Medieval Monastic Preaching

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-10883-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 90, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This study presents research by specialists of monastic history, literature, and spirituality. Covering the period from 1150 to 1500, this volume demonstrates that monastic preaching was not only carried out in the cloister by monks, but also in public arenas by monks and nuns. The topics range from questioning if the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux were ever preached, to an analysis of Hildegard of Bingen's preaching against the Cathars. Sermons addressed to monastic communities by secular preachers are also analysed. The diversity of monastic preaching - e.g., cloistered preaching, preaching against heretics, preaching by heretical monks, preaching by nuns - and a geographical range of monastic pastoral history is studied. Medieval Monastic Preaching offers a preliminary step in understanding how sermons and preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muessig, Carolyn A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Carolyn A. Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Studies, Université de Montréal, is Newman Research Fellow of Medieval Theology at the University of Bristol. She is preparing a critical edition of a sermon collection of Jacques de Vitry.