Preacher Sermon And Audience In The Middle Ages

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047400226

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Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.

Author : Thomas Leslie Amos,Eugene Green,Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021950962

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De Ore Domini by Thomas Leslie Amos,Eugene Green,Beverly Mayne Kienzle Pdf

De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages is a volume of thirteen essays, constituting a series of chapters in the history of preaching. The essays present a diversity of historical periods, audiences, and methodologies. Ranging in time from the 700s to 1511, they cover a space that stretches from Johannes Herolt's Germany to Ramon Llull's Mallorca, from Bede's England to the Italy of Bernadino of Siena and Egidio da Viterbo. As the title suggests, the mouth of the Lord spoke with many voices, and the contributors to this volume provide important examinations of individual preachers, genres, and sources of sermons. Commentary and analyses are made of materials from the symbolic and allegorical to the practical and dogmatic, and even the educational. Further, the essays discuss how sermons were used at different periods and how they addressed different audiences. The studies illustrate new methods and concerns in the field of sermon studies, and, collectively, they point to a central problem in the historiography of sermons and preaching. The collection offers insights into modern approaches to studying medieval sermons and will be of interest to scholars of medieval religion, preaching, and culture.

Author : Thom Mertens,Maria C. Sherwood-Smith,Michael Mecklenburg,Hans-Jochen Schiewer
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Escatologia
ISBN : 250351524X

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The Last Judgement in Medieval Preaching by Thom Mertens,Maria C. Sherwood-Smith,Michael Mecklenburg,Hans-Jochen Schiewer Pdf

In the Middle Ages, the sermon was a powerful and versatile means of bringing the Word of God to the people. In fact, in the oral culture of that period, it was the primary medium for Christian clergy to convey religious education to lay audiences. Moreover, the sermon played an important role in the liturgy and life of the religious orders. With the growth of lay literacy the sermon collection also developed into a vernacular literary genre of its own. Two aspects of Christian piety, hopeful expectation on the one hand, and fearful anticipation on the other, were decisive factors for the shaping of religious life and practical pastoral care. Both these aspects were often brought to the fore in sermons on the Last Judgement as part of a recurrent argument against a life too much oriented towards the world. The preachers dwell on both the Particular Judgement occurring immediately after death and the General Judgement over the whole of creation at the end of times. This volume brings together scholars from several European countries with the purpose to present their research on the theme of the Last Judgement in medieval sermons. The scope of scholars is broadened to incorporate not only specialists in sermon studies, but also historians, theologians, and literary historians to encourage research along new, multi-perspectival lines.

Author : Roger Andersson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079310853

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Constructing the Medieval Sermon by Roger Andersson Pdf

In considering the construction of medieval sermons, the term 'construction' has many meanings. Those studied here range from questions about sermon composition with the help of artes praedicandi or model collections to a more abstract investigation of the mental construction of the concepts of sermon and preacher. Sermons from a range of European countries, written both in Latin and vernaculars, are subjected to a broad variety of analyses. The approach demonstrates the vitality of this sub-discipline. Most of the essays are more occupied with literary and philological problems than with the religious content of the sermons. While many focus on vernacular sermons, the Latin cultural and literary background is always considered and shows how vernacular preaching was in part based on a more learned Latin culture. The collection testifies both to the increasing esteem of the study of vernacular sermons, and to a revival in the study of all those things contained in a preacher's 'workshop', ranging from rhetorical invention, medieval library holdings and study-aids, through to factors that are crucial for the successful delivery of the sermon, such as the choice of language, mnemonic devices and addressing the audience. The interdisciplinary approach remains ever-present, not only in the diversity of the academic disciplines represented, but also within individual essays. The volume is based on a conference held in Stockholm, 7-9 October 2004.

Author : Charles W. Connell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110432176

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Popular Opinion in the Middle Ages by Charles W. Connell Pdf

This book provides a needed overview of the scholarship on medieval public culture and popular movements such as the Peace of God, heresy, and the crusades and illustrates how a changing sense of the populus, the importance of publics and public opinion and public spheres was influential in the evolution of medieval cultures. Public opinion did play an important role, even in the Middle Ages; it did not wait until the era of modern history to do so. Using modern research on such aspects of culture as textual communities, large and small publics, cults, crowds, rumor, malediction, gossip, dispute resolution and the European popular revolution, the author focuses on the Peace of God movement, the era of Church reform in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the rise and combat of heresy, the crusades, and the works of fourteenth-century political thinkers such as Marsiglio of Padua regarding the role of the populus as the basis for the analysis. The pattern of changes reflected in this study argues that just as in the modern world the simplistic idea of “the public‎” was a phantom. Instead there were publics large and small that were influential in shaping the cultures of the era under review.

Author : Katherine Low
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567520456

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The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife by Katherine Low Pdf

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan. The volume explores portrayals of Job and his wife in publications on marriage and gender roles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, moving onto an investigation of William Blake's sharp artistic divergence from the common tradition in his representation of Job's wife as a shrew. In the exploration of societal portrayals of Job and his Wife throughout history, this book discovers how arguments about marriage intertwine with not only gender roles, but also, with political, social, and historical movements.

Author : Robert H. Ellison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004185722

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A New History of the Sermon by Robert H. Ellison Pdf

This collection offers fresh perspectives on British and American preaching in the nineteenth century. Drawing on many religious traditions and addressing a host of cultural and political topics, it will appeal to scholars specializing in any number of academic fields.

Author : John Allan Mitchell
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethics, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 1843840197

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Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower by John Allan Mitchell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004305304

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The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

The articles in this collection offer an in-depth analysis of the Dialogus Miraculorum by the Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (thirteenth century) and provide an insight into the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion and Caesarius’s narrative theology.

Author : Claire M. Waters
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204032

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Angels and Earthly Creatures by Claire M. Waters Pdf

Texts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the preacher's susceptibility to the fleshly failings of lust, vainglory, deception, and greed. Preaching's problematic juxtaposition of the earthly and the spiritual made images of women preachers, real and fictional, key to understanding and exploiting the power, as well as the dangers, of the feminized flesh. Addressing the underexamined bodies of the clergy in light of both medieval and modern discussions of female authority and the body of Christ in medieval culture, Angels and Earthly Creatures reinserts women into the history of preaching and brings together discourses that would have been intertwined in the Middle Ages but are often treated separately by scholars. The examination of handbooks for preachers as literary texts also demonstrates their extensive interaction with secular literary traditions, explored here with particular reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Through a close and insightful reading of a wide variety of texts and figures, including Hildegard of Bingen, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena, Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary—standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide.

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192845122

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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching.

Author : Brandon Hawk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487516987

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Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England by Brandon Hawk Pdf

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England is the first in-depth study of Christian apocrypha focusing specifically on the use of extra-biblical narratives in Old English sermons. The work contributes to our understanding of both the prevalence and importance of apocrypha in vernacular preaching, by assessing various preaching texts from Continental and Anglo-Saxon Latin homiliaries, as well as vernacular collections like the Vercelli Book, the Blickling Book, Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, and other manuscripts from the tenth through twelfth centuries. Vernacular sermons were part of a media ecology that included Old English poetry, legal documents, liturgical materials, and visual arts. Situating Old English preaching within this network establishes the range of contexts, purposes, and uses of apocrypha for diverse groups in Anglo-Saxon society: cloistered religious, secular clergy, and laity, including both men and women. Apocryphal narratives did not merely survive on the margins of culture, but thrived at the heart of mainstream Anglo-Saxon Christianity.

Author : Carolyn A. Muessig
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247444

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Medieval Monastic Preaching by Carolyn A. Muessig Pdf

This book demonstrates that monastic preaching was a diverse activity which included preaching by monks, nuns and heretics. The study offers a preliminary step in understanding how preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004355583

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Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art by Gabriella Mazzon Pdf

Pathos in Late-Medieval Religious Drama and Art explores the connections between the language of European late-medieval drama and co-temporary themes and motifs in visual communication, focussing on the triggering of emotional reactions in the viewers as a persuasive device.

Author : Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Christian literature, English (Middle)
ISBN : 3823342495

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Chaucer and Medieval Preaching by Sabine Volk-Birke Pdf