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Medieval Monastic Preaching
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 90
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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 monks and nuns. The topics range from questioning if 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 analysed. The diversity of monastic preaching - e.g., cloistered preaching, preaching against heretics, preaching by heretical monks, preaching by nuns - and a geographical range of monastic pastoral history is studied. Medieval Monastic Preaching offers a preliminary step in understanding how sermons and preaching shaped monastic identity in the Middle Ages.
Carolyn A. Muessig, Ph.D. (1994) in Medieval Studies, Université de Montréal, 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.
"...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.
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.
Those interested in medieval religious history, monasticism, preaching, theology, and women's studies.