Overview
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 nuns. The topics range from questioning of the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux were ever preached, to an analysis of Hildegard of Bingen's preaching against the Cathars. Sermons addressed to monastic communities by secular preachers are also analyzed. The diversity of monastic preaching, and a geographical range of monastic pastoral history are studied. This work offers a preliminary step in understanding how sermons and preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.
Full Product Details
Author: Carolyn A. Muessig
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 90
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.734kg
ISBN: 9789004108837
ISBN 10: 9004108831
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 17 September 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: eng, lat
Reviews
. ..one volume, readable and durable, telling us in detail about monks and nuns at work and at prayer This volume in Intellectual History is the breaking of ground, ever ancient and ever new, and should have much to say to our story-telling times. Fr.Thomas K. Carroll, The Downside Review , 1999. high scholarly quality and very well produced. Siegfried Wenzel, Church History , 2000. This whole collection is illuminating because it brings together information about monastic preaching from unexpected quarters, whether it is preaching by hermits, heretical monks, nuns, the sermon collections of the Benedictines or the sermon-writing of contemplative monks. Gillian Murphy, Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 2000.
'.. .one volume, readable and durable, telling us in detail about monks and nuns at work and at prayerThis volume in Intellectual History is the breaking of ground, ever ancient and ever new, and should have much to say to our story-telling times'<br>Fr.Thomas K. Carroll, The Downside Review, 1999.<br>' high scholarly quality and very well produced.'<br>Siegfried Wenzel, Church History, 2000.<br>' This whole collection is illuminating because it brings together information about monastic preaching from unexpected quarters, whether it is preaching by hermits, heretical monks, nuns, the sermon collections of the Benedictines or the sermon-writing of contemplative monks.'<br>Gillian Murphy, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2000.<br>
Author Information
Carolyn A. Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Studies, Universite de Montreal, is Newman Research Fellow of Medieval Theology at the University of Bristol. She is preparing a critical edition of a sermon collection of Jacques de Vitry.
