Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069114Z.00000000018
Ann Thayer
Abstract Since the publication of The Sermon in 2000, the field of medieval sermon studies has matured into a well-established and growing interdisciplinary area of medieval studies. This article seeks to illustrate how we are doing our work and where our interests are taking us. Growing numbers of print and electronic resources facilitate locating, accessing, and interpreting texts and other historical sources pertinent to preaching. Via the preparation of carefully edited texts, the exploration of specific themes, and the illumination of particular preaching traditions, increased depth of understanding is being achieved. Sermonists use an expanding range of scholarly methodologies and pursue a broadening range of topics, here exemplified by memory and visual arts. Overarching much of our work is the desire to recover medieval experiences of what was fundamentally an oral and performative genre through its largely textual remains.
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Pub Date : 2014-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069114Z.00000000017
Y. Kimura
Abstract Between 1484 and 1507, an anonymous Franciscan Observant friar recorded his own preaching in northern and central Italy in a diary now housed in Foligno City Library as manuscript C. 85. The diary is a unique historical document because it enables us to reconstruct the process of sermon preparation from the friar’s perspective. It also allows us to view his growth as a preacher, from novice to expert. In the early years of the diary, the preacher selected his models by topic from past popular preachers’ sermons. In the middle years, he composed his own sermon collections and began to use them in his preaching. In the final years, he added his new collection of sermons. He also recalled and reused sermons that he had delivered before, increasing the number of cross-references in the diary. Consequently, the diary reminded him vividly of his own experiences: the outlines of past sermons, their results, or other pieces of advice to himself. The preacher thus prepared his sermons while maintaining a dialogue with his past self. Examining the twenty Lenten sermon cycles that comprise a large part of manuscript C. 85 in chronological order, I describe the manuscript as a Bildungsroman ante litteram.
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Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000004
Lorenzo Perrone
Abstract While preparing the fifth volume of a new manuscript catalogue at the Bavarian State Library, Marina Molin Pradel made a startling discovery. In Codex Graecus 314, a Byzantine manuscript from the beginning of the twelfth century, she identified a new collection of 29 sermons on Psalms composed by Origen.
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Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000005
J. Berlioz, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu
Abstract In spite of the fact that from a theological point of view disobedience can sometimes be positive, in the preachers’ sermons to the people (ad populum), disobedience is always a strongly condemned sin. We focus on the sermones vulgares of Jacques de Vitry and on collections of exempla. In order to analyse the forms of reluctance and contestation to the norms proclaimed by the sermons, we evaluate the steps of this resistance ranging from lack of attention and disrespect to criticism and even hostility. Nevertheless, sometimes one must recognize that it is the preacher’s incompetence that leads to the failure of his pastoral care, for example when the preacher prepares unclear sermons (like Jacques de Vitry when he was a beginner) or is unable to tell a story or to make himself heard. It is even worse when the preacher conveys bad opinions. However, the biggest trouble comes when inattentive and disrespectful listeners are able to interrupt the preacher to contest any inconsistencies in the sermon or mistakes in the doctrine. When the sermon has no effect on the audience, it has clearly failed to get its message across. The preacher can also face competition from singers, jugglers and dancers who can distract the audience from the sermon.
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Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000006
Jenny C. Bledsoe
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。
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Pub Date : 2013-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069113Z.0000000007
P. Stoppacci
Abstract The author examines the homiletic production of James of Voragine, especially the Sermones de tempore. The collection was published in the seventeenth century by Rudolf Clut, but until today a study that examines the entire manuscript tradition has been missing and this kind of information is essential for the realization of a new critical edition The article presents the results obtained by a first critical study, conducted on eighteen manuscripts, selected on the basis of dating and origin (Italy, Germany, France and Czech Republic). The results of the recensio codicum reveal the existence of four families: a first Italian family (called α) has a good text; a transalpine family (β) is very corrupt; the family γ comprises a text composed in an unknown scriptorium; finally the family δ has an Eastern origin and is contaminated. This reconstruction presents interesting points of contact with the manuscript tradition of James of Voragine’s Sermones quadragesimales and Sermones de sanctis studied by Giovanni Paolo Maggioni and shows that the transmission of these collections was probably conveyed by the members of the Dominican Order.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069112Z.0000000003
Eleonora Lombardo
Abstract One of the main reasons for Saint Anthony of Padua’s holy fame and reputation is his activity as a preacher. This article begins with a review of the hagiographical legends referring to preaching as a virtue or gift of divine grace, and the importance of Iulianus of Speyer’s works in spreading the concept of preaching as a virtue is hightlighted. Then follows a discussion of a series of texts written between about 1250 and 1350, which seeks to shed light on the identification of recta et fructuosa praedicatio (right and fruitful preaching activity) with Anthony’s wisdom (sapientia) or knowledge (scientia). It can be seen that this message was expounded over a relatively broad timespan from the 1280s onwards. There is also evidence of an interdisciplinary problem, which seems to involve not only the preachers belonging to the Order of Friars Minor, but also those who were called to preach to them from outside the Order itself. Three possible reasons for the appearance of preaching on the list of virtues are suggested. It may have originated from the attempt to assimilate contemporary preachers with the model of holiness provided by Anthony or from an effort to create a counterbalance to the vices of the tongue that were supposed to plague the preachers’ audiences. It may also be an indicator of a more general debate on praedicatio as a gift of divine grace in opposition to those who believed it was merely the result of a studied technique.
帕多瓦圣安东尼的神圣名声和声誉的主要原因之一是他作为一个传教士的活动。本文首先回顾了传世传说中讲道是一种美德或神圣恩典的礼物，并强调了斯派尔的尤利亚努斯的作品在传播讲道是一种美德的概念方面的重要性。然后是对大约1250年至1350年间写的一系列文本的讨论，这些文本试图阐明安东尼的智慧(sapientia)或知识(scientia)与recta et frutuosa praedicatio(正确而富有成果的讲道活动)的识别。可以看出，从1280年代开始，这个信息是在一个相对较宽的时间跨度内阐述的。也有证据表明存在一个跨学科的问题，这似乎不仅涉及属于小修士会的传教士，而且也涉及那些被召从修会本身以外向他们传教的人。在美德清单中出现讲道的三个可能的原因被提出。它可能源于试图用安东尼提供的圣洁模式来同化当代传教士，或者源于努力创造一种平衡，以平衡被认为困扰传教士听众的舌头恶习。这也可能预示着一种更普遍的争论，即预言是一种神圣恩典的礼物，而不是那些认为预言仅仅是一种研究技术的结果的人。
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069112Z.0000000002
George Strack
Abstract Scholars have dealt extensively with the sermon held by Urban II at the Council of Clermont to launch the First Crusade. There is indeed much room for speculation, since the original text has been lost and we have to rely on the reports of it in chronicles. But the scholarly discussion is mostly based on the same sort of sources: the chronicles and their references to letters and charters. Not much attention has been paid so far to the genre of papal synodal sermons in the Middle Ages. In this article, I focus on the tradition of papal oratory, using this background to look at the call for crusade from a new perspective. Firstly, I analyse the versions of the Clermont sermon in the crusading chronicles and compare them with the only address held by Urban II known from a non-narrative source. Secondly, I discuss the sermons of Gregory VII as they are recorded in synodal protocols and in historiography. The results support the view that only the version reported by Fulcher of Chartres corresponds to a sort of oratory common to papal speeches in the eleventh century.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.1179/1366069112Z.0000000001
Marjorie Burghart
Abstract This article discusses the ‘borrowing’ of a Latin sermon by Gilbert of Tournai, OFM (d. 1284) into the anonymously composed Vita of a Spanish saint. The sermon, which is part of the famous ad status series by Gilbert (In synodis, 3 — RLS192), has been incorporated without reference to Gilbert into the Vita Braulionis (BHL 4810) and is presented by the hagiographer as a sermon given by Saint Braulion himself, offering an interesting example of circulation of the materia praedicabilis not only between sermons but also between genres. The discovery of this reuse sheds new light on the Vita Braulionis: it sets a new terminus post quem for the Vita and might be a clue to a mendicant milieu. Regarding the borrowed sermon, the evidence concerning the dating of the Vita seems a bit too conjectural to set the terminus ante quem of the ad status collection definitely, even if a pre-1272 hypothesis ties in well with the main literary activity of Gilbert. An edition of the sermon In synodis, 3 — RLS 192 is provided from eleven manuscripts of the ad status collection.
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