IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1650: The Body Performed and Disciplined: Dominican Preaching On Penance in the City
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Holly Johnson, Department of English, Mississippi State University |
| Paper 1650-a | The Preacher's Narrative Body: Teaching Confession through Performance to the Community (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Teaching the Middle Ages, Theology |
| Paper 1650-b | Whipping the Masses: The Discourse on Flagellation in de Bertis's Public Sermons (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Sermons and Preaching, Social History |
| Paper 1650-c | Convertimini: Preaching and Penance in Renaissance Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Italian, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | The Order of Preachers primarily preached within urban communities. As part of their foundation they were tasked with implementing the sacrament of penance through preaching and performing the methods of attaining salvation. As part of this, they used a variety of techniques within their sermons, including mnemonics in a literary and metaphorical sense, and material and visual media, to invoke fervour that would persuade the congregation to incorporate devotional practice that would lead them to salvation. Linked to the Body in the City Project, this session explores the different ways that the sacrament of penance was preached by Dominican friars from the 13th to 15th centuries. |