Associate Member of the Commissio Leonina (since June 2023)

Assistente, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Dipartimento Manoscritti

Addresses :

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Cortile del Belvedere
00120 Città del Vaticano

via Taranto, 95
00182 Roma
Italia

s.metzger@vatlib.it
metzger.stephen1@gmail.com

I. EDUCATION

L.M.S., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2023
Ph.D. with distinction, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 2013.
M.M.S., Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 2007.
H.A.B. cum laude, Honors Bachelor of Arts Program, Xavier University (OH), 2004.

II. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2020-Present : Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Dipartimento Manoscritti, Assistente.

2023-2025 : Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame, Rome Associate.

2018-2023 : Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, Senior Researcher (Collaborateur) for the Project “DEBATE-ERC n° 771589”.

2018-2020 : Marian High School (Mishawaka, IN), English Department, Teacher. Indiana State Educator’s License No. 10227567

2018-2021 : Albert-Ludwigs-Universitäts Freiburg im Breisgau, Deutsches Seminar, Kooperationspartner for the Project “Making Mysticism: Mystische Bücher in der Bibliothek der Erfurter Kartause” sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

2016-2017 : University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Postdoctoral Research Associate.

2014-2015 : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of Toronto, Visiting Scholar.

2013-2014 : University of Notre Dame, Medieval Institute, Postdoctoral Research Associate.

2013 : Kalamazoo College, Department of History, Visiting Assistant Professor.

III. PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

— Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Master, on Knowledge, Wisdom and Contemplation, 2 vols. (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 122.1-2), Leiden-Boston-Köln: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2017, xiv + 739. [Review: C. Schabel, “The Early Career of Gerard of Abbeville with a Review of a Recent Book,” in Vivarium 55 (2017), 340-59.]

Refereed Articles

— “Medicinales Confusiones. The Role and Authority of Female Mystics in Jacobus de Paradiso’s ‘De theologia mystica’,” in Die Kartause als Text-Raum mittelalterlicher Mystik-Rezeption. Wissensdiskurse, Schreibpraktiken, Überlieferungskonstellationen, hrsg. v. G. Fournier und B.J. Nemes (Vita regularis – Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter. Abhandlungen 82), Münster i.W.: LIT Verlag, 2023, p. 219-247.
— with P. Wynn, “A Carolingian Witness to the Justification of Warfare,” in Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress on Medieval Canon Law, Paris, 17-23 July 2016, ed. F. Demoulin-Auzary, N. Laurent-Bonne, et F. Roumy cum A. C. Montealegre adlaborante (Monumenta Iuris Canonici C: Subsidia 16). Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2022, p. 259-311.
— “The Historica Narratio (1663) of Our Lady of Guadalupe by Francisco de Siles: A Study and Transcription of the Latin Text in Chig. F.IV.96,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XXVII (Studi e Testi). Città del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2022 p. 259-311.
— “How to Use a Well-Stocked Library: Erfurt Carthusians on the Industriae of Mystical Theology,” in Die Bibliothek – The Library – La Bibliothèque, hrsg. v. A. Speer and L. Rueke (Miscellanea Mediaevalia 41). Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, p. 656-675.
— “The Tractatus de mystica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart. (†1475),” in Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Medieval Philosophical Thought. A Tribute to Kent Emery, Jr., ed. R.H. Pich and A. Speer (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 125), Leiden-Boston-Köln: E.J. Brill Publishers, 2018, p. 599-674.
— “Note: A Few More Manuscripts of Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart.,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 58 (2016), p. 447-452.
— “Note: Another Manuscript of Ioannes de Indagine,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 51 (2009), p. 229-230.
— “The Manuscripts of Writings by Ioannes Hagen de Indagine, O.Cart.,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 50 (2008), p. 175-256.
— with K. Emery, Jr., A.I. Irving, and C.M. Jones, “Quaestiones, Sententiae and Summae from the Later Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Joseph N. Garvin Papers (II),” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 48 (2006), p. 15-81.

Book Reviews

— “Christophe Grellard, La possibilità dell’errore. Pensare la tolleranza nel Medioevo. Flumen Sapientiae. Studi sul pensiero medievale 12. Roma: Aracne editrice, 2020,” in Revista Española de Filosofia Medieval 29/2 (2022), p. 151-153.
— “Evan-Ezra, Ayelet, Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind. Chicago-London: The University of Chicago Press, 2021,” in The Vatican Library Review 1 (2022), p. 291-292.
— “Rossi, Maria Cristina, Gli autografi di Tommaso d’Aquino. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021 (Corpus Christianorvm. Avtographa Medii Aevi 8),” in The Vatican Library Review 1 (2022), p. 293-294.
— “Wetherbee (trans.), Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius,” in The Medieval Review, 22.01.19
(https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/33881/37361).
— “Wilson, Radulphus Brito. Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis,” in The Medieval Review, 20.08.28
(https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/31349/35483).
— “John F. Romano. Liturgy and Society in Early Medieval Rome (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West). Farnham (Surrey)-Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014,” in Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 18.3 (2014), p. 317-319.
— “Eamon Duffy. Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformation. London-Berlin-New York-Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012, and Eamon Duffy. Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers. New Haven-London: Yale University Press, 2011,” in Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 18.2 (2014), p. 203-207.

Manuscripts Accepted for Publication

— “Aristotelian Virtue and Apostolic Poverty in the Polemical Debate Between Thomas of York, OFM, and Gerard of Abbeville,” in La pensée radicale au Moyen Âge. Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of the SIEPM, Paris, 22-26 August 2022, ed. M. Brinzei et al. (Rencontres de philosophie médiévale).

Other Publications

— Gilbertus Anglicus, Commentarium super versus Aegidii Corboliensis De urinis (Fragment), Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3043, ff. ii-iii (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-7zff).
— Sermons for the Feast of St. Andrew (Fragment), Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 3044, f. iiv
(https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-iemj).
— “A Secret History of Our Lady of Guadalupe Hidden in Plain Sight in the Vatican Library,” in Church Life Journal, 10 December 2021.
(https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/a-secret-history-of-our-lady-of-guadalupe-hidden-in-plain-sight-in-the-vatican-archives/)
—  “Roberto Calasso’s Substitutionary Logic of Sacrifice,” in Church Life Journal, 4 August 2021.
(https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-book-of-all-books-and-the-inevitable-return-of-substitutionary-atonement/)
— “Mystical Theology Is a Fundamental Theology,” in Church Life Journal, 14 December 2020.
(https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/mystical-theology-is-fundamental-theology/)
— “Like Setting One’s Bible on Fire,” in Church Life Journal, 18 August 2020. (https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/like-setting-ones-bible-on-fire/)
— “On the Use and Abuse of St. Francis for Quarantine Life: The Case of Giorgio Agamben,” in Church Life Journal, 21 April 2020.
(https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/on-the-use-and-abuse-of-st-francis-for-quarantine-life-the-case-of-giorgio-agamben/)
— “Reasons for Reading the Decameron Even After Coronavirus is Over,” in Church Life Journal, 30 March 2020.
(https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/reasons-for-reading-the-decameron-even-after-coronavirus-is-over/)
— “Advocata nostra and the Devil’s Due,” in Church Life Journal, 4 December 2018. (https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/advocata-nostra-and-the-devils-due/)
— “The Catholic Imaginings of Jimmy Buffett,” in Church Life Journal, 27 July 2018. (https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the-catholic-imaginings-of-jimmy-buffett/)
— “We Have Never Been Medieval,” in Church Life Journal, 27 February 2018. (https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/we-have-never-been-medieval/)
— with B. Goehring, “Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Mystical Modes of Medieval Philosophical Thought,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 56 (2014), p. 453-67.
— “Secular Masters on Knowledge,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 55 (2013), p. 343-49.
— “Note: Manuscripts of Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart.,” in Les Chartreuses de la Provincia Burgundiae, aujourd’hui dans le département de l’Ain et l’Ordre des Chartreux 2, éd. J. Hogg, A. Girard et D. Le Blévec (Analecta Cartusiana 260), Salzburg 2011, p. 563-64.
— “Sapientia et Scientia: Thirteenth-Century Scholastics on Wisdom,” in Archa Verbi 5 (2008), p. 175-76.
— with G.R. Smith, “XVth Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM),” in Archa Verbi 5 (2008), p. 176-81.
— with G.R. Smith, “Philosophy and Theology in the Studia of the Religious Orders and at the Papal Court,” in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 50 (2008), 385-98.

IV. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS

2017 : Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society

2016 : Short-Term Graduate Research Fellowship, Rome Global Gateway, University of Notre Dame
Astrik L. Gabriel Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medieval Education, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame.

2015 : Brepols-SIEPM Stipend in Medieval Philosophy, Brepols Publishers and the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.

2014 : Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.

2012 : Brepols-SIEPM Stipend in Medieval Philosophy, Brepols Publishers and the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.
Graduate Student Professional Development Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame.
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library.

2011 : Graduate Initiative Grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Graduate Student Professional Development Award, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of Notre Dame.
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library.

2010 : Zahm Research Travel Grant, the Graduate School, University of Notre Dame.

V. INVITED TALKS

— “Gerson in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana,” Toward a New Edition of Gerson: Challenges and Opportunities (Workshop 2), Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway, 9-10 May 2023.
— “The Philosophy of Henry of Ghent and Its Context,” Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México, 26 and 28 January 2016.
— “A School for Secular Clerics: The University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century,” Commissioned Session Theology in the University: Illustrations from the 13th to 15th Century at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, University of Notre Dame, 12-14 March 2015.
— “Willfully Deceived: Gerard of Abbeville on the Knowledge of Falsehoods,” On Doubt and Certainty: Epistemology and Ethics, 1st International Colloquium of Medieval Philosophy, UNISINOS, Porto Alegre (Brazil), 14-15 August 2014.
— “The Tractatus de mystica theologia by Ioannes de Indagine, O.Cart. (†1475),” Contemplation and Philosophy: Scholastic and Medieval Modes of Thought, A Conference in Honor of Kent Emery, Jr. on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, University of Notre Dame, 27-29 July 2014.
— “‘The Religious Have Enough’: Gerard of Abbeville, Secular Masters and the Parisian Faculty of Theology,” Medieval Intellectual History Seminar, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, 28 January 2012.

VI. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

Panels Organized

— “Daniel Hobbins’ Authorship and Publicity before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning (A Panel Discussion),” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 10-13 May 2012.
— “Sapientia et scientia: Thirteenth-Century Scholastics on Wisdom,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 8-11 May 2008.

Papers Presented

— “Latin as a Theological Language,” 6th Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, St. Andrews, Scotland, 19-23 June.
— “The Ecclesiological Position of Secular Masters Sixty Years after Congar: Has Our Knowledge Advanced?” The Secular-Mendicant Controversy and its Long Aftermath (13th-20th c.) Modern Historiographies, New Perspectives, Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics,” WWU Münster i.W., 1-3 June 2023.
— “Xiberta, Two Vatican Manuscripts, and the Compendium veritatis conceptionis Virginis Mariae of Francesc Martí,” Workshop Medieval Carmelite Scholastics, Rome 27-29 April 2023.
— “Probare irrefragabiliter: Gerard of Abbeville’s Argument and Rhetoric against the Mendicants,” La pensée radicale au Moyen Age / Radical Thinking in the Middle Ages, XVth International Congress of the SIEPM, 22-26 August 2022.
— “Col mezzo delle stampe alla publica notizia del mondo: The Publication of Lives of Colonial Saints in Seventeenth-Century Rome,” The Catholic Reformation and the Book, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 16-17 September 2021.
— “Medicinales Confusiones: The Role and Authority of Female Mystics in Jacobus de Paradiso’s De theologia mystica,” Die Kartause als Text-Raum: Mittelalter Mystik-Rezeption. Wissensdiskurse, Schreibpraktiken, Überlieferungskonstellationen Symposium des Freiburger DFG-Projektes “Making Mysticism. Mystische Bücher in der Bibliothek der Kartause Erfurt”, Freiburg im Breisgau, 21-22 May 2021.
— “Alexander of Hales, the Two Lives, and the Formation of Franciscan Identity,” “Quidam enim dicunt”: Mendicant Theologies Before Aquinas and Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure University, 15-18 July 2019 .
— “How to Use a Well-Stocked Library: Erfurt Carthusians on Mystical Theology,” Die Bibliothek/The Library/La Bibliothèque: Denkräume und Wissenordnungen, 41st Kölner Mediaevistentagung, Universität zu Köln, 10-14 September 2018 .
— “Hope in an Age of Despair: The Need for a Renewed Catholic Culture,” Cultures of Formation: Young People, Faith, and Vocational Discernment, McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, 5-7 March 2018 .
— “‘Le penchant pour l’arabisme’ at the University of Paris in the Thirteenth Century, or How Did Aquinas Learn Arabic Philosophy?” Aquinas and the Arabs International Annual Fall Meeting, University of Notre Dame, 25-26 August 2017 .
— “A Parisian Theory of the Soul: The Intellect as a Part of the Soul in the Thirteenth Century,” 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 11-14 May 2017 .
— “Lawyers in the Parisian Faculty of Theology or Theologians Teaching Law?” Seminar on Medieval Intellect and Culture, University of Notre Dame: Chicago Campus, 5 November 2016 .
— “The Victorine Legacy among Secular Theologians in the Thirteenth-Century University of Paris: Hugh and Richard of Saint-Victor as Theological Authorities,” Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference, Villanova University, 14-16 October 2016 .
— “Capitula diversarum sententiarum pro negociis rei publice consulendis, I : The Manuscript, the Text’s Origins, Structure, and Authorship,” XV International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Université de Paris II : Panthéon-Assas, 17-23 July 2016 .
— “Secular Clergy and Pastoral Care at the University of Paris,” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 12-15 May 2016.
— “Are There Muslims in Paris? Principles for Interfaith Dialogue and Tolerance According to Gerard of Abbeville and Henry of Ghent,” 21st Annual Colloquium of the SIEPM: Tolerance and Concepts of Otherness in Medieval Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland, 9-12 September 2015.
— “Gerard of Abbeville on the Role of Memory in our Knowledge of Particulars,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD, 27-30 December 2013.
— “Beyond Words: Parisian Secular Theologians in Action,” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 9-12 May 2013.
— “Sicut excedentia et excessa. Gerard of Abbeville on the Contemplative and Active Lives,” XIIIth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM), Freising bei München, 20-25 August 2012.
— “Bishops as Contemplatives in Action. Gerard d’Abbeville and the Trouble with Mendicants,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (UK), 11-14 July 2011.
— “Gerard of Abbeville and the Franciscans,” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 12-15 May 2011.
— “Rethinking the History of Scholasticism: The Case for the Secular Masters,” 48th Midwest Medieval History Conference, University of Notre Dame, 25-26 September 2009.
— “Gerard of Abbeville and the Unicity of the Intellect,” From Natural Philosophy to Science (NPHS) Postgraduate Summer School: “The Soul: From the Aristotelian scientia de anima to Early Modern Psychology,” ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, 14-21 July 2008.
— “Theology as Sapientia in the Summa of Henry of Ghent,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 8-11 May 2008.

VII. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Marian High School
2018-2020 : Junior Composition (3 sections); English 11/12 (2 sections)

Kalamazoo College
2013 : Introduction to Europe I: Medieval and Early Modern Europe; The Medieval University

University of Notre Dame: Teaching Assistant
2013 : Program of Liberal Studies: Great Books Seminar II.
2012 : Program of Liberal Studies: Great Books Seminar III.
2011 : Program of Liberal Studies: Ancient and Medieval Thought: Knowledge, Virtue and Happiness;  Intellectual and Cultural History; Great Books Seminar IV.
2008 : Department of History/Medieval Institute: World of the Middle Ages.

VIII. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

2022 : Contributor, Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments (fragmentarium.ms)

2021-Present : Managing Editor, Vatican Library Review.

2018 : Peer Reviewer, Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought and Religion.

2017-2020 : Freelance Copy-Editor/Gatekeeper, Medieval Institute Publications/Arc Humanities Press, Western Michigan University.

2015-2016, 2018 : Copy Editor, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Publications.

2014-Present : Member of the Editorial Board for Studia Sententiarum : Travaux et recherches sur les pratiques intellectuelles de la faculté de théologie (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers).

2012-2014 : Assistant Editor for Publications of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale. — Assisted with the editing, computer production and publication of the following volumes: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 54 (2012), 55 (2013) and 56 (2014), and books in the series «Rencontres de philosophie médiévale».

2011-Present : Member of the Scotistic Commission of America. — The Commission is editing the Reportationes Parisienses of John Duns Scotus.

2009-2012 : Senior Assistant to the General Editor for Publications of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale. — Assisted with the editing, computer production and publication of the following volumes: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 51 (2009), 52 (2010) and 53 (2011) and books in the series «Rencontres de philosophie médiévale» (no 14 [2009]).

2005-2007 : Assistant to the General Editor for Publications of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale.  — Assisted with the editing, computer production and publication of the following volumes: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 47 (2005), 48 (2006), 50 (2008) and books in the series «Rencontres de philosophie médiévale» (nos 12 [2005] and 13 [2007]).

IX. INTERVIEWS

— Alumni Spotlight by the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame, 18 March 2020: https://medieval.nd.edu/news-events/news/alumni-spotlight-stephen-metzger/

X. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2017-Present : Regular Member, Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’ International Working Group.
2009-Present : Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale