and E.’s democratising of sources.
Finally, we will produce the long-awaited Index Patristicus of E.’s German and Latin works, in-depth studies, a Digital Manuscript Library, a two-country exhibition, a dedicated French-German website and -blog. In short (details below):

Coordination: F G
Year 1
Ground-work: Explore the Patristic sources of E. Exegetica (OT) Homiletica (German)
Analysis: The nature of ‘sources’, ‘quotes’, ‘references’, ‘Patristic auctoritates’ Conference: Metz
Methodology: 4-Level-Search Workshop: Erfurt
Disseminating Find a contemporary artist to engage with ‘Appropriations – the past in the hands of the future’

Year 2
Ground-work: Explore the Patristic sources of E. Exegetica (NT) Homiletica (Latin), Collationes
Analysis: Explore the core sources and topics of E. derived from these sources Conference: Metz
Methodology: Sources in sources and readers – E.’s Patristic Sources in E.’s early readers Workshop: Erfurt
Dissemination Commissioning of art works that appropriates E.’s sources and E. and reflect some of the explored core topics

Year 3
Ground-work: Explore the Patristic sources of E Tractates, Acta Echardiana Collatio, Sermo Paschalis, Vas Auri,
Latin-German Translations,
Parisian Questions
Analysis: E. – Heretic or Traditionalist, the impact of the ‘sources’ in the eyes of his readers Conference: Metz/Paris
Methdology: ‘Breaking out of the ivory tower’ – E.’s democratising of knowledge Workshop: Erfurt
Dissemination Two-country exhibition