IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1045: Medieval Sermon Studies
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | International Medieval Sermon Studies Society |
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| Organiser: | Alexander Marx, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alexander Marx, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1045-a | Bringing Sermons to Life: Entanglements between Preacher and Listener, Author and Reader, User and Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1045-b | The Cistercian Network of Traditions as Illustrated by the Latin Legenda Aurea (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 1045-c | Bede's Palm Sunday Homily: A Rhetorical Exposition (Language: English) Index terms: Monasticism, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Abstract | This session presents current approaches in the interdisciplinary field of medieval sermon studies, considering sermon collections and related genres as a fruitful source for historical analysis. The first paper addresses the difficulties in bridging the written and the oral form of the sermon, that is, the registers of clerical and lay, including differences in nature between sermons' Latin and vernacular transmission. The second paper examines the seminal Legenda Aurea and how it was transmitted in the Late Middle Ages, critically among Cistercians, but also how different copies betray varying versions of the same text. Finally, the third paper tackles Bede's homily for Palm Sunday, examining in particular its rhetorical devices. |