VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 2005 (VIS) - The Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences has organized a study seminar to take place in the Vatican June 3 and 4. It will consider research and open questions concerning the history of Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century.
A number of leading European historians, though not members of the pontifical committee, are due to participate in the seminar.
Manlio Simonetti of the Accademia dei Lincei in Italy will speak on the period of Antiquity; Michael Matheus, director of the German Historical Institute in Rome, will address the subject of the Middle Ages; Paolo Prodi of the University of Bologna, Italy, will speak on the Modern Age; while Ernesto Galli Della Loggia of the University of Perugia, Italy will discuss the contemporary period.
The Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences was created in 1954 by Pope Pius XII. It has thirty members from various countries, and since 1998 has been presided by Msgr. Walter Brandmuller. This study meeting marks the close of the committee's fiftieth anniversary celebrations which began in spring last year.
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