Friars' Tales (eBook, PDF)

Sermon Exempla from the British Isles
Übersetzer: Jones, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Exempla are illustrative stories used by preachers to seize the attention of their congregations and to drive home a moral lesson. This book presents annotated translations from two collections of exempla, one Franciscan and one Dominican, put together in the British Isles around 1275. The two collections used are amongst the earliest to survive from the British Isles. The 270 exempla translated cover a wide range of topics, both ecclesiastical and secular, and offer vivid insights into medieval life and attitudes in the broadest sense. An introduction discusses the place of preaching in the medieval church, the development of preaching aids and the exemplum genre, the main topics covered by the exempla, the dating of the two collections translated and the use which the compilers made of their material, and how far exempla can be relied upon as historical evidence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526112811
• Artikelnr.: 60362668

Autorenporträt

David Jones is a private scholar who lives in Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor's foreword Preface List of abbreviations Introduction
Medieval preaching and preaching aids The Liber Exemplorum The Cambridge
Dominican Collection Exempla: transmission and content Translations The
Liber Exemplorum Selected exempla from the Cambridge Dominican Collection
Select bibliography Index