Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons: Proceedings of the International Symposium (Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 1995), organised by the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society (IMSSS)

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Hagiographers and sermonists came together in 1995 to focus on the sermon, the central literary genre in the life of medieval Christians and Jews and the primary medium for conveying and adapting models of holiness to the public. The contribution in this volume elaborate the sermon's role in constructing and diffusing models of holiness in different cultural and chronological categories, from ninth-century Ireland to late medieval Germany, from the synagogues of medieval Spain to the piazzas of fifteenth-century Florence, and from the secret meetings of heretics to the papal court in Avignon. While ideals of holiness remained relatively consistent, the practical interpretations varied widely. Among the topics explored are the swift construction and propagation of Becket's cult after his martyrdom; the reappearance of certain biblical figures in different milieux; the non-utilization of non-biblical models; the interpretation of models for lay listeners and female audiences: chronological shifts in the vocabulary of sanctity; the theological basis for encouraging lay preaching; and attitudes in the eve of the Reformation. Methodological concerns are also elucidated here: the challenge in methodology shared by scholars of Jewish and Christian preaching; the sources other than sermons that bear on preaching; compilers' modifications to their sources; the role sermons played in canonization processes; expanding the definition of a sermon to encopass the activities of lay movements, laywyers, monarchs, and contexts beyond the framework of traditional worship. Front Matter ("Contents", "Preface", "Introduction"), p. i Thomas Becket: The Construction and Deconstruction of a Saint from the Middle Ages to the Reformation, p. 1 Phyllis B. Roberts https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00507 Early Medieval Sermons and the Holy, p. 23 Thomas L. Amos https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00508 Holiness Remodelled: Theme and Technique in Old English Composite Homilies, p. 35 Mary Swan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00509 The Enumeration of Laws Motif in the Middle English Homily An Bispel, p. 47 Lawrence T. Martin, Thomas N. Hall https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00510 Models of Monastic Devotion in Peter of Celle's Sermons for the Feast of Mary Magdalene, p. 67 Clare M. Kudera https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00511 Paradigms of Sanctity for Thirteenth-Century Women, p. 85 Carolyn Muessig https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00512 Sermon Literatures concerning Late Medieval Saints, p. 103 George Ferzoco https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00513 The Image of Sanctity in Medieval Preaching as a Me ans of Sanctification, p. 127 Jacqueline Hamesse https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00514 Monarchs, Lawyers, and Saints: Juridical Preaching on Holiness, p. 141 Darleen Pryds https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00515 The Preaching of Repentance and the Reforms in Toledo of 1281, p. 157 Marc Saperstein https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00516 Rhetoric Reality and Aspirations to Holiness in 14th century Jewish Preaching, p. 175 Carmi Horowitz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00517 The Encouragement of Lay Preaching as an Ecclesiastical Critique in Wyclif's Latin Sermons, p. 193 Edith Wilks Dolnikowski https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00518 In Pursuit of Holiness outside the Cloister: Religion of the Heart in The Abbey of the Holy Ghost, p. 211 Leo Carruthers https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00519 The «hallowyng of pe tabernakyll of owre sawle» according to the Preacher of the Middle English Sermons in BL MS Harley 2268, p. 229 V.M. O'Mara https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00520 'Fle from the love of thinges create': Patterns of Holiness in The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, p. 243 Elizabeth Moores https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00521 Lawyers, Law and Sanctity in Sermons from Papal Avignon, p. 259 Blake Beattie https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00522 Holy Figures and the Mystical Experience in Medieval German Sermons, p. 283 Debra L. Stoudt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00523 Dormi Secure: The Lazy Preacher's Model of Holiness for His Flock, p. 301 John W. Dahmus https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00524 Quilibet Christianus: Saints in Society in the Sermons of Jordan of Quedlinburg, OESA, p. 317 E.L. Saak https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00525 Intercessors, Examples and Rewards: The Roles of the Saints in the Penitential Themes of Representative Late Medieval Sermon Collections, p. 339 Anne T. Thayer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00526 The Preacher and the Holy in Renaissance Florence, p. 355 Peter Howard https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00527 Summary of Roundtable and other Conference Discussion, p. 371 Edith Wilks Dolnikowski https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.4.00528 Back Matter ("Index of Manuscripts", "Index of Modern Authors", "Topical Index"), p. 381