| Abstract | Paper -a:
The Order of Preachers - Ordo Praedicatorum - is famed for its intellectual tradition and rhetorical movement, having produced many leading theologians and philosophical works. Dominicans with their numerous doctrinal treatises allowed encyclopedical knowledge, which had been organized in miscellaneous works, written in humanistic style (with scrupulous philological features) and reflecting spiritual concerns. Therefore, these preachers hold an incomparable role in education and pedagogy, against spiritual poverty promoting standards of conduct and a model of virtuous life. The preacher Frei Luís de Granada, exemplum of virtue at the service of pedagogy, explains the concept of true wealth in his Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae, a moral treatise with classical patterns.
Paper -b:
A German mystical treatise, probaby produced in Strasbourg in the early 15th century, tells the story of how Christ, as a merchant carrying seven boxes of spiritual commodities, convinces another merchant, who used to be a monk, to go back to the monastery. The text is closely linked to the Vitaspatrum through its origin (although this aspect has not yet been investigated in more detail) as well as through its transmission (the treatise is often transmitted in manuscripts together with a German translation of the Vitaspatrum). The paper investigates the relationships of this treatise to the Vitaspatrum and to other texts on similar topics from 15th-Century Alsace.
Paper -c:
The theatre of profound socio-economic changes, the later Middle Ages was consequently a time when new views about work, social hierarchy, and the relation between individual and society were articulated. The 14th-century poem Le chemin de povreté et de richesse, authored by the royal notary Jacques Bruyant, reflects a social imaginary that is innovative in its emphasis on labour and industriousness. The text engages critically with traditional ideas about Christian behaviour and social order and reflects a keen awareness of the socio-economic changes of 14th-century France, leading the author to advocate new modes of involvement in the world. This paper explores the poem's views on work ethic and the perils of acquisitiveness and situates them in the broader historical context of the transition to modernity.
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