IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1617: Crusading Sermons: Formation, Development, and Dissemination
Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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| Organiser: | Georg Strack, Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Renaissancestudien, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Moderator/Chair: | Maximilian Schuh, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster |
| Paper 1617-a | The Speech of Urban II in Clermont and the Tradition of Papal Synodal Oratory (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Literacy and Orality, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1617-b | Cardinal Legate Eudes de Châteauroux's Preaching of the Crusades against the Muslims of the Near East (1245-1254) and of Lucera (1266-68) (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1617-c | An bellum hoc pro fide Christiana suscipere debeatis …: Orations against the Turks and their Dissemination in Early Printing (Language: English) Index terms: Printing History, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Crusading sermons and speeches were collected in the Middle Ages as models of rhetorical persuasion and modern scholars have analysed the ideas of religious warfare or concepts of cultural identity in these texts. The focus of this session, however, will be on some largely neglected aspects, such as the formation of the genre in the context of papal synodal oratory in the High Middle Ages and the influence of the French cardinal Eudes de Châteauroux on the practice of preaching the crusades in the 13th century. Finally, we will study the impact of printing on the dissemination of crusading speeches in the Renaissance. |