IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 310: Beyond the Legenda aurea: Jacopo da Varagine as Preacher, Historian, and Archbishop
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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Organiser: | Carrie Beneš, Division of Social Sciences, New College of Florida |
Moderator/Chair: | Paola Guglielmotti, Dipartimento di Antichità, Filosofia e Storia, Università degli studi di Genova |
Paper 310-a | Exempla for Sunday Preaching: An Edition of Jacopo da Varagine's Sermones de tempore (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 310-b | The Chronica civitatis Ianuensis: Rethinking Jacopo da Varagine's Genoa (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Local History |
Paper 310-c | Between Hagiography and Local History: Jacopo da Varagine's Genoese Relic Treatises (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Local History |
Abstract | While Jacopo da Varagine is most famous as compiler of the monumental Legenda aurea, or 'Golden Legend', scholarly focus on it sometimes eclipses Jacopo's broader contributions to late 13th-century life as a highly respected preacher, Dominican scholar, and archbishop of Genoa (1292-1298). Seeking to form a more holistic view of Jacopo as a scholar and administrator, the papers in this session will therefore focus on three of his works that are not the Legenda aurea - his prolific sermon output, his chronicle or history of Genoa, and his treatises on the history of local Genoese relics. |