Chaucer and Medieval Preaching
Author: Sabine Volk-Birke
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9783823342496
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Spiritual Calculations
Author: Christine Cooper-Rompato
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0271092033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in Middle English and Latin, this book reveals that popular English-speaking audiences were encouraged to engage in a wide range of numerate operations in their daily religious practices. Medieval sermonists promoted numeracy as a way for audiences to appreciate divine truth. Their sermons educated audiences in a hybrid form of numerate practice—one that relied on individuals’ pragmatic quantitative reasoning, which, when combined with spiritual interpretations of numbers provided by the preacher, created a deep and rich sense in which number was the best way to approach the sacred mysteries of the world as well as to learn how one could best live as a Christian. Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how medieval laypeople used math as a means to connect with God. Spiritual Calculations enhances our understanding of medieval sermons and sheds new light on how receptive audiences were to this sophisticated rhetorical form. It will be welcomed by scholars of Middle English literature, medieval sermon studies, religious experience, and the history of mathematics.
Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9047400224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages presents research by specialists of preaching history and literature. This volume fills some of the lacunae which exists in medieval sermon studies. The topics include: an analysis of how oral and written cultures meet in sermon literature, the function of vernacular sermons, an examination of the usefulness of non-sermon sources such as art in the study of preaching history, sermon genres, the significance of heretical preaching, audience composition and its influence on sermon content, and the use of rhetoric in sermon construction. The study looks at preaching history and literature from a wide geographical and chronological area which includes examples from Anglo-Saxon England to late medieval Italy. While doing so, it outlines the state of sermon studies research and points to new areas of investigation.
Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Late Medieval Literature
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.
Preaching in the Age of Chaucer
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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.
Preaching in Medieval England
Author: G. R. Owst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-05-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108010078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1926, G. R. Owst's Preaching in Medieval England has remained a seminal work on the topic of English sermons of the period 1350-1450. In studying a largely neglected but important aspect of the medieval religious experience, the author adds considerably to our understanding of the pre-Reformation church. The book is in three parts - the preachers, the circumstances of the preaching and reception, and the sermons themselves. In the first section Owst discusses the different classes of preacher, the secular clergy, monks and particularly the wandering friars, famous for their preaching. In the second part he studies the experience of sermons, how, where and when they were delivered, and to whom. The examination of the sermons covers not only their content and language, but also the surviving manuals on preaching and eloquence, and advice to preachers. This wide ranging and scholarly book remains a crucial work on medieval preaching.
Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England
Author: Siegfried Wenzel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9781139442848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUntil the Reformation, almost all sermons were written down in Latin. This is the first scholarly study systematically to describe and analyse the collections of Latin sermons from the golden age of medieval preaching in England, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Basing his studies on the extant manuscripts, Siegfried Wenzel analyses these sermons and the occasions when they were given. Larger issues of preaching in the later Middle Ages such as the pastoral concern about preaching, originality in sermon making, and the attitudes of orthodox preachers to Lollardy, receive detailed attention. The surviving sermons and their collections are listed for the first time in full inventories, which supplement the critical and contextual material Wenzel presents. This book is an important contribution to the study of medieval preaching, and will be essential for scholars of late medieval literature, history and religious thought.
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
Author: Chad Schrock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-10-17
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1350417424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales
Author: David Biggs
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780802008749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
Author: Marilyn Sutton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0802047440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale."
