Viliam Štefan Dóci OP and Riccardo Parmeggiani (eds.), Domenico di Caleruega, il suo Ordine e la sua memoria da Bologna all’Occidente (Dissertationes Historicae 43), Viella 2025, pp. 584, ill. ISBN: 979-12-5469-700-9. Price: € 75,-. READ MORE MORE INFORMATION IT L’ottavo centenario della morte di san Domenico di Caleruega, celebrato nel 2021 con il convegno “Domenico…

The Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers is pleased to announce the recent publication of the volume Du saint dominicain au docteur commun : Thomas d’Aquin et ses représentations, published in the Dissertationes Historicae series. The volume, edited by the art historians Émilie Roffidal and Claire Rousseau, is dedicated to the iconography of…

Dominican Brothers: Conversi, Lay, and Cooperator Friars by the noted Dominican author and historian, Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P., captures the rich and elaborative history of the vocation and ministry of Dominican brothers since the very foundation of the Dominican Order in 1216.Through exhaustive and ground-breaking research, Fr. Thompson has uncovered a legion of little known…

The Historical Institute of the Order of Preachers has recently published the volume Agiografie Domenicane (Dominican Hagiographies), a collection of essays by the Italian historian of medieval and early modern spirituality Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli.  Hagiography was a form of sacred writing that the Dominicans practiced with particular diligence and commitment. One of its purposes was…

Sr. Helen Mary Josephine Alford, who was born in London and graduated with a doctorate in engineering from the University of Cambridge, is a member of the Congregation of St Catherine of Siena of KwaZulu Natal. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Pontifical University of St Thomas, also…

Fray Jorge A. Scampini, OP Fray Jose Scampini, OP es fraile de la Provincia Dominicana Argentina desde 1980 y presbítero desde 1987. Su mayor dedicación se encuentra en el ámbito academico y, más concretamente en el campo de la Teología Dogmática, tanto en el Centro de Estudios de la Orden como en la…

We are pleased to announce a new publication on St. Dominic: Domenico di Caleruega alle origini dell’Ordine dei Predicatori. Le fonti del secolo XIII. Edited by Gianni FESTA, Agostino PARAVICINI BAGLIANI and Francesco SANTI (Millenio medievale 121, Testi 33), Firenze 2021. One of the editors, Brother Gianni Festa OP, is the former Postulator General of…

This edition of two chapters of Lorens of Orléans’ best-selling Somme le Roi in French and Occitan is intended as a tribute to the late Prof. Peter Ricketts, whose untimely death prevented the achievement of his own projected edition of the complete Occitan text, for which a commentary was to be provided by Dr Simon Tugwell…

This book presents the first critical edition and translation of the travel diary of an Italian journey of 1777 written in Latin by Father Ignatius Swieteczky O.P. The journey passed through the present Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and Germany. Generous space has been devoted to historical, social and cultural background in an effort to…

Nei suoi otto secoli di storia l’Ordine dei Predicatori ha sviluppato una ‘politica della santità’, dando corpo ad un originale disegno politico di costruzione e pro-mozione del proprio “santorale”, che ha contribuito efficacemente ad affermare la propria identità e il proprio carisma. La promozione del culto e l’attiva-zione dei processi di canonizzazione sono serviti,