IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 122: Mnemonic Diagrams in Late Medieval Preaching and Pedagogy
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Sermon Studies Society |
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| Organiser: | Kimberly Rivers, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Holloway, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 122-a | How to Know and Love God: Visual Strategies in Llull's Art and Its Early Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Other, Lay Piety, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 122-b | Schematic Imaging: A Tool for the Late Medieval Preacher (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 122-c | How to Memorize the Decretals in the Later Middle Ages: Johannes Sintram's Mnemonic Diagram (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session examines ways in which late medieval preachers and teachers across Europe used visual strategies to convey pastoral, theological, and legal teaching to the laity and the clergy in the late Middle Ages. One paper will focus on diagrams in the Art of Ramon Llull as a point of intersection between the scholastics and the educated laity. A second paper will look at the ways late medieval English preachers use schematic imaging as a mnemonic and rhetorical tool to drive home theological and pastoral teachings. A third will look at how late medieval preachers and lawyers were able to memorise massive amounts of legal material through a mnemonic diagram for memorizing the Decretals, copied down by the German Franciscan Johannes Sintram. |