IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1314: Following the Rules or Not in Preaching, IV: The Audiences
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Sermon Studies Society |
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| Organiser: | Ippolita Checcoli, Dipartimento di Paleografia e Medievistica, Università di Bologna |
| Moderator/Chair: | René Hernández Vera, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Respondent: | Thom Mertens, Ruusbroecgenootschap, Universiteit Antwerpen |
| Paper 1314-a | The Preacher Facing a Reluctant Audience According to the Testimony of Exempla, I (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1314-b | Shaping Religious Feelings Through Preaching: Franciscan Preachers and Their Audience - Italy, 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Mentalities, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | The fourth session aims to analyse the relationship between preachers and audiences, or otherwise put, the different ways in which the audience played an active role in the event of preaching. What were the rules that shaped a good audience? How did the audience influence the preacher? How did people accept or refuse the message (and the rules) proposed by preachers? The session will focus on the possibility of detecting the reactions of the audience as they were recorded in sermons, chronicles or exempla, which testify to the effects of preaching (not always positive) on the audience. |