Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2022.2139525
Christopher M. Bellitto
ABSTRACT Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) devoted Sermones 55 and 71 to considering the episode in Luke’s Gospel on Mary having chosen the better part instead of her sister Martha (Luke 10. 38–42), though those sermons were preached on 15 August, the feast of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption (1445–46). He also considered that episode within two other sermons: Sermon 5 on the feast of John the Baptist (24 June) and Sermon 8 for Mary’s Assumption, both preached earlier in his career in 1431. This essay also engages Meister Eckhart’s German Predigten 2 and 86. Eckhart (c. 1260–1328) broke with the conventional wisdom that Mary chose the better part by saying Martha enjoyed greater freedom and fulfilment than Mary because the older sister married prayer and service. Thus he offered an untraditional exegesis. While most patristic and medieval exegetes focused on the words good, better, best, or the vita mixta, Eckhart and Cusanus emphasized the action of choosing: the free human will of reviewing options and then choosing wisely from among a variety of paths. For Eckhart, it is Martha who chooses well. For Cusanus, it is her sister Mary. Though Eckhart likely had no Greek and Cusanus only some, their exegesis was more in line with the Koine tēn agathēn merida exelexato (τὴν ἀγαθὴν μϵρίδα ἐξϵλέξατο) than the Vulgate optimam partem eligit.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2022.2127680
Alberto Ferreiro
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2022.2127682
Krzysztof Bracha
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Pub Date : 2022-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2022.2127681
Pablo Acosta-García
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Pub Date : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2022.2127679
G. Mariani
graph in modern Vicent scholarship. In their absence, this reviewer will comment on both issues. At the regional level, there is a resurgence of the Catalán and Valencià languages in the eastern coastal area of Spain, known also as the Països Catalans, that broadly includes the Balearic Islands. Without becoming embroiled in linguistic debates in those regions, I do understand and recognize the importance of Catalán/Valencià for the identity and culture of the people that live there. This language group has an impressive number of speakers that is hardly marginal or a dying language. On another front this book has a critical place in Vicent scholarship. It adds to prior studies whose focus was on precise regions or stages of Vicent’s many preaching missions. One hopes that this will inspire others to carry out similar studies to help us attain a comprehensive view of the life and work of the most ubiquitous preacher of the late Middle Ages. Tomás Martínez Romero is to be lauded for such a splendid volume that is well written, and whose transcription of the Latin text and translation of the sermons is exemplary. We hope that he continues to pursue more Vicentian research and publish his findings for us to grow in our understanding of Vicent Ferrer and his era. Lastly, the publisher deserves kudos for producing an attractive volume that includes twenty-two high quality photographs that grace its pages throughout and we greatly appreciate making the volume affordable for all.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2021.1992933
B. Spieralska
RÉSUMÉ L’article présente une analyse de la traduction vers l’ancien français des sermons latins de saint Bernard. En même temps, cet échantillon vise à proposer une méthode de comparaison entre le texte source et le texte cible permettant de mesurer le degré de fidélité d’une traduction. Les sermons de saint Bernard sur le Cantique des Cantiques se prêtent parfaitement à ce type d’analyse, puisque leur traduction est généralement jugée fidèle.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2021.1992127
W. Scase
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13660691.2021.1992886
J. Bird
ABSTRACT It is rare to be able to trace the sharing of ideas among a network of preachers from surviving narrative evidence, letters, reportationes, and sermon collections. It is rarer yet to be able to link liturgy, sermons, and artwork to reconstruct how their audiences might have received and interpreted these messages. However, this article accomplishes precisely that, by examining how the crusade, particularly the fight against heresy and the capture of Damietta in Egypt, was presented by a network of individuals involved in the promotion of the crusade movement to audiences in the crusader camp and on the home front. These individuals, most of them trained or active in Paris, include: Peter of Roissy, Absalon and John the Teuton, abbots of Saint Victor, Jacques de Vitry and Oliver of Paderborn, Innocent III and Honorius III, Philip the Chancellor, John Halgrin of Abbeville, Odo of Cheriton, Thomas of Chobham, and Odo of Châteauroux. Preachers adapted materials familiar from collections of sermones de tempore and de sanctis, that is, sermons for the dedication of churches (and the anniversary of them) and for the Purification of the Virgin Mary (Candlemas) to the preaching of the Fifth and Albigensian crusades and the crusade of Louis IX, and spiritual and psychological connections to the Holy Land and anti-heretical crusades were then rewoven back into sermons for the devotional year. This article is part of a larger project tracing this process, and a table of sermons consulted is appended.
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