Medieval monastic preaching / / edited by Carolyn Muessig.

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...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 90
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 90.
Physical Description:1 online resource (382 pages)
Notes:This volume is a selection of the findings presented at a conference held Apr. 2-5, 1997 at Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, U.K.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Carolyn Muessig
  • What Is Medieval Monastic Preaching? An Introduction / Carolyn Muessig
  • Why Did Denys The Carthusian Write Sermones Ad Saeculares / Denys Turner
  • \'Shining Forth Like The Dawn\': Jean Gerson's Sermon To The Carthusians / Brian Patrick McGuire
  • Early Fifteenth-Century Chapterhouse Sermons At The Charterhouse Of Mainz / James Hogg
  • Sermons For Nuns Of The Dominican Observance Movement / Regina D. Schiewer
  • Preaching To Nuns In Late Medieval England / V.M. O'Mara
  • Authority And Inspiration In The Vitae And Sermons Of Humility Of Faenza / Catherine M. Mooney
  • Preaching By Thirteenth-Century Italian Hermits / George Ferzoco
  • Defending The Lord's Vineyard: Hildegard Of Bingen's Preaching Against The Cathars / Beverly Mayne Kienzle
  • The Preaching Of The Cathars / John Arnold
  • The Religious's Role In A Post-Fourth-Lateran World: Jacques De Vitry's Sermones Ad Status And Historia Occidentalis / Jessalynn Bird
  • Monastic Ideals And Episcopal Visitations: The Sermo Ad Religiosos Of Robert Grosseteste / James R. Ginther
  • Benedictine Sermons: Preparation And Practice In The English Monastic Cathedral Cloisters / Joan Greatrex
  • Benedictines And Preaching The Pastoralia In Late Medieval England: A Preliminary Inquiry / Patrick J. Horner
  • Were The Sermons Of St Bernard On The Song Of Songs Ever Preached? / Christopher Holdsworth
  • Killing Time: An Essay On The Monastic Notion Of Speed / M.B. Pranger
  • The Liturgical Dimension Of Twelfth-Century Cistercian Preaching / Chrysogonus Waddell
  • General Index / Carolyn Muessig.