Lidia Lanza
Research Group: HPhil
Lidia Lanza is currently carrying out a research project bearing the title Individual Rights and Moral Responsibility: The Early Jesuit Moral Thought as a Paradigm Change. With a Critical Edition of the Hitherto Unpublished Volume of Luis de Molina’s “De iustitia et iure” (Programme Scientific Employment Stimulus: Principal Researcher Level). Lanza has previously held positions at the Universities of Florence, Fribourg, and Porto. She has published extensively on the medieval and Renaissance reception of Aristotle’s ‘Politics’ and on the moral thought of late scholasticism, and she is currently co-ordinating the section 3. Theology at Coimbra of the encyclopaedia Conimbricenses.org.
E-mail: llanza@letras.ulisboa.pt
Main research fields
Medieval Philosophy; History of Medieval Political Though; the reception of Aristotle’s Politics and Ethics in the Middle Ages; Late Scholasticism and more specifically the reception of Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth century
Honours and Fellowships
— Together with Marco Toste, holder of the Chaire Pierre Abélard at the University of Sorbonne, Paris (2018)
— Fellowships granted by European and American foundations (among others, the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas; the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany; the Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Florence)
— Visiting Fellow at the Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (three months), with a fellowship granted by the Fonds National Suisse pour la Recherche Scientifique
Selected Publications
Books as author or editor
— with Marco Toste (eds.), The Cambridge History of Rights. Volume III: Medieval Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (under contract; in preparation)
— with Noah Dauber and Marco Toste, The Aristotelian Commentary Tradition: A Reader in Medieval Political Thought, Washington, DC: CUA Press (under contract; in preparation)
— Petrus de Alvernia, Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum Aristotelis, edizione, introduzione e note a cura di Lidia Lanza, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021 (https://reichert-verlag.de/en/keywords/manuscripts_and_illumination_keyword/9783954902781_petrus_de_alvernia_scriptum_super_iii_viii_libros_politicorum_aristotelis-detail; Table of contents: https://reichert-verlag.de/media/pdf/9783954902781_toc.pdf)
— with Marco Toste (eds.), “Summistae”. The Commentary Tradition on Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa theologiae” from the 15th to the 17th Centuries, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021 (https://lup.be/products/135490)
— “Ei autem qui de politia considerat …”: Aristotele nel pensiero politico medievale, Barcelona: FIDEM-Brepols, 2013 (https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503551272-1)
— with Christoph Flüeler and Marco Toste (eds.), Peter of Auvergne. University Master of the 13th Century (Scrinium Friburgense, 26), Berlin–München–Boston: De Gruyter, 2015 (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110228496/html?lang=en)
Recent Articles in Journals and Chapters in Collective Volumes
— Libres d’obéir : la question sur l’obéissance (“Somme théologique”, IIa IIae, q. 104) dans quelques commentaires de la Scolastique tardive (Vitoria, Molina et Pedro Luis), in Revue de Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 103 (2023) (forthcoming)
— To Reproach, or to denounce? Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza’s discussion of fraternal correction, in Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641). System, sources and influence, edited by Daniel D. Novotný and Lukáš Novák, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)
— Dal consenso al dissenso: una questione semantica, in Manifestare e contrastare il dissenso (secoli XI-XIV), a cura di Maria Pia Alberzoni e Roberto Lambertini, Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2023 (https://www.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-libro/autori-vari/manifestare-e-contrastare-il-dissenso-secoli-xi-xiv-9788834351499-395051.html)
— “Utrum haeretici sint tolerandi”. The Debate in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Commentary Tradition in Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa theologiae”, II-II, q. 1, in Tolerance and Concepts of Otherness in Medieval Philosophy, edited by Michael W. Dunne and Susan Gottlöber, Turnhout: Brepols, 2022, pp. 103-126 (https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.129356)
— ‘Si peccavit per hoc quod fregit ostium, páguelo!’. The Debate on Whether the Prisoner Sentenced to Death Can Lawfully Escape in the 16th-Century Commentary Tradition on the “Summa Theologiae”, in “Summistae” (see above), pp. 393-424
— The Commentary Tradition on the “Summa Theologiae”, in “Summistae” (see above), pp. 3-93
— Segreto e salvezza. Un domenicano e un francescano e la questione della “correctio fraterna” nel tardo Cinquecento, in Itinerari di filosofia e teologia francescana. Studi offerti in memoria di Marco Arosio, a cura di Andrea Nannini e Irene Zavattero, Trento: Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 2021, pp. 329-357 (https://iris.unitn.it/retrieve/handle/11572/326343/514471/SR26_Itinerari%20di%20filosofia%20e%20teologia%20francescana_OA.pdf)
— with Marco Toste, The Influence of Salamanca in the Iberian Peninsula: The Case of the Faculties of Theology of Coimbra and Évora, in The School of Salamanca: A Case of Global Knowledge Production, edited by Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío and Christiane Birr, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021, pp. 120-168 (open access: https://brill.com/display/title/59717?language=en; our chapter: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004449749/BP000004.xml