Mante Lenkaityte Ostermann
Dr.
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
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Publications
33 publications
Conciles (IVe-début Ve siècle) , in in: F. Massa, M. Attali, C. Bridel, D. Cellamare, G. Spampinato (éd.), M. Lenkaitytė Ostermann (collab.), Religions et interactions religieuses dans l'empire romain tardo-antique - Outils et documents, p. 285-292
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterChrétiens , in in: F. Massa, M. Attali, C. Bridel, D. Cellamare, G. Spampinato (éd.), M. Lenkaitytė Ostermann (collab.), Religions et interactions religieuses dans l'empire romain tardo-antique - Outils et documents, p. 175-184
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterDébats sur la nature du Christ , in in: F. Massa, M. Attali, C. Bridel, D. Cellamare, G. Spampinato (éd.), M. Lenkaitytė Ostermann (collab.), Religions et interactions religieuses dans l'empire romain tardo-antique - Outils et documents, p. 593-604
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterMoines , in in: F. Massa, M. Attali, C. Bridel, D. Cellamare, G. Spampinato (éd.), M. Lenkaitytė Ostermann (collab.), Religions et interactions religieuses dans l'empire romain tardo-antique - Outils et documents, p. 479-489
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterWho are the true Christians (veri christiani)? Pastoral and polemical arguments in the Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum, part A , in 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, à paraître
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterHistoria docet, scriptura probat: the usefulness of (apocryphal) stories and the authority of Scriptures in the Opus imperfectum in Matthaeum , in 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, à paraître
Mante Margarita Lenkaityte Ostermann (2025) | Book chapterF. Massa, M. Attali, C. Bridel, D. Cellamare, G. Spampinato (éd.), M. Lenkaitytė Ostermann (collab.), Religions et interactions religieuses dans l'empire romain tardo-antique - Outils et documents
(Schwabe Verlag, Basel - Berlin, 2025), ISBN: 9783796553110 | Book