Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Latin Sermon'

This thesis on medieval sermon manuscripts aims to increase our understanding of the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg, who is considered to be the most significant German preacher of the late Middle Ages. For this reason, I have selected twenty-one Latin and six German codices, dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. These codices have been analyzed to identify the writing material, internal structure and paratextual features. The underlying idea is that the codicological and paratextual organisation delivers insight not only into the date and provenance of the manuscripts, but also into their function and actual use. I set out, in my first chapter, with some general thoughts about the specific process of communication involved in sermon manuscripts. The focus of my second chapter is on the structural and guiding elements in manuscripts, such as indices, numbering systems and various types of rubrication. The third chapter is concerned with marginal annotations, which can refer to the content of the text, call for attention, or even aim to deter from reading or copying a particular passage. In chapter four, I discuss a number of current issues in codicology and the complexity of codicological structures, which leads me to the proposition of a new concept of ‘corresponding codicological units’. In the fifth chapter, I argue that the attribution of Berthold’s sermons to his name fades in the late-thirteenth century, in favour of the term Rusticanus, which fills the position of the author for the the most part of the fourteenth century. In my final chapter, I discuss different concepts of book ownership. By demonstrating the significance of material and structural features, I show the strength of a codicological approach in achieving a new, in-depth understanding of Berthold von Regensburg and medieval sermon culture in general.

La collection de sermons ad status du maître franciscain Guibert de Tournai († 1284), inscrite dans le nouvel art de prêcher qui se développe au XIIIe siècle, est surtout connue pour la particularité de son organisation, qui répartit les sermons selon les états de vie d'auditoires plutôt que selon les occasions du temps liturgique. Cette thèse réalise un bilan et une actualisation des connaissances sur l'auteur et la collection, ainsi qu'une analyse approfondie de cette œuvre, assortie d'une transcription intégrale. Elle ouvre également la voie d'une réinterprétation du remploi littéraire chez Guibert de Tournai, et propose une lecture nouvelle du découpage ad status à la lumière de la mnémotechnique et des arts de la mémoire. Le premier chapitre fait un bilan des connaissances sur Guibert de Tournai. Enfant de la bourgeoisie flamande, il reste fidèle à sa terre d'origine et aux hommes qu'il a connus ici, bien longtemps après que ses études et son engagement dans l'ordre franciscain l'ont amené à Paris. Intellectuel fécond dans des genres variés, son œuvre laisse entrevoir une personnalité éprise de mystique et de contemplation. Personnage proéminent dans le paysage intellectuel parisien des années 1260, en relation avec de grands personnages politiques et intellectuels de son temps, il s'intéresse aussi aux questions de formation et de transmission du savoir, et bien évidemment à la prédication que nous le voyons pratiquer, grâce à des reportations parisiennes, jusqu'au soir de sa vie. Le deuxième chapitre est consacré à la présentation et l'analyse détaillées de la collection ad status. La tradition en est foisonnante, compliquée par quelques accidents conjoncturels dans la transmission du texte. Elle laisse tout de même entrevoir un texte qui semble relativement stable. Dans son contenu, systématiquement analysé, la collection est un bel exemple de « sermons modernes » dans sa manière d'arranger la matière prêchable, en se servant de très nombreuses distinctiones pour structurer les textes. Le troisième chapitre explore le rapport de Guibert à l'intertextualité ou « remploi » littéraire. Le maître franciscain puise volontiers sa matière dans d'autres œuvres : son remploi des Sermones vulgares de Jacques de Vitry dans ses sermons ad status est connu de longue date, mais il a aussi trouvé chez Guillaume d'Auvergne une partie de la matière première des sermons sur les sacrements. Les emprunts à Jacques de Vitry, mesurés grâce à l'indicateur des exempla, se révèlent moins systématiques et plus complexes qu'on aurait pu le penser, montrant à quel point le remploi littéraire faisait partie intégrante du processus de création, pour Guibert comme pour d'autres auteurs médiévaux. Le rôle des œuvres de Guibert comme réservoirs de matière, faisant à leur tour l'objet de remploi dans des œuvres de genres et d'auteurs variés, est également mis en évidence dans une série de textes. Le dernier chapitre enfin propose une nouvelle lecture du choix d'organisation ad status de la collection, une interprétation alternative du projet de Guibert. Plutôt qu'un miroir de la société réelle ou idéale du prédicateur, la composition de sermons selon des états de vie de l'auditoire peut être comprise, à la lumière des arts de la mémoire, comme un ingénieux outil mnémotechnique pour l'organisation de la matière prêchable. En faisant des status des « lieux de mémoire », Guibert a réalisé une classification thématique de la matière prêchable selon les topoi attachés aux états de vie
The collection of ad status sermons by the Franciscan Guibert de Tournai (d. 1284), rooted in the new art of preaching that was developing in the thirteenth century, is best known for its particular organization, arranging the sermons according to the social position (or estate) of their audience rather than by liturgical occasions. This thesis assesses and updates our knowledge of the author and the collection, and provides an in-depth analysis of this body of work, accompanied by a complete transcription. Furthermore, the thesis paves the way for a reinterpretation of the ways in which Guibert used and adapted earlier texts, and it proposes a new understanding of the ad status division, in light of mnemonics and the art of memory.The first chapter assesses our knowledge of Guibert de Tournai. A child of the Flemish bourgeoisie, he remained faithful to his land of origin and to the men he knew there, long after his studies and his engagement in the Franciscan order had led him to Paris. Intellectually fertile in a variety of genres, his works hint at a personality passionate about mysticism and contemplation. A pre-eminent figure in the Parisian intellectual landscape of the 1260s, connected to the key political and intellectual figures of his time, he was interested in questions regarding the acquisition and transmission of knowledge, and evidently in the preaching we know – thanks to Parisian reportationes – that he practiced until his twilight years.The second chapter offers a detailed presentation and analysis of the ad status collection. There are many extant manuscripts, and their analysis is complicated by several inconsistencies in the transmission of the work, but overall and over time the text seems relatively stable. The content of the collection, systematically analysed, provides an excellent example of the “modern sermon” in the way it arranges the material for preaching, drawing on numerous distinctiones to structure the texts.The third chapter explores the link between Guibert and intertextuality or textual reuse. The Franciscan master took much of his material from other works; his reuse of the Sermones vulgares of Jacques de Vitry in his ad status sermons has been known for a long time, but he also found much of his preaching material for sermons on the sacraments in the work of Guillaume d’Auvergne. Guibert's appropriation of the work of Jacques de Vitry, measured through the use of his predecessor's exempla, is revealed to be less systematic and more complex than scholars would otherwise have predicted, demonstrating just how, and to what extent, textual reuse was integral to the creation process for Guibert as well as for other medieval authors. The role of the works of Guibert as reservoirs of material, in turn themselves reused in works of various genres and authors, is demonstrated through the analysis of a number of later texts.The final chapter proposes a new consideration of Guibert's choice of constructing his collection as an ad status text. The composition of sermons according to the social position of the audience can be understood, in light of the art of memory, as an ingenious mnemonic tool for the organisation of preaching material rather than as a mirror of a real or ideal society. In turning the status into “lieux de mémoire”, Guibert created a thematic classification of preaching material according to topoi attached to the estates

Os sermões de Dominga de Quaresma do Padre Antônio Vieira interessam segundo as suas práticas contemporâneas de produção e recepção. Historicamente, foram preparados para circular de forma escrita e publicados dispersos pelos tomos da editio princeps do Sermões, entre 1679 e 1699. Editados, destinaram-se a um leitor em momento distante da pregação, que se constrói, porém, circunstancialmente na página. Para discutir esses sermões de Quaresma, são importantes as noções de ductus e eschematisménos lógos. A primeira é lida em Fortunaciano e Marciano Capela, sistematizada por Heinrich Lausberg e tratada por leitores de Vieira. A segunda procura iluminar as lições desses retores dito menores e embasar as leituras dos sermões a partir de passagens de outros textos, de outras doutrinas, de retores latinos e gregos, como Quintiliano, Demétrio, Hermógenes e, no século XV, Jorge de Trebizonda.
Sunday of Lent sermons by Father Antônio Vieira are of interest in conformity to their contemporary practices of production and reception. Historically, they had been composed to circulate in written form and to be published dispersed in the volumes of the editio princeps of the Sermões between 1679 and 1699. Nevertheless, from the moment they were printed they were direct to a reader who was, in a way, distant from the preaching, which is framed, even though circimstantially, in the pages. So as to discuss these Lent sermons, notions of ductus and eschematisménos lógos are fundamental. The former is read in Fortunatianus and Marcianus Capella, systematized by Heinrich Lausberg and debated by Vieiras readers. The latter aims to cast light on the lessons of these so-called rhetores latini minoris and also to give foundation to the readings of the sermons from excerpts of other texts, other doctrines, and Greek and Latin rhetoricians, as Quintilian, Demetrius, Hermogenes and, in the fifteenth century, George of Trebizond.

Version remaniée de : Thèse de 3ème cycle : Société et civilisation du monde médiéval : Paris 4 : 1981 : Sermons aux clercs et sermons aux simples gens : la prédication de Ranulphe de la Houblonnière à Paris au XIIIème siècle.
Texte en latin et commentaire en français. Bibliogr. p. 157-180 (vol. 1). Glossaire, index (vol. 1).

Learning about time was part of the indoctrination of Christians in the late antique West. Time played an important role in Scripture and also in the pagan milieu from which most catechumens came. Thus, bishops were required to explain to their flocks traditional Christian concepts of time, while at the same time refute unacceptable ideas concerning time (i.e., astrology, pagan festivities), which were normally an ingrained part of the late Roman mind-set. The sermon was the predominant means of communicating these ideas. Chapters one and two begin by establishing the boundaries of time (Creation and eschatology). Bishops attempted to link all time to Christ by demonstrating that time-units had their origin in Creation and their consummation in the dies iudicii. This belief in Christ's mastery over time proved advantageous in anti-pagan and anti-heretical polemic. Chapters three through five examine the time-units themselves (e.g., the year, month, seasons, week, day and night). Symbolic exegesis and technical explanations of the workings of time-units were used to fortify the belief that all time comes from God, which, in turn furthered the demythologization of sun, moon, and stars. Chapter six examines episcopal prescriptions as to how lay Christian should spend their day-to-day life. As a general rule, bishops promoted the devotion of all time to God, requiring, at least as an ideal, that their flocks live like ascetics. This included frequent fasting and almsgiving and daily public and private worship. Chapters seven and eight follow episcopal attempts to enlarge their calendars with festivals, thus increasing the special periods of time during which the laity would be fixated on God.

En dépit d’études conséquentes, la portée littéraire des écrits et de la figure de Jean Charlier Gerson (1363-1429), reste largement méconnue et ce du fait d’un prisme historique et théologique. Le présent travail entend donc combler cette lacune en proposant une étude rhétorique et stylistique de ces textes, ainsi qu’une nouvelle mise en perspective culturelle de la figure du chancelier. L’enjeu est double puisqu’il s’agit d’inscrire les sermons dans une histoire longue du fait esthétique et de redonner à Gerson un statut d’acteur littéraire. Notre démarche s’appuiera pour ce faire sur l’importante formalisation esthétique de ces textes qui empruntent ses cadres à la littérature curiale. Elle se fondera également l’adoption de postures à caractère auctorial qui signalent la participation de Gerson aux milieux lettrés de son époque. Ces différents éléments permettent ensuite de reconsidérer la place des sermons de Gerson dans le champ culturel de la fin du Moyen Âge, marqué par un mouvement d’autonomisation de la littérature face aux milieux cléricaux. Cette étude offre ainsi à un premier niveau une meilleure compréhension du champ littéraire de la fin du Moyen Âge par la mise en lumière d’un acteur clérical encore méconnu. Plus largement, elle permet également de poser des jalons pour une nouvelle intelligence de l’art oratoire, au service notamment d’une histoire longue de l’éloquence de la chaire
In spite of a wide range of studies, the chancellor of the university of Paris Jean Gerson (1363-1429) remains quite unknow as a litterary author and his texts are mainly read in a theological or historical way. Thus, this study will focuse on a rhetorical and stylistic approach of the texts so that they can be understood in a litterary frame. Allegorical devices, images but also auctorial strategies are some of the elements that show the integration of court culture in the homely. In the same time, we will try to consider in a new way Jean Gerson’s role and place in the intellectual context of late Middle Ages

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire--Paris 10, 2005.
Contient un choix d'extraits des "Sermons du temps ordinaire" de Nicoluccio di Ascoli, traduits du latin. Bibliogr. p. 349-374. Index.

The Sermo antequam iret in exilium and the Sermo cum iret in exsilium are two homilies allegedly pronounced by John Chrysostom in Constantinople at the end of summer 403, some time between the verdict of the Synod of the Oak and the day he left the city for his first exile. The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate that a new critical edition of these texts is needed before any study of their literary and historical value can be conducted. Chapter one sketches the historical background to which the text of the homilies refers and a concise survey about previous scholarship on the homilies on the first exile, from the time of Montfaucon’s edition until our days. The problem of the authenticity occupies the last part of the chapter. Chapter two investigates the history of the texts and takes into account both the direct and indirect traditions. It discusses the existence of double recensions hitherto unknown and provides the prefatory material for the new critical edition of recensio α of Sermo antequam iret in exilium and of the Sermo cum iret in exsilium. Chapter three comprises the Greek editions of the two homilies, as well as a provisional edition of the Latin version of the Sermo antequam iret in exilium. Chapter four is divided into two parts, each presenting a philological commentary on the text of the new editions. Systematic analysis of all the most important variant readings is offered. The final chapter summarizes the new findings and assesses the validity of previous criteria used for discerning the authenticity of the homilies on the exile.

Syon Abbey, established as the first Birgittine monastery in England in 1415, quite soon became a powerful institution within the order. Although often asserting their own conceptions of the Rule, the English Birgittines still sought the advice of Vadstena, their mother house, when it came to certain important matters concerning monastic life. The present work contains editions of two Latin texts: Responsiones, a document consisting of 175 questions and answers on the Birgittine Rule and daily life in the monastery, and Collacio, a sermon reflecting similar matters. The first part of the Responsiones consists of answers to five questions, sent from Syon to Sweden by letter. An important issue concerns the leadership in the monastery and the role of the Birgittine brothers. Were they to be seen as monks, living in their own monastery, or as religious assistans to the sisters? The second part was written as a direct result of two English brothers visiting Vadstena in 1427 and contains 170 questions and answers dealing with various matters of importance: how to interpret certain Birgittine texts, regulations on food, silence and speech as well as questions on preaching, liturgy and introduction into the monastery. The Collacio, in the manuscript said to have been presented to the Swedish community, was probably written by Syon’s conservator, the Benedictine abbot John Whethamstede of St Albans. Written in a highly metaphorical language rich in references to the Bible and Classical authors, the message to the Birgittine order is clear: first, it is wrong to have two leaders (confessor general as well as abbess) in one community; second, the Birgittines should strive to dispose of later additions and explanations and seek the original and true intentions of the foundress, Saint Birgitta. The thesis contains an introduction, editions with translations, glossary, indices, bibliography and plates.

Le cardinal Eudes de Châteauroux (1190?-1273) est l'un des orateurs et exégètes les plus prolifiques du XIIIe siècle (environ 1100 sermons attribués par les manuscrits, copiés pour une large part dans son propre scriptorium cardinalice). L'histoire a transmis les traces de cette activité sous une double forme. D'une part les textes, nécessitant l'élucidation de la tradition manuscrite et l'édition critique d'un corpus choisi de 65 sermons. D'autre par, le reflet de cette activité oratoire dans les autres sources contemporaines (diplomatiques, narratives, liturgiques, hagiographiques, iconographiques), rendant possible une mise en contexte des sermons manuscrits, qui en deviennent souvent datables, et permettant de mesurer l'impact, au XIIIe siècle, de cette activité d'origine purement liturgique. Le choix des sermons édités privilégie trois thèmes étroitement imbriqués durant la carrière de l'orateur : l'université, l'Eglise, l'Etat. Avec la montée des Etats nationaux aux XIII siècle, cette trilogie s'est largement substituée au traditionnel binôme Eglise-Etat, caractéristique du haut Moyen Âge jusqu'à la réforme grégorienne. La prédication, dont les universitaires s'avèrent désormais les spécialistes, fut l'un des modes de mise en place de l'Etat, envisagé dans son activité idéologique. Symétriquement les Etats ont promu et soutenu l'institution universitaire ; les Capétiens en particulier ont beaucoup apprécié les sermons qui s'y élaboraient. Bref la prise de parole politique renouvelle profondément le genre traditionnel du sermon "occasionnel" ou de circonstance (de casibus), sachant lire l'actualité à la lumière de la Bible, en profitant de l'impulsion de méthodes nouvelles d'exégèse, et des besoins des Princes en "conseillers" savants, gradués.

On propose ici l’édition critique des quatre premières distinctiones du Liber de virtutibus et vitiis de Servasanto de Faenza, prédicateur franciscain qui vécut très probablement à Florence, au couvent Santa Croce, dans la deuxième moitié du XIIIe siècle. La première distinctio porte sur la grâce et la culpabilité en général ; les autres, respectivement, sur la foi, l’espérance et la charité. Partiel, le texte est établi pour autant sur la base de la recension complète des quatre manuscrits subsistants et, le cas échéant, par le recours prudent au texte de la célèbre Summa de virtutibus et vitiis de Guillaume Péraut (Lyon, 1571), massivement remanié par Servasanto. Bien que le titre remontant à l’archétype soit Tractatus de virtutibus et vitiis, on garde l’intitulation Liber de virtutibus et vitiis témoignée par une partie de la tradition, car elle est la seule utilisée dans la bibliographie moderne sur notre auteur depuis un article fondamental du père Livario Oliger publié en 1924
The dissertation presents the critical edition of the first four distinctions from Liber de virtutibus et vitiis by Servasanto da Faenza, a Franciscan preacher living at the Santa Croce monastery in Florence in the second half of the XIIIth century. The first distinctio deals with grace and guilt in general terms, while the following ones, respectively, concern the treatment of faith, hope and charity. Even though the edition is not complete, the text was established on the basis of the whole recensio of the four surviving manuscripts, and in some occasions, appealing to the well-known Summa de virtutibus et vitiis by Guglielmo Peraldo, a work that Servasanto widely reshapes and reuses in his own text. The title of the archetype is supposed to be Tractatus de virtutibus et vitiis, but the title Liber de virtutibus et vitiis is here preserved as it is common in the critical bibliography since Livario Oliger's pivotal article published in 1924
Il lavoro consiste nell’edizione critica delle prime quattro distinctiones del Liber de virtutibus et vitiis di Servasanto da Faenza, predicatore francescano vissuto probabilmente a Firenze, presso il convento di Santa Croce, nella seconda metà del XIII secolo. La prima distinctio è dedicata alla trattazione della grazia e della colpa in generale; le altre, rispettivamente, a quella della fede, della speranza e della carità. Benché l’edizione dell’opera sia parziale, il testo è stabilito sulla base della recensio completa dei quattro testimoni superstiti e, in qualche caso, con il ricorso prudente al testo della celebre Summa de virtutibus et vitiis di Guglielmo Peraldo, riutilizzato largamente da Servasanto. Il titolo che presumibilmente risale all’archetipo è Tractatus de virtutibus et vitiis, tuttavia si conserva l’intitolazione Liber de virtutibus et vitiis perché invalsa nella bibliografia critica a partire da un articolo fondamentale di padre Livario Oliger del 1924

Cette thèse montre que, dans les Sermones in Matthaeum, les interprétations scripturaires développées par Augustin d’Hippone ont fait l’objet d’un choix, que justifie une adaptation pastorale au double contexte historique et liturgique de la prédication. Établi à partir du classement thématique des Mauristes, le « corpus » regroupe des sermons prêchés en différents lieux, entre 393 et 430 ; il se prête donc à une évaluation de ces adaptations.Le chapitre 1 propose une synthèse critique des données contextuelles (historiques, géographiques, sociologiques et liturgiques) concernant ces sermons, comme autant de pierres d’attente à d’éventuelles adaptations ; le chapitre 2 montre que leur texte biblique, souvent vieux latin, a parfois un substrat africain. Les chapitres 3 à 6 analysent l’exégèse d’une vingtaine de sermons choisis pour leur dimension réflexive afin de questionner, de manière inductive, les motifs des adaptations exégétiques. Les études comparent les interprétations du texte commenté à celles présentes dans les autres œuvres augustiniennes et dans la tradition patristique, et intègrent une approche rhétorique. Homilétique, cette exégèse se situe, comme les sermons qui la développent, à l’intersection entre Parole de Dieu (chapitres 3 et 4) et réponses des hommes (chapitres 5 et 6). Elle assume la situation historique dans laquelle elle est élaborée pour, en s’insérant dans la dynamique de la liturgie dont elle reçoit la matière du commentaire et la finalité qui l’oriente, faire en sorte que la res qu’elle transmet de façon quasi sacramentelle par les uerba du prédicateur, fructifie chez les auditeurs.Cette thèse comprend aussi une bibliographie et quatre annexes : un fichier signalétique sur les Sermones in Matthaeum et son résumé, les relevés des occurrences augustiniennes des citations étudiées et la liste des lectures liturgiques de l’Évangile de Matthieu
This doctoral thesis shows that in Sermones in Matthaeum the biblical interpretations developed by Augustine of Hippo were selected in order to comply with a pastoral adaptation to the double historical and liturgical preaching context. Established on the basis of the Maurists’ thematic classification, the corpus contains sermons preached in different places between 393 and 430; it is therefore suitable for evaluating these adaptations. Chapter 1 gives a critical survey of the contextual data (historical, geographical, sociological and liturgical) concerning these sermons, to be taken as potential, adaptable building blocks; chapter 2 shows that the biblical text, often in Old Latin forms, has an African substrate. Chapter 3 to 6 analyse the exegesis of about twenty sermons selected for their reflexive dimension, in order to inductively question the reasons for the exegetical adaptations. The analyses compare the interpretations of the commented text with those present in other Augustinian works and in the Patristic tradition, and integrate a rhetorical approach. Like the sermons which develop it, this homiletic exegesis lies at the intersection of God’s Word (chapter 3 and 4) and men’s answers (chapter 5 and 6). It assumes the historic context in which it is developed and penetrates the dynamic of the liturgy from which it gets the subject of its comment and the aim of its orientation, so that the res which it conveys in a quasi sacramental way through the uerba of the preacher bears fruit within the listeners. This doctoral thesis also includes a bibliography and four annexes: an identification file about the Sermones in Matthaeum and its summary, a summary table of Augustinian occurrences to be found in the analysed quotations and the list of the liturgical readings from Matthew’s Gospel

This diploma thesis entitled Marian sermons of Anthony of Padua is based on the translation of four speeches to the Marian Feasts given by Anthony of Padua a Franciscan theologian and preacher (1195-1231). These speeches belong to the cycle Sermones dominicales and have never before been translated into Czech. The work includes insights about Anthony of Padua himself and his relationship to Franciscan spirituality. Important too, is a theological analysis of the sermons with particular focus of Anthony of Padua's conception of the Virgin Mary. In addition to focus on on the author and his views there is particular attention paid to the stylistic and the linguistic techniques used in his work.

Abstract, Ancrene Wisse, "Guide for Anchoresses" A Czech Translation (2015) Klára Petříková Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) is a remarkable work of the Middle English literature dating back to the first half of the 13th century. Its author (presumably a Dominican) conceived it as "spiritual life guidelines" for three sisters of a noble origin who decided to renounce the world. Besides its didactic purpose, its character is meditative and contemplative. Riveting in its style, its rich metaphors and heightened sensibility link it with the later tradition of the English mystical writers (Julian of Norwich), The work abounds in quotations, paraphrases of the continental monastic authors (St. Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux). Surviving in seventeen manuscripts, it had been quoted till the Renaissance and its importance is further confirmed by a contemporaneous translation into Latin and French. Present translation aims to introduce this work to the Czech readers and to put it in its historical, social and literary context.