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Spiritual Calculations : Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval English Sermons
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ISBN: 0271092033 0271092041 0271091622 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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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 Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how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.


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Opérativité du langage chez Maître Eckhart : obstetricandi scientia
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ISBN: 9789042944619 9042944617 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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"Pour Maître Eckhart (1260-1328), le rôle du théologien ou du prédicateur consiste à conduire autrui la où Dieu s'engendre lui-même en proférant son Verbe dans l'intime de l'yme. A l'instar de la démarche socratique, il déploie une activité maieutique. Discourir sur Dieu consiste à offrir un cadre théorique pour une théologie pratiquée. Cette radicalité théologique est une option qui est loin d'être partagée par tous ses contemporains. En effet, au début du XIVe siècle, souffle un vent de sémantisation du langage théologique. Désormais, le locuteur signifie, à savoir qu'il suscite une intellection chez son allocutaire. Il en résulte une autonomie du langage vis-à-vis de la chose à traiter. Ne choisissant pas entre Pierre Abélard et Bernard de Clairvaux, Maître Eckhart s'engage dans une voie nouvelle qui déjoue par avance la distinction entre théologie scolastique et théologie monastique. Découvrir que le Thuringien ne dit pas autre chose que les maîtres parisiens, mais qu'il se permet de traiter autrement de Dieu, nécessite une approche de son oeuvre par l'analyse des actes de langage. Cette méthode jette un regard nouveau sur l'ensemble de ses écrits latins et allemands. Mieux entendre que la mystique eckhartienne est spéculative, comme le disait Fernand Brunner, revient à découvrir combien la démonstration ne nous dispense ni de la décision ni de l'engagement. Au contraire, elle les convie comme lieu de vérifiabilité du discours. Voila ce que Jean Ladrière a mis en lumierèe chez Maître Eckhart en y percevant la voie d'une nouvelle scientificité de la théologie." Source : 4ème page de couverture


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Frater Petrus : Collationes de tempore (Fourteenth Century)
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ISSN: 15734188 ISBN: 9789004439733 9789004132504 9004132503 9004439730 Year: 2021 Volume: 229 11 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The sermons here published for the first time are attributed to an otherwise unknown friar referred to simply as Frater Petrus. The collection provides evidence of actual preaching in a normal setting from fourteenth-century Germany, between the beginnings of the Franciscan order and the Observant reform movement, not by a major light of the order, but a regular member who may have held status as an intermediate-level teacher, to judge by the care with which the manuscripts were prepared. Theologically competent and gracefully presented in the conventional sermon style of the period, the collection, edited and translated by Daniel Nodes, offers scholars and students a reliable new resource in an area of sermon studies that is still in short supply.


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Beyond the sermo modernus : sermon form in early fifteenth-century England
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ISBN: 9780888442222 088844222X 9781771104128 Year: 2021 Volume: 222 Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

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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."--

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