{"title":"Parole e scritture per costruire un santo: Sant’Antonio dei frati minori nei sermoni medievali (1232–1350) <b>Parole e scritture per costruire un santo: Sant’Antonio dei frati minori nei sermoni medievali (1232–1350)</b> . By Eleonora Lombardo. Pp. xiv + 500.Padua: Centro Studi Antoniani, 2022. ISBN 978-88-95908-24-3.","authors":"Edward Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853141","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 Medieval Devil: A Reader <b>The Medieval Devil: A Reader</b> . Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures. Pp. xviii, + 397.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1-4426-3417-6(hardcover). Also 978-1-4426-3416-9 (paperback); 978-1-4426-3418-3 (EPUB); 978-1-4426-3419-0 (PDF).","authors":"Eileen Gardiner","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135854054","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":"Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425–1495): Life, Works, and Fame of a Renaissance Preacher <b>Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425–1495): Life, Works, and Fame of a Renaissance Preacher</b> . By Giacomo Mariani. The Medieval Franciscans, 19. Pp. xv + 538.Leiden: Brill, 2022. ISBN 978-90-04-49930-0 (hardback); ISBN 978-90-04-50733-3(e-book).","authors":"Bert Roest","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269071","url":null,"abstract":"\"Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (1425–1495): Life, Works, and Fame of a Renaissance Preacher.\" Medieval Sermon Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853311","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":"Beyond the Sermo Modernus: Sermon Form in Early Fifteenth-Century England <b>Beyond the Sermo Modernus: Sermon Form in Early Fifteenth-Century England</b> . By Siegfried Wenzel. Studies and Texts, 222. Pp. vi + 282.Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-88844-222-2.","authors":"Kimberly Rivers","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135917827","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":"Iacopo da Varazze, Sermones de sanctis. Volumen diffusum. De sancto Georgio, de Inventione sancte Crucis, de sancta Maria Magdalena, de sancta Margarita <b>Iacopo da Varazze, Sermones de sanctis. Volumen diffusum. De sancto Georgio, de Inventione sancte Crucis, de sancta Maria Magdalena, de sancta Margarita</b> . Edited by Federica Amore, Maria Ferraiuolo, Ileana Lombardi, and Giovanni Paolo Maggioni. Pp. lxix+257. Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2021. ISBN 978-88-9290-057-8.","authors":"Eleonora Lombardo","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853129","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":"Spiritual Calculations: Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval Sermons <b>Spiritual Calculations: Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval Sermons</b> . By Christine F. Cooper-Rompato. Pp. xi + 192. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-271-09162-4.","authors":"Sandy Gale","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2023.2269066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2023.2269066","url":null,"abstract":"\"Spiritual Calculations: Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval Sermons.\" Medieval Sermon Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853460","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":"Latin Sermons for the Feast of Corpus Christi in Medieval England","authors":"Siegfried Wenzel","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2022.2139526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2022.2139526","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In her study of Corpus Christi (1991), Miri Rubin discussed four genuine sermons for the feast from medieval England (three in English, one in Latin). The present essay extends her findings to all Latin sermons for the feast that I have found in manuscripts: some twenty-five items clearly marked to be preached on Corpus Christi, the Thursday after the First Sunday of Trinity, plus one sermon that may be assumed to have been written for that occasion. Major topics dealt with are listed and discussed in some detail.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"44 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45776419","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":"Everyday Decretists: Date Eleemosynam and Innocent III’s Exhortation to Alms","authors":"Thomas J. Maurer","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2022.2145255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2022.2145255","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues that the sermon of Pope Innocent III (r. 1198–1216), Date Eleemosynam, contains twelfth-century canonical theory meant for instruction of and utilisation by the laity. Historians have not understood the impact of this sermon, due to a miscategorisation in the Patrologia Latina, which lists the sermon as the Libellus de Eleemosyna. An important text for understanding medieval charity, the error in genre has obfuscated the intended contemporary audience and impact of the sermon. This article shall examine this eleemosynary text through the lens of its original composition, as a sermon. This correct understanding shows Innocent translating his elite education into a lay context, as he utilises the canonical debate regarding the proper means of almsgiving to inform his audience how alms ought to be given. This article shall establish Date Eleemosynam’s sermonic genre and present a fascinating example of Innocent’s elite education being utilised in a lay context.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"28 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43986870","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":"Strategies of Interpretation in French and Italian exempla","authors":"Mario Sassi","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2022.2139486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2022.2139486","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Exempla were short narratives included in late medieval sermons to convey religious teachings and entertain the audience. These stories, which often recounted miracles and incredible events, first circulated in Latin collections and were later incorporated into other works and miscellanies. When translated from Latin into vernacular, these stories were often reshaped in original ways. This paper considers two popular exempla from the Vitae Patrum and analyses the interpretations thereof in miniatures, particularly manuscript Hamilton 390, sermons, anonymous miscellanies, Cavalca’s translation of the Vitae, and the French collection Vie des Pères. It argues that the adaptability of exempla enabled interpreters to read and translate these stories and thus offer different interpretations and authorial sensibilities, to appeal to their target audiences.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"3 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42180028","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}