Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon

by Donavin, Georgiana; Nederman, Cary J.; Utz, Richard

• ISBN13: 9782503513393
• ISBN10: 2503513395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-08
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

"Speculum Sermonis," an interdisciplinary anthology of essays about medieval sermons in the Christian world--East as well as West--aims to reveal precisely how sermons inform different disciplines and how the methodologies of different disciplines inform sermons. The volume includes an introduction defending the interdisciplinary study of sermons, essays by medievalists from a variety of fields, response papers to the essays in each of the sections, and an authoritative bibliography covering both primary and secondary resources for medieval sermons. The title image of the mirror and reference to medieval specula convey the idea of multiple reflections: the sermons' on culture and the disciplines' on sermons.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xiii
GEORGIANA DONAVIN
I. How Sermons Reflect Their World(s)
The Word Made Flesh: Preaching and Community from the Apostolic to the Late Middle Ages	3	(26)
LEO CARRUTHERS
'Going to the Gate of Life': The Carthage Amphitheatre and Augustine's Sermons on Saints Perpetua and Felicitas	29	(26)
JOHN KITCHEN
Susanna Victrix, Christus Victor: Lenten Sermons, Typology, and the Lectionary	55	(26)
CATHERINE BROWN TKACZ
Time and Again: A Response to Leo Carruthers, John Kitchen, and Catherine Brown Tkacz	81	(8)
JEFFREY BURTON RUSSELL
II. How Sermons Reflect Upon Their World(s)
'Let Us Love One Another': Liturgy, Morality, and Political Theory in Chrysostom's Sermons on Rom. 12-13 and II Thess. 2	89	(24)
STEPHEN MORRIS
Preaching the Dead from Their Graves: Bernard of Clairvaux's Lament on His Brother Gerard	113	(26)
WIM VERBAAL
'Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child': Proverbial Speech Acts, Boy Bishop Sermons, and Pedagogical Violence	139	(16)
EVE SALISBURY
Bernardino of Siena Visualizes the Name of God	155	(24)
EMILY MICHELSON
Sermons Reflecting Upon Their World(s): A Response to Stephen Morris, Wim Verbaal, Eve Salisbury, and Emily Michelson	179	(16)
PETER HOWARD
III. How Sermons are Reflected in Other Literatures
Illumination of the Intellect: Franciscan Sermons and Piers Plowma	195	(24)
DAVID STRONG
Unauthorized Preaching: The Sermon in Jean Bodel's Jett de Saint Nicolas	219	(14)
LYNN T. RAMEY
The Conversion of Mary Magdalene and the Musical Legacy of Franciscan Piety in the Early German Passion Plays	233	(24)
PETER V. LOEWEN
Interdisciplinary Craft: A Response to Peter Loewen, Lynn T. Ramey, and David Strong	257	(14)
ELIZABETH SCHIRMER
IV. Reflections Upon Sermons
Speech-Reporting Strategies in 'Dramatic Preaching': With Examples from East Slavic Festal Sermons	271	(22)
INGUNN LUNDE
Relic or Strategy: The Middle Dutch Sermon as a Literary Phenomenon	293	(22)
THOM MERTENS
Fashioning Devotion: The Art of Good Friday Preaching in Chaucerian England	315	(20)
HOLLY JOHNSON
A Statistical Treatment of Sin and Holiness in Sermons from the Early Middle Ages (500-1100)	335	(28)
MARTINE DE REU
Multilingualism in Medieval Sermons: A Response to Thom Mertens, Martine De Reu, Ingunn Lunde, and Holly Johnson	363	(8)
SIMON FORDE
Bibliography	371	(34)
GEORGIANA DONAVIN
Contributors	405	(6)
Index of Names	411

Excerpts

"Speculum Sermonis is an anthology of essays about medieval sermons in the Christian East and West. It aims to reveal precisely how sermons inform different disciplines (for instance, social and Church history, literature, musicology) and how the methodologies of different disciplines inform sermons. Sermons can, for instance, provide evidence for a reconstruction of medieval liturgy; reciprocally, the field of liturgiology investigates sermons as one aspect of Church performance. The volume's title image of the mirror and the reference to medieval specula convey the idea of multiple reflections: the sermons' on culture and the disciplines' on sermons. Because the contributors to Speculum Sermonis come from a variety of fields, the essays here collectively provide a rich historical and contemporary academic context for reading the medieval sermon."--BOOK JACKET.