{"title":"Practical Hagiography: James of Voragine’s Sermones and Vita on St Margaret of Antioch","authors":"Jenny C. Bledsoe","doi":"10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In addition to his exceedingly popular Legenda Aurea, James of Voragine wrote in another hagiographical genre: sermons on the saints. The Sermones de sanctis likewise became immediately popular, as his Dominican brothers used James’s model sermons to learn to preach about the saints in a format that would provide the laity with intelligible and practical theological instruction. James’s corpus gives us a rather unusual opportunity to compare the ways in which a single author manipulates multiple hagiographical genres, and his writings on St Margaret of Antioch allow us to explore how a medieval preacher used a historically disputed saint — a dragon-fighter — to provide a practical model of sanctity to his lay audience. I compare the representations of Margaret in James’s sermones and vita, arguing that James adapted certain features of Margaret’s saintly example in the vita to instruct the audience of his sermons about proper Christian virtues and actions. As a point of comparison, I explore a sermon by Évrard of Val des Écoliers in which the Augustinian teaches his audience a practical skill — how to pray — through Margaret’s example.","PeriodicalId":38182,"journal":{"name":"Medieval Sermon Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000006","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medieval Sermon Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract In addition to his exceedingly popular Legenda Aurea, James of Voragine wrote in another hagiographical genre: sermons on the saints. The Sermones de sanctis likewise became immediately popular, as his Dominican brothers used James’s model sermons to learn to preach about the saints in a format that would provide the laity with intelligible and practical theological instruction. James’s corpus gives us a rather unusual opportunity to compare the ways in which a single author manipulates multiple hagiographical genres, and his writings on St Margaret of Antioch allow us to explore how a medieval preacher used a historically disputed saint — a dragon-fighter — to provide a practical model of sanctity to his lay audience. I compare the representations of Margaret in James’s sermones and vita, arguing that James adapted certain features of Margaret’s saintly example in the vita to instruct the audience of his sermons about proper Christian virtues and actions. As a point of comparison, I explore a sermon by Évrard of Val des Écoliers in which the Augustinian teaches his audience a practical skill — how to pray — through Margaret’s example.
除了广受欢迎的《传说》之外,詹姆斯还写了另一种传道性的作品:圣徒布道。同样,《圣言》也立即流行起来,因为他的多明尼加兄弟们使用了詹姆斯的模范布道,以一种可以为俗人提供可理解和实用的神学指导的形式来学习传讲圣徒。詹姆斯的语料为我们提供了一个相当不寻常的机会,来比较一个作者如何操纵多种圣徒传记体裁,他关于安提阿的圣玛格丽特的作品让我们探索了一个中世纪的传教士如何使用一个历史上有争议的圣人——一个龙斗士——来为他的外行读者提供一个实用的圣洁模型。我比较了詹姆斯布道和生活中对玛格丽特的描述,认为詹姆斯在生活中采用了玛格丽特圣洁榜样的某些特征来指导他布道的听众关于正确的基督教美德和行为。作为比较,我探索了Évrard的Val des Écoliers的一篇布道,其中奥古斯丁通过玛格丽特的榜样教导他的听众一项实用技能——如何祈祷。