2011, ISBN: 2503515258

[EAN: 9782503515250], [PU: Brepols Publishers], Verlagsfrisch New copy Sermo SERMO 4 Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages K. River… Meer...

[EAN: 9782503515250], [PU: Brepols Publishers], Verlagsfrisch New copy Sermo SERMO 4 Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages K. Rivers XVII+377 p., 4 b/w ill., 2 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm, 2010 ISBN: 978-2-503-51525-0 Languages: English Hardback The publication is available. Retail price: EUR 85,00 This volume explores the integral role of memory and mnemonic techniques in medieval preaching from the thirteenth to the early fifteenth century. This volume explores the integral role of memory and mnemonic techniques in medieval preaching from the thirteenth to the early fifteenth century. It argues that the mendicant orders inherited from the early Middle Ages both the simple mnemonic techniques of rhetorical practice and a tradition of monastic meditation founded on memory images. In the thirteenth century Dominican and Franciscan writers drew on these basic techniques even as they re-evaluated the ancient mnemonic system of the Rhetorica ad Herennium (first century BC). The increasing emphasis that intellectuals placed upon cognitive science, ethics, and on distinctions between rhetoric and logic created a climate that welcomed an image-based memory system designed for orators. The book also explores the Franciscan contribution to mnemonics, which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars. As the Franciscans came to value imaginative meditation as part of their own spiritual lives, their habit of meditating on mental images of the virtues and vices eventually spilled out into their sermons. As the new orators of the period, Franciscans and Dominicans each inserted mnemonic images into their sermons as a way to aid the recall of both preachers and listeners. The products of such mnemonic practices in medieval sermons, which included elaborate descriptions of buildings, schematic renderings of the number seven, and verbal images of the virtues and vices, were then allegorised in moral terms and circulated on the continent in exempla collections. This book argues that verbal images and complicated schema functioned as 'ordering devices' for those preaching and listening to sermons, whilst also provoking an affective response that enhanced listeners' devotional and penitential experiences. Table of Contents CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Author's Note List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Transformation of Memory in the High Middle Ages Chapter 1: The Pressures of Memory in the Twelfth Century Chapter 2: The Influence of the Mendicant Orders on Mnemonic Theory Chapter 3: Franciscan Memory and Meditation Part II. Constructing the Preacher's Memory Chapter 4: Mnemonic Advice for Preachers Chapter 5: Theoretical Justifications for the Use of Images in Preaching Chapter 6: The Mnemonic Exempla of the Classicizing Friars Part III. The Spread of Mnemonic Exempla Chapter 7: France: Mythography and the Virtues and Vices Chapter 8: Johannes von Werden's Dormi secure and the Circulation of Picturae in Germany and Central Europe Chapter 9: Memory Precepts in Italian Preaching Conclusion Bibliography General Index "This is a well-written and stimulating study, full of close reference to the medieval texts it relies on and making use of much material still available only in manuscript." (G. R. Evans, in Journal of Theological Studies 62/1, April 2011) "This volume offers substantive research into a rich world of largely unstudied authors, helping to explain what made a good sermon." (Constant J. Mews, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 62/3, July 2011) 0<

2010, ISBN: 9782503515250

BREPOLS PUBL, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 377 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-08-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.85 kg, Religionsgeschichte, Religionswissenschaft, Geisteswisse… Meer...

BREPOLS PUBL, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 377 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-08-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.85 kg, Religionsgeschichte, Religionswissenschaft, Geisteswissenschaften, Fachbücher, Kategorien, Bücher, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Allgemein, Europa, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Mittelalter, Epochen, Kirchengeschichte, Christentum & Theologie, Religion & Glaube, Format: Illustriert, BREPOLS PUBL, 2010<

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