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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1330: The Mendicant Experience, II: Silence and the Dominican Order

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
Organiser:Anne Holloway, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Moderator/Chair:Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet
Paper 1330-aThe Dominican Rhetoric of Ineffability: Teaching and Preaching the Silent Praise of God
(Language: English)
Samuel Baudinette, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Index terms: Religious Life, Theology
Paper 1330-bArs Praedicandi: Incorporating Silence into Dominican Preaching
(Language: English)
Anne Holloway, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Victoria
Index terms: Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1330-c'Santo è il silenzio a' giovani e vecchi': Voice and Silence in Late Medieval Lay Culture
(Language: English)
Marika Räsänen, Turku Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (TUCEMEMS), University of Turku
Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life
Abstract

Silence as a model in monastic spirituality is a familiar concept, as is its impact on the communities who pursued it and on medieval Christian spirituality. Yet the importance of its place in an Order of Preachers is still somewhat incongruent, not least because of what this meant for their many roles within society. This session will look at some of the different ways in which the Dominicans understood and utilised the idea of silence: at a theological level, as a tool for preaching, or in their interactions with lay communities.