Chaucer and Medieval Preaching
Author: Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783823342496
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Author: Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783823342496
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Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2008-07
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0813215293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are translations of 25 Latin sermons written between 1350 and 1450, demonstrating how preachers constructed them and shaped them to their own purposes. This book contains a general introduction and short historical notes on the individual selections.
Author: Claire M. Waters
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-06-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0812204034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTexts by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his "angelic" role. Far from simply denigrating embodiment or excluding it from consideration, these works recognize its centrality to the office of preacher and the ways in which preachers, like Christ, needed humanness to make their performance of doctrine effective for their audiences. At the same time, the texts warned of the preacher's susceptibility to the fleshly failings of lust, vainglory, deception, and greed. Preaching's problematic juxtaposition of the earthly and the spiritual made images of women preachers, real and fictional, key to understanding and exploiting the power, as well as the dangers, of the feminized flesh. Addressing the underexamined bodies of the clergy in light of both medieval and modern discussions of female authority and the body of Christ in medieval culture, Angels and Earthly Creatures reinserts women into the history of preaching and brings together discourses that would have been intertwined in the Middle Ages but are often treated separately by scholars. The examination of handbooks for preachers as literary texts also demonstrates their extensive interaction with secular literary traditions, explored here with particular reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Through a close and insightful reading of a wide variety of texts and figures, including Hildegard of Bingen, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena, Waters offers an original examination of the preacher's unique role as an intermediary—standing between heaven and earth, between God and people, participating in and responsible to both sides of that divide.
Author: Alan J. Fletcher
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the early 14th and early 15th centur ies, England experienced momentous social and political turb ulence. This volume studies the impact of the Church during the period in question. '
Author: Laurel Amtower
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2009-04-30
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1551117967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Chaucer and his Contemporaries provides a detailed introduction to medieval culture, broadly considered. This sourcebook gives readers fuller access to Middle English literary works by situating these works within their sometimes alien historical and cultural contexts. Chapters open with an overview that suggests how contemporary debates and attitudes influence meaning in works like the Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, and Mankind. The main body of the text is thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations, such as excerpts from the chronicles, law treatises, sermons, court records, medical and alchemical tracts, and performance records, as well as maps and manuscript illustrations.
Author: Siegfried Wenzel
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third Morton W. Bloomfield Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 1993.
Author: Helen Phillips
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1843842297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChaucer's writings (the 'Canterbury Tales', lyrics and dream poems and Troilus) are here freshly examined in relation to the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era.
Author: Will Robins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1442640812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world.
Author: Thomas Leslie Amos
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDe Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages is a volume of thirteen essays, constituting a series of chapters in the history of preaching. The essays present a diversity of historical periods, audiences, and methodologies. Ranging in time from the 700s to 1511, they cover a space that stretches from Johannes Herolt's Germany to Ramon Llull's Mallorca, from Bede's England to the Italy of Bernadino of Siena and Egidio da Viterbo. As the title suggests, the mouth of the Lord spoke with many voices, and the contributors to this volume provide important examinations of individual preachers, genres, and sources of sermons. Commentary and analyses are made of materials from the symbolic and allegorical to the practical and dogmatic, and even the educational. Further, the essays discuss how sermons were used at different periods and how they addressed different audiences. The studies illustrate new methods and concerns in the field of sermon studies, and, collectively, they point to a central problem in the historiography of sermons and preaching. The collection offers insights into modern approaches to studying medieval sermons and will be of interest to scholars of medieval religion, preaching, and culture.
Author: Heiner Gillmeister
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe question of whether the medieval «secular» poem was capable of receiving a figurative or allegorical interpretation, quite distinct from its surface meaning, is reconsidered by looking afresh at Chaucer's most intriguing short poem, the ballad Truth, which is conceived of as a poème à clef. Identification of the ultimate source of its imagery, 1 Samuel 6, leads to a discussion of how allegorical interpretations assigned to the biblical narrative by the medieval exegete could have affected the poet's life and work. In this issue, an important rôle is played by medieval linguistic theory. As a consequence, a great deal of attention is given to one linguistic discipline, medieval name lore, and an attempt is made to show how, by an allegorical interpretation of his own name, Chaucer was led to «revise» both his life and his literary work.