Vernacular Theology : : Dominican Sermons and Audience in Late Medieval Italy / / Eliana Corbari.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Corbari, Eliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Medieval Philology , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

This book examines the audiences and languages of Dominican sermons in late medieval Italy. It is a thorough analysis of how Latinate theological culture interacted with popular religious devotion. In particular it assesses the role of vernacular theology. Eliana Corbari defines vernacular theology as a form of theology that is based neither on a Latin scholastic model nor a monastic one. It is a “third dimension” of theology which was accessible to the laity, and in particular women, through their attendance at sermons and the reading of vernacular devotional works (in this case, medieval Italian treatises and sermons). Through painstaking manuscript work, Corbari makes an excellent contribution to sermon studies, gender studies, medieval theology, and codicology. She demonstrates that Dominican friars preached to an active contingent of laywomen, usually members of confraternities, who not only attended these sermons but re-read them and also disseminated them through book production to the wider Florentine community.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Quid and quis -- Chapter Two: Reception and dissemination of Dominican sermons in late medieval Florence -- Chapter Three: Dominican reading, seeing, and believing -- Chapter Four: Villana de’ Botti -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index