Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon
Georgiana Donavin (Editor), Cary J. Nederman (Editor), Richard UtzBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
" The medieval sermon provides the focus for the first volume of Disputatio because it often expresses the concerns of various intellectual milieux, such as the university, Church or court, and attempts to convey those concerns to other parts of medieval society. Speculum Sermonis is an anthology of essays about medieval sermons in the Christian East and West. It aims to reveal precisely how sermons inform different disciplines (for instance, social and Church history, literature, musicology) and how the methodologies of different disciplines inform sermons. Sermons can, for instance, provide evidence for a reconstruction of medieval liturgy; reciprocally, the field of liturgiology investigates sermons as one aspect of Church performance. The volume's title image of the mirror and the reference to medieval specula convey the idea of multiple reflections: the sermons' on culture and the disciplines' on sermons. Because the contributors to Speculum Sermonis come from a variety of fields, the essays here collectively provide a rich historical and contemporary academic context for reading the medieval sermon. In addition to essays from across the fields, a number of which establish conclusions transcending disciplinary boundaries, Speculum Sermonis includes an introduction defending interdisciplinary study of sermons and an authoritative bibliography covering both primary and secondary resources for medieval sermons. A unique feature of the volume is the inclusion of response papers to the essays in each of the sections, in the spirit of the book series title Disputatio. 20040401 "Synopsis
The series takes its name from the journal, and continues its goal of publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on the intellectual culture and history of Europe from the end of the classical Roman age to the rise of the modern world. In this first volume, scholars of history and literature from Europe, North America, and Australia look at the medieval sermon as a discourse often arising from and speaking to the intellectual forums of the church, university, and court. The topics include the Carthage amphitheater and Augustine's sermons on Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, Bernardino of Siena visualizes the name of god, and the conversion of Mary Magdalene and the musical legacy of Franciscan piety in Early German passion plays. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR