IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 518: 'Not by bread alone [...]': Lenten Preaching in the 15th and 16th Centuries, I - Shaping the Religious Message
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo, Università di Firenze |
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| Organiser: | Lorenza Tromboni, Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo, Università di Firenze |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jussi Hanska, Department of Education, University of Tampere |
| Paper 518-a | A Dantesque Lenten Sermon Collection: Peregrinus cum angelo (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 518-b | Roberto Caracciolo's Quadragesimale de poenitentia: Compilation, Structure, and Fortune of a 15th-Century Bestseller (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Printing History, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 518-c | 'Preaching during the fasting season is like being killed on the rack': Design, Performance, and Recording of Johann Geiler of Kaysersberg's Lent Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Liturgy, Local History, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | 'One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from God's mouth'. This sentence was the foundation of Lent, a period in which the renunciation of food was accompanied by a richer nourishment of the divine word, mainly provided through preaching. This spiritual food was particularly abundant in Late Middle Ages, when Lenten preaching became a daily practice and numerous Lenten sermon collections were written. The first session dedicated to this theme investigates the multiple and flexible strategies adopted by preachers to organise a rich, imaginative, and all-encompassing catechetical instruction during the Lenten period of fasting. |