The Feast and the Pulpit. Preachers, Sermons and the Cult of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, 1235 - ca. 1500


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CODICE: EAN 9788879885898
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The Feast and the Pulpit. Preachers, Sermons and the Cult of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, 1235 - ca. 1500

PREZZO : EUR 58,00€

CODICE :
EAN 9788879885898

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Author:

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COLLANA/SERIE:
, 15

ANNO:
2012

DISPONIBILITA':
Disponibile

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XVI-462 pages

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) is widely regarded as one of the most important saints of the Middle Ages, and from the nineteenth century onwards hundreds of books and articles have been written about her. Yet in contrast to her life, the history of her cult remains relatively unexplored. Such neglect is especially noticeable in the study of the sermons written in her honour in medieval Europe, despite the fact that sermons are among the best preserved kinds of source material and their impact is comparable to images alone. This book aims, in the first place, at assessing the role of preaching as a contemporary mass medium in promoting and sustaining the cult. In doing so it analyses 103 Latin sermons composed for the feast of St. Elizabeth before ca. 1500, most of them unpublished and hitherto unexamined, and includes in the appendix a sample of eighteen of them edited by the author. While its focus is on sermons, the book also provides an overview of the cult in a wide variety of its manifestations: the biographies of the saint, the pilgrimage to her grave and relics, the observance and liturgy of her feast, and the churches, religious houses and hospitals dedicated to her. The changing motivations behind the composition of sermons about St. Elizabeth, and the long-term transformations in the social base and religious content of the cult are discussed in the historical framework constituted by the cult's diffusion and stabilization. In addition to these historical aspects, the book also discusses the rhetorical capacities of sermons both to transmit and to revise the image of the saint once it had been moulded by the authors of the vitae and in liturgical texts.

Table of contents:
VII Abbreviations
IX Introduction
1 1. EMERGENCE OF THE CULT
1 1 Formation of the main vitae of St. Elizabeth
2 1.1. The Summa vitae and the testimonies of the four handmaids
4 1.2. The first biographies
15 1.3. The Dominican 'legendae novae'
19 1.4. The Franciscan tradition of Elizabeth's life
26 1.5. The Life of St. Elizabeth by Dietrich of Apolda
30 1.6. The transformation of Elizabeth's image
32 2. Pilgrimage to Marburg
37 3. Ecclesiastical institutions dedicated to St. Elizabeth
50 4. Elements of the liturgical cult
51 4.1. The observance of the feasts of St. Elizabeth
54 4.2. The calendars of religious orders and their promotion of the cult
64 4.3. The mass celebrated on 19 November
68 4.4. The rhymed offices Laetare Germania and Gaudeat Hungaria
73 2. PREACHING ABOUT ST. ELIZABETH
73 1. Authors, compilers, redactors, and scribes
78 2. Geographical and religious affiliation of sermon authors
83 3. Sermons on St. Elizabeth in their local contexts
84 3.1. The emergence of preaching about St. Elizabeth
107 3.2. Later developments
139 4. Diffusion and reception of sermons on St. Elizabeth page
144 5. Sermons on St. Elizabeth in the fifteenth century: Decline of the cult?
151 3. RHETORIC AND REPRESENTATION IN THE SERMONS
151 1. Homilies, sermons, and sermons on saints
153 2. The choice of themata
154 2.1. Liturgical models
157 2.2. Literal application
159 2.3. Typology
160 2.4. Imitating other sermons
161 3. Patterns of interpretation
162 3.1. Division
165 3.2. Distinction
171 3.3. Distinctions and structural metaphors
176 4. Patterns of representation
176 4.1. Holy life-span
180 4.2. Virgins, wives, and widows
189 4.3. Vita activa – vita contemplativa
191 5. Argumentation and illustration
193 5.1. Authorities and enthymemes
196 5.2. Exemplum, similitudo, figura
201 CONCLUSION
205 BIBLIOGRAPHY
233 APPENDIX 1: A REGISTER OF ST. ELIZABETH-SERMONS WRITTEN BEFORE CA. 1500
299 APPENDIX 2: THEMATA OF THE SERMONS
303 APPENDIX 3: TEXTS
451 INDEX.


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