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The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Focusing on the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion, the articles gathered in this volume offer historical, literary critical and anthropological perspectives on Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum (thirteenth century), the context of its production and other texts directly or indirectly inspired by it. The exempla inserted by Caesarius into a didactic dialogue between a monk and a novice survived for many centuries and travelled across the seas thanks to rewritings and translations into vernacular languages. An accomplished example of the art of persuasion —medieval and early modern— the Dialogus Miraculorum establishes a link not only between the monasteries, the mendicant circles and other religious congregations but also between the Middle Ages and Modernity, the Old and the New World. Contributors are: Jacques Berlioz, Elisa Brilli, Danièle Dehouve, Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Marie Formarier, Jasmin Margarete Hlatky, Elena Koroleva, Nathalie Luca, Brian Patrick McGuire, Stefano Mula, Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu, Victoria Smirnova, and Anne-Marie Turcan-Verkerk.
Dangerous Speech
Dangerous Speech is the first systematic treatment of blasphemous speech in colonial Mexico. This engaging social history examines the representation of blasphemy as a sin and a crime, and its repression by the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish colonists viewed blasphemy not only as an insult against God but also as a dangerous misrepresentation of the deity, which could call down his wrath in a ruinous assault on the imperial enterprise. Why then, asks Villa-Flores, did Spaniards dare to blaspheme? Having mined the period’s moral literature—philosophical works as well as royal decrees and Inquisition treatises and trial records in Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. archives and research librarie...
Deus Concionator
Dios persuade por medio de ejemplos. Si las Sagradas Escrituras y el mensaje de Cristo abundan en parábolas y símiles, el mundo y la historia constituyen un eterno sermón, una summa de paradigmas propuestos al hombre para su custodia y consideración. Sentido como modelo artístico para el orador evangélico, ese discurso divino de carácter ejemplar justificó el recurso de la prédica a las formas breves, y su estudio constante desde todos los ámbitos preceptivos. Al análisis de la reflexión teórica sobre el exemplum en la España de los Siglos de Oro pretende contribuir este Deus concionator. El libro aborda inicialmente el complejo problema de la terminología sobre el género y t...
