Project description The current inventory of the General Archives of the Order of Preachers (AGOP) was printed in 2002; it is the fourth edition of the 1930 Catalogus generalis compiled by Brother Angelus Walz, OP. Of the 21 existing series in the Archives, only a few are described in more detail (cf. Augustin Laffay, PourRead more about Inventory of sources on the history of the Dominicans in German-speaking territories preserved in the General Archives of the Order of Preachers in Rome[…]

The institution for the training of the Friars Preachers in Vienna, which had existed as a studium generale since the middle of the 15th century, suffered a serious crisis during the Protestant Reformation. As part of the efforts to revive the organisation of studies in the Dominican Province of Teutonia, which had been growing sinceRead more about The Philosophical-Theological Training and Academic Activity of the Friars Preachers in Vienna in the 17th–18th Centuries[…]

In its 1971 obituary of Irish Dominican Cardinal Michael Browne, the New York Times characterized him as “Tradition’s voice at Vatican II.” Browne was considered a stern conservative by many of his contemporaries, but his work, as Hugh Fenning OP writes, “has yet to be evaluated by historians.” This work is currently being undertaken byRead more about The World in Black and White? Michael Browne OP as Master of the Order (1955-1962)[…]

The Legendarium of Petrus Calo († 1348) constituted, so to speak, the pinnacle of the hagiographic activity of the Order of Preachers intended for a wider audience than that of the Dominican friars. It is not by chance that using Calo’s Legendarium as basis, Petrus de Natalibus († 1406) compiled his own Catalogus Sanctorum, whichRead more about The critical edition of the Legendarium of Petrus Calo[…]