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{"title":"The Sermons of William Peraldus: An Appraisal","authors":"L. Carruthers","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1521024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521024","url":null,"abstract":"At first sight this book looks deceptively like an edition and translation of selected Latin sermons; but Siegfried Wenzel is careful to call it an ‘appraisal’, not an ‘edition’. He has not, indeed...","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"90 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42693750","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":"Imagini dei predicatori e della predicazione in Italia alla fine del Medioevo","authors":"Bert Roest","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1521014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521014","url":null,"abstract":"eschatological pilgrimage (p. 153). Moreover, Maldina is very insightful in pointing out that, in evaluating the influence of preaching on a text, one has to consider not only the presence of similar rhetorical strategies but also the convergence in themes, style, and function. This crucial methodological point is rightly emphasized in the three case studies – one from each cantica – investigated in the final chapter, entitled ‘Stili omiletici’. By analysing Inferno 19, on the simoniacs, Maldina shows how Dante’s invective against the popes can be framed as an increpatio, which largely uses exclamationes, in line with the precepts of the Summae confessorum. Moreover, the denunciation of the state of corruption of the clergy serves to emphasize the void deriving from the lack of true pastors, something that justifies the prophetic mission of Dante and the salvific function of his poem (p. 170). The analysis of Purgatorio 10–12 returns to the well-known topic of Dante’s use of exempla ‘to restrain vice and to promote virtue’ (p. 186). Yet, Maldina shows how even the souls that Dante the pilgrim encounters, and indeed Dante himself, have the function of ‘examples of pride redeemed by penance’ (p. 200) and how it is the whole structure of the section – not only the exempla – that connects with the contemporary preaching culture by discussing pride, vainglory and humility (pp. 206–07). Within that section, Oderisi da Gubbio’s discourse is analysed as a micro-sermon, which not only is ‘structured as a sermon but also functions as a sermon’ (p. 217). Finally, Beatrice’s theological lecture in Paradiso 4–5 is framed as an example of doctrinal discourse, close to the ‘didactic prose’ of preachers, particularly in its repeated addresses to the listener and in its transition from theological exposition to moral exhortation (p. 233). While at some points the argumentation is a bit forced, the three examples clearly show the potential of a lectura Dantis that takes into consideration the multifaceted dialogue of Dante with the contemporary preaching culture. In conclusion, the book presents a very rich analysis of the interplay between the Commedia and preaching culture and a very stimulating methodology that, as the author points out, has the possibility to foster an in-depth re-evaluation of the ‘lively interchange between sermons and literary texts’ in the late middle ages (p. 10). Although sometimes the book is quite demanding for the reader, and mainly intended for Dante specialists, it promises to remain a solid reference point in the field. Its reading is undoubtedly highly rewarding for scholars interested in sermons, late medieval religious culture, and, of course, the Commedia.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"87 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60289077","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":"Forgiveness in Late Medieval Sermons: On the Unforgiving Servant","authors":"Marc B. Cels","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1520989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520989","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study contributes to the history of forgiveness. It samples twenty-nine Latin model sermons on the parable of the unforgiving servant (Matthew 18. 23–35) to access instructions and persuasive material used to teach late medieval Christians about interpersonal forgiveness, peacemaking, or reconciliation. Only half the surveyed sermons discuss forgiveness. Of those that do, only two authors explained the qualified obligation to forgive: to obtain divine forgiveness, Christians must be willing to forgive a penitent offender agreeing to make amends. Christians could still seek justice for harm suffered, so long as they did so without resentment or the desire to harm their offender. These authors also acknowledged the practical difficulties of loving enemies. Unconditional forgiveness remained a goal for those seeking a heavenly reward for Christian perfection, especially monks and nuns. More sermons discouraged anger or warned of God’s wrath against the unforgiving without detailing the norms for forgiveness.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"42 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520989","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46932944","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":"Sermons, Preaching, and Liturgy: Practices, Research Methods, and the Case of Giordano da Pisa","authors":"Aléssio Alonso Alves","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1520965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520965","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyses the relationship between sermons, preaching, and liturgy within the Order of the Friars Preachers in late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Italy. It provides an account of a specific method for the study of the medieval ‘modern sermon’ by investigating the reportationes of the sermons given by Giordano da Pisa, a Dominican friar who preached in Florence and Pisa between 1302 and 1309. The investigation using this method shows that the sermons’ subjects and arguments, often considered by historians to be a direct consequence and reflection of Florence’s social and economic reality, had in fact also much to do with the evangelical story or epistolary passage assigned to the specific date of the liturgical calendar: there are thus two principal influences rather than just one. This approach to Giordano’s sermons provides a new perspective on his work as a preacher by being more attentive to the internal construction mechanisms of sermon discourse.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"16 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520965","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48871820","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":"Raban Maur’s Sermon Collections and their Sources: A Study of the Manuscripts from the Monastery in Fulda","authors":"C. Galle","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1520995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520995","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Frankish territory almost doubled in size within three generations. When he was crowned as emperor in AD 800, Charlemagne was Europe’s most powerful ruler. But his position could only be secure, if he could bring about unification within his multiracial state. In the context of the large-scale programme of reforms, Charlemagne as well as his son Louis the Pious and his grandson Lothar I particularly trusted in the power of religion. The rank of the Frankish ruler would be relatively inviolable if the same ideas of good and bad as well as right and wrong defined the people’s working and living together. To achieve that goal, five extensive sermon collections were ordered; two of them were prepared by Raban Maur (c. 780–856), the abbot from Fulda, and later archbishop of Mainz. This article identifies the sources from which Raban made his selections. Subsequently, the texts that he used will be compared to manuscripts connected to the monastery in Fulda. By so doing, it is possible to identify the templates for his sermon collections.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"61 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1520995","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45595409","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":"Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas. A Beginner’s Guide","authors":"Jussi Hanska","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1521020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"89 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47440611","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":"In the Mirror of the Prodigal Son: The Pastoral Uses of a Biblical Narrative (c. 1200–1550)","authors":"V. O'Mara","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1521003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"82 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1521003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45603389","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":"Preaching and History: The Audience of Ranulf Higden’s Ars componendi sermones and Polychronicon","authors":"J. Beal","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2018.1529891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2018.1529891","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In his Ars praedicandi sermones, in traditional yet rich metaphoric language, Ranulf Higden compares Christ to a fountain, a shepherd, a rock, a lily, a rose, a violet, an elephant, a unicorn, and a youthful bridegroom wooing his beloved spouse. Ranulf encourages preachers to use such metaphors while using them himself, rendering his text a performed example of what he encourages. This text is clearly linked to two others: Ranulf’s Latin universal history, the Polychronicon, and John Trevisa’s English translation of it. In the Polychronicon, Ranulf relates the life of Christ, utilizing some of his own rhetorical suggestions from his preaching manual. He also depicts a cross-section of good and bad preachers, including Gregory, Wulfstan, Eustas, St Edmund, and one William Long-Beard and his kinsman, who exemplify (in different ways) the wisdom conveyed in Ranulf’s instruction in the Ars praedicandi. This essay suggests that the literary relationship between the preaching manual and the Polychronicon supplies additional support for the idea that the audience of the latter was not noblemen exclusively, but also clergymen who preached and had responsibility for the care of souls (cura animae).","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"17 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2018.1529891","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49537017","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":"Exegetical Traditions and the Artes Praedicandi in the Collationes de tempore of Frater Petrus (Fourteenth Century)","authors":"D. Nodes","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368574","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Oklahoma City, Museum of the Bible Foundation, MS 465 is a fourteenth-century codex containing the Collationes de tempore of one Frater Petrus. The codex was designed and assembled for easy reference to individual texts and sections. The 145 Latin texts address themes derived from the liturgical readings for the Sundays and moveable feasts of a complete year. They are collations in a strict sense, treating concise themes through a rigid pattern of division and subdivision of topics that are illuminated by equally systematic forms of amplification. Their pattern closely resembles the layout for collations described in the Ars faciendi sermones of Geraldus de Piscario (fl. 1330s).","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"20 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42801366","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":"« L’argument vassalique » au service de la prédication des croisades en Terre sainte (fin XIIe – XIIIe siècles)","authors":"Valentin L. Portnykh","doi":"10.1080/13660691.2017.1368578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368578","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the late twelfth century we can observe important changes in the propaganda of the crusades to the Holy Land. The popes and the preachers started to stress that the Holy Land should be defended and, after the disasters of 1187, should be reconquered because of its importance personally for God. Six arguments of the crusade propaganda which were invented or became widespread at that time can be mentioned here. Among them there is one that we can call the “vassal argument”, by means of which the papacy and the preachers pointed out that God should be defended when his beloved land is attacked by heathens because he is the Lord and the listeners are his vassals. It seems that the idea was created by the crusade preachers at the end of the twelfth century and then came to be used by the papacy as well, from Innocent III onwards. In the thirteenth century it was extensively enriched by such preachers as Jacques de Vitry and Humbert of Romans who made the vassal argument more illustrative.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"59 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13660691.2017.1368578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47285358","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}