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Performing the Seven Deadly Sins: How One Late-Medieval English Preacher did it

Medievalists.net — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:00:38 +0000

Some preachers, it is true, shunned certain of the rhetorical embellishments characteristically recommended in the artes predicandi.

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Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015

Medievalists.net — Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000

Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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Bah! Humbug! Complaining about holiday gifts 1600 years ago

Medievalists.net — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:28:56 +0000

Christmas has long been associated with gift giving, but one suspects that Asterius of Amasea would not like seeing all those presents under the Christmas tree!

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Love and Marriage on the Medieval English Stage: Using the English Cycle Plays as Sources for Social History

Medievalists.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:53:04 +0000

Much scholarship concerning the concept of “companionate” marriage traces its origins to the early modern period as clergymen, especially Protestant ones, began to publish “guides” to the relationships and respective duties of husbands and wives in the 1500s and 1600s.

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The Sincere Body: The Performance of Weeping and Emotion in Late Medieval Italian Sermons

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:58:05 +0000

In 1493 the well-known and controversial Franciscan preacher Bernardino of Feltre gave a series of Lenten sermons to the people of Pavia. On March 11 he dedicated an entire sermon to the necessity of contrition—or perfect sorrow over sin—in the rite of confession.

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Conflicting expectations: Parish priests in late medieval Germany

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:30:01 +0000

The study investigates the expectations various groups in late medieval German society held of their parish priests and how these expectations were mediated through specific relationships.

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The Power of Word: Preachers in Medieval Dubrovnik

Medievalists.net — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:22:07 +0000

In the pastoral of the Franciscan and Dominican orders preaching became the principal task of their mission. Preaching manuals represented the basis of the new art. The preachers also used sermon collections, Bible concordances and exempla collections.

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Narratives of resistance: arguments against the mendicants in the works of Matthew Paris and William of Saint-Amour

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:27:22 +0000

The rise of the new mendicant orders, foremost the Franciscans and Dominicans, is one of the great success stories of thirteenth-century Europe. Combining apostolic poverty with sophisticated organization and university learning, they brought much needed improvements to pastoral care in the growing cities.

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The Friars Preachers: The First Hundred Years of the Dominican Order

Medievalists.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:40:55 +0000

When Dominic of Caleruega began preaching in southern France in the early 1200s, he would have had no idea of the far reaching influence that the band of men he would attract would leave such a broad and enduring influence on medieval history.

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Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England

Medievalists.net — Wed, 21 May 2014 19:56:12 +0000

My summary of a paper given at the Institute of Historical Research on: Monastic Space and the Use of Books in Anglo-Norman England.

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