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 |
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Organiser: | Anne Holloway, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
Moderator/Chair: | Johnny Grandjean Jakobsen, Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, Københavns Universitet |
Paper 1330-a | The Dominican Rhetoric of Ineffability: Teaching and Preaching the Silent Praise of God (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 1330-b | Ars Praedicandi: Incorporating Silence into Dominican Preaching (Language: English) 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) 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. |