Vernacular Theology: Dominican Sermons and Audience in Late Medieval Italy

Eliana Corbari

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Vernacular Theology

Dominican Sermons and Audience in Late Medieval Italy

Eliana Corbari

Volume 22 in the series Trends in Medieval Philology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240337

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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.

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Eliana Corbari, University of Bristol, Great Britain.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Table of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One: Quid and quis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter Two: Reception and dissemination of Dominican sermons in late medieval Florence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Three: Dominican reading, seeing, and believing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Mediaeval Studies, Church History, Romance Studies), Institutes, Librairies
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 248
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Dominican Sermons

eBook

Published: January 30, 2013
ISBN: 9783110240337

Hardcover

Published: January 22, 2013
ISBN: 9783110240320