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The Institute of Medieval Studies takes the opportunity of the VIIth centenary of the Council of Vienne to focus its attention to this theme. The Council of Vienne is famously known for the condamnation of the Order of the Temple. Indeed our annual research seminar proposes a full seance dedicated to the KnightsTemplar. But it also proposes some doctrinal aspects of the Council that are sometimes less studied or more forgotten by the historians: the question of the Minor Orders, the assertion of the soul as form of the body, the question of the studies of Oriental languages, the status of the beguines.

The seances will take place at the Catholic University of Paris, 21, rue d'Assas 75006 Paris on Mondays, from 5 pm to 8 pm at the following dates: December 5, January 9, February 2, March 12, April 16, May 14.

Program:

- December 5: What is a Council? The historical development of the Council of Vienne.

Bernard Meunier, Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, Lyon.

Emmanuel Petit, Faculté Notre-Dame de Paris, Collège des Bernardins : "From the Council of Vienne to the Decretals of Clement V".

- January 9: The Condamnation of the Order of the Temple and the justification of Military Orders in the Middle Ages.

Alain Demurger, historian, author of numerous books on the Templars.

Simonetta Cerrini, historian, author of La Révolution des Templiers, Paris, 2007.

- February 6: The relationship between Priesthood and Empire. Philip The Fair and Clement V.

Jean Chélini, historian, author of numerous books on Medieval Church History.

Gianluca Briguglia, Marie-Curie Fellow at the EHESS: "Juridiction, political causality and ecclesiologies in action. The period of the Council of Vienne and political thought".

- March 12: The beguards and beguines in the Middle Ages.

André Vauchez, historian, member of the Institut: "Visionaries and Prophets in France from XIIIth c. to XVth c.".

Sylvain Piron, Professor at the EHESS.

- April 16: Ramon Llull and the "linguas infidelium".

Coralba Colomba, Albert Lüdwigs Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau: "Ramon Llull at the Council of Vienne (1311): the last anti-Averroistic fight for the demonstrability of the Faith".

Carla Compagno, Albert Lüdwigs Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau: "Missionary intent in Ramon Llull's proposals at the Council of Vienne".

- May 4: The question of the soul, form of the body and the debate on Franciscan poverty

Alain De Libera, Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies, Professor at the EPHE and at the University of Geneva.

Andrea Robiglio, Professor at KU Leuven: "Poverty of spirit and nobility of the soul. Some Remarks on Peter John Olivi, Marguerite Porete and the Council of Vienne