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Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in Middle English and Latin, this book reveals that popular English-speaking audiences were encouraged to engage in a wide range of numerate operations in their daily religious practices.Medieval sermonists promoted numeracy as a way for audiences to appreciate divine truth. Their sermons educated audiences in a hybrid form of numerate practice—one that relied on individuals’ pragmatic quantitative reasoning, which, when combined with spiritual interpretations of numbers provided by the preacher, created a deep and rich sense in which number was the best way to approach the sacred mysteries of the world as well as to learn how one could best live as a Christian. Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how medieval laypeople used math as a means to connect with God.Spiritual Calculations enhances our understanding of medieval sermons and sheds new light on how receptive audiences were to this sophisticated rhetorical form. It will be welcomed by scholars of Middle English literature, medieval sermon studies, religious experience, and the history of mathematics.
Mathematics --- Numeracy --- Sermons, English (Middle) --- Sermons, Medieval --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History and criticism.
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"In England, as well as on the continent, the early fifteenth century saw a slackening of rigorous academic work in theology and at the same time a stronger interest in biblical and devotional approaches and practices. This book addresses the question of whether, and if so in what way, such a change may also have occurred in preaching by investigating the form in which sermons were constructed, to determine whether a new development or innovation replaced the scholastic sermon, or sermo modernus, in use from the later thirteenth century on. The volume concludes with editions of sermons drawn from major works created in England between the final years of the fourteenth and the middle of the fifteenth century."--
Preaching --- Sermons, Latin --- Sermons, English (Middle) --- Sermons, Medieval --- 251 <420> --- 251 <09> --- 27 <420> "12/14" --- English sermons, Middle --- Middle English sermons --- Sermons, English --- Sermons, Middle English --- English prose literature --- 27 <420> "12/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"12/14" --- 27 <420> "12/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"12/14" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Engeland--?"12/14" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Engeland--?"12/14" --- 251 <420> Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- 251 <420> Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Engeland --- Homiletique. Predication--Engeland --- Latin sermons --- History --- History and criticism --- Manuscripts --- Homiletiek. Verkondiging. Prediking--Geschiedenis van --- England --- Church history --- Religious life and customs --- Medieval sermons
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