• Universitas rerum and metaphysics of the Lógos in the medieval Neoplatonic interpretation of the emanative-manifestative process of causality. From E. Eriugena to M. Eckhart (FFI2011-28729) Ministry of Economics and competitiveness (2011-2015). María Jesús Soto-Bruna (University of Navarra): researcher principal. Elisabeth Reinhardt (University of Navarra), Concepción Alonso del Real (University of Navarra), Víctor Sanz (University of Navarra), Alice Ramos (St. Johns University, New York), Laura E. Corso de Estrada (CONICET-Universidad Católica Argentina-Universidad de Buenos Aires), Agnieszka Kijewska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

• Military orders in the shaping of the medieval world.

• "The Dominicus Gundissalinus Working Group".

• Julia Pavón: "Medievalia Documenta. Conservation and transmission of cultural heritage: the documents of Pamplona Cathedral". aims to rescue, digitise, make visible and interact scientifically (pedagogically and research), the medieval documentary bequest of the Episcopal See of Pamplona (ACP). The project team will be made up of four doctors from the department of History, Art History and Geography of the University of Navarre, the team from file of Pamplona Cathedral made up of an archivist and two technicians from file Diocesan, the president of the European association ICAR-US and a doctor from the International University of La Rioja (UNIR). It will be a pioneering project in the preservation and dissemination of ecclesiastical documentation in Navarre and, more broadly, in Spain, as well as being part of the archival policy of the European area.

• "Las freiras de la Orden del Hospital de San Juan de Jerusalén en la Edad average in the kingdom of Navarre. Archaeological intervention and historical-artistic study of the convent of Bargota".

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• Unity and Plurality. Metaphysics of the Logos in the medieval explanatory lines of the rationality of nature.

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Funding: PIUNA, Ref.: 2015-24

• "Unity and plurality of the Logos in the World. Explicatio and ratio naturae (4 th - 14 th) Medieval Hermeneutics".

Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness, ref. no.: FFI2015-63947-P

1. PUBLICATIONS

a. Books

L. CORSO, M.J. SOTO-BRUNA and C. ALONSO DEL REAL, Figuras la Causalidad en la Edad y el Renacimiento. ALONSO DEL REAL, Figuras de la Causalidad en la Edad average y el Renacimiento, Eds. Corso de Estrada, Soto-Bruna and Alonso del Real. EUNSA, Pamplona, 2017.

L. CORSO, framework Tullius Cicero, On the Laws. Preliminary study, Annotated bilingual edition and appendix. publishing house COLIHUE-CLÁSICA, Buenos Aires, 2017.

M. OLIVA (ed.), Justice: Then and Now. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Philosophy Documentation Center, vol. 90, 2016.

b. Book chapters

A. RAMOS, "The Transcendentals, the Human Person, and the Perfection of the Universe," accepted for publication in a volume on The Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas, which volume has been edited by Christopher Cullen, S.J., and is presently under review by The Catholic University of America Press.

A. RAMOS, Aquinas on Measure," 24 pp., forthcoming in Aquinas' Sources, edited by Timothy Smith (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2018).

A. RAMOS, Gadamer and Aquinas on Language, Being, and the Beauty of Truth," 28 pp. ms., accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the first Symposium Thomisticum held in Paris, France, June 2016.

C. ALONSO DEL REAL, "Imágenes de la Causalidad en un autor toledano del s. XII, Gundisalino", in Figuras de la Causalidad en la Edad average y el Renacimiento, Eds. L. Corso, M. J. Soto-Bruna y C. Alonso del Real, EUNSA, Pamplona, 2017, pp. 61-76.

J. J. HERRERA, "La conservación divina del universo", in Figuras de la Causalidad en la Edad average y el Renacimiento, Eds. L. Corso, M. J. Soto-Bruna and C. Alonso del Real, EUNSA, Pamplona, 2017, pp. 77-96.

L. CORSO, "El binomio naturaleza-racionalidad. La concepción ciceroniana sobre las inclinaciones naturales en la Summa de bono de Felipe Canciller", in Apis Matina. Studi in onore di Carlo Santini, A. Setaioli (ed.), Ediciones Universidade de Triestre (EUT), Triestre, 2016, pp. 158-166.

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, "Medieval aspects of emanative cause and a modern reading. La causalidad como despliegue dialéctico", in L. CORSO, M.J. SOTO-BRUNA and C. ALONSO DEL REAL (eds.), Figuras de la causalidad en la Edad average y el Renacimiento, Eunsa, Pamplona, 2017, pp. 43-60.

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, "Toutes les choses dans l'Un maximum sont l'Un lui-même. Nicolas de Cues et Leibniz", in Pasqua, H. (dir.), Infini et Altérité dans l'oeuvre de Nicolas de Cues (1401-1464), Éditions de L'Institut Supérieur de Pilosophie - Ed. Peeters, Leuven, 2017, pp. 97-118.

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, "El concepto de naturaleza como unidad en Domingo Gundisalvo", in J. C. Ribero Miranda / M. do Ferreira (eds.), Natura e natureza no tempo de Alfonso X, o Sábio, Universidade do Porto/Ediciones Humus, Oporto, 2016, pp. 202-230.

M. BRUGAROLAS, "The Incarnate Logos: Gregory of Nyssa's In Canticum canticorum Christological core", in G. Maspero - M. Brugarolas - I. Vigorelli (eds.), Gregory of Nyssa: In Canticum canticorum. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2010), Brill, Leiden, accepted.

c. Articles

A. RAMOS, "Creation and knowledge in a Metaphysics of the Word," in Annales Theologici, 30 (2016), pp. 355-370.

L. CORSO, "Planes of Rationality in the knowledge of the Self. Tradiciones helenísticas en la Summa de Guillermo de Auxerre", yearbook Filosófico- volumen monográfico: Hermenéutica Medieval, Pamplona, XLIX/2, 2016, pp. 299-316.

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, "Contemplation, liberté et tragédie de la raison. Le tournant anthropologique de la philosophie: de Nicolas de Cues à Giordano Bruno", Noesis (2015-2016), 173-196.

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, "Eriugena and Spinoza versus the dialectic of causality", Disputatio Philosophical Research Bulletin 5 (2016) 37-76.

M. BRUGAROLAS, "Divine Simplicity and Creation of Man: Gregory of Nyssa on the distinction between the Uncreated and the Created", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 1/91 (2017) 29-51.

M. BRUGAROLAS, "The Mediation of Christ in Gregory of Nyssa", Scripta Theologica 49/2 (2017).

M. BRUGAROLAS, "From Nicaea to Constantinople: The crisis of the Spirit", PATH 1/16 (2017) 87-105.

d. Reviews

A. RAMOS, Review of Aquinas on Beauty by Christopher Scott Sevier, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 90, no. 4 (2016), 115-118.

E. REINHARDT, Nicola Ciola, Antonio Sabetta, Pierluigi Sguazzardo (eds.), Il concilio Lateranese IV a 800 anni dalla sua celebrazione. Una rilettura teologica, Lateran University Press, Città del Vaticano 2016, "yearbook de Historia de la Iglesia", 26 (2017) 570-571.

E. REINHARDT, Marc J. Clark, The Making of the "Historia scholastica", 1150-1200, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies ("Studies and Texts", 198), Toronto 2015, "yearbook of Church History", 26 (2017) 571-572.

E. REINHARDT, Hanns Peter Neuheuser, Ralf M. W. Stammberger, Matthias M. Tischler (Hrsg.), Diligens Scrutator Sacri Eloquii. Beiträge zur Exegese- und Theologiegeschichte des Mittelalters. Festgabe für Rainer Berndt SJ zum 65. Geburtstag, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster, "yearbook de Historia de la Iglesia", 26 (2017) 549-550.

2. LECTURES GIVEN

A. RAMOS, "Shame, Honor, and Conscience," 23 pp. ms., invited plenary session paper at the American Maritain Association International Conference, held in New Orleans, March 2017 2-5.

A. RAMOS, Participated in a Philosophy Department Colloquium at St. John's University on Hans Georg Gadamer, together with Matthew Knotts of the University of Leuven (Philosophy and Theology major at SJU; graduated six years ago and is now working on his Ph.D. in theology on Gadamer) and with Dr. Paul Fry of Yale University.

A. RAMOS, Invited paper: "Gadamer and Aquinas on Language, Being, and the Beauty of Truth," 28 pp., at the first Symposium Thomisticum in Paris, France, June 23, 2016.

A. RAMOS, The International Society for Medieval Hermeneutics organized a conference on "The Prologue of St. John's Gospel," co-sponsored by the Philosophy and Theology Departments of St. John's University and the Thomistic Institute, with three scholars, at the New York University Catholic Center on November 5, 2016.

F. O'REILLY, "The knowledge as relationship with divinity. Avicenna and Eriugena in the De causis primis et secundis . " in Homo - Natura - Mundus: Human Beings and their Relationships. XIVth International Congress of the SIEPM. Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 24-28, 2017.

I. LEÓN, Communication: "El orden como factor de la belleza del universo en el pensamiento de S. Buenaventura" in the VIIth SOFIME International congress "De Relatione" (UAB, 14-16 November 2016).

I. LEÓN, discussion paper invited: "Towards an artistic understanding of creation. Fecundidad de esta analogía en el pensamiento de S. Buenaventura", in the IV International meeting of Philosophy Medieval "Concilios, conciliarismo y teología en la Edad average", Special session on the thought of St. Bonaventure (1217-2017) in the VIII Centenary of his birth, School de Philosophy of the Complutense University of Madrid, 8 March 2017.

J. J. HERRERA, "Omnia vanitas. Metafísica y espiritualidad tomistas frente a la creación", in XVI congress Latinoamericano de Philosophy Medieval: Corporalidad, política y espiritualidad: pervivencia y actualidad del Medioevo (Santiago de Chile, 24-26 May 2017), organised by the Centro de programs of study Medievales de la Universidad Gabriela Mistral and the network Latinoamericana de Philosophy Medieval.

J. J. HERRERA, "La relación en la teoría tomasiana de las ideas divinas", at the VII Ibero-American International congress of the Society of Medieval Philosophy (SOFIME): De relatione ( Barcelona, 14-16 November 2016).

J. J. HERRERA, "El mundo en el Logos según Tomás de Aquino", in XIV congress of the S.I.E.M.P.: Homo - Natura - Mundus: Los seres Humanos y sus relaciones (Porto Alegre, 24-28 July 2017).

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, lecture opening plenary: "Relationship as a condition of diversity. La processio en Eriúgena y el argumento en Gundisalvo" at the VII SOFIME International congress "De Relatione" (UAB, 14-16 November 2016).

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, lecture invited: "Languages on unity and the good. Boethius read by Gundisalvo", in Languages of Medieval and Renaissance Thought (UCA, August 2016).

M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, lecture invited: "Creation, reason and will in Ibn Gabirol", in Will, reason and law (UCA, August 2017).

M. OLIVA, "Hermeneutics and the Meaning of Life", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics, September 2016.

M. OLIVA, "Is Life a Story? Providence, causality and self-movement" at the Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association", November 2016.

Research seminars

J.J HERRERA: "Similitudines ideales rerum in Deo. Medieval and contemporary polemic on the unity and plurality of divine ideas. M. J. Soto-Bruna: "Sentido e imagen. Trayectorias medievales del siglo IX al al siglo XII".

M. BRUGAROLAS: "Gregory of Nyssa and the Eunomian polemic: the question of the names of God" R. Ballon Villanueva: "Return ad unum: The doctrine of apocatastasis in Eriugena".

E. REINHARDT: De essentiis: a challenge for reason in the 12th century.

A. KIJEWSKA (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin): "The Philosophical Problem of Determinism: God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Will".

3. ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIA

L. CORSO and M. J. SOTO-BRUNA, XII conference DE IUSTITIA ET IURE: Voluntad, Razón y Ley en el Pensar Medieval y Renacentista. 28, 29 and 30 August 2017 (Universidad Católica Argentina).

4. STAYS OF RESEARCH

L. CORSO, researcher invited by Prof. Dr. Gernot Michael Müller-Professor für Klassische Philologie und Wirkungsgeschichte der Antike Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt to give various seminars.

M. BRUGAROLAS, researcher visitor at the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN) to work in July and August 2017 with Prof. Kahled Anatolios on the theology of the Logos in Gregory of Nyssa.

M. OLIVA, Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University, St Benet's Hall, June 2017

5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I. LEÓN, presentation in Rome of his work: "El arte creador en san Buenaventura. Fundamentos para una teología de la belleza" (Eunsa, Pamplona 2016), at the framework del Convegno "La ricezione di San Bonaventura nel pensiero del Novecento, nell'ottavo centenario dalla nascita del Dottore Serafico", Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum, Rome 26-27 April 2017.

For this work he has received the award framework Arosio, Special Edition 2017, awarded by the Cattedra framework Arosio di Alti Studi Medievali, belonging to the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (Rome). It is the first time that this award has been won by a non-Italian researcher . The book has been reviewed in yearbook of Church History, yearbook Filosófico, among others.

1. NEOPLATONIST LINE. G. DE NISA, J. E. ERIÚGENA, BUENAVENTURA DE B.
RESEARCHERS: MIGUEL BRUGAROLAS (Navarre), AJNIESZKA KIJEWSKA (Lublin, John Paul II Catholic University), ISABEL LEÓN (Navarre), MARÍA JESÚS SOTO BRUNA (Navarre)

2. LINE OF THE HISTORICAL-CERONIAN TRADITION: G. DE AUXERRE, F. THE CHANCELLOR.
PROGRAMME OF Philosophy internship HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL
RESEARCHERS: LAURA E. CORSO (UCA, CONICET, Argentina)

3. AVICENNA LINE: AVICENNA AND THE LIBER DE CAUSIS PRIMIS ET SECUNDIS.
RESEARCHERS: FRANCISCO O'REILLY (Montevideo, Uruguay)

4. NATURALISTIC LINE: CHARTRES-HERMANN OF CARINTHIA.
RESEARCHERS: E. REINHARDT (Navarra, Spain)

5. SYSTEMATIC AND MEDIEVAL HERMENEUTIC LINE: T. DE AQUINO, J. ECKHART, N. DE CUSA, H.-G-GADAMER, J.- L. NANCY
RESEARCHERS: J. J. HERRERA (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina), M. OLIVA (Center of Thomistic Studies, Houston, Texas), A.RAMOS (St. J'ohns University, New York, VÍCTOR SANZ (Navarra), M. J. SOTO BRUNA (Navarra)

6. DOMINICUS GUNDISSALINUS: WORK AND LEXICAL CONCORDANCES
RESEARCHERS: C. ALONSO DEL REAL (Navarra), MARÍA JESÚS SOTO BRUNA (Navarra)