Siegfried Wenzel's groundbreaking study seeks to describe and analyze the linguistically mixed, or macaronic, sermons in late fourteenth-century England. Not only are these works of considerable ...religious interest, they provide extensive information on their literary, linguistic, and cultural milieux. Macaronic Sermons begins by offering a typology of such works: those in which English words offer glosses, or offer structural functions, or offer neither of the two but yet are syntactically integrated. This last group is then examined in detail: reasons are given for this usage and for its origins, based on the realities of fourteenth-century England. Siefriend Wenzel draws valuable conclusions about the linguistic status quo of the era, together with the extent of education, the audiences' expectations, and the ways in which the authors' minds worked. Obviously of interest to scholars and students of early English literature, Macaronic Sermons also contains much valuable information for specialists in language development or oral theory, and for those interested in multicultural societies.
Medieval 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previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine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.
A series of addresses, based upon readings in Lectionary, given to students at Exeter College, Oxford. Built around the framework of the Church's year, it presents the Christian faith to those who ...are searching as well as to committed believers.
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Preaching the Convertedprovides a sustained literary analysis of The Vercelli Book?s prose homilies and demonstrates that they employ rhetorical techniques commonly associated with vernacular verse.
This book examines the audiences and languages of Dominican sermons in late medieval Italy. It is a thorough analysis of how Latinate theological culture interacted with popular religious devotion. ...In particular it assesses the role of vernacular theology. Eliana Corbari defines vernacular theology as a form of theology that is based neither on a Latin scholastic model nor a monastic one. It is a 'third dimension' of theology which was accessible to the laity, and in particular women, through their attendance at sermons and the reading of vernacular devotional works (in this case, medieval Italian treatises and sermons). Through painstaking manuscript work, Corbari makes an excellent contribution to sermon studies, gender studies, medieval theology, and codicology. She demonstrates that Dominican friars preached to an active contingent of laywomen, usually members of confraternities, who not only attended these sermons but re-read them and also disseminated them through book production to the wider Florentine community. Eliana Corbari,University of Bristol, Great Britain.
Ao observar a ação – relação de produção e/ou de transformação entre o sujeito e o objeto –, a Semiótica discursiva reúne condições para analisar a manipulação – espaço da relação intersubjetiva, no ...qual um sujeito age sobre outro para levá-lo a querer e/ou dever fazer alguma coisa. Considerando esse olhar propiciado pela teoria, busca-se, neste artigo, verificar as estratégias de manipulação adotadas pelo narrador face ao narratário, sujeitos inscritos no texto, articulando-as à mobilização de investimentos temáticos e figurativos no nível discursivo, a partir da leitura do “Sermão de Santo Antônio aos Peixes”, do Padre Antônio Vieira. Nessa conjuntura, procura-se apresentar um olhar semiótico acerca das ideias desse missionário, as quais compõem uma mensagem sempre atual sobre questões transversais que se configuram como pertinentes para qualquer sociedade.
Introducing modern readers to the riches of preaching in later medieval England, distinguished scholar Siegfried Wenzel offers translations of twenty-five Latin sermons written between 1350 and 1450. ...T
Italian sermons tell a story of the Reformation that credits preachers with using the pulpit, pen, and printing press to keep Italy Catholic when the region's violent religious wars made the future ...uncertain, and with fashioning a post-Reformation Catholicism that would survive the competition and religious choice of their own time and ours.
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