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{"title":"SPECIAL SECTION: Medieval Sermons and Conversion: A Comparative Perspective","authors":"Guest edited by Linda G. Jones, Jussi Hanska","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269530","url":null,"abstract":"\"SPECIAL SECTION: Medieval Sermons and Conversion: A Comparative Perspective.\" Medieval Sermon Studies, 67(1), p. 29","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135341999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Lemma <i>De predicatoribus</i> in Iacobus de Benevento’s <i>Viridarium consolationis</i> : An Unexpected Preaching Tract in a Dominican Florilegium","authors":"Chris L. Nighman","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269052","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces editions of two distinct versions of a short Latin text on preaching that appears in an influential Latin florilegium. While the voice of the compiler is absent or minimal in the other topics covered by this anthology of authoritative quotations, the lemma De predicatoribus contains extensive original lines composed by the florilegist, Iacobus de Benevento (c. 1255/71). Because this florilegium was intended primarily as a resource for preachers to compose sermons, its reception in later texts probably includes some of those original lines authored by Iacobus, unwittingly disseminated in Latin and Romance language sermons and perhaps examples of ars predicandi along with the transmitted quotations, where they would likely be misattributed to major authors such as Gregory the Great.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136381302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Classical Islamic Oration’s Art, Function, and Life-Altering Power of Persuasion: The Ultimate Response by Hammam to Ali’s Sermon on Piety, and by Hurr to Husayn’s Battle Oration in Karbala","authors":"Tahera Qutbuddin","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269065","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses classical Islamic oration’s power of persuasion through two lenses, one wide-angled, one focused. First, it introduces topographies of Arabic oration in its foundational oral period in early Islam, addressing notable aspects of its art, function, and provenance. Then, it pivots to speak of major life changes induced by particular orations, or sermon-induced ‘conversion’. Two early Islamic orations that induced such transformations are transcribed and briefly discussed: (1) the ‘sermon describing the truly pious’ by the successor of the Prophet according to the Shia and the fourth caliph according to the Sunnis, Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 661) in Kufa, Iraq, which is said to have caused his associate Hammam to give up his life spirit, and (2) the battlefield speech addressed to the surrounding Umayyad army by Ali’s son, the Shia Imam Husayn (d. 680), in Karbala, also in Iraq, which is reported to have won over the enemy sub-commander Hurr to Husayn’s side and prompted him to fight for Husayn unto death. Both are striking examples of the life-altering effects of intense and eloquent sermons, manifest here in the ultimate passage — an end to life in this world and entry into the hereafter.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135779470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Figure of the Good Thief and Conversion <i>in extremis</i> in Late Medieval Preaching","authors":"Jussi Hanska","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269063","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe Good Thief mentioned in Luke 23. 29–43 is an extreme example of the benefits of conversion. Yet he was not presented as an archetype of the penitent sinner; rather, that role was reserved for Mary Magdalene. This article studies the very few cases where the Good Thief, or St Dismas as he was also known, was discussed in medieval sermons. It also endeavours to explain the reasons why he was not considered a suitable role model for the penitent sinner. The discussion revolves around the contradictory requirements of the preachers. On one hand, they wanted to avoid driving sinners to despair by encouraging them to convert even if at the very end of life. On the other hand, they needed to emphasize the need to do penance now rather than postpone it for an uncertain future. This latter need was considered more important and that proved to be a crucial argument against using the Good Thief as an exemplary figure in the sermons.KEYWORDS: Christian preachingpenancethe Last Judgementhagiographyconversionsaintsrole model Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 On the various names given to the Good Thief in early apocryphal literature, see B. M. Metzger, New Testament Studies: Philological, Versional, and Patristic, New Testament Tools and Studies, 10 (Leiden: Brill, 1980), pp. 33–38.2 All the English language Bible texts in this article are taken from the King James Bible.3 B.M. Kienzle, ‘Introduction’, in Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons: Proceedings of the International Symposium (Kalamazoo, May 4–7, 1995), organised by the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society (IMSSS) ed. by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and others, Textes et études du Moyen Âge, 5 (Louvain-La-Neuve: FIDEM, 1996), pp. xi–xx (p. xii). See also George Ferzoco, ‘Sermon Literatures Concerning Medieval Saints’, in Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons, ed. by Kienzle and others, pp. 103–25 (pp. 104–05); Anne T. Thayer, ‘Intercessors, Examples and Rewards: The Roles of the Saints in the Penitential Themes of Representative Late Medieval Sermon Collections’, in Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons, ed. by Kienzle and others, pp. 339–54 (p. 347); André Vauchez, ‘Santi mirabili e santi imitabili: le nuove funzioni dell’agiografia negli ultimi secoli del medioevo’, in André Vauchez, Santi, profeti e visionary: Il soprannaturale nel medioevo (Bologna: Mulino, 2000), pp. 57–68.4 David d’Avray, The Preaching of the Friars: Sermons Diffused from Paris before 1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 50–51.5 Kate Ludwig Jansen, The Making of Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 203–04. One could add one important figure to Jansen’s list, namely the prodigal son. Using the story of the prodigal son to explain the different stages of the penitential process or indeed, using him as an exemplary penitent, was a common topic in the sermons for the ","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attitudes towards Exempla in the Wycliffite Latin Sermon Cycles of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 200","authors":"Patrick Outhwaite","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269051","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the contradictory attitudes towards the use of exempla in the two Wycliffite Latin Sermon Cycles of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud misc. 200. While the author of the sermons condemns exempla that are not scripturally derived, he in fact employs a range of examples, several of which are extra-biblical. There is thus a divide between his theory and practice. These sermons complicate our views of Wycliffite preaching theory, demonstrating that the debate for some dissenting preachers was about what was suitable material for exempla, rather than if exempla were in themselves appropriate for sermons.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135882973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden <b>Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden</b> . Vol <scp>i</scp> : A Cultural Investigation. Volume <scp>ii</scp> : Texts and Bibliography. By Jonathan Adams. Religious Minorities in the North: History, Politics, and Culture, 4. Pp. xxxix + 1192. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. ISBN 978-3-11-077574-7.","authors":"Jussi Hanska","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269068","url":null,"abstract":"\"Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden.\" Medieval Sermon Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Presidential Message Autumn 2023","authors":"Anne Thayer","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medieval Sermons and Conversion: A Comparative Perspective. Introduction","authors":"Linda G. Jones, Jussi Hanska","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135993231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Images as Preachers The Role of Marian Imagery in the Religious Indoctrination of the Moriscos of the Albayzin of Granada","authors":"Amanda Valdés Sánchez","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269524","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper explores how Hernando de Talavera (1428–1507), the first bishop of Granada, used the cast sculptures of the Virgin commissioned by Queen Isabella the Castile (1451–1504), for the parishes of the Albayzín, the Morisco quarter, as an essential tool for his missionary activity among Granada’s native Islamic population. It enquires how Talavera granted these Marian cast sculptures a central role in the Albayzin’s liturgical celebration, mediating their interpretation by devotional texts, such as his Marian liturgical works or his translation and commentary of the Vita Christi of the Franciscan Francesc Eiximenis (1327–1409), through which he wished to present these images as representations of an ‘Islamicate’ vision of Mary, as an enlightened prophetess who would function as the ideal preacher to instruct the newly converted Morisco population in the principles of their new faith.KEYWORDS: Marian imagesVirgin Maryconversionpreachingreligious instructionHernando de TalaveraMoriscosGranada Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada, ‘Fray Hernando de Talavera en 1492: de la corte a la misión’, Chronica nova, 34 (2008), 249–75. On the origins of the Hieronymite order in Iberia and its link with Castilian monarchy and nobility, see Ignacio de Madrid, ‘La Orden de San Jerónimo en España: primeros pasos para una historia critica’, Stvdia Monastica, 3 (1961), 409–27; Javier Campos y Fernández de Sevilla, ‘Los Reyes de España y la Orden de San Jerónimo en los siglos xv–xvi’, in: Carlos v en Yuste: muerte y gloria eterna, ed. by C. García-Frías Checa and others (Madrid: Patrimonio Nacional, 2008), pp. 113–43; José Sánchez Herrero, ‘Fundación y desarrollo de la Orden de los Jerónimos: 1360–1561’, Codex aquilarensis: Cuadernos de investigación del Monasterio de Santa María la Real, 10 (1994), 63–95.2 See Isabella Iannuzzi, El poder de la palabra en el siglo xv: fray Hernando de Talavera (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2009), pp. 287–92.3 Las Capitulaciones para la entrega de Granada, ed. by M. Garrido Atienza (Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1982), p. 280.4 On Talavera’s Thomist convictions see Isabella Iannuzzi, Convencer para convertir: la Católica Impugnación de fray Hernando de Talavera (Granada: Editorial Nuevo Inicio, Academia de Historia de la Iglesia en Andalucía, 2019): and Tarsicio Herrero del Collado, Talavera y Cisneros: dos vivencias socio-religiosas en la conversión de los moros de Granada (Madrid: Darek-Nyumba, 2001), p. 12. Talavera’s library included a version of the Rationale of the French canonist William Durando, who had developed the Thomist arguments on the conversion of infidels, a work he had made to print for the clergy of his dioceses. See Quintín Aldea Vaquero, ‘Hernando de Talavera, su testamento y su biblioteca’, in Homenaje a Fray Justo Pérez de Urbel OSB, ed. by C. Serna González, 2 vols (Silos: Abadía de Santo Domingo, 1976)","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"<i>De damnabili ritu Graecorum</i> : Osualdus de Lasko’s Sermons Regarding Orthodox Christians in Late Medieval Hungary","authors":"Paula Cotoi","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269064","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAmong the various inhabitants of the Hungarian Kingdom during the Middle Ages, there were also Orthodox Christians, frequently designated as schismatici. Secular and ecclesiastic authorities often sought their conversion and the mission of the Order of Friars Minor in this area targeted them as well. A change of attitude was imposed, at least for a time, in 1439 by the decree of union agreed at the Council of Florence (1438–39). A half a century later, Osualdus de Lasko (c. 1450–1511), a Hungarian Observant Franciscan, wrote a Lenten homiletic cycle exhorting a profound commitment to the true faith by addressing the question of the Byzantine rite in three of his sermons. This article offers an analysis of the sermon collection entitled Quadragesimale Gemma fidei, focusing mainly on the three sermons de damnabili ritu Graecorum. I will argue that, on a spiritual level, Osualdus intended to strengthen the faith of the Catholic inhabitants of Hungary, to resist and correct deviances, in order to regain God’s mercy. On a temporal level, he promoted the return of the ‘Greeks’ to communion with the Roman Church, through conversion, probably in the interest of a stronger front against the Ottomans.KEYWORDS: Orthodox ChristiansByzantine riteconversionChurch unionCouncil of FlorenceObservant FranciscansHungarian Kingdomanti-Ottoman crusadesLenten sermonsOsualdus de Lasko Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Osualdus de Lasko, Quadragesimale Gemma fidei intitulatum (Hagenau: Henricus Gran, 1507), VD16 O 1421; USTC 693629; RMK III, 141.2 Pelbartus de Themeswar and Osualdus de Lasko are the only medieval Hungarian authors of sermon collections. Their works, compiled at the end of the fifteenth century and published directly in print, seem to have enjoyed great popularity, as proved by their multiple editions. For a repertoire of all medieval editions of their works see Gedeon Borsa, ‘Laskai Osvát és Temesvári Pelbárt műveinek megjelentetői’, Magyar Könyvszemle, 121 (2005), 1–24.3 Osualdus de Lasko, Quadragesimale bige salutis (Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, 1506), VD16 O 1419; USTC 688968; RMK III 137.4 Jussi Hanska, ‘Sermones quadragesimales: Birth and Development of a Genre’, Il Santo: Rivista francescana di storia, dottrina e arte, 52 (2012), 107–27 (pp. 111–19). Silvana Vecchio, ‘Le prediche e l’istruzione religiosa’, in La predicazione dei frati dalla meta` del ’200 alla fine del ’300, Atti dei Convegni della Societa` internazionale di studi francescani e del Centro interuniversitario di studi francescani, Nuova serie, 5 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1995), pp. 301–35 (p. 304).5 An edition of the prologue was provided by Edit Madas, ‘A prédikáció magvetésével a magyar nemzet védelmében (Laskai Osvát Gemma fidei című prédikációskötetének előszava)’, in Religió, retorika, nemzettudat régi irodalmunkban, ed. by István Bitskey and András Görömbei (Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiad","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135804354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}