Preaching and History: The Audience of Ranulf Higden’s Ars componendi sermones and Polychronicon

IF 0.1 0 RELIGION Medieval Sermon Studies Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI:10.1080/13660691.2018.1529891
J. Beal
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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).
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传教与历史:希格登的《圣训集》与《多时论》的受众
摘要Higden在他的诗歌中,用传统而丰富的隐喻语言,将基督比作喷泉、牧羊人、岩石、百合花、玫瑰、紫罗兰、大象、独角兽和年轻的新郎,向他心爱的配偶求爱。拉努尔夫鼓励传教士在自己使用这些隐喻的同时使用这些隐喻,使他的文本成为他所鼓励的一个表演例子。这本书显然与另外两本书联系在一起:拉努夫的拉丁普世史《多时论》和约翰·特雷维萨的英译本。在《多时学》中,拉努夫利用他自己在传教手册中的一些修辞建议,讲述了基督的一生。他还描绘了好的和坏的传教士的横截面,包括格雷戈里、伍尔夫斯坦、尤斯塔斯、圣埃德蒙,以及一位威廉·朗比尔德和他的亲属,他们(以不同的方式)体现了拉努夫在阿尔斯普雷坎迪的教导中传达的智慧。本文认为,《传道手册》和《多时论》之间的文学关系为后者的受众不仅是贵族,而且是传道并负责照顾灵魂的神职人员这一观点提供了额外的支持。
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