Preaching in East Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
Messages, Styles, and Infrastructures
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(March 2027)
ISBN: 9782503622897
Price: $157.00
This collection of essays analyses a wide range of historical, literary, and theological factors crucial to the development of preaching in East-Central Europe in the late Middle Ages.
In late medieval East Central Europe, preaching served as a medium of cultural transformation, participatied in negotiating multi-ethnic polities, and stirred up social movements amounting to political upheavals. The area comprising Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary has been under-represented in international sermon studies. Making up for this research gap, the fourteen chapters adopt an interdisciplinary approach and analyse East-Central-European preaching through socio-religious and cultural lenses. Key aspects covered are preachers’ educational background and interaction with university and monastic communities; forms and languages in which sermons were transmitted; their textual structure and strategic use of preaching aids; rhetorical fashioning, performative techniques, and charismatic presentation of pastoral and theological ideas to intended audiences. By introducing previously unknown sources and testing approaches specific to the region and period under scrutiny, the volume intends to portray the practice of preaching and its textual output in a new light and offer a fresh look at the cultural and intellectual history of late medieval East Central Europe.
Other Titles in this Series
Preaching and Political Society
From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages / Depuis l'Antiquite tardive jusqu'a la fin du Moyen Age
Volume 10
Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550)
Volume 17
Predigen im Karolingerreich
Die homiletischen Sammlungen von Paulus Diaconus, Lanthpertus von Mondsee, Rabanus Maurus und Haymo von Auxerre
Volume 18
A Mendicant Sermon Collection from Composition to Reception
The 'Novum opus dominicale' of John Waldeby OESA
Volume 7
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Preaching in the Mediterranean and Europe
Identities and Interfaith Encounters
Volume 15
A Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons
Part 1: Introduction, and Cambridge University Libraryto London, British Library (Additional)
Volume 1
Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice
Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
Volume 4
Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England
Essays in Honour of Susan Powell
Volume 11
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