Colloquium organized by Prof. Ossola on June 7 and 8, 2011 - Mystique. Continuation of a project : texts and collections

The seminar Pour un vocabulaire mystique au ^XVIIème siècle (2001, proceedings published in Turin in 2004) opened with Antonio Ricciardi's words: " Mystica expositio est cum per minima intelliguntur maiora, vel per modica plura ". Ten years later, in various European countries, new collections are being launched, dedicated to text editions and scholarly studies of mysticism " moderne ": paths are opening up, texts are resurfacing.

Tuesday, June 7: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Carlo Ossola - Mysticism: "Remaining immovably simple
Jean Pruvost - Birth of a collection
Jacques Le Brun - Writing mysticism
Francesco Zambon - Project for an anthology of Christian mysticism from its origins to the present day
François Trémolières - The Mystica collection, a presentation

Wednesday June 8: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m

Simon Mimouni and Madeleine Scopello - Theoretical and theurgic mysticism in Antiquity
Cédric Giraud - A Victorian school of spirituality, from Achard de Saint-Victor to Simon Gourdan
François Marxer - Mysticism and sacrifice: Charles de Condren
Mariel Mazzocco - Jean-Jacques Olier, mysticism and possession

Wednesday June 8: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Anne Spica - Mystical languages and language: the Clavis mystica by Sandaeus
Frédéric Gabriel - Le Hiérarque parfait by Franciscan tertiary Jean Le Febvre (1668): mysticism and institution through a Dionysian prism
Giacomo Jori - "Holiness on a journey. Unpublished works from an^18th-century Carmelite monastery in Turin
Christine Jacquet-Pfau and Panthéa Tchoupani - Charles de Foucauld: history of words - face of words