Sermo doctorum
Compilers, Preachers, and their Audiences in the Early Medieval West
Edited by Maximilian Diesenberger Edited by Yitzhak Hen Edited by Marianne Pollheimer
Hardback (Published)
(January 2014)
ISBN: 9782503535159
6.1 x 9.17 inches
Price: $163.00
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This collection of essays focuses on a wide range of topics related to the composition, transmission, and dissemination of sermons and homiliaries in the early medieval West.
Despite their large number and their potential significance for our understanding of the genesis of Christian thought and practice, early medieval sermons have been conspicuously neglected by modern scholarship. Taking their lead from recent studies that transformed our understanding of the post-Roman world, the various contributors to this collection of essays explore a wide range of topics related to the composition, transmission, and dissemination of sermons and homiliaries in the early medieval West. Some papers focus on individual sermons in an attempt to identify their authors and aims; others examine the manuscript evidence for the compilation and transmission of composite homiliaries; and a few question our concept of early medieval sermons as a peculiar genre that merits special attention. By bringing early medieval sermons into the centre of discussion this volume, which is the first book dedicated to early medieval sermons and homiliaries, makes an important contribution to our understanding of the religious culture of the early medieval West. This multi-lingual collection of papers examines a plethora of texts which, in the past, were pushed to the margins of historical research, and offers a fresh look at these works in their own cultural, religious, and social context.
- Edited by Maximilian Diesenberger
- Edited by Yitzhak Hen
- Edited by Marianne Pollheimer
Other Titles in this Series
The Destruction of Jerusalem and Anti-Jewish Commonplaces in Model Sermon Collections (1100-1350)
Volume 19
Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England
Essays in Honour of Susan Powell
Volume 11
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
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
Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice
Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
Volume 4
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