TEAPREA

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