IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 210: The Influence of Jacopo da Varagine's Legenda aurea on Homiletics and Hagiography in Later Medieval Europe
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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Organiser: | Carrie Beneš, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida |
Moderator/Chairs: | Carrie Beneš, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida M. Michèle Mulchahey, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto, Downtown |
Paper 210-a | The Legenda Aurea and Dominican Preaching: A System of Communication (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 210-b | Gone but Not Forgotten: Saints Omitted from the Legenda aurea (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Sermons and Preaching |
Abstract | This session explores the influence of Jacopo da Varagine's hagiographical masterpiece, the Legenda aurea or 'Golden Legend', on the cult of the saints in 13th and 14th-century Europe. While much of the scholarship on the Legenda aurea has focused on its popularity and dissemination as a monolithic literary text, these three papers focus on the work's practical reception and use within a larger culture of medieval preaching, pious devotion, and moral instruction. |