Circulating the Word of God in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Catholic Preaching and Preachers across Manuscript and Print (c. 1450 to c. 1550)
Edited by Veronica O'Mara Edited by Patricia Stoop
Explores how the sermon crosses so-called binary divides – Latin and the vernaculars, manuscript and print, Catholicism and Protestantism, and public and private – to have a profound impact on European religious culture.
This volume concentrates on how the sermon, a pivotal element in mass communication, aimed to shape the people of Europe. Rather than setting up the usual binary divides, it highlights the linguistic complications, the textual inter-relationships, the confessional cross-currents, and the variations between public and private sermon dissemination operating at different rates and with variable results throughout Europe. Effectively the emphasis here is on how Catholic preachers and Catholic preaching carried on in the period between the handwritten and the printed sermon, a time when not only the mode of production was changing but when the very purpose and meaning of preaching itself would soon alter in a western Christian world that was becoming no longer completely Catholic. By examining case-studies chosen from countries with contrasting manuscript and printing traditions (Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), we aim to examine some of the main historical, literary, and theological factors in the development of the sermon in Latin and the vernaculars, which is itself in the process of changing formats, and sometimes languages, at a time of religious ferment from the advent of print to the death of Martin Luther. These essays, which are effectively in dialogue with each other, are divided into geographical/linguistic sections organized along broadly chronological lines. They circulate from the peripheries of Europe to the centre, moving from areas where evidence is now scarce to situations of thriving production.
- Edited by Veronica O’Mara
- Edited by Patricia Stoop
Other Titles in this Series
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
The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100-1350)
Volume 19
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
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
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