IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1305: Preaching Mercy in Late Medieval Europe
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Sermon Studies Society (IMSSS) |
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| Organiser: | Marc B. Cels, Centre for Humanities, Athabasca University, Alberta |
| Moderator/Chair: | Pietro Delcorno, Leeds Humanities Research Institute / School of Languages, Cultures & Societies - Italian, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1305-a | The Unforgiving Servant in Late Medieval Model Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1305-b | The Soul's Computatorium: Images of Mercy in the Sermons of Robert Rypon (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1305-c | Merciful Flowers: Misericordia in Two Parisian Florilegia for Preachers, the Manipulus florum and the Liber pharetrae (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | While Pope Francis has declared 2016 'The Year of Mercy', theologians, philosophers, and psychologists debate the moral, political, and therapeutic implications of forgiveness. This session contributes to studies that seek to historicise mercy and forgiveness by addressing what was taught about mercy from late medieval pulpits. Cels surveys collections of Latin model sermons on the parable of the unforgiving servant; Johnson examines metaphors used by the English monk Robert Rypon to preach about mercy; and Chris Nighman compares the treatment of misericordia in two Parisian handbooks of quotations for preachers, the Liber pharetrae and the Manipulus florum. |