The second in a series of interdisciplinary seminars organised by the Institutum Carmelitanum, took place at CISA Rome, from the 17th to the 19th of January, 2013. The seminar consisted of a study of texts by Carmelite authors in order to establish if and in what way they expressed the contemplative dimension of our charism and spirituality. Some fifteen scholars, religious and lay, from different backgrounds, presented papers on the texts and the thoughts of Carmelite authors of the 14th and 15th centuries. A number of auditores also took part. The opening lecture was given by Professor Gert Melville, of the University of Dresden, founder and director of the institute of study on medieval consecrated life, who is working with the Institutum to produce the “Bibliotheca Carmelitana Nova”. Very soon the papers of the first seminar will be published and shortly after that the papers of the seminar that has just concluded.