Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann

Dr.

mante.lenkaityte@unifr.ch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3538-5065

Senior Researcher
Department of Patristics and Church History

Biography

I am currently a member of the SNSF project (dir. prof. Franz Mali) which is preparing the critical edition, French translation and commentary of the anonymous work Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum.

My research focuses on ancient monastic literature (Eucherius of Lyon, John Cassian, monastic rules), canonical sources and patristic exegesis, as well as the themes of cohabitation and religious identities in Late Antiquity.

After defending my doctoral thesis in classical philology in 2007 (University of Vilnius), I worked as an assistant (2007-2012), then as a doctoral assistant and lecturer (2012-2018) at the Chair of Patristics and Ancient Church History (Faculty of Theology) at the University of Fribourg. In 2019-2022 I was a member of the SNSF-Eccellenza project on religious competition in Late Antiquity, directed by ass. prof. Francesco Massa.

Research and publications

Publications

25 publications

Who are the true Christians (veri christiani)? Pastoral and polemical arguments in the Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, part A
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann, in: F. Mali (ed.), Opus Imperfectum in Matthaeum. The Text in its Contexts, Acts of the international conference held in Fribourg, October 19-22, 2023, Cahiers de Biblia Patristica, Strasbourg: (2024) | Conference

Conciles (IVe-début Ve siècle) , in in: F. Massa (éd.), Les interactions religieuses dans l’Antiquité tardive. Historiographie, notions, sources, Schwabe Verlag, Basel - Berlin
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2024) | Book chapter

Chrétiens , in in: F. Massa (éd.), Les interactions religieuses dans l’Antiquité tardive. Historiographie, notions, sources, Schwabe Verlag, Basel - Berlin
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2024) | Book chapter

Les débats autour de l’identité du Christ , in in: F. Massa (éd.), Les interactions religieuses dans l’Antiquité tardive. Historiographie, notions, sources, Schwabe Verlag, Basel - Berlin
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2024) | Book chapter

Moines , in in: F. Massa (éd.), Les interactions religieuses dans l’Antiquité tardive. Historiographie, notions, sources, Schwabe Verlag, Basel - Berlin
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2024) | Book chapter

The (Non‐)‌Sharing of Religious Sites in the Greek Canonical Sources of the 4th Century , in in: F. Massa, M. Attali (ed.), Shared Religious Sites in Late Antiquity - Negotiating Cultural and Ritual Identities in the Eastern Roman Empire
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann, ed. by Francesco Massa and Maureen Attali (Schwabe Verlag, 2023), ISBN: 9783796547324 | Book chapter

Le désert dans l’ancienne littérature monastique , in Universitas
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2022) | Press article

Le De laude eremi d’Eucher de Lyon et la tradition contemplative médiévale (Pierre Damien, Guigues Ier, Pétrarque)
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann, Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019: (2021) | Conference

Références à des groupes religieux dans les canons des conciles grecs du IVe siècle
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, (2021) | Journal article

« Oubliant qu’ils étaient pontiques et chrétiens, ils sont devenus barbares » : identités mouvantes dans la lettre canonique de Grégoire le Thaumaturge
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, Revue des sciences religieuses (2020) | Journal article

Pronoia - the providence of God
Theresia Hainthaler, Franz Mali, Gregor Emmenegger, Manté Lenkaityté Ostermann, Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag (2019) | Conference

L'île des saints d' Eucher de Lyon , Vincent de Lérins
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann (2018), ISBN: 9782204127295 | Book

Sophia the Wisdom of God - die Weisheit Gottes
Theresia Hainthaler, Franz Mali, Gregor Emmenegger, Manté Lenkaityté Ostermann, Innsbruck: Tyrolia-Verlag (2017) | Conference

Für uns und für unser Heil
Theresia Hainthaler, Franz Mali, Gregor Emmenegger, Manté Lenkaityté Ostermann, Innsbruck: Tyrolia-VErl. (2014) | Conference

Für uns und für unser Heil. Soteriologie in Ost und West. Forscher aus dem Osten und Westen Europas an den Quellen des gemeinsamen Glaubens. Innsbruck 2014 (Pro Oriente Bd. 37 / Wiener Patristische Tagungen Bd. VI)
Franz Mali, Gregor Emmenegger, Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann (Livre / Buch, 2014) | Edited book

Magna loci gratia: désert, lieu de salut selon Eucher de Lyon
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, In: Th. Hainthaler, F. Mali, G. Emmenegger, M. Lenkaityte Ostermann (Hgg.). Für uns und für unser Heil. Soteriologie in Ost und West. Forscher aus dem Osten und Westen Europas an den Quellen des gemeinsamen Glaubens. Innsbruck 2014 (Pro Oriente Bd. 37 / Wiener Patristische Tagungen Bd. VI), 181-195.: (2014) | Conference

L’Éloge du désert d’Eucher de Lyon : désert monastique dans l’île de Lérins
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, (2009) | Journal article

Eucher interprète de la Bible dans l'"Éloge du désert"
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, in: Y. Codou, M. Lauwers (éds), Lérins, une île sainte de l'antiquité au moyen âge (Collection d’études médiévales de Nice 9), Turnhout 2009, 83-104.: (2009) | Conference

La Vie de saint Colomban et la tradition monastique
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, Archivum Bobiense 31, 2009: 129-156 (2009) | Journal article

Sekimo Kristumi (imitatio Christi) tema ankstyvojoje lotyniškoje vienuolineje literaturoje (IV-V a.) , in Pamaldumas Išganytojui Lietuvos kulturoje, sud. G. Surdokaite, moks. red. dr. L. Jovaiša, Vilnius 2008, p. 27-47.
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann (2008) | Book chapter

Biblical Saints, Eastern Monks and Personal Teachers as Shaping Elements of the Monk's Model in Early Latin Monastic Literature, 2nd instalment
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, Archivum Bobiense 30: 67-174. (2008) | Journal article

Biblical Saints, Eastern Monks and Personal Teachers as Shaping Elements of the Monk's Model in Early Latin Monastic Literature, 1st instalment
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, Archivum Bobiense 29: 69-125 (2007) | Journal article

Patres nostri: Presence of fathers in ancient monastic rules of the Occident,Patres nostri: Présence des pères dans les règles monastiques anciennes d'Occident
Lenkaitytè, M., Revue d Etudes Augustiniennes et Patristiques (2006) | Journal article

Eucherijus Lijonietis tarp Augustino ir Pelagijaus (remiantis Eucherijaus veikalu De laude eremi) (Eucher de Lyon entre Augustin et Pélage. A propos de l'Eloge du désert)
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, in: Darius Alekna, ed. Šv. Augustinas: tradicijos, kontekstai, interpretacijos. Vilnius, p. 180-194. (Christiana tempora, 2): (2006) | Conference

Antano pokalbis su filosofais šv. Atanazo Šventojo Antano gyvenime. Tikejimo (pistis) ir proto (logos) santykis
Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann, Literatura (Vilnius) 45(3): 79-89 (2003) | Journal article